Vintage Lace and Pearls — an Isle of Wight Wedding

Laura and Paul were mar­ried in the Isle of Wight, and their pho­tog­ra­pher was Jason Mark Har­ris. I adore the flow­ers — deli­cious sweet peas and peonies — and all the pretty loca­tions at the Albert Cot­tage Hotel. It goes with­out say­ing that Laura looks breath­tak­ingly beau­ti­ful and Paul is gor­geous too! Laura styled the wed­ding and made all of her own sta­tionery and every­thing looks sim­ply amaz­ing — so there’s plenty of inspi­ra­tion to be had here. Grab a cuppa and enjoy — this is a won­der­ful wed­ding and I’m sure you’ll love it!

Claire xxx

Laura and Paul — a beau­ti­ful vin­tage Isle of Wight wed­ding blog

The Wed­ding venue:

Albert Cot­tage Hotel, Isle of Wight

Wed­ding photographer:

Jason Mark Harris

How would you describe your wed­ding style?

Vin­tage Lace and Pearls

A lit­tle about the wed­ding ceremony:

Our cer­e­mony was held at our local church near to where we live and we chose this church as other fam­ily mem­bers such as my husband’s Uncle and Aunty got mar­ried there in the past so the church has a lot of fam­ily his­tory and mean­ing to us.

Which read­ings did you choose?

A Walled Gar­den by an unknown author and 1 Corinthi­ans 13:4–8 — Love is Patient.

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

Our venue was a for­mer Royal Res­i­dence so the styling of our wed­ding was based around vin­tage and old lace.

For the din­ing room I had bird­cages with flow­ers inside such as roses and hydrangeas on the tables on lace table­cloths with old, gold frames with the table names on and gold frames with black and white pho­tographs of our grand­par­ents next to the cake so they were there watch­ing over the day with us.

Our cake was a sim­ple 3 tier cake with iced lace detail on and iced roses on the top.

For the evening recep­tion we hired a mar­quee and had a more relaxed theme with had lots of paper lanterns hang­ing down at dif­fer­ent heights, some with lights in and a retro sweet fac­tory for peo­ple to take some home with them and ran­dom jam jars with pho­tos of us on hol­i­days and fes­ti­vals in and some with can­dles and lace tied around them.

Invi­ta­tions and recep­tion stationery:

All made by myself. For the invi­ta­tions I used ivory pearles­cent card and tiny pearls to add detail to the invi­ta­tions and stamped gold swal­lows onto back­ing paper for a vin­tage look and tied them all up with dusky pink ribbon.

The table names and seat­ing plan all matched and I used ran­dom sized shabby chic gold frames to the table names on the table and a big ornate gold frame to put the seat­ing plan in.

I had so much fun mak­ing them all myself and had such a sense of pride on the day know­ing I had made it all myself.

Wed­ding music and entertainment:

Switch (a local band) played cov­ers and acoustic songs live and then our friend Lee­boi was our DJ as a wed­ding present to us.

What did you wear?

My wed­ding dress was designed and cus­tom made by For­get Me Not Bridal on the Isle of Wight and was a fit­ted fish tale style with chif­fon over lace and pearl and beaded detail. My hair piece was a crys­tal and beaded style and was by the designer Jenny Pack­ham.

Paul wore a three piece skinny gray suit from Next and sim­ple cream rose buttonhole.

Mem­o­rable wed­ding day moments:

The most mem­o­rable moment was in the car on the way to our Venue from the Church, was one of the few times that day where it was just us so cel­e­brated just get­ting mar­ried and drank champagne!

Rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers:

Ele­gant wed­ding cre­ations hired us a vin­tage post box for our wed­ding cards along with other bits that cut down the cost of buy­ing for one day and For­get Me Not wed­ding dresses for a truly unique and made to mea­sure dress that can be made exactly how you want it.