Vicky and Jon met in a pub on a night out 10 years ago. “We had mutual friends in common so we exchanged telephone numbers,” Vicky tells us. “We went on our first date the following day and have seen each other every day since then!” The couple became engaged in May 2021. “I had been nagging Jon for several years to get married but he wasn’t interested in marriage,” Vicky tells us. “During a walk in the woods with our children and dogs one day, I made a ring from a dandelion for our little girl who pointed out that it didn’t fit my finger because it was too big. I told her to hand it to daddy and ask him to marry mummy! Jon placed it in his pocket and didn’t say anything about it until we arrived home when he pulled it from his pocket and told me that it was about time we got married!” SETTING THE SCENE The venue that the couple chose to get married at was a new one. “We fell in love with it when we first viewed it and liked the fact that no other couple had ever married there,” Vicky tells us. “Animals were running around that we knew would keep the children happy, and the picturesque grounds provided a beautiful backdrop for photographs.” The couple chose a pink and sage-green rustic theme with high tea as the wedding breakfast and a hog roast during the evening using freerange meat produced at the farm. “The family-run team made our table plan using a silver picture frame mounted on an easel which was part of our wedding package,” Vicky tells us. “The tables were labelled with log rounds placed on natural log bases and my mum, Margaret, hand-wrote our place names using cards decorated with hessian. Our centrepieces were jugs brimming with roses, lisianthus, alstroemeria, gypsophila, ivy, ferns, grasses and eucalyptus and our favours were wax melts presented in hexagonalshaped ivory boxes with a flower on top for the ladies and chocolate and a bottle opener key for the men. The children were given personalised clipboards with colouring pens to keep them amused.” Vicky chose their four-tier cake which consisted of a brandy-soaked traditional fruit cake base, a chocolate tier, “One of my best friends read a poem that had been written by a friend who is no longer with us which was special.We also displayed a photograph of my brother, who is no longer here, that took pride of place next to the cake which helped include him in our day.” –Vicky REAL WEDDINGS 37
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