{"id":306996,"date":"2021-12-08T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whimsicalwonderlandweddings.com\/?p=306996"},"modified":"2024-03-17T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T11:24:07","slug":"hidden-river-barn-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/hidden-river-barn-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion of Colour Games & Fun for a Festival Camp Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laura and Gina blew it out of the water with their Hidden River Barn<\/a> wedding in Cumbria<\/a> in the summer. Their wedding was a total explosion of multicolours, fun and loads of entertaining games<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Think festival vibes, complete with WWW Faves, Event Flag Hire<\/a> and Wedfest<\/a> providing the festival flags and cool stationery respectively, as well as a whole weekend of camping festivities. It was epic. I love the colourful smoke bombs, the stylish outfits and all of the personal touches.<\/p>\n

Big thanks go to Kirsty Rockett Photography<\/a> for sharing these stupendous images with us. There are just so many wedding ideas to take away here. Enjoy it all.<\/p>\n

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Hidden River Barn Wedding<\/em><\/h2>\n

The Proposal<\/h3>\n

This was a somewhat elaborate affair! Normally for Gina\u2019s birthday I will do a treasure hunt around the house, but I planned something a bit more elaborate<\/strong> and roped in a lot of our friends and family!!!<\/p>\n

On Gina\u2019s birthday I went downstairs to make breakfast and then secretly met Gina\u2019s best-friend Tracey downstairs. I went out to walk the dog and Tracey took the breakfast upstairs to Gina with the first clue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gina then went on a treasure hunt around our local town<\/strong> and into Manchester following the clues of all the places that have special meaning to our relationship (our first date\/first house\/first kiss\/where we met etc) I think there were 14 stops in total. At every point there was a friend\/family member with a present and another clue! The whole thing took from 8am till around 6pm as she had to get trains etc. Tracey sent me a video of all the stops and at one point I thought I had broken her as she kept crying!!!<\/p>\n

Then she got back home with instructions to get ready, and she was transported (blindfolded) to a local venue where we all shouted surprise and then I got down on one knee and proposed<\/strong> in front of everyone and then partied the evening away!<\/p>\n

It was excellent!<\/p>\n

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The Vision<\/h3>\n

We are very blessed with lovely family and friends, and we have always joked that the only time you get everyone together at the same time is your wedding and your funeral \u2013 and you don\u2019t enjoy the latter!<\/p>\n

We wanted something that was a cross between a family holiday, a festival and a rugby tour<\/strong>! (I play). We wanted to spend as much time with everyone as we could as well as making sure all our guests had a great time.<\/p>\n

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The Venue<\/h3>\n

Hidden River Barn at Hidden River Cabins in Carlisle<\/p>\n

Your Outfits<\/h3>\n

Neither of us are very precious about what we look like, so this was not a huge part of our budget \u2013 we spent more on the hay bales for the space hopper racing course than we did on our dresses!<\/p>\n

As we had 3 nights of celebration, we had 3 dresses each<\/strong>! I think the total was \u00a3200 each from ASOS\/Tesco\/Amazon\/Chichi.<\/p>\n

THE BEST bit was the lovely lady that fitted my dress managed to put in POCKETS!!!<\/p>\n

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The Ceremony & Music<\/h3>\n

I LOVE music! And had a playlist for every bit of the day<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

I arrived on the back of my dad\u2019s Harley to Stevie Nicks edge of seventeen<\/strong> and walked down the aisle to Chantal Kreviazuk\u2019s feels like home<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gina walked down the aisle with her son and grandson to Paul Simons \u2018Something so right\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n