A Lusan Mandongus Dress for a Wild Flower, Vintage and Countryside Inspired Wedding…

Good morning my loves. Yesterday, we took a break from featuring any
real weddings to share with you an exquisite set of buttonhole ideas
alongside details of the divine Emmy Shoes (still can't get over how
many click-throughs we sent Emmy's way yesterday – turns out our readers
are rather partial to a pair of sexy glamorous heels). I'd like to start today with the wedding of Charlie and Adam, who tied the knot on 29th June at St Kyneburgha Church
in Castor,
Peterborough – bride Charlie's childhood home.  This was followed by a
reception at The George Hotel in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

I really love these photographs for their wild flower nature, all
those pretty daisies and gypsophila, and I want to also point out that
lovely Charlie is wearing a Chez Bec
headpiece – readers, did you know if you order a piece from Chez Bec
before midnight tomorrow (Valentines Day!) you will be entitled to a 25%
discount? Full details here.

"My dress was a Lusan Mandongus design that I bought from Morgan Davies Bridal
It was just so me – as soon as I put it on I knew. Pretty, floaty, lacy,
no meringues or stiff satin. I absolutely loved the train – it was a
straight dress but still had some wedding drama with the long train…"

Love My Dress Wedding Blog – Photography Copyright (c) 2013, Wookie Photography

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"I can’t rave on about Wookie Floral Design
enough. As soon as I saw Amy’s website I knew she had to do my flowers.
Her style was exactly what I wanted and when I met up with her to
discuss everything I knew she was on my wavelength. I was so confident
with her that I just described the style and feel that I wanted to
achieve and left her to choose the flowers. The flowers were the thing
that I was looking forward to seeing the most on the day and they were
perfect.

I had imagined what our room at The George was going to look
like so many times in the lead up to the day and when I finally walked
in there it took my breath away – it was even better! 
I only shed tears once on my wedding day and it was when I saw my bouquet – what more can I say."

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"Lots
of things inspired our wedding – the country style of the venues for
example; I had an image in my head of little bridesmaids with flowers in
their hair running around bare footed in a meadow, I also saw a picture
of Kate Moss’ wedding – I loved her style and the wedgewood blue of her
big bridesmaids. I basically came up with words that described the feel
I wanted: wild, floaty, relaxed, pretty, stylish, vintage, countryside,
traditional.
"

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"The Bridesmaids dresses were tricky as I already had my heart
set on the colour and couldn’t find a dress that was the exact colour I
wanted – in the end we had it made by Maids to Measure.

The flowergirl dresses were called Estelle and I got them in the sale at Monsoon."


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"My son Jacob’s trousers and waistcoat were from John Lewis and we bought an extra tie to match Adam’s which my mum turned into a bow tie so that he matched his dad."

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"The reception was at The George Hotel in Stamford,
Lincolnshire. We had a number of family meals at The George in the past
so we knew exactly what it was like. Beautiful surroundings, excellent
service, top quality food and wine."

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"Our photographers were Wookie Photography.  They were amazing!
Amy and Frank did a fantastic job. The pictures are breathtaking, so
different to all the other photos that were taken on the day. We really
love the soft vintage style."

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"My Dad walked me down the aisle.  The organ in church
is a good one and I wanted to walk in to a traditional organ piece but I
wanted something different to all the usual wedding processionals.
After listening to hundreds of pieces I ended up choosing ‘Festive
Trumpet Tune’ by David German. I had to order the music from USA for the
organist to learn it!
"

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"My favourite part of the day was the church service –
particularly walking down the aisle of course. We had both our children
christened during the service as well so it was a really intimate family
event. As Adam and I had been together so long we thought that the
church part was just going to be sorting out the formalities – we hadn’t
anticipated what an amazing experience the church service was going to
be and how moving it was.

When Adam proposed we actually did not have to have any
discussion about the church or reception venue as we both just knew that
it had to be in those venues – the date of the wedding was based around
when we could get the venues and not the other way round!

We
met at work. We moved in together and have two children – Abigail and
Jacob. Then for my birthday treat last year (Dec 2011) Adam took me to
The Bear in Woodstock where he unexpectedly proposed!  So we were only
engaged for 6 months or so before the wedding.
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"The
cars were amazing!!! Adam and I both had a car to arrive in thanks to a
very good friend of ours who collects classic cars! Adam and his best
men arrived in a Mercedes 600 Grosser and I arrived in a 1964 Jaguar Mk2
(and a small claim to fame – it actually used to belong to Chris Evans
and was his wedding car when he married Billie Piper!!). It felt really
cool that Adam drove us away from church himself.
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Words of Wedded Wisdom…

"Make the most of every moment – it goes by so fast!  Also, I wish my sisters had been with me while I was getting ready."

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Is that not delightful? All daisies and wild flowers and pretty little maids all in row, I just love it!

Huge thanks to Wookie Photography for sharing this beautiful day, we hope it has inspired you and made you smile.

With much love,

Annabel

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Photographer – Wookie Photography
Venue – The George Hotel in Stamford
Bride's Dress – Lusan Mandongus via Morgan Davies Bridal
Brides Veil – Morgan Davies Bridal
Brides Hair Accessories – Hair Comb from Chez Bec + earrings Ernest Jones
Brides Shoes – Rainbow Club Suzi
Grooms Suit – Carisbrooke
Bridesmaids Dresses – Maids to Measure + Mabel shoes from BHS
Bridesmaids Hair Accessories – Glitzy Secrets
Flowergirl Dresses – Monsoon
Page boy/young male assistants outfits – John Lewis
Florist – Wookie Floral Design
Cake – Marks & Spencer
Hair and make-up Artist – Elizabeth Clare

Annabel

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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and Editor. Annabel lives in rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business partner Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and star gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she's not working on Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip in the running of the family's sustainable flower farm and floral design business, Moonwind Flowers. In 2013, she became a published author.

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