An English Country Wedding with a Bit of a Circus Theme Thrown In!

The images are by my friend and blog spon­sor the lovely Alix Marina-Chouhan of Lumiere Pho­tog­ra­phy. Andrea and Ryan have shared their wed­ding details for us all to enjoy, and there are links to the key wed­ding sup­pli­ers involved at the end of this feature.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to a fan­tas­tic, fun and absolutely gor­geous cou­ple. Thank you ever so much for shar­ing your wed­ding and advice for Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog read­ers today. Thank you also Alix for sub­mit­ting such a fan­tas­tic wed­ding to the blog — you can find out more about Lumiere Pho­tog­ra­phy at www.lumiere-photography.co.uk and by vis­it­ing Alix’s ded­i­cated wed­ding sup­plier page on the Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog: Leices­ter­shire wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Alix Marina-Chouhan. Every­one — grab a cuppa and enjoy! Claire x

Andrea and Ryan’s Eng­lish coun­try wed­ding with a dash of cir­cus style!

Wed­ding venue: Pre­ston Court, Kent

(At the time of writ­ing I can’t link to Pre­ston Court as my antivirus soft­ware is com­ing up with warn­ings of a virus on their site.)

Wed­ding photographer

Alix Marina-Chouhan (Lumiere Pho­tog­ra­phy)

How would you describe your wed­ding style?

Pre­dom­i­nantly an Eng­lish coun­try wed­ding with a bit of a cir­cus theme thrown in to ref­er­ence the venue & carousel!

Invi­ta­tions and recep­tion stationery

We chose the lovely circus-style invi­ta­tions from sweet­invi­ta­tionco through Etsy

What did you wear?

Bride: Dress; Balira from Pronovias, Shoes; Nova from Jimmy Choo, ear­rings from Fen­wicks, and flower in hair from Lo Boheme
Groom: Shoes from Rus­sell & Brom­ley, suit hired from Austin Reed

A lit­tle about the wed­ding ceremony:

Unfor­tu­nately, the unsea­son­able May weather last year meant that we couldn’t have it out­side under the pagoda, but it was fan­tas­tic to get mar­ried in the big barn in front of the amaz­ing vin­tage organ. We chose Shakespeare’s Son­net 18 as our wed­ding reading.

Tell us a lit­tle about your wed­ding venue styling and details

We wanted to ref­er­ence all the dif­fer­ent styles that the venue & our day had, so we had lots of coun­try flow­ers in vases, circus-themed table names and a posh kebab van for evening buf­fet, and also some lovely per­son­alised Mex­i­can wed­ding ban­ners as we got mar­ried on Cinco de Mayo from AyMu­jer on Etsy

Wed­ding music and entertainment

We had the bril­liant DJ Steve from www.mobilemusiccompany.co.uk who was so accom­mo­dat­ing, pro­fes­sional and great fun!

Mem­o­rable wed­ding day moments:

The cer­e­mony is prob­a­bly the part of the day that got least atten­tion when we were plan­ning, but was the most spe­cial part. And the speeches from my Dad & our Best Men Kevin & Dan were the per­fect mix­ture of heart­felt and tear-inducing laughter

Wed­ding day advice

Try to speak to every guest, espe­cially older/close rel­a­tives who love to have you all to them­selves for a while. And don’t sweat the small stuff; the things that go a bit off-plan add to your wed­ding day story!

Rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers:

• Lumiere Pho­tog­ra­phy
• Rel­ish catering
• Florist — Hay­ley Cawthorne
• Steve Lewis at www.mobilemusiccompany.co.uk
• Anna from Pre­ston Court
• Cake by Laura Bellamy