A Glamorous Wedding in Hampshire

Beckie Gre­gory — the lovely lady behind Tem­ple Gre­gory wed­ding plan­ners in Lon­don and Hamp­shire — showed me some of the pho­tos from Hay­ley and David’s wed­ding late last year — and I loved them. This is like supreme glam­our in wed­dings: the most exquis­ite, lux­u­ri­ous, beau­ti­ful every­thing you can see on a wed­ding blog.

I jumped at the chance to fea­ture the wed­ding day on Eng­lish Wed­ding. I’ll leave you to admire the glo­ri­ous images by Elton Mogg (whose name I see time and again in the wed­ding press and top UK wed­ding blogs like Rock My Wed­ding and Love My Dress blog). Today’s beau­ti­ful bride Hay­ley has shared a wed­ding report with you… enjoy!

River­vale Barn wed­ding blog: Hay­ley and David

It was an absolutely amaz­ing wed­ding day at River­vale Barn. The sun was shin­ing and every­thing went to plan. My lit­tle brides­maids all looked beau­ti­ful (7 of them). The 5 lit­tle ones were all in bespoke dresses from Lit­tle Bevan and the 2 older ones in dresses from Alfred Angelo.

My wed­ding dress was by Designer Sassi Hol­ford, style is Saman­tha (made to mea­sure). I bought it in her Bou­tique store on Ful­ham Rd in London.
My shoes were from Rachel Simp­son, I had a pretty pearl bracelet from Sassi Hol­ford and dia­mond heart shape droplet ear­rings from a lit­tle bou­tique near where I live (love these)

(images above and below are from the Avi­a­tor Hotel where Hay­ley got ready in the morn­ing before the wedding.)

The day came together per­fectly, it was so mag­i­cal and wish I could do it all over again. I would say 90% of my guests have told me it’s the best wed­ding they’d ever been to and still rave about it today. That makes me feel so happy.


David’s out­fit was hired from Black Tie in Crowthorne. It was a very Dark Navy Blue tail suit with Cream Cra­vat and waist­coat. All the ush­ers were from here and they were in the same suit but with a Green cravat.



What really stood out for me was the cer­e­mony. Although the most impor­tant bit, I thought this would be pretty bor­ing and it was amaz­ing. It was like no other wed­ding cer­e­mony really. It felt magical.



From hav­ing the harpist and a singer in there to hav­ing my lit­tle boy run around and run up to me and hug my legs when we were say­ing our vows. He also strummed the harp at one point which made every­one laugh! It was so pretty with all the lit­tle pink flow­ers and can­dles, this is one thing I will never forget.












I think what made it for all the guests was that we hired Art­ful Splodgers Crèche com­pany to look after all the chil­dren and that gave the adults time to relax and not worry about the kids. It was the most talked about point of the whole day.



My advice to all future brides would be – take it ALL in. It goes so quickly. Don’t stress on the day, what will be will be and you’ll find that the tiny lit­tle things that go wrong really don’t matter.
I was so excited to get on that dance floor in the evening and our DJ played some great song which had every­one up on the dance­floor all night. I didn’t want it to end!

Hay­ley and David’s rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers

Tem­ple Gre­gory Wed­ding Plan­ners http://templegregory.co.uk

I hired Beckie Gre­gory for the last cou­ple of months and wouldn’t know what I would have done with­out her. She made the last few months so easy, noth­ing was too much trou­ble. She made my day per­fect in every way!

Lovely Favours — www.lovelyfavours.co.uk

We used Lovely Favours for pretty much most of the wed­ding. Invites, favours, table plan, order of the day, children’s gift boxes, bird­cage for cards, con­fetti cones etc. A great supplier!

Art­ful Splodges Creche com­pany – www.artfullsplodgers.com

Absolutely amaz­ing. These girls couldn’t do enough for the chil­dren. We had them from 2pm to mid­night where they had a night time turn down ser­vice for the kids to go to sleep if they wanted from 9pm. Blan­kets, cush­ions, quite music, dvds, sto­ries read to them. It was perfect!

Kevin Fitzsim­mons – www.kevinfitzsimmons.com Singer dur­ing dessert and cof­fees who sang rat­pack, swing and jazz. He’s done quite a few celeb wed­dings and has been on TV lots.

John Saun­ders DJ – This guy was bril­liant. He worked with the guests, took all requests and made sure every­one had a fan­tas­tic boo­gie. He was friendly, pro­fes­sional and a great DJ. He also sup­plied up-lighting for the room in the evening. I had soft Pink!

Old Fash­ioned Ice Cream Tri­cy­cle from www.ideasboxuk.com Oh My God, these ice creams were AMAZING! Lots of happy guests.

Florist — www.designedbyblush.com

Cake from – www.planet-cake.com This was an AMAZING cake!

Pho­tog­ra­phy – Elton Mogg www.eltonmogg.co.uk