Amy and Harry's Beautiful Church Wedding and Village Hall Reception. St Mary's All Saints Church and Aston Village Hall.

When I first met Amy, she said that Harry and her just wanted a really simple but elegant wedding. A small church wedding with their closest friends and family and then on to the village hall for the party, where they had hired some local food vans to put on a variety of yummy hand made food and deserts to stay the whole day, for their guests to dip into whenever they fancied. It was a beautifully relaxed affair. Amy’s decoration was top notch as she decorated the whole hall herself and it did look beautiful and elegant, but the loveliest thing about the whole day was the look of love on Amy and Harry’s faces whenever they looked at each other. xx 

Katie Dervin is a Documentary Photographer based in Manchester.

Festival Wedding Alert! Victoria and Steve's Awesome, DIY - Back Garden - Tipi - Farm Wedding.

Victoria and Steve’s wedding was as intimate as it comes, they got hitched on a beautiful sunny day at Holy Trinity Church, Tythby, Nottingham in the very same church where Victoria’s parent’s got married, from the church the guests walked just a few steps down the road to Victoria’s childhood home where an awesome teepee reception, lots of bubbly and plenty of surprises were eagerly awaiting them. It was very much a DIY wedding with everyone chipping in, metal sculptures made by Victoria’s Dad, beautiful flower arrangements came from the lady next doors own garden, while on the other side their neighbours lent their farms fields for friends and family to camp over night, one particular heroic local family took on the mammoth task of serving everyone food and even doing all the washing up by hand. Decorations were hand made and sourced by Victoria from local charity shops and entertainment ranged through the day from a staged puppet performance to Victoria getting up and blasting out some mammoth tunes with her band, even nailing down a Jimi Hendrix solo on her Clarinet. It was truly a wonderful day, jam packed fun and all the magical little details and hard work from everyone on involved made it even more special. I loved every minute of it. Thanks for having me Stix (Victoria) and Steve! ;) xx

Manchester Wedding: Beatriz and Brendan's Urban; Music, Graffiti, Skate Boarding and Break Dancing?*

When I first met Beatriz and Brendan at their home in Chorlton, Manchester it was clear that the Manchester’s Music Scene had played a big part in them getting together. Beatriz and Brendan have been together for 15 awesome years, their love story began one sweaty noisy night at Manchester’s Road House Music venue where they first smacked eyes on each other, over a crowded room packed with dedicated music lovers and sparks flew. 15 years on they are still besotted with each other, Brendan hitting top groom points for surprising Beatriz on their wedding day with a gospel choir, a personalised graffiti mural and a swish chauffer driven Jag to wizz them around town.

*They aren't really breakdancing they are just shit at handstands ;) 

Credits for venues and suppliers at the end of the blog. 

Reception venue - Macdonald Manchester Hotel and Spa.
www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk

Flowers - Julie Turnbull
joolz_turnbull@hotmail.com
07597 823 359

Service Venue - St John's Church, Chorlton, Manchester http://stjohnschorlton.btck.co.uk/

Stationary - Doodlelove Designs
www.doodlelovedesigns.co.uk

Cake - Arvee's Caketastic Bakes
https://m.facebook.com/arveescaketasticbakes/?tsid=0.9361836314201355&source=typeahead

Hair and Makeup - Beth C Makeup
https://bethcollettemakeup.carbonmade.com/projects/3104122#1
https://m.facebook.com/BethCMakeup/?tsid=0.6851382763125002&source=typeahead

Dress - Copplestones Bridal
www.copplestonesbridal.co.uk

Veil - The Wedding Veil Shop
www.theweddingveilshop.co.uk

Suit - Slaters
www.slaters.co.uk

Shirt and tie - TM Lewin
www.tmlewin.co.uk

DJ - Matt Worden
homeontherange@fsmail.net
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=155332724518197&tsid=0.6177695079240948&source=typeahead


Rings - Hers - RA Designer Jewellery
www.manchesterjewellers.co.uk
 

His - Wilbrahams of Chorlton
www.wilbrahamsofchorlton.com

Skate Park http://www.projektsmcr.com/