Charlotte and Craig’s Ultra Glamorous South Yorkshire Wedding Blog

This is one of those times where the pic­tures paint a thou­sand words — it’s a breath­tak­ingly beau­ti­ful mar­quee wed­ding which sim­ply has every­thing you could dream of! Char­lotte is stun­ning; Craig is ever so hand­some; the dress is divine, and there are lots of gor­geous ideas to take away with you.

All of today’s fab­u­lous wed­ding blog pho­tographs are by the very lovely Chris­t­ian and Erica from Chris­t­ian Ward Pho­tog­ra­phy, and Char­lotte and Craig have kindly writ­ten their wed­ding report to share with you as well. It’s full of inspi­ra­tion and ideas as well as great advice — I’m espe­cially impressed with the ladies VIP area… read all about that from about halfway down today’s blog post!

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Char­lotte and Craig, and huge thanks once again to the happy cou­ple as well as to Chris­t­ian Ward Pho­tog­ra­phy for shar­ing today’s wed­ding blog. Enjoy! Claire x

An ultra beau­ti­ful mar­quee wed­ding blog from South York­shire — Char­lotte and Craig

The bride and groom: Char­lotte and Craig Wyman

Wed­ding venue

St Nicholas Church, Haxey and bride’s par­ents home, Epworth

Wed­ding photographer

Chris­t­ian and Erica from Chris­t­ian Ward Pho­tog­ra­phy www.christianwardphotography.com

also Rupert Ward Lewis Videographer

How would you describe your wed­ding style?

Ultra glam, lux­u­ri­ous and very personal.

A lit­tle about the wed­ding ceremony

All I remem­ber is see­ing Craig’s beam­ing face and feel­ing so happy, it seemed like it was just us two in the church, it felt very relaxed and full of love from all of our fam­ily and friends.

Wed­ding read­ing: I Corinthi­ans 13. 1 – 13.

It was all about the hymns for us. We had ‘This lit­tle light of mine’ and ‘Give me joy in my heart’ (it was a very upbeat and happy day).

What did you wear?

Char­lotte: Enzoani — Diana (I only wore the belt for the night time), Dune shoes, Jenny Pack­ham head piece, cathe­dral veil, vin­tage watch which was Craig’s Nanna’s, who sadly I never met. I lit­er­ally tried on hun­dreds of dresses; one lady upset me as she said I would never have that ‘the one’ moment… Even­tu­ally I did and it was com­pletely worth the wait!

Craig: hired suits from Tick­led Pink Don­caster. Groom and best man had match­ing cra­vats from the peach silk; the ush­ers had ivory ones.

Wed­ding music and entertainment:

Bridge­wa­ter string quar­tet (as they played cur­rent songs, Ali­cia Keys, Lady Gaga etc.), John Mor­ton magi­cian, and VIP band through York­shire Entertainment.

Wed­ding venue styling and details:

We had a mar­quee recep­tion, and this proved very time con­sum­ing for the amount of guests we had (135 in the day, and an extra 50 at night) so we used Jacquie Andrassy Mar­quees and she helped so much with this. How­ever we both had input in every­thing through­out, as we were both very adamant on cer­tain styles that we wanted.

I chose my gor­geous brides­maid dresses from Asos — they were a bar­gain and decided on the nudey peach color scheme. We wanted every­thing to look very opu­lent and lux­u­ri­ous, which is why we went for the crackle effect tea light hold­ers and pump­kin vases, and I love flow­ers so we really went to town with those!

The lawn looked immac­u­late as my dad sells turf!! We wanted the recep­tion to be very relaxed and out­side for as long as pos­si­ble… We had a china hat mar­quee on the lawn; this again looked so glam­orous with many lanterns, bird cages etc.

The bar was made from our color silk, and Jacquie made new cush­ion cov­ers and throws for the sofas!

I bought about 40 pairs of flip flops and put them in a pic­nic bas­ket for the night time; I would rec­om­mend this to everyone!

The toi­lets looked amaz­ing, as some­times mar­quee toi­lets are awful, but Jacquie dressed these with hair straight­en­ers, mini deodor­ants etc; it didn’t seem like a toi­let area, more a VIP styling area for the ladies!

And we also got my lovely cousin Lucy to design us indi­vid­ual menus with each guest’s name place: we thought this looked more styl­ish and per­sonal. We named the tables after all the spe­cial places we have trav­elled together over the years and had the younger tables as the stag and hen do des­ti­na­tions: Mag­a­luf and Benidorm, haha! Our top table was our beau­ti­ful hon­ey­moon location…Barbados.

Invi­ta­tions and recep­tion stationery:

My cousin designed the font and lay­out and I made the invi­ta­tions myself as I am quite artis­tic and crafty. I loved doing them and missed stick­ing dia­mantes to things afterwards!

Mem­o­rable wed­ding day moments:

• Hear­ing the string quar­tet play­ing (Canon in D) and walk­ing down the aisle with my lovely father to my hand­some husband.
• Hav­ing pic­tures taken on the bench (which my dad made for us) and feel­ing so happy and in love, and hav­ing that spe­cial ten min­utes that every­body talks about.
• Walk­ing into the mar­quee as hus­band and wife to ‘I’m a Believer’.
• My first dance to ‘My Girl’ with my Dad.
• Hav­ing one of our guests go miss­ing (after hav­ing a few too many shandies) and Craig jumped into an old land rover to try and locate him! (we were quite wor­ried as my dad is a farmer and has lots of very deep water reser­voirs around the farm!)

Wed­ding day advice:

• Relax on the morning.
• Spend a few min­utes on your own together dur­ing the day to reflect on the events.
• Have lots of pic­tures taken.
• Enjoy every sec­ond; it really does go so fast!
• Have a party or an event the next day if you can, we had a BBQ as it was the crazy hot week­end in May and it was amaz­ing to see every­body prop­erly again…I wore my veil all day and car­ried my bou­quet, haha!

Rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers:

Chris­t­ian Ward Pho­tog­ra­phy www.christianwardphotography.com
Rupert Ward Lewis Videog­ra­phy http://www.rupertwardlewis.com
Louella Bridal in Leeds http://www.louellabride.co.uk
Jaquie Andrassy Mar­quees http://www.jacquieandrassy.co.uk
Fiona Her­bert Cater­ing http://www.fionaherbertcatering.co.uk
VIP band
Bridge­wa­ter Quar­tet
John Mor­ton Magi­cian http://www.mortonmagic.com