Your South Wales Wedding - November/December 2022 (Issue 88)

The cake by Home Farm Kitchen was ivory butte rcream with gold accents and cascading garden roses. It was too pretty to cut! We opted for sticky ginger and carrot as they’re our favourite flavou rs. It was just as yummy as it looked. Love Lily Floral Design Studio created a sweeping staircase of foliage and blooms, which created the perfect backdrop for our cake. As our wedding was two years later than planne d, we had even more time to perfect every element. I decided to make our invitations, ordersof-service and place names. I created them using lovely handmade paper and silk ribbon. This tied in with our elegant cou ntry theme, and I was so pleased with the results. I particularly liked o ur seating plan, which was intertwined with a floral display, so guests h ad to get up close and personal with the flowers to find their seat. I named the tables after the David Austin roses in our garden. The ceremony was always going to be in my fami ly church in Lisvane. I love flowers and knew I wanted it to be packed full of the most beautiful blooms. I wanted to focus heavily on ga rden roses, which created the most amazing smell. I was very speci fic and had a vision of what I wanted and our florist, Love Lily Floral Design Studio, really brought it to life. I had just graduated from my teacher training, and wanted to have a celebratory meal on the drive home. We stumbled across Glewstone Court Country House, and I remember being amazed by how beautiful it was. The service we received was amazing, and the food was incredible. We knew there was something special about the venue, and this was before we were even engaged. When we got engaged, we knew straight away that Glewstone Court Country House was where we wanted to spend our wedding, it was perfect! My little Welsh touch was Welsh slate hearts on the table as favours for people to take home and remind them of our day . 48

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