{"id":185370,"date":"2016-12-12T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whimsicalwonderlandweddings.com\/?p=185370"},"modified":"2024-09-27T12:41:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:41:48","slug":"pretty-pink-floral-garden-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/pretty-pink-floral-garden-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Pink Floral Garden Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pretty<\/p>\n

Pretty pretty pretty all the way today with this darling garden wedding in pale pink tones. Bride Gemma is a stationery designer (Gemma Allen) with a keen eye for style, detail and colour, so you can only imagine just how gorgeously everything turned out.<\/p>\n

Gemma and Tom chose to get married on the 17th<\/sup> June 2016 at Normanton Church,<\/a> followed by a marquee garden reception at Barnsdale Gardens<\/a> in Rutland. They focused their wedding planning on creating a fun day where their guests would enjoy themselves; think BBQ, live band and delicious food and drink. Let’s talk about those divine details and decorations. The sugar flower cake created by Tom\u2019s mum was a masterpiece and well worth the hour drive to the venue, what a cracker. Then there were the floral stationery and signage created by Gemma, which really worked beautifully with the fresh flowers throughout the venue.<\/p>\n

Gemma had her flowing romantic gown custom made and accessorised her dress with a sweet hair vine and veil. Tom and the gents opted for navy suits and pink ties while the bridesmaids wore ASOS frocks. How utterly lovely.<\/p>\n

Thanks so much to Rutland wedding photographer Georgi Mabee<\/a> for sharing these stunning photographs.<\/p>\n

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THE PROPOSAL | Tom proposed on Christmas Eve 2014 under our Christmas tree, at about 6.30 in the morning. I just remember being very sleepy and confused, because he was holding a box filled with Haribo sweets and our dog was leaping around with excitement. I’m so picky and particular over jewellery that he hadn’t got a clue what kind of ring to pick, so we chose together at the jewellery quarter in Birmingham that afternoon. He’d actually rung my Dad to tell him the day before, but my mum answered the phone. To keep it a secret he pretended to be someone called Adam from Sky, asking for my dad with a Welsh accent!<\/p>\n

THE VISION | We really didn\u2019t want a formal wedding, and instead focused on planning a fun day that everyone would enjoy.<\/p>\n

THE PLANNING PROCESS | I’ve worked in events for a while, and knew I definitely didn’t want a typical venue with a set ‘wedding routine’. We wanted the whole day to just be fun and relaxed, with tasty food, plenty of drinks and good music. I did make the whole process very difficult for myself, by insisting on doing so much ourselves, but it was so worth it in the end!<\/p>\n

THE VENUE | I grew up down the road from Rutland Water, so wanted to book Normanton Church as soon as I found out they did weddings, as I knew how beautiful it was there. We spent ages looking at farms, pubs and village halls for the reception though, because I didn’t want any of the normal wedding venues we visited! I didn’t realise Barnsdale Gardens did weddings, but when I visited it with my mum we both fell in love with it. Tom and I both love visiting gardens, and I am obsessed with anything botanical, so it suited both of us perfectly. They don’t do many weddings there, but the whole day went so well and all the staff were so helpful.<\/p>\n

THE DRESS & ACCESSORIES | With it being in a garden, I felt a really formal gown would have looked out of place. And I’d always imagined a soft and floaty dress, with a tulle skirt and long veil. I wore my mums pearl earrings, a gold bracelet from my grandparents and a gold headpiece woven into my plait. I had flat shoes as I’ve never got on well with heels, and I didn’t want to sink into the lawn! Tom surprised me with some Jo Malone perfume that was waiting in the car for me.<\/p>\n

FINDING THE DRESS | The dress was even harder to find than the venue! I tried so many beautiful ones on with my mum, and I think we actually saw too many in the end. I had picked out parts from all the dresses that I’d tried on, and eventually had it made bespoke to incorporate all of these.<\/p>\n

GROOM\u2019S ATTIRE | Tom is a lot more laid back than me, so it was much easier to find his outfit than mine! Him and the other boys had navy suits with white shirts and pink ties, and Tom had a gold tie clip.<\/p>\n

THE READINGS & MUSIC | During the ceremony our registrar read a poem called Union by Robert Fulghum, and our friend read Oh The places You’ll Go by Dr Seuss. We had background music on a playlist we’d made at the venue, with a live band in the evening. We love live music, so the band were really important to us and a lot of the wedding bands we looked at were a bit too ‘wedding-y’. I was recommended Leon Jax by a friend who had seen them play at a local pub, and they were absolutely amazing. They played Grow Old With Me by Tom Odell and Mardy Bum by The Arctic Monkeys as our first dance, and everyone was dancing all night long and raved about them for weeks afterwards!<\/p>\n

BEAUTIFUL BRIDESMAIDS | I had three grown up bridesmaids and a baby flower girl. I’ve know Rachel and Poppy since we went to college together, and always knew they’d be my bridesmaids. I met Jade through Tom, as her husband and Tom went to university and lived together, so we become close friends over the weekends spent visiting them! Joel was Tom’s best man, so obviously I had to include their daughter, Ruby, who was our flower girl. The girls wore dusty pink multiway dresses from ASOS, all in different styles, and Ruby wore a white dress from Monsoon that matched mine.<\/p>\n

THE FLOWERS | I ordered the flowers for the table decorations from a flower wholesalers, and my mum and I were in our element the day before the wedding arranging them all. The bouquets and buttonholes were made by Flowers by Mandy and they were absolutely beautiful. We had pink lisianthus, David Austen roses, and dahlias, with lots of other seasonal blooms.<\/p>\n

THE CAKE | Tom’s mum spent months making the cake! There was a chocolate layer, lemon drizzle layer and Victoria sponge. She’d spent ages making so many sugar flowers and leaves to decorate it with, and getting the cake to the venue was a very stressful and panicky journey. It took them over an hour to drive 15 miles, because they were going so slowly! It looked amazing though and she got lots of compliments for it. I made mini me and Tom peg dolls to go on the top, which we still have in our kitchen.<\/p>\n

YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER | I found Georgi pretty early on, and loved her relaxed and natural style straight away. We had a pre-wedding shoot at Burghley House with our dog, Harvey, and knew we’d made the right choice. She’s been my favourite supplier we worked with and we’re still in touch now! We also had a videographer to film the day, booking Rob from FuzFilms. We weren’t sure whether having the day filmed would be worth it, as it was an added expense, but as you take so little away after the day decided to go for it. It was 100% worth the money, and I would definitely recommend it if you can afford one.<\/p>\n

THE DETAILS & D\u00c9COR | I studied Art at university and sell prints, illustrations and stationery online, so I knew I wanted to design as much of ours as I could. The invites and order of service were painted by me and printed by printed.com, and I also painted the welcome board and table plan a couple of weeks before the day. The marquee company were fab and set up all our festoon lighting and tables just how we wanted them, with a big wooden dancefloor in the middle. With all the floral borders at Barnsdale we didn’t need too much d\u00e9cor, but hung streamers and pom poms above the dancefloor with jars of gypsophila on the tables.<\/p>\n

THE HONEYMOON | We spent a week in a fishermans cottage in Cornwall, with our dog, after the wedding. Cornwall is my absolute favourite place and we both love walking, so it was lovely to spent a week relaxing by the coast with our little pup.<\/p>\n

MEMORABLE MOMENTS | Later on in the evening when everyone was jumping around to the band, I remember looking around and telling myself to remember that exact moment. We were surrounded by all of our best friends and family, and everyone looked so crazily happy, and I felt very lucky!<\/p>\n

ADVICE FOR OTHER COUPLES | Stick with what you want, and don’t make compromises because of what people say you ‘should’ have. Some people weren’t sure of our BBQ and marquee in a garden, but it was what we wanted and it all came together perfectly on the day. You don’t need all the formal traditions if you don’t want them. Sort out the legal stuff first, and then plan the rest of the day around what you want!<\/p>\n

CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE |<\/p>\n

Photographer | Georgi Mabee<\/a> *WWW wedding directory member*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ceremony venue | Normanton Church<\/a><\/p>\n

Reception venue | Barnsdale Gardens<\/a><\/p>\n

Videographer | Fuzfilms<\/a><\/p>\n

Dress | Rachel @ The Dress Suite<\/a><\/p>\n

Hair | Amy Miles<\/a><\/p>\n

Stationery and d\u00e9cor | Me! Gemma Allen<\/p>\n

Marquee | Funky Tents<\/a><\/p>\n

Food | Saffron Catering<\/a><\/p>\n

Flowers for tables | Sunflowers of Spalding<\/a><\/p>\n

Flowers | Flowers by Mandy<\/a><\/p>\n

Band | Leon Jax<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh me oh my, so pretty.<\/p>\n

Thanks so very much to Gemma and Tom for sharing their gorgeous nuptials here today xo Lou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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