Is That Cinderella? A Northbrook Park Wedding

“My wed­ding dress was a sin­gle strap Gre­cian style — Fran­coli by Pronovias, pur­chased at Teokath in Wim­ble­don. I went light on the acces­sories given the design on the dress and used jew­ellery I already had.

While the groom and grooms­men were fairly relaxed lead­ing up to the wed­ding, you could feel the pres­sure on morn­ing of the wed­ding. They were fan­tas­tic with the grooms­men com­ing into the brides­maids cot­tage reg­u­larly for instruc­tions on what else needed to be done. The girls loved it. The cham­pagne was flow­ing quite early that day.







Andrew wore a tai­lored suit made by Kip­per Bespoke. His shoes were from Barker.

Our fam­ily and friends trav­elled from fairly far abroad (Amer­ica, China, Dubai, Turkey) just to attend our wed­ding so we wanted to ensure that they had a good time. As our fam­i­lies live far apart, they only met for the first time the day before the wedding.

I felt really relaxed and then all the emo­tions hit when the doors opened and I saw my friends and fam­ily and Andrew all there for me.





The whole day went by really quickly and we could tell that every­one had a really good time, which made us very happy.

What stands out as a spe­cial mem­ory of your wed­ding day?

My father’s speech – My father is an out­spo­ken shrewd busi­ness­man that doesn’t really show his soft side that often. I could tell he was ner­vous deliv­er­ing his speech which was a sur­prise to me and my sib­lings, as we had never seen him ner­vous before. I was really touched by his words and the guests loved him. As he con­tin­ued his speech, the guests clapped and laughed at his jokes. He could tell he was win­ning the room over and you could see the con­fi­dence return­ing. At the end, he went around toast­ing and high fiv­ing the guests!

What wed­ding day advice would you give to other brides?

- Try to prep every­thing before the day and give your wed­ding party respon­si­bil­i­ties for the day so that you can sit back and really enjoy the day as it will go by quickly. Fill them in on the plan for the day so they can help other guests and you (esp. After the cer­e­mony, where they should go, who needs to be in pho­tos, and if some­thing doesn’t hap­pen when they know it should – they can help you sort it out b/c they know the plan in advance etc)

- Make a list of the group pho­tos so that you don’t for­get on the day. Gary rec­om­mended this and asked for our list in advance.

- Pre­pare your­self for last minute changes. For my wed­ding and quite a few of the wed­dings I went to this year had last minute guests who could no longer come.

- Seat­ing plan – I pre­pared mine using post its on my wall which was really great because I had to change it mul­ti­ple times and it’s on your wall so it’s out of the way and you can stand back and get over­all view.

Tell us about any wed­ding sup­pli­ers you recommend

Gary (Mar­shal Gray) our pho­tog­ra­pher, of course. From our ini­tial cof­fee meet­ing, we felt at ease with Gary. Always quick to reply to any emails and really per­son­able. Great bal­ance of artistry and the wed­ding must shots. His sec­ond shooter was also great – I really liked her as well.

Teokath Wim­ble­don — Rea­son­able, very nice and help­ful, and no fee for try­ing on dresses (I found a lot of places in Lon­don charge now)

Three Bees – our caterer. Dell and his team were absolutely amaz­ing. Not only was it great food and ser­vice, they made us feel com­fort­able and con­fi­dent that we were in safe hands. Dell always made time to answer our ques­tions. We exchanged count­less emails and con­fer­ence calls. The venue was essen­tially venue only so every­thing else was pro­vided by Three Bees — recep­tion canapés and drinks, wed­ding break­fast (incl glasses, linen), and bar ser­vice for the evening. Absolutely amazing.