It has been so lovely to have our wedding featured on Love My Dress, but I know that some of my readers would like to see more detail, and there’s so many lovely photos it seems a shame not to share more of them.

Our wedding ceremony was due to start at 4.30pm, but we’d invited our guests to have afternoon tea in the garden from 3pm.  This meant we had all morning to get ready, which for a wedding at home was all about everyone pitching in to help set up.  So with less than an hour before people were due to start arriving this is what we were doing…

The tents were already up, but we had to get all the tables laid up. This is our lovely friend Kate, who along with her husband Tim set out all the crockery and place settings (among a long list of other things!)…

We hung lots of the jam jar lanterns we’d made from the tents, tying them on with twine…

Here’s Tim setting out more lanterns around the garden and hanging them from trees…

Nick and the boys went round the village putting up the ‘parking’ and ‘wedding’ signs that I’d painted – I love this photo with the church in the background…

My little sister Izzy was busy making up the table plan and sorting out table numbers…

Here’s the final table plan – a sort of mini version of the real thing.  I made all the tiny flags and will share a ‘how to’ on this in the future…

I was busy setting out the afternoon tea tables…

Nick and I had made raspberry jam the summer before – we’d even done PYO to get the raspberries, you can read about it here…

My dad was busy doing things like…winding up the grandfather clock and fixing his water feature…dads!

The men taking a “well-earned rest”…

I love this photo of Kate hanging lanterns from the old apple tree in my parents garden – I used to play with my Sylvanian families in this tree when I was little…

These are the buttonholes that had been carefully delivered by Charlie Ryrie from The Real Cut Flower Garden the day before and kept in the fridge overnight!

My gorgeous cousin Emily trying on her pretty flower garland – she was so excited as it was her first time being a bridesmaid…

I’ve always liked those wedding photos that just capture ‘real life’ scenes, and I love this one in my mum’s kitchen, with the pretty pink paint and family photos, and the huge pile of teabags!

This is my little brother and sister starting to hang photos in the apple tree – we had a huge selection of childhood and University photos which we hung with tiny wooden pegs from twine strung between the branches…

Looking down the garden from the house with all the tents up, the sun shining and bunting flapping in the breeze…

All images: Mark Tattersall Photography

I also wanted to include this photo my little sister Izzy took – we set up a table in my parent’s hall to put the cakes people would be bringing on.  Izzy did this fab chalk board sign to tell people what to do…

Image: Izzy Burton Photography