Oh the enjoyment captured in these images! When Sophie and Adam tied the knot on thirtieth September 2023, they needed to deliver their family members collectively for a celebration of daring colors and Bridgerton impressed romance.

The couple selected Cowley Manor to get married – a luxurious lodge and spa, positioned within the coronary heart of The Cotswolds, and appointed County Marquees to the present the area to host their fantastically styled reception.

The bride wore a puff sleeve robe by Suzanne Neville, which she found on the legendary Miss Bush bridal boutique, positioned in Ripley, Surrey and selected The Springles to doc their day in imagery. I really like every thing about this and hope all the enjoyment captured lifts your spirits.

Bride and groom exiting in a flurry of confetti. The bride wears a puff sleeve Suzanne Neville wedding dress from Miss Bush Bridal boutique.

We fell in love with Cowley Manor as quickly as we noticed it. We needed a venue that was a rustic escape with a little bit of persona and never too removed from London.

Entrance to Cowley Manor wedding venue in The Cotswolds. September wedding so Autumn leaves falling to the ground.

Bridal Magnificence & Equipment

My greatest good friend works for the wonderful Fernando Jorge and she or he was capable of lend me some lovely sequence drop diamond earrings, which had been the proper contact of sparkle. My mum additionally lent me her sapphire ring that had been handed all the way down to her from my nani – it was my one thing blue, borrowed and outdated, which I beloved.

I went to Christian Dior’s Assortment Privee scent room in Selfridges to seek out the proper marriage ceremony scent! I opted for La Colle Noire which is the proper mixture of rose entwined with spices. I beloved the which means behind the imaginative and prescient of the fragrance: the perfume discloses a novel and secret imaginative and prescient of the flower to which the Couturier-Perfumer vowed a novel, eternal love.

My hair was styled by Hair by Charmaine and my make-up artist was Mike of Make-up by Miki.

As talked about above I’m an enormous fan of elevating any look with the proper accent, mine was all concerning the hair! I wore a cathedral size veil from Miss Bush – I saved it fairly plain and easy in order that I didn’t distract for the fabulous gown. My hair bow was from Gigi & Olive – I then swapped that out for a rhinestone get together headband for the dance ground. And as I actually went on the market with the hair equipment, I ended up discovering the proper pink heels from New Look.

Bride in a puff sleeve Suzanne Neville wedding dress, standing by a window and bathed in window light, and carrying a colourful wedding bouquet.

My three bridesmaids wore attire by Maids to Measure and pink floral headbands from Clementine & Mint.

Bridesmaids in pink Maids to Measure bridesmaids dresses.
Bridesmaids in pink Maids to Measure bridesmaids dresses, standing with the bride in a puff sleeve Suzanne Neville dress buy a church door decorated with colourful flowers.

The Ceremony

My fab dad walked me down the aisle to the standard marriage ceremony track. I used to be fairly nervous and my dads humour saved me good and relaxed and smiling! Fortunately no ugly crying!

We had a conventional church ceremony which Adam and I had at all times dreamt of. Each of us simply love a church. The fantastic Reverent Janet officiated the marriage and she or he was incredible, as we had been getting married exterior of our native parish we really needed to attend companies fairly often in Cheltenham so we obtained to know her fairly properly.

Bride and groom holding hands during their church wedding ceremony.

Our two incredible pals did readings all through the ceremony. Zak one in every of my college friends learn an exquisite bible passage – we knew he’d take it critically sufficient and ship it completely. Petros who used to work with Adam and I once we first met wrote probably the most lovely studying about love, friendship and it actually had everybody feeling all of the feels. They each had been wonderful!  

One further factor I’d love to say is through the signing of the official marriage ceremony doc. Our very pricey good friend Joanne Grey and her singing accomplice Mike sang my favorite track – The Prayer by Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli – It had folks in tears and it was the proper robust of drama and shock to our ceremony.

Pictures

After in depth analysis, we selected The Springles as our marriage ceremony photographers – as we beloved their trendy and intimate tackle weddings.

They actually captured the love and enjoyable of the day, we needed a photographer who felt like a good friend on the day and we actually beloved the entire course of with them – being comparatively awkward in entrance of the digicam they made us really feel so relaxed.

We might extremely advocate reserving them, we additionally added the second shooter as we’ve over 130 folks, it meant all angles had been coated and we managed to have photos of each of us preparing. We’d additionally extremely advocate should you don’t go along with a videographer so as to add the second shooter.

Bride and groom kissing outside a church doorway decorated with a broken floral arch.

How They Met

We each met at work in London, and practically seven and a half years later, Adam lastly proposed at an exquisite vista simply exterior of Falmouth in Cornwall on a beautiful sunny day.

It was really the queens diamond Jubilee weekend, so it was good to get my very own diamond too.

Bride in a puff sleeve Suzanne Neville wedding dress and veil.

We beloved planning the marriage and had been engaged just below a yr and a half earlier than our marriage ceremony day. 

Adam wore a fan favorite, the sartorial vary from Marks and Spencers! The right navy go well with

I actually needed a romantic vibe however with tremendous vivid colors, assume Bridgerton on a funds. I obsessed over Pinterest for months which I feel ever bride does.

Wedding reception table with cross back wooden chairs, pink taper candles and a floral table centrepiece of bright & colourful, late summer flowers.
Colourful lanterns hanging within a wedding marquee. Round tables with cross back chairs and colourful floral table centrepieces.

Night & Dancing

We employed The Mojo Band for the night and selected Mariah Carey’s ‘Fantasy’ to bounce to.

Maria is one in every of my favorite artists and we actually needed one thing enjoyable and upbeat! The right 90s basic.

Phrases of Wedded Knowledge

My phrases of knowledge could be, there’s a number of noise from each angle whenever you’re planning your marriage ceremony. Be sure you keep true to your imaginative and prescient, and push for the issues that you simply really need. Adam and I each had 2/3 non negotiables, these had been issues we every actually needed and we weren’t going to budge. Set these out at the start and don’t really feel the stress to shift from outsiders opinions. 

One other factor could be to make sure you have people who find themselves going to make you’re feeling relaxed and snigger in your room when preparing. Don’t be afraid to maintain it to a small group and doubtlessly offending folks. 

Cowley Manor wedding Suzanne Neville bride 134

Go to our Listing

Discover Superb Suppliers & Lovely Venues

Annabel

Annabel View all Annabel’s articles

Founding father of Love My Costume. Passionate Podcaster and Editor. Annabel lives in rural North Yorkshire along with her husband and enterprise accomplice Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves images, meditation, strolling, being outside and star gazing. She is fierce relating to championing expertise inside the marriage ceremony business and when she’s not engaged on Love My Costume, she helps her husband Philip within the operating of the household’s sustainable flower farm and floral design enterprise, Moonwind Flowers. In 2013, she turned a printed creator.





Supply hyperlink

Scroll to Top