Vintage Great Central Railway Wedding & Steam Train Ride

Ready for the beautiful Great Central Railway wedding of Karl and Hannah? Yes! Me too! And what a treat their steam train wedding was.

Karl and Hannah love vintage and railways, so their railway wedding venue was a match made in heaven. They went all in with gorgeous DIY wedding decorations in greens and yellows. Meanwhile, Hannah wore a tea-length dress perfect for spinning in and Karl donned a blue tweed suit. Didn’t they look stunning?

You won’t want to miss the steam carousel, the train ride and the gorgeous portraits on the platform. Wow.

Thanks so much to EKR Pictures for sharing with us these totally magical images.

Great Central Railway Wedding

The Proposal

Windmill Inn Brascote

The Vision

Vintage! We both have a love for railways and vintage, we couldn’t have imagined getting married anywhere else, the steam carousel just topped off the day!

The Venue

Great Central Railway, Loughborough station for the ceremony, veranda car for meal and Quorn station for the evening reception.

The Ceremony & Music

Great Central Railway “The Gallery”

Entry – Elvis – Can’t Help Falling In Love With You
Signing Register – Arctic monkeys – Cornerstone and Arctic monkeys – The Ultracheese
Leaving – Bring Me Sunshine – Morecambe and Wise

Your Photographer & Filmmaker

EKR Pictures

Your Outfits

Dress – Wed2B Anna Sorrano Ida – love the vintage style and practical length for getting married at a railway station!

Shoes – Ruby Shoo Women’s Silvia Mary Jane Pumps.

Stockings – What Katie Did green seemed stockings to match my shoes and the colour scheme!

Grooms and best man suit – ASOS Harry Brown slim fit wedding summer tweed suit – vintage look but not too heavy!

Tie, pocket square and socks – Moss Bros, to match the green theme!

Shoes – Groom’s own

The Styling & Decor

Decorations: London Underground-themed table names.

Cake: Green and sunflowers with lemon curd and lemon buttercream on one layer and Victoria sponge on the other layer.

Flowers: Sunflowers picked and arranged by the bride and groom. Gypsophilia and Iris in the bride and bridesmaid bouquet (done by the bride). Young bridesmaid had artificial to match from Hobbycraft. Buttonholes were also made by the bride with artificial flowers from Hobbycraft.

Colours: Green and yellow, our two favourite colours!

DIY: Pretty much everything was homemade! The favours, which included candles for the ladies, sunflower seeds, whiskey for the gents and chocolate! (Chocolate from Carways Candy)

The Honeymoon

Travelling north Devon, Cornwall and south Devon in our T4 campervan 😍

Memorable Moments

Dancing on the veranda car, everyone’s surprised face when they saw the carousel which we had somehow managed to keep a secret until that point!!

Advice For Other Couples

Take time together to take it all in. Brides, don’t forget your flowers! (It’s a good job we were early!!)

What a unique and special day.

Karl and Hannah, I can’t thank you enough for sharing your amazing Great Central Railway wedding story.

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