{"id":357940,"date":"2024-03-19T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whimsicalwonderlandweddings.com\/?p=357940"},"modified":"2024-05-01T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:56:44","slug":"den-at-four-acre-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedissimo.com\/blog\/den-at-four-acre-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Festival-Vibes Relaxed & Loving Tipi Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very warm welcome to Ellie and Jamie who are kindly sharing with us their The Den At Four Acre<\/strong><\/a> wedding<\/strong> in Cumbria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their day was filled to the very brim with personality, think festival vibes, a vegan menu and lots of fun colours! It was very much a DIY affair, with simple decor, a tipi reception and live music all round.<\/p>\n

I adore their stylish outfits, the sustainable florals which looked incredible and the clifftop portraits – so beautiful.<\/p>\n

Thanks ever so much to Lauren May Photos<\/a> for sharing with us these tremendously wonderful shots of a really special day indeed.<\/p>\n

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The Den At Four Acre Wedding<\/h2>\n

The Proposal<\/h3>\n

Many, many years before! In 2018 on my 23rd birthday, Jamie asked me to come into the living room<\/strong>. He was down on one knee holding a ring, but didn\u2019t say anything! I asked what he was doing, and he asked me to marry him, to which I immediately said yes.<\/p>\n

It turns out, he had also snuck my parents over from London, as he needed them to bring over my great-grandmother\u2019s ring in order to propose!<\/p>\n

We\u2019d always spoken about how when Jamie proposed we were promising we would get married but wanted to be settled and ready before doing so. On his birthday in 2022, I bought a puzzle pyramid that he had to solve and hid a ring measurer inside, as a way of proposing to him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It felt like a nice way to come full circle from getting engaged quite young, to finally being settled down enough to make it happen.<\/p>\n

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The Vision<\/h3>\n

As we\u2019d both worked in events, we didn\u2019t want our day to be like things we\u2019d organised before. We knew that we wanted to do a lot of the work ourselves, and finding the perfect venue solidified the vision we had for the day.<\/p>\n

We knew we wanted an outdoor venue with lots of music, colour and good food<\/strong> – all round festival vibes! We wanted the whole day to be relaxed for our guests, but meticulously planned the order of the day behind the scenes so that it ran as smoothly as possible.<\/p>\n

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Budget<\/h3>\n

Initially \u00a320,000, although we didn\u2019t want to spend it all.<\/p>\n

With generous gifts, ended up approx \u00a328,000<\/strong>, which we ultimately did spend most of. Although big things were budgeted for, all the little details end up building up and costing more than you think.<\/p>\n

The increased cost probably came from doing a lot ourselves e.g. hiring each service separately.<\/p>\n

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The Ceremony & Music<\/h3>\n