Andy wore a navy suit with a white shirt and gold tie. His wedding party wore suits to match. Our lovely venue stylists Belle Bijoux created our centrepieces using candles, flowers and drapery to match our lilac and gold theme. Lilac, peach and white flowers with greenery adorned the staircase, ceremony room and tables. The tables were each given a year of our relationship from 2012 to 2023 and featured a picture of us from that year. Our three-tier cake included a cherry Bakewell bottom layer, a chocolate orange one, and finally lemon at the top. It was iced in white with lilac and green sugar flowers with purple ribbon and a gold sign, which read Mr and Mrs Sterling. We had three different items for our favours: a shot, personalised M&Ms with our date and faces printed on them, and as a teacher I had my class make personalised bookmarks, allowing them to be included. As Rise Hall is a Dine venue the catering was included in the package. We had three canapés of duck spring rolls, mini beef Yorkshire puddings and goat’s cheese tarts. The starter was tomato soup, followed by thyme chicken main and chocolate torte for dessert. 32
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