We went to a fabulous wedding a few days ago.
This family do was always going to be special – because it would be our son Sam’s first wedding – but when the veil was lifted on the couple’s carefully laid plans it was so personal, so fitting and so full of love that it is destined to be a day to remember.
I felt rather nice I have to say in this folky white and blue embroidered dress from Monsoon that had been hanging in my wardrobe – all teasing and enticing – for a few weeks. (You might have noticed I featured it in my picks of the best embroidered dresses around. It’s now in the sale at less than a third of the price I paid – only a few sizes left).
As the wedding was farm and field-based I wore comfy tan wedges from George at Asda, a statement bead necklace from Anthropologie and, as is now necessary, carried a large cobalt blue bag that held Sam’s nappies and his general paraphernalia.
The venue was a farm in North Yorkshire which is the family home of one of the bride’s friends. Many hours of work had gone into transforming what is a functioning barn into somewhere befitting of a wedding taking place. It was a touching, humanist ceremony and the couple’s border collie dog was a star attraction. There were loads of carefully crafted, DIY details.
The bride and groom got engaged last year at Glastonbury, so it was fitting that their wedding had a festival vibe. A traditional canvas and wooden pole tent from Wills Marquees went up in the field overlooking the Craven countryside, where some guests camped afterwards. The bride arrived in a VW camper, food and drinks were served from mobile vans and there was live music from Ogre Melodies followed by the brilliant New York Brass Band.
We danced in the field and I wore a floral hair garland and heart-shaped sunglasses. While we love being parents, it felt so good to behave like we did when we weren’t.
Later, the dancing moved into the barn and continued well into the night. We left around 11pm, a respectable hour I thought for our first ‘night out’ post-baby and because we were accompanied by a nearly-four-month-old.
It was a beautiful wedding, don’t you agree?
