Classic Wedding Styling Meets Glastonbury Festival!

They chose a lux­ury venue and beau­ti­ful styling to set the scene for their day, and incor­po­rated their per­son­al­i­ties in a fun and charm­ing way with a Glasto theme: fes­ti­val flags, their very own beer and CDs for wed­ding favours are just a few of their fes­ti­val wed­ding ideas.

I love this wed­ding: it shows how a theme can be a flavor of a wed­ding day with­out tak­ing over, and there’s a deli­cious sense of fun at one of Yorkshire’s most ele­gant wed­ding venues — those flags are fantastic!

I hope any festival-loving brides and grooms out there can take inspi­ra­tion from Louise and Jamie’s lovely wed­ding blog fea­ture. The pho­tog­ra­phy is from my old friend and York­shire wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Mark Tier­ney (and it’s ace to have you back on Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog, Mark!)

Enjoy!

Who pro­posed, and how?

Jamie pro­posed to Louise at sun­set on a beach in Ko Lanta, Thai­land in March 2011.

Wed­ding venue: Den­ton Hall

Wed­ding photographer: Mark Tier­ney of Tier­ney Photography

How would you describe your wed­ding style?

Clas­sic meets boho

The wed­ding ceremony:

Reli­gious or civil? Civil

Which read­ings did you choose?

Son­net 116 by William Shake­speare, ‘Soul­mates’ by Bob Mar­ley and the ‘Apache Wed­ding Bless­ing’

Louise wore Pronovias and Jamie wore Daniel Hechter.

Mem­o­rable wed­ding day moments

Photo shoot in the Glastonbury-style flags in our wed­ding wellies. The deliv­ery of flow­ers on my wed­ding morn­ing– see­ing my beau­ti­ful bou­quet of avalanche roses and the bride­maids’ boho daisy­chain head­dresses for the first time.

Wed­ding day advice

I made all of my own sta­tionery and used pho­tos I had taken at Glas­ton­bury for the table plan and table signs– it was so reward­ing to see all my work come together on the day. When it comes to the day, my advice is to chill and enjoy!

Wed­ding day highlights

Our first dance to ‘Fix You’ by Cold­play when all our friends and fam­ily made a cir­cle for us to dance in. Our ‘Green-King Wed­ding Beer’- espe­cially brewed for our wed­ding by Greene King. Won­der­ful and hilar­i­ous speeches.

Wed­ding venue styling and details:

Den­ton Hall pro­vided a clas­sic back­drop for our wed­ding with its beau­ti­ful and elab­o­rate Geor­gian style. Set in the gor­geous York­shire coun­try­side, we added our own Glas­ton­bury theme by hir­ing white fes­ti­val flags.

We added rus­tic touches to the din­ing room and named our tables after loca­tions at Glas­ton­bury fes­ti­val. Our wed­ding favours were CDs we made for our guests with songs that are spe­cial to us.

The CD cover was a photo of us at Glas­ton­bury in a clus­ter of white fes­ti­val flags– we had also used this photo on our save the date cards.

Music and enter­tain­ment: Dur­ing the drinks recep­tion for­mer Leeds busker now acclaimed clas­sic rock/ blues artist, Tris­tan Mackay, played acoustic clas­sics on gui­tar (http://tristanmackay.com/). For the evening we danced away to Bea­t­les trib­ute act, “John & Paul”.

[A note from Claire: I’m lis­ten­ing to Tris­tan as I type… and def­i­nitely will again. He has a beau­ti­ful voice and is a bit gor­geous ] https://www.facebook.com/tristanmackaymusic

See more from Louise and Jamie’s Den­ton Hall wed­ding on Mark Tierney’s wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy blog: http://www.tierneyphotography.co.uk/blog/denton-hall-wedding-photography-ilkley-moor-yorkshire-glastonbury-theme-fla/

Rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers

• Tier­ney Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.tierneyphotography.co.uk/
• Box Tree Cater­ing http://www.boxtree-events.co.uk/
• Den­ton Hall http://www.denton-hall.co.uk/
• Leafy Cou­ture http://leafycouture.co.uk/
• Brides of Har­ro­gate http://www.bridesofharrogate.co.uk/
• Alli­son Halsworth of Vis­age Make-up http://www.visagemakeupandhairdesign.com/
• Snow­drop Cake Shop http://snowdropcakeshop.com
• hair comb by Brass Boheme. http://www.etsy.com/shop/BrassBoheme

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