A Beautiful but Bittersweet Wedding at Sedgebrook Hall in Northamptonshire

There are some very touch­ing images here — emo­tions cap­tured in hap­pi­ness and some moments of reflec­tion. Jamie from Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy is a wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher I really admire. So I’ll leave you to scroll through the images and enjoy Ellie and Rich’s wed­ding day. Watch out for some really lovely pho­tos from the dance­floor, oh and the tiger!

Ellie and Rich, I would love to reach out from behind the screen and give you a huge hug. You deserve many years of hap­pi­ness together and I wish you a long and bliss­ful mar­riage. Thank you so much for shar­ing your story with us all on the Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog today. Claire xxx

Ellie and Rich — a most beau­ti­ful Eng­lish wed­ding at Sedge­brook Hall, Northamptonshire

Wed­ding day advice:

Don’t sweat the small stuff. The wed­ding took us eight weeks to organ­ise and we wouldn’t have it any other way. For a wed­ding you need a dress, suits, pho­tog­ra­pher, rings, venue, reg­is­trar, flow­ers and that’s the lot. The rest is just win­dow dress­ing and doesn’t make a huge dif­fer­ence to your day. I’ve known peo­ple obsess for weeks about the color of the invi­ta­tions and small things like that. Make sure you pick the right venue, the right pho­tog­ra­pher, and every­thing should flow from there.

The bride and groom:

Ellie and Rich Lupton

Wed­ding venue:

Sedge­brook Hall

Wed­ding photographer:

Jamie Vick­er­staff – Vick­er­staff Photography

How would you describe your wed­ding style?

Relaxed, friendly, colour­ful, classical

Invi­ta­tions and recep­tion stationery:

Home made using blank cards from Hob­by­craft and an inkjet printer

What did you wear?

Dress and suits from Pronup­tia, brides­maids’ dresses from Next
Ellie’s shoes came from M&S, acces­sories from Deben­hams

A lit­tle about the wed­ding ceremony:

Our wed­ding was organ­ised in a hurry as Lizzie, Ellie’s Mum’s health was dete­ri­o­rat­ing rapidly, and unfor­tu­nately we lost our race against time when she passed away three weeks before the wedding.

Our wed­ding sup­pli­ers, friends and fam­ily really came into their own dur­ing what was quite a dif­fi­cult time and together we man­aged to have a fan­tas­tic day which lifted everyone’s mood and brought the fam­ily together.

Because of the tight time frame our sup­pli­ers really pulled out all the stops to ensure that the day went as smoothly as pos­si­ble even though we didn’t get to spend as much time on prepa­ra­tion as I’m sure they would have liked.

I would like to sin­gle out our pho­tog­ra­pher Jamie for a spe­cial men­tion, with­out an engage­ment ses­sion or plan­ning meet­ings Jamie deliv­ered an amaz­ing set of pho­tos which really cap­tured the emo­tion of the day. His group shots had a real charm to them and the pho­tos of us inter­act­ing with guests were amazing.

Which read­ings did you choose?

I wanna grow old with you – The Wed­ding Singer (One of Ellie’s Favourite films) and I Love You by Larry S. Chengges

Tell us a lit­tle about your wed­ding venue styling and details:

Sedge­brook Hall and the staff were fan­tas­tic. Laura our wed­ding coor­di­na­tor was sec­ond to none and couldn’t have helped more in a dif­fi­cult lead up period. As Rich likes to con­coct his own cock­tails, we used clas­sic cock­tails as our table names. Upon see­ing this the night before the wed­ding, the bar staff went home and learned how to make all of the cock­tails on our table list and have them avail­able to our guests. An amaz­ing touch and com­pletely unexpected.

Wed­ding music and entertainment:

We had an Easter egg hunt for the kids and for the music went as cheesy as pos­si­ble. We had Fly Me To The Moon as our first song.

Mem­o­rable wed­ding day moments:

No moment stood out more than the oth­ers, it was just an awe­some day with won­der­ful peo­ple. We are very lucky to have won­der­ful friends and fam­ily and to see every­one min­gle and enjoy each oth­ers com­pany so much was a mas­sive treat.

Rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers:

• Vick­er­staff Photography
• Sedge­brook Hall
• Nicola Pearce – Cake Maker
• Pronup­tia
• Hob­by­craft