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Today’s bride is part of the fabulous family of feisty females who make up North East wedding cake suppliers Celebration Cakes and who I know via our Brides Up North Super Showcase Grand Wedding Exhibitions in the North East and also because the family were in charge of creating my very own wedding cake back in October 2010 (and very nice it was too)!
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So when Deborah asked me if I would like to feature her Real Wedding, with images by Alan Gibson Photography, I knew that she wouldn’t have done anything by halves. Enlisting the help of her industry colleagues (some of the best in the business) Deborah and Ben’s real wedding was bright, colourful and bursting with personality. And lots of cake, clearly.
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Deborah says: We got engaged seven years ago when Ben proposed after a night out for my birthday, and we were married on 21st May 2012 at Lumley Castle in County Durham. We have just celebrated our first wedding anniversary.
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I have always wanted get married in a castle and after doing many wedding fairs over the last fourteen years with our cake company, Lumley Castle is my favourite.
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I had a huge dress by Ronald Joyce from Exclusively Yours by Tara and my bridesmaids wore long taffeta black dresses from Gowns and Garters.
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We chose tropical flowers in bright colours. Birds of Paradise are our favourite flower after seeing them on our first holiday together in Australia many years ago. Against the bright flowers we opted for a colour scheme of ivory, black and bright orange with a hint of purple.
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My bouquet weighed three and a half pounds and was huge! It including lilies, birds of paradise and roses and was by Wild & Wonderful.
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I stayed at Lumley Castle the night before and Ben travelled in a Lovedub Cars camper van called Chaz! We then we had a wedding car come after our wedding breakfast to take us into Durham for some photos with the Cathedral behind us.
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We enlisted the help of so many amazing North East industry suppliers in addition to those already mentioned including; One Digital image, Dandy Events, Snaparazzi Photobooths, All Things Fun, Impact Technical, Mobeus Jewellers, Stephanie Short Stationery, Menswear by Just Perfect, Lickety Split, Whatado Weddings, Exclusive Wedding Cars and The Beauty Studio.
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Given what we do, the wedding cake had to be pretty special! We had a individual chocolate cakes during the day with a figure of me, Ben and our son Alex on the top and then we had a surprise six tier chocolate creation in the evening as well as pork pies and cheese cakes. We even had a cake made from balloons!
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All our females guests received a orchard to take home and a wedding survival pack including plasters, perfume, a hairbrush and painkillers (for the morning after)!
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In the evening we partied the night away to a live band called The Emerald Thieves, served ice creams form our favourite parlour and hired a vintage photo booth from Snaparazzi. Ben’s mum also surprised us with a firework display.
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After the wedding we honeymooned in Cyprus without our son! Ben’s mum booked it for us as a wedding present.
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My favourite part of the day was the firework display to my favourite prodigy song “Voodoo People” , but I loved it all and would love to do it all again, but as a guest! So my top tip for other Brides Up North would be to just relax and enjoy it!
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Congratulations Deborah & Ben!
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