{"id":187125,"date":"2017-01-06T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whimsicalwonderlandweddings.com\/?p=187125"},"modified":"2024-09-27T15:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T14:04:18","slug":"colourful-unique-outdoorsy-tipi-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/colourful-unique-outdoorsy-tipi-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Colourful & Unique Outdoorsy Tipi Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Colourful<\/p>\n

Let’s get in the Friday mood with a colourful, outdoorsy and darn right gorgeous wedding shall we folks?<\/p>\n

WWW readers Will and Esther tied the knot on the 18th<\/sup> September 2016 at Coverwood Lakes<\/a> in Surrey. The venue is a working farm and has the most beautiful grounds, in fact they lent themselves perfectly to the majestic tipis hired by the couple. Their vision? To create a day to their own personal tastes, which was also unique and gave their guests much fun.<\/p>\n

I want to talk about a slightly different aspect of today’s wedding too. Bride Esther has Coeliac Disease and it’s vital to follow a strict gluten free diet. So naturally the couple had gluten free cuisine created for them by their caterer as well as a gluten free cake supplied by Marks and Spencer. It’s so important to ensure that your day is tailored enough for you so that you can relax and it’s also worth noting that your guests may have dietary requirements you may need to consider too.<\/p>\n

The florals here today looked so pretty in multi coloured shades, which worked just wonderfully with the colourful lanterns and gold spray painted jars and bottles. Esther looked so gorgeous rocking her specs and a beautiful beaded Sottero & Midgley<\/a> gown. WOW. Will was suited and booted in Ted Baker, teamed with tan boots, while the bridesmaids wore hand made orange, pink and green frocks. What a gorgeous wedding party.<\/p>\n

Thanks so very much to Amy B Photography<\/a> for sending through these vibrant happy photographs.<\/p>\n

\"Orange \"String \"Bouquet\"Colourful \"Colourful \"Hair \"Colourful \"Confetti \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Sottero \"Coverwood \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Garden \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Ted \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Bride \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Lanterns \"Colourful \"Lanterns \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Flowers \"Gluten \"Cheese \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Initial \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Colourful \"Firepit \"Colourful \"Colourful<\/p>\n

THE PROPOSAL | 30th<\/sup> December 2015, in mud and wellies on a long estuary walk in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where we often go for weekends away.<\/p>\n

THE VISION | An outdoorsy, country-inspired tipi wedding that would reflect our personal tastes, be unique, and give our guests the best possible time.<\/p>\n

THE PLANNING PROCESS | Long, or rather, intense! We only had nine months, and we organised pretty much every element ourselves. Location, tipis, power, caterer, flowers, two bands, decorations, you name it we planned it. It was stressful at points, but the extra effort meant that it really felt like \u2018our\u2019 day, and we avoided any unwanted surprises!<\/p>\n

THE VENUE | Coverwood Lakes, Surrey. A working farm with sculpted landscape and gardens, who normally only host a few weddings each year (ours was the only one this year, so we felt quite privileged!)<\/p>\n

THE DRESS & ACCESSORIES | Dress by Sottero & Midgley<\/a>, handmade rings (using melted down gold from groom\u2019s great-great-grandmother\u2019s wedding band) by Jon Dibben.<\/a><\/p>\n

FINDING THE DRESS | After looking at several bridal boutiques in Surrey, Esther went to Brides of Berkhamsted<\/a> with her mother and found the dress she wanted.<\/p>\n

GROOM\u2019S ATTIRE | Jacket, waistcoat, boots, and belt by Ted Baker. Chinos, shirt, and tie by T.M. Lewin. Watch by Nixon (wedding day present from the bride). Cufflinks by Gant.<\/p>\n

THE READINGS & MUSIC | 1st<\/sup> reading: ‘The One Thing I Know For Sure’ by Beau Taplin.<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> reading: \u2018I Love You\u2019 by Roy Croft.<\/p>\n

Intro music: \u20181000 Years\u2019 written by Christina Perri, performed by our friend Nick Morss on acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n

Outro music: \u2018Time After Time\u2019 by Cyndi Lauper, performed by our friend Nick Morss on acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n

Music in the ceremony: Groom\u2019s brothers and ushers sung a 4-part a cappella version of \u2018More Than Words\u2019 by Extreme, with the words changed to a funny take on the happy couple\u2019s relationship\u2026 (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QmW6VC59RSs<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Drinks reception band: 12th<\/sup> Street Swingers, Dixieland Jazz.<\/p>\n

Main evening band: The Prototypes, awesome party band.<\/p>\n

BEAUTIFUL BRIDESMAIDS | Esther is a fan of bold colours, and wanted something for her bridesmaids that would reflect this, flatter them all, and be unique. Despite thorough searching of the internet and the high street, Esther couldn\u2019t find that thing she wanted. Will\u2019s mother offered to make the dresses and did a fabulous job!<\/p>\n

Dresses handmade by groom\u2019s mother (silk from James Hare), personalised bangles by Lisa Angel<\/a> via notonthehighstreet.<\/p>\n

THE FLOWERS | All grown, sourced and arranged by groom\u2019s sister-in-law.<\/p>\n

THE CAKE | Gluten free from M&S \u2013 decorated by bridesmaid and groom\u2019s sister-in-law and cheese tower.<\/p>\n

YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER | Amy B.<\/p>\n

THE DETAILS & D\u00c9COR | Pick and mix, toasting marshmallows on the open fire pit, paper lanterns, a designated guest to be mixologist and chef on each table (complete with chef\u2019s hat, apron, carving knives for lamb joints, spirit measures, and so on), gin and tonic kits for guests as they were seated, photos of the bride and groom as children, glass jars spray painted gold, home-made blackboards (including an oversize table plan with coloured string and chalk names), garden games, tiki torches.<\/p>\n

THE HONEYMOON | Kuredu, Maldives. 10 days of sitting, reading, tanning, and snorkelling!<\/p>\n

MEMORABLE MOMENTS | The a capella music in the ceremony was a total surprise \u2013 we\u2019d asked them to perform something, but they\u2019d kept it a secret and totally blew us away!<\/p>\n

ADVICE FOR OTHER COUPLES | Make sure it\u2019s your day, don\u2019t be too swayed by what other people want if it\u2019s you\u2019re your thing. Quality is found in detail \u2013 plan carefully in the run-up, and then enjoy it on the day. Consider setting some budget aside for an on the day coordinator so you can relax and enjoy yourselves!<\/p>\n

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

Photographer | Amy B Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

Wedding planner\/coordinator | Natalie at The Secret Planner \u2013 can\u2019t recommend her highly enough. She was a real source of calm and advice when we were getting flustered. She was absolutely instrumental in making our day as smooth and enjoyable as it was.<\/p>\n

Caterer | Olivia at Just One Cook<\/a>. A family friend, she she managed not only to create some exquisite food, she made it gluten-free (Esther has coeliac disease), and she did it all in what could reasonably be described as a fairly \u201copen-plan\u201d environment!<\/p>\n

Venue | Coverwood Lakes<\/a><\/p>\n

Band | Dixieland Jazz<\/a><\/p>\n

Evening Band | The Prototypes<\/a><\/p>\n

Such a colourful, joy filled day.<\/p>\n

Thanks so much to Will and Esther for sharing their gorgeous wedding story with us xo Lou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s get in the Friday mood with a colourful, outdoorsy and darn right gorgeous wedding shall we folks? WWW readers Will and Esther tied the knot on the 18th September 2016 at Coverwood Lakes in Surrey. The venue is a working farm and has the most beautiful grounds, in fact they lent themselves perfectly to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,106,4],"tags":[2727,23,2021,452,414],"class_list":["post-187125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-wedding","category-outdoor-weddings","category-real-weddings","tag-coverwood-lakes-wedding","tag-multicolour-wedding-ideas","tag-sottero-and-midgley-wedding-dress","tag-surrey-wedding","tag-tipi-wedding"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":187154,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/whimsical-cdn.wedissimo.com\/2016\/12\/TipiWedding-CoverwoodLakes-52-300x200.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}