Emma and Alex’s Glamorous 1950s Hollywood Wedding with a Vintage Camper Van

My reply to Darren’s email says it all: “Within a sec­ond of click­ing on your link it was a yes from me! What an amaz­ing wed­ding That first image had me smil­ing so much… there’s so much more to love too: the venue, the lit­tle dance in the door­way of the Ash­ton Memo­r­ial! Just won­der­ful!”

So with­out fur­ther mut­ter­ings from me — I wit­ter on, don’t I?! I’m just excited — here are my favorite pho­tographs from Emma and Alex’s wed­ding at the Ash­ton Memo­r­ial and Ash­ton Hall at Lan­caster Golf Club. Con­grat­u­la­tions to a beau­ti­ful bride and gor­geous groom (hon­estly — they could be movie stars!) and thank you ever so much to both of you, and to Dar­ren Williams Pho­tog­ra­phy, for shar­ing your wed­ding day with us. Every­one — enjoy! Claire x

Emma and Alex’s beau­ti­ful, glam­orous, 1950s Hol­ly­wood inspired wed­ding blog

The wed­ding venues:

Cer­e­mony — Ash­ton Memo­r­ial, Williamsons Park, Lan­caster
Recep­tion — Ash­ton Hall at Lan­caster Golf Club, Lan­caster

Wed­ding photographer:

Dar­ren Williams Wed­ding Photography

Invi­ta­tions and recep­tion stationery:

Lov­ingly home made on a rainy after­noon with my mom and friends. The invi­ta­tions had a vin­tage brooch and sil­ver rib­bon which gave guests a hint of the color scheme — sil­ver and pur­ple. For the table plan we bought an old sil­ver, vin­tage mir­ror which we then dec­o­rated. Name tags were pur­ple hearts attached to our wed­ding favours of gin­ger­bread men and women (home made by Alex’s mom and dad). We wrote the table names on mini black­boards from Hobbycraft.

What did you wear?

My dress was Isadora Ann by Mag­gie Sot­tero from But­ter­fly Bridal in Lan­caster. My shoes were sil­ver glitzy heels from Roland Cartier — Deben­hams. I wore a bird­cage veil and flower from Lilly Bella , I bor­rowed my neck­lace from my sis­ter (some­thing borrowed!)

Alex wore a clas­sic black slim fit­ting Cer­ruti Ital­ian tux, with a hand tied skinny bow tie.

A lit­tle about the wed­ding ceremony:

We had our civil cer­e­mony in the most beau­ti­ful build­ing in Lan­caster which was built in 1908 by Lord Ash­ton to remem­ber his sec­ond wife. As the guests arrived, Frank Sina­tra music played then the old movies theme con­tin­ued as we signed the reg­is­ter to Mar­i­lyn Monroe’s ‘I wanna be loved by you’. Our wed­ding read­ings were ‘The art of mar­riage’ by Wil­ferd A. Peter­son and ‘He never leaves the seat up’. At the end of the cer­e­mony our music direc­tion changed as we danced down the aisle to Alex’s favorite song ‘Don’t look back into the sun’ by The Lib­ertines. After the cer­e­mony the guests were treated to pink fizz with straw­ber­ries, and mini cakes.

Wed­ding venue styling and details:

• Aisle dec­o­rated with lanterns and pur­ple petals.
• Wild gar­den flow­ers to tie in with the green­ery in Williamson’s park.
• Retro sweet table
• Table with fam­ily wed­ding por­traits on

Wed­ding music and entertainment:

The Delta­tones two piece band played an amaz­ing mix of vin­tage rock, clas­sic indie and upbeat clas­sics. They also pro­vided a DJ set where an eclec­tic mix of songs were played from Gina G and Five to Jonny B. Goode.

Mem­o­rable wed­ding day moments:

Emma — On my hen do in Glas­gow we went to a Bur­lesque Dance les­son where we learnt a rou­tine to Lady Mar­malade. In the evening myself and my hens sur­prised the guests with this per­for­mance com­plete with feather boas!

Alex — See­ing my beau­ti­ful bride in her amaz­ing unique dress for the first time as she walked down the aisle (pre­ceded by my gor­geous 15 month old niece as our flower girl).

Wed­ding day advice:

Don’t let any­body dic­tate your day — do what you want to do and be your­self. That is what will make your day memorable.

Rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers:

The Hang­ing Bas­ket Florist — Lan­caster
But­ter­fly Bridal — Lan­caster
Dar­ren Williams Wed­ding Pho­tog­ra­phy — North Wales