A Detail-filled Real Wedding at Fazeley Studios

Today’s wed­ding blog is all about Esme and Graeme, who were mar­ried in June at the very charm­ing Faze­ley Stu­dios in the heart of Birm­ing­ham. Faze­ley is a unique wed­ding venue, gor­geous on the inside as you’re about to see, and with tons of poten­tial for all kinds of wed­dings. Esme and Graeme’s wed­ding has so many lovely details you’re bound to take ideas for your big day from this post.

The pho­tog­ra­phy is by John Charl­ton, who is based at Faze­ley Stu­dios (he loved it that much!). Esme and Graeme have told me a lit­tle about their day — I hope you enjoy their story!

A real wed­ding blog from Faze­ley Stu­dios, Birmingham

The bride and groom: Esme and Graeme

Who pro­posed, and how?

Graeme pro­posed at the very top of the Empire State Build­ing in New York at night. How­ever, we were soon dis­tracted by a pere­grine fal­con nest­ing on the build­ing… we are eas­ily distracted!

Wed­ding venue: Faze­ley Events, Dig­beth, Birmingham

Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher: John Charl­ton Photography

How would you describe your wed­ding style? Relaxed and fun.

Reli­gious or civil wed­ding? … Civil

What read­ings did you choose? …None, we decided to keep it brief!

The wed­ding reception:

What were your highlights?

It has to be see­ing the chil­dren div­ing in to their gift boxes at the wed­ding break­fast. It was a last minute touch but really worth­while. The lit­tle gifts helped amuse the kids over din­ner and really made them feel spe­cial as each box had been indi­vid­u­ally personalised.

Venue styling and details:

Faze­ley is a sleek, clean venue with amaz­ing light and fur­nish­ings, so we didn’t need to do much, but we choose flow­ers that had a vin­tage feel for both the cer­e­mony and wed­ding break­fast and some per­son­alised bags of choco­late gems for each guest.

Music and entertainment:

Nim­bus, a harp and flute duo played at the wed­ding break­fast – they were amaz­ing and really set a calm mood over dinner.

We had a DJ (Stew­ard Sher­man) for the recep­tion – he played some great disco tunes which kept us all danc­ing until midnight.

What did you wear?

Esme wore a Suzanne Neville ‘Saran’ dress, a wrap by Joyce Jack­son and Rachel Simp­son Mimi shoes in sil­ver blue. Esme’s jew­ellery was all custom-made by Lau­rel Lime.

Graeme wore a 3-piece navy blue suite from TM Lewin and a pink tie from Hawes and Cur­tis.

Mem­o­rable wed­ding day moments:

The hilar­i­ous reg­is­trar who made the cer­e­mony so much fun (we didn’t stop laughing!).

Wed­ding day advice:

Get some great peo­ple on board to help you. The venue, our pho­tog­ra­pher and cake lady were all amaz­ing and they really under­stood what we were try­ing to achieve with our day.

Know­ing that we had ‘clicked’ with our main sup­pli­ers really took the pres­sure off. The key bit of advice is to keep calm and enjoy! Every­one says that the day will fly by, and it does!

Rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers:

• Caroline’s Cake Com­pany www.carolinescakecompany.co.uk
• John Charl­ton Pho­tog­ra­phy www.johncharltonphotography.co.uk
• Katie Sue Bespoke Sta­tionery http://katiesue.co.uk
• Nim­bus flute and harpist duo www.nimbus-duo.co.uk
• Event Smiles per­son­alised children’s boxes http://www.eventsmiles.co.uk
• Grafton Manor Bridal Stu­dio, Broms­grove http://www.graftonmanorhotel.co.uk
• Rachel Simp­son bridal shoes http://rachelsimpsonshoes.co.uk/
• Lau­rel Lime vin­tage jew­ellery http://www.laurel-lime.co.uk/
• Hair and make-up by Lucie Crad­dock http://beautifulhairbylucie.co.uk/

Bonus wed­ding blog links!

See more about Faze­ley Stu­dios: http://theweddinggenie.co.uk/wedding-planning/city-wedding-venue-fazeley-studios/

Esme and Graeme’s wed­ding on John Charlton’s blog (more pics!) http://www.johncharltonphotography.co.uk/blog/a-fabulous-fazeley-wedding

Visit John Charl­ton Pho­tog­ra­phy on face­book https://www.facebook.com/JCharltonPhotography

Meet John Charl­ton at the Designer Vin­tage Wed­ding Show http://www.johncharltonphotography.co.uk/blog/meet-us-at-the-designer-vintage-bridal-show

Another wed­ding at Faze­ley Stu­dios http://www.paulpopephotography.co.uk/blog/tracey-neil-fazeley-studios/

The Birm­ing­ham Vin­tage Wed­ding Fair is at Faze­ley Stu­dios this year http://www.fazeleyevents.co.uk/archives/847