Neither of us had bouquets, but we had lots of flowers to decorate the venue. Our favourite pieces were the floral moon gate used in the ceremony and behind our top table, as well as the flower wall with a ‘happily ever after’ neon sign. We had a three-tier naked cake. Each tier was filled with a fruit compote plus raspberry and vanilla buttercream, blueberry and lemon buttercream, then passionfruit and vanilla buttercream. It was adorned with fresh flowers and presented on an oak barrel. We visited Alfriston Gardens on a sunny day a month before the wedding. We blew up silly balloon numbers and wore fancy dress. Martina’s daughter, Hannah, came with us and took snaps of us with the different numbers and outfits. Each photo was framed and placed on the tables as our numbers. Our centrepieces featured three floating candle cylinders placed on log slices with pink foliage and a mixture of pink and green tealight holders. Our favours were personalised Love Heart sweets, along with ‘let love grow’ flower seeds, and carved wooden place names that guests could take away. 40
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