A Green Wedding

Wedding season is well and truly upon us so I thought I'd do a little nostalgic post about our wedding, nearly three years ago.

We wanted something really simple, with just close friends and family and I had always dreamt of getting married outside. We were lucky enough to find Clow Beck Eco Farm who agreed we could have our special day on their site. They weren't a registered venue so we got legally married in a registry office a few days before and then had our 'real' wedding with our own special vows on the farm.

 

We had a real DIY wedding as I wanted low impact. I made decorations, including rag wreaths, 100m of bunting, decorated jam jars for tea lights (we call them jam jar fairies!) and the sign you see above. My dress was a vintage 1960s dress that I had slightly altered (arms removed, taken in and sash added) to make it work for me.

 

 

We had a humanist ceremony with vows that we wrote ourselves, held in a wooden shelter under some trees and next to a brook, I couldn't have asked for it to be anymore perfect, right down to the log seats that our guests sat on.

 

 

I had minimal flowers, just bouquets for me and my bridesmaids (my sisters), hair flowers and button holes for Paul and his two best men. I was unspecific over what I wanted, just lots of colour and English grown, non hot house. So they were a wonderful and beautiful surprise on the day, provided by Amy at Greenhouse Florists.

 

 

 



At the time the farm was fully working with an amazing array of vegetables and quite a bit of livestock. The chef on site did us the most amazing BBQ feast, including sausages that Paul and I made from pork reared on the farm. It was very informal with no seating plan and no speeches - I loved it! At the time I didn't like cake (this changed during pregnancy!) so instead my wonderful friend Maz made us individual fruit pies, displayed in a fab tower.

 

 

Then we pretty much donned our wellies and partied the night away!

 

 

I also had a green hen do (before the wedding obviously) and have previously written a blog about this for Angel in the North, it was written a couple of years ago but might still have some handy hints - click here to read it.

 

Emily x