{"id":346672,"date":"2023-09-08T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whimsicalwonderlandweddings.com\/?p=346672"},"modified":"2024-06-12T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:35:28","slug":"malt-house-barn-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/malt-house-barn-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Rustic & Stylish Green & Coral Barn Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a day Hailey and Josh had! Their Malt House Barn<\/a> wedding in Shropshire<\/a> looked like a dream<\/em>. And just you wait until you hear all about their fantastic approach to planning their day too.<\/p>\n

From their budget-saving ingenious ideas such as arranging their own flowers and renting their bridesmaid dresses, to tweaking their wedding day timeline<\/a> to make it more entertaining to guests – they were incredibly savvy. I also adore their stylish outfit choices, the focus on live music and all the smiles throughout. So beautiful.<\/p>\n

Thanks ever so much to Daniel McClane Photography<\/a> for sharing with us these tremendous shots of what looked and sounded like an epic day.<\/p>\n

\"Malt \"Bride<\/p>\n

Malt House Barn Wedding<\/h2>\n

The Proposal<\/h3>\n

We were still pretty much in the depths of the 2020 lockdown, so Josh had prepared Hailey\u2019s favourite home-cooked meal<\/strong> to eat out on the balcony which overlooked London and faced West, so we always had amazing sunsets.<\/p>\n

After we\u2019d finished the main course, the timing was perfect with the sun setting beautifully – Josh got down on one knee and the rest is history! We popped our favourite bottle of champagne, then spent the rest of the night celebrating via Zoom calls with our family and friends.<\/p>\n

\"Bride \"Bride \"Navy<\/p>\n

The Vision<\/h3>\n

Modern rustic<\/strong> was our theme but we didn\u2019t want it to look too \u2018country\u2019 so edged more towards the modern side. We used lots of festoon lighting<\/a> and candles and even made our own giant, light-up \u2018MR & MRS HUGHES\u2019 sign as the MC stage backdrop. This took hours but we both agree it was worth it.<\/p>\n

We also made all of our venue stationery<\/strong> ourselves and did all of our own flowers<\/strong>. This took quite a lot of time on setup day but we were all so proud of ourselves (wedding party included) and all appreciated the way things looked on the day. Using more of the candles to decorate the venue rather than flowers also saved money and limited wastage as we could sell the pillar candles on afterwards.<\/p>\n

We wanted our wedding to be really fun and interesting so we broke up the main events<\/strong> such as speeches, cake cutting, bouquet\/garter toss, music performances etc into separate events throughout the evening to keep things entertaining for guests.<\/p>\n

We also really focused on spending more time with our guests and family, rather than having lots of time away having photos – we only allocated 15 minutes for formal photos as we wanted to maximize our time having fun with our guests instead. We keep saying that this was one of our best decisions as the photos we received from that 15 minutes were absolutely perfect! Dan Mclane, our photographer, understood our vision perfectly and he worked so hard to ensure excellent photos were captured without the need for any awkward posing.<\/p>\n

We also made sure that the break between band sets was quite long (40 minutes each break) which meant guests could get a drink, take a break from dancing and have a chat throughout the party. We are so glad we organised it in this way!<\/p>\n

\"Sign \"Picnic \"Bride<\/p>\n

Budget<\/h3>\n

We had a budget of \u00a325,000<\/strong> for 100 guests. We achieved this by making careful decisions about where we spent our money and focused the spending on things we really care about. We opted for DIY for the things that weren\u2019t as important to us. Holding the wedding in Shropshire also meant our vendors were much more affordable than in London.<\/p>\n

Here are the ways we saved money:<\/p>\n