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Christine and Joe’s intimate woodland wedding with vows beneath a beech tree

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Intimate woodland wedding with vows beneath a beech tree

I have such a lovely wedding to share with you today, which will be of extra interest to anyone considering a woodland or outdoor ceremony, because Christine and Joe had one of the most beautiful looking wedding ceremonies I’ve seen.

Their photographer, Emma Stoner, is one of the talented wedding photographers listed on The Natural Wedding Company directory, and I’m thrilled to be able to share this wedding with you.

On a sunny August day, Christine and Joe were married in the grounds at West Lexham in Norfolk in an intimate woodland ceremony beneath the boughs of a red beech tree. “We wanted an intimate and joyous feel for our wedding, as if we were in the heart of our community and supported by them. It was important to us that everyone had a good time – despite having to work for it by making contributions!”

“We wanted to find somewhere that we could get married outdoors, near trees and water. I guess you could say it was symbolic to us as I love water and Joe loves woodlands. In personality, I think of Joe as the strong, grounded one, and me as the strong, flowing one!”

“We chose West Lexham because it felt like the right place – we could get married under the boughs of a beautiful red beech tree by a little river. Also, the site had camping in bell tents, a swimming pool, gardens, rowing on the river, as well as cottages and the manor house.”

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A breathtakingly beautiful wildflower wedding cake with sugarpaste flowers

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Couples planning your weddings – I’m so envious of you! I know, I’ve been there, planned and enjoyed an utterly wonderful wedding day (which I wouldn’t change for the world), but I get a tiny bit jealous when I come across all these wonderful new businesses and ideas.

This stunning wedding cake is from one of our new TNWC businesses – Amy Swann Cakes. Isn’t it just breathtaking! Each of those tiny flowers are handcrafted by Amy from sugarpaste – handcrafted!

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Anna and James’ relaxed country tea party wedding at South Farm

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Country tea party wedding at South Farm

I’m utterly delighted to be able to share Anna and James’ relaxed country tea party wedding on the blog today. They got married at South Farm in Cambridgeshire back in June and the lovely Dasha Caffrey captured their wedding.

“Our idea was to have a really relaxed country wedding with bunting, vintage tea cups and hopefully an outdoor ceremony if the weather was good enough! James and I are also real ale enthusiasts, so we had a good number of polypins [barrels] of beer on the bar, which along with the pimms and croquet, helped create a lovely village fete type atmosphere.”

“We fell in love with South Farm as soon as we saw it – it has a very natural charm and just felt like a friendly place. We thought it would be totally out of our budget, but decided to go and have a look anyway as it’s only about 20 minutes from where we live.” It turned out a number of Anna and James’ friends had either been married there or been to weddings at South Farm and all highly recommended it. “I guess having so many personal recommendations just clinched it for us!”

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George and Sal’s laid back Cornish spring wedding with a walk on the beach

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Laid back Cornish spring wedding

Sarah of Green Photographic recently captured the lovely laid back Easter wedding of Sal and George, who got married near Newquay and included a beach walk with their guests during the afternoon. I have a softspot for Devon and Cornwall, especially during spring time, so I hope you enjoy this pretty country and seaside wedding as much I did.

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Design a moodboard and you could win £100 off your dream wedding cake with Choco Mallow Coco

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I am delighted to share today’s competition with you, which comes from Choco Mallow Coco who design and make extraordinarily beautiful wedding cakes. Chloe from Choco Mallow Coco is offering one lucky reader the chance to win either £100 of your dream wedding cake or a place on one of their cakelicious courses.

To enter the competition we want you to create a moodboard for your dream wedding cake, so this is for all of you who love using Pinterest and collecting images that capture what you’re looking to create for your wedding day. I’m a tinsy bit envious, so I decided to create a moodboard for my current dream wedding cake…what do you think…?

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The Cupcake Baker is offering 10% discount on their beautiful wedding cupcakes

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The Cupcake Baker, run by Stephen and wife Cathy, are an Oxfordshire based company make vintage inspired cupcake towers from the finest ethical ingredients and natural flavourings. For a limited-time only, they are offering our readers a 10% discount on their wedding cupcakes.

“Here at the Cupcake Baker we just adore the current vintage trend. Our beautiful cakes are made using only the finest quality ethical ingredients and topped with pretty handmade decorations. We love to use edible flowers such as lavender, borage and sugar roses, pretty bows. and butterflies.”

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Directory Showcase: Pretty Sweet, April Doubleday and Yield Ink

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I am enjoying writing up these Directory Showcase posts, they are a wonderful reminder of the great businesses that you can find listed in the directory – that’s all those categories you can find at the top of the page in the grey luggage tag. If you’d like to find out more about the businesses, do have a look through the directory or read more of the Directory Showcase posts.

Pretty Sweet are passionate about taste and quality, so naturally their wedding cupcakes are coloured and flavoured with fresh fruits and organic ingredients where available. To decorate, Pretty Sweet uses hand-crystallised seasonal fresh flowers that are edible. Visit the directory for full details of wedding cake makers using natural, organic and fair trade ingredients.

April Doubleday is an ethical jewellery designer and maker based in Devon, she uses the coastline, rock formations and the sea as inspiration for her designs. All of her jewellery, including her wedding and engagement rings, are made from Fair Trade gold, and her diamonds are sourced responsibly from Australia and Canada. Visit the directory for a full list of ethical jewellers.

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An autumn inspired wedding shoot on a Welsh farm with a beautiful gyspy caravan

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A wedding on a stunning organic farm complete with a beautifully restored red and yellow gypsy wagon…if only such a place existed. It does, and to showcase this beautiful wedding venue deep in the heart of Wales, a group of local suppliers got together to produce a beautiful autumn inspired wedding shoot.

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Allie and Tom’s handmade 1930’s inspired country wedding ~ part two

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1930s inspired country wedding (part two)

If you missed yesterday’s part one of Allie and Tom’s handmade 1930’s inspired country wedding be sure to read it first – it’s full of beautiful details and photos of their ceremony and how they got Allie’s parents field ready for their wedding. So without further ado, after their ceremony, Allie and Tom had some photos taken whilst dodging the rain showers – what a beautiful vintage car.

>> View Allie and Tom’s 1930s inspired country wedding (part one) here <<

Then everyone headed back to Allie’s parents field where they had Pimms in the marquee, followed by an afternoon tea of cakes, scones and sandwiches, all made by her mum’s friends.

Afternoon tea was served on vintage crockery collected over the year by Allie and her mum. I spent a lot of time the day before the wedding selecting all the crockery and it really did look as I imagined it.

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Edible woodland inspired wedding cake decorations

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It’s hard to believe these extraordinary creations are edible – yes, those leaves are edible. These are handcrafted sugar decorations, from Andie’s Speciality Sweets, which I think would look beautiful on a simply white wedding cake and would be sure to wow your family and friends.

I have picked a selection of my favourite autumn inspired decorations to share with you…

Edible Wild Sugar Mushrooms

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