Jayne and Steven’s Traditional English Wedding at Rowton Hall in Chester

All of today’s gor­geous pho­tos are by the lovely Jamie of Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy, and there’s a fan­tas­tic wed­ding video to watch as well. My heart­felt con­grat­u­la­tions to Jayne and Steven and thank you for shar­ing such a lovely wed­ding report. Claire xxx

The bride and groom: Jayne & Steven Golden

Wed­ding venue:

St Luke’s Church Widnes & Row­ton Hall Chester

Wed­ding photographer:

Vick­er­staff Photography

How would you describe your wed­ding style?

Tra­di­tional and classic

A lit­tle about the wed­ding ceremony:

We had a tra­di­tional church cer­e­mony at the same church in which the bride’s par­ents mar­ried some 40 years before

Which read­ings did you choose?

At church:
1. 1 Corinthi­ans: 13,
2. What is Love
3. Song of Solomon 8: 6–7

At our wed­ding break­fast recep­tion:
1. The Day

What did you wear?

Jayne wore an ivory full length French taffeta gown, made by Jonathan James Cou­ture. It had a fit­ted plain bodice with A-line skirt and long train with pick me ups and flow­ers through­out. There was a sin­gle match­ing flower at the top of the bodice. For church Jayne wore a small ¾ quar­ter length sleeve lace stole with full-length veil and ivory pearl comb at the front of her hair, which was pinned up.

The veil came off for the wed­ding break­fast and then for the evening recep­tion the train was short­ened, jacket removed and a hal­ter neck strap attached to change the look to a more casual feel for the evening.

Jayne also wore a sim­ple bracelet which was bor­rowed from the mother of the bride, dia­mond stud ear­rings and wed­ding rings. Her shoes were from Rain­bow, and were ivory satin with tiny pearl shaped flow­ers. She car­ried some­thing old: a penny in her shoe, some­thing blue – the words ‘I do’ in blue rhine­stones stuck to bot­toms of her shoes.

Steven wore navy pin­stripe trousers, a navy tail jacket, ivory cra­vat, hand­ker­chief and waist­coat. (Other grooms­men wore navy cra­vats and handkerchiefs)

Tell us a lit­tle about your wed­ding venue styling and details:

Jayne’s brides­maids wore long navy fish­tail dresses with navy shrugs and car­ried ivory roses with match­ing flow­ers in their hair. The match­ing color theme through­out was navy with ivory flow­ers. All the gents wore navy tails.

The wed­ding cars were tra­di­tional old clas­sic ivory cars. Our cake was a 4 tier ivory wed­ding cake with flow­ers on the top. The dec­o­ra­tion at the recep­tion was can­de­labras and flow­ers as cen­tre­pieces with can­dles through­out the other rooms. We also had navy tiebacks on chairs, and Green & Blacks choco­lates for favours.

Invi­ta­tions and recep­tion stationery:

From the Let­ter­press of Cir­cences­ter. We chose a clas­sic ivory, tra­di­tional invite with navy bow with reply slip etc. Our name places, table plan, menus and order of ser­vice all matched, also table names which were Krispy Kreme donut flavours in hon­our of the groom’s obses­sion with them!

Wed­ding music and entertainment:

A string quar­tet played in church for the arrival of our guests and for the bride’s entrance (Pachel­bel Canon D), sign­ing of reg­is­ter­ing and exit. Then they also played at the drinks reception.

A band called Har­le­quin pro­vided enter­tain­ment for the first dance and main part of the evening play­ing a mix­ture of old clas­sics and mod­ern tunes, then a DJ played until the early hours.

Mem­o­rable wed­ding day moments:

For the bride: my won­der­ful brides­maids tak­ing the great­est care of me; the nerves when pulling up to the church. My god­son, a page­boy, telling me Uncle Steve was wait­ing for me at the front for me when I arrived at the church. See­ing Steve as I walked down the aisle and just being sur­round­ing by so much love and joy all day.

For the groom: The sur­real feel­ing see­ing all the guests in the pub before the wed­ding; see­ing Jayne walk up the aisle, walk­ing out the church see­ing every­one smil­ing and clap­ping and hav­ing a quiet moment with the wife just before walk­ing in to the wed­ding break­fast room.

Rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers:

• Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy!! Lovely, thought­ful, per­son­able, patient, and the pho­tographs are fantastic!!
• Jonathan James Cou­ture – Ivory lounge in Chester is their flag­ship shop and the lady who runs it — the designer’s mom — is just the most won­der­ful per­son who makes you feel like a proper bride!
• Row­ton Hall in Chester – great place to have a wed­ding recep­tion – they look after you and make every­thing so personal!
• Dar­ren Tyler Hair­dress­ing in Cron­ton – he opened espe­cially early for me and my entourage of brides­maids and he and his staff were an absolute gem in the run up with one very stressed ner­vous bride!

Jayne and Steven’s wed­ding video

Jayne and Steven wed­ding trailer from Henry D. C. Williams on Vimeo.