A gorgeous little wedding to share with you this late Wednesday afternoon. This couple actually won a competition on Love My Dress® to win a full wedding photography package with PNM Weddings, so I’m extra pleased to be able to share this wedding with you today. Shell, a Doctor and Pete, a Design Engineer, married on 24th May this year at Trafford Hall in Chester. This was a day full to bursting with a rainbow array of colour!
“We chose Trafford Hall because we wanted a relaxed, outdoor oriented wedding. We were keen to have a ceremony outside (although it did have an indoor option as a fall back) with a carnival feel about it. We also very much wanted all our guests to be able to stay as they were coming from all over the country and Trafford Hall boasts a large number of reasonably priced rooms, all situated in beautiful gardens. Also, we feel that this venue was very reasonably priced and in this respect an excellent find.
The cherry on the cake for this venue was that it is a charitable organisation funded partly by weddings. They were tremendously helpful both on the day and in the run-up, and were just all round excellent.”
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“We were friends and housemates for four years at university before finally getting together and we were together five years before getting engaged – and engaged for two before getting married! We really wanted the wedding to have a woodland, carnival feel with lots of music.”
“Our florist was Acacia Floral Design. We wanted bright colours. Flowers for the tables were bought from a supermarket on the day before. It worked out much cheaper and they looked great!”
“To help us create lots of colour, and create a carnival atmoshphere, we used coloured lanterns hanging from the ceiling of the marquee, coloured ribbons on the backs of the chairs and central piece of coloured origami paper cranes dangling from a wooden ring.”pnm
“Our photographers were PNM Weddings – they were really lovely and great to have around/hang out with and amazing photo’s too!”
“Because we were having a woodland themed wedding, I wanted a dress that was simple and pretty to reflect this – so turned to designer Sharon Bowen.”
“My bridesmaids wore kimono’s from Etsy for the morning of the wedding and their own dresses for the actual wedding.”
Michelle’s father walked her down the aisle to the sound of ‘To Build A Home’ by Cinematic Orchestra and during the ceremony, Michelle says their friend delivered a really lovely reading about their life together.
“We’d arranged for the Brazillian Drum Ensemble to sneak up on the ceremony in the woods and begin playing as we kissed. It worked a treat! Lot’s of people jumped out their chairs. The drummers then led the procession back to the drinks reception. We think every wedding should have a percussion ensemble. Every guest loved it without exception, and it was the standout moment of the day.”
“We designed our own stationery – our table plans were home-made road signs of streets we’d lived on and the table plan was made up of polaroids of each guest.”
Words of Wedded Wisdom…
“Enjoy the planning. Its part of the fun, everybody is different so do what you feel is right for you.
Also, if you’re going to get your mates to DJ, don’t let them get drunk!”
I’m so happy to be able to share photographs today – Shell and Pete, I’m really happy you won the competition on Love My Dress® – your photographs are absolutely wonderful and I’m also delighted that I had the opportunity to work with PNM Weddings.
Ladies and gents, I hope you’ve enjoyed looking through these photographs too.
With love, Annabel xx
Photographer – PNM Weddings
Venue + catering – Trafford Hall, Chester
Brides Dress – Sharon Bowen
Bride’s Shoes & Veil – Noble & Wright
Perfume – Georgio Armani
Grooms Suit – Burton
Bridesmaids – Coast
Flowergirl Dresses – Debenhams
Florist – Acacia Floral Design
Cake – M&S choclate cake
Entertainment – Brazillian Drum Ensemble + Nadiah & The Light Fantastic + Shanty
Stationery – DIY
Hair Stylist – Verity Cockton, mobile hairdreser, Wirral
Such a beautiful colourful wedding! It looks like such a fun day and I bet the guests had a blast! x
Beautiful images! Amazing work PNM Photography! Love the colours! x