Your Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Wedding- October/November 2020 (Issue 23)

We kept the styling of the tables simple. Our place names were made from silver laser-cut acrylic letters placed on each napkin along with the wedding favours for which we had donated on their behalf to a charity called The Elizabeth Foundation. This has been a great support to us as a family since we found out our daughter was profoundly deaf when she was born. We simply added a little note along with a charity pin or wristband in silver organza bags. Because Grittleton House is such a magnificent building, we wanted to keep everything very classic and elegant to showcase it. We kept the wedding décor to a minimum and the only room that we styled was the dining room. We opted for tall silver candelabras decorated with flowers as our table centrepieces. We chose white and ivory roses, dahlias, hydrangeas and gypsophila teamed with eucalyptus leaves and plenty of foliage. There were so many lovely moments throughout the day. My eldest daughter Tamzin read a poem during our ceremony and our three-year-old daughter Poppy-Lake stole the show with her dancing and twirling throughout the service. We were both keen to have a traditional wedding with a church ceremony. We wanted to host our wedding breakfast and reception at a large stately home that was in walking distance of the church so that our guests didn’t have to travel too far. Grittleton House was the second venue out of four that we visited and we both fell in love with it - it ticked every box. There was a beautiful church across the road, local accommodation for our family and friends, an in-house catering team, and stunning décor. I loved the white wedding postbox that we displayed on a table along with the guest book. 34