There were pretty things everywhere; we had fairylights, petals on the aisle runner, crystals scattered on the tables, a sweet cart, and a postbox for cards. In the evening, we also had boxes of flip flops for guests and blankets in case they went outside. We decided to hire a photo booth too, which was so much fun! Our cake was made by Lesley, Jack’s mum with help from Shirley, Jack’s grandma. It was five tiers, however, only the bottom tier was real cake! It was cleverly disguised so you’d never know, and every single flower and decoration was handmade. We chose fruit cake as it’s traditional. All girls and mums had matching pyjamas, prosecco glasses and dressing gowns for the morning. All the men had matching socks. The Parsonage had a gorgeous silver mirror with pretty decoration on the frame that they allowed us to us e for the table plan. We bought a white vinyl sticker from a shop on Etsy with all our names on and the table numbers . Finally, we attached some floral decorations to the mirror which matched the bouquets and buttonholes. My mum a lso created us an easel as a welcome sign which was a simila r design. We also had some flowers on our signing table in the ceremony room, along with a flower wall and some blossom trees, these were from our amazing decorator and looked stunn ing. Our bouquets, buttonholes, flower girl’s flowers and the decorations for the welcome sign and table plan were created by Jack’s mum, Lesley and her friend, Emma who create wedding flowers. They worked together to design the most beautiful arrangements. So many guests commented on the fact they thought they were real! We loved the venue the first time we looked around it. We’d previously been to look at a couple of barn venues, but even though they were beautiful, we knew we wanted more of a traditional wedding fe el. For centrepieces, we had a silver mirrored plate as a base, on each plate was a tall perspex vase containing a mixture of real and silk flowers to reflect our colour schemes. We also had votives on the tables filled with water and floating candles. 26
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