It’s off to Ormskirk, Lancs this evening as we join Caroline and Stuart to share in their gorgeous Real Wedding. Caroline chose to style her day with an abundance of floral displays – to blooming beautiful effect!
With images by Stephen Rooney at Natural Touch Photography.
Caroline says: We got engaged in Cyprus in July 2012 and were married on 11th October 2013 at West Tower Country House Hotel, Ormskirk.
We had looked at about thirteen venues across the North West but we couldn’t decide on any. There was something not right about all of them for us, but then we visited West Tower and it was absolutely perfect. Beautiful setting, friendly staff, incredibly organised – it just felt right.
I stayed at Formby Hall the night before with my family and bridesmaids and my chief drove us over to the West Tower in the morning where we got ready.
I chose quite a vintage style dress. It was Mocha in colour with cream lace over the top. It was a Charlotte Balbier dress from The White Closet in Didsbury.
After lots of shopping around and trying on, the bridesmaids were in navy dresses from Coast and the groomsmen were in grey tails from Groom in Liverpool.
I carried a hand tied bouquet of whites and creams, the majority of which were roses. We used Flowerstyle by Laurie who is in Formby – an absolutely amazing florist.
As a special treat for our guests we used Ice Cream Dub who provided our chosen ice cream and sorbet and served them from their vintage VW camper van.
Steven Rooney of Natural Touch Photography was our choice of photographer. He was very easy going and professional.
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Red Events Creative provided the chair covers and sashes and Flowerstyle By Laurie our beautiful centrepieces. Our table plan was our favourite places we had travelled to together rather than numbers.
Our cake was the “Vintage Fairy-tale” design from Waitrose – just beautiful.
We used Steve Mitchell Wedding DJ in the evening. He really was excellent. Our free bar also helped too get the party going!
I loved every bit of the day! I really enjoyed getting ready with bridesmaids in the morning, I loved the actual ceremony which surprised us both, the speeches were fantastic and I finished off the day dancing with my new husband and then my Dad! Just seeing everyone having a blast was amazing!
After the wedding we went to Australia for an epic honeymoon for five and a half weeks, stopping in Dubai on the way home.
My top tip for other Brides Up North is that flowers make such an impact. Shop around for the best but always barter!
Congratulations Caroline & Stuart!
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