I have a lot of love for Jay Rowden the photographer of todays peach infused Big Day, not only do his emails make me laugh out loud but he has also been incredibly patient after making him wait over a month from his initial submission to posting on the blog….. and then making him wait another couple of weeks as we knew Laurence and Liz’s wedding would be ideal for this weeks theme.
Mixed with dirty golds, champagne, pinks and a striking navy blue this W-day makes peach perfection…not to mention all of the budget D.I.Y details, a unique vintage-inspired dress and some of the prettiest maids we have ever featured.
This is sure to make a lovely relaxing bank holiday Monday even lovelier.Promise.
Vintage Inspired
My dress was from berktex bride but I made quite a few alterations such as the brooch and the neck line – I didn’t want to spend a small fortune and knew I wanted a vintage look so when I put this dress on I simply knew it was the one!
Glowing Simplicity
I did my own make up and my good friend Ruth O’Brien who has just set up her own wedding hair company did my hair. We went for lose curls set back off my face again to keep it simple as the dress had quite a bit going on!
It’s All In The Name
My shoes were From Emmy shoes and called Elizabeth which I thought had to be a sign considering that’s my name! I chose a three inch heal and fell head over heals in love with them and went for the dirty gold trim in an ivory colour, amazing! Love them so much I am going to dye them afterwards and keep on wearing them!
Hand Made And Borrowed Blue
My mum hand made the veil from French silk with a gold thread trim other than that no tiara, I wanted to keep it simple. I was Iucky enough for my husband to buy me a beautiful single pearl necklace the morning of the wedding which I wore and my mum leant me her mothers vintage sapphire engagement ring as my something blue.
Blue Champagne
Laurence was in navy blue tails with a champagne coloured waistcoat and cravat he look amazing!
The Perfect Venue
We were married at Winters barn in Canterbury on July 31st, it was a beautiful venue.
Strike A Pose
My mum handmade all five bridesmaid dresses in a latte/champagne colour, we found the patterns from vogue dresses and the guys were in moss bros hired navy blue suits with ivory waistcoat and cravats.
Country Chic
My florist was a company called Flowers by Caroline based in Kent. I told her I really wanted a country feel with peonies and vintage roses and she excelled I was over the moon with the flowers especially the little flower girls who had flower balls on ribbon.
So very pretty.
And how well does a chanpagne bronzy gold hue suit a blonde? I feel the need to go invest in some new Peaches and Cream week inspired fashion!
Plenty more fruity dream coming up in part 2
Big Dirty Gold Love
Charlotte xxx
Love love love the bouquet…and the dress….and the BM dresses….and the flower girl flowers….and the groom’s suit….and the shoes….and yep….just pretty much love it all….!
oh such poetic timing. I read this at my parent’s home, my childhood home having just reflected one year on how fortunate I am to have married from my family home, in a village just outside of Canterbury. And then here on rmw today there’s an Emmy wearing Canterbury bride. x
beautiful wedding!! we are having a peachy dream for a loose colour scheme cant wait to see the rest of the peachy week! x
Love the colours, can’t wait to see more of the flowers
Elizabeth looks so pretty-such a lovely dress and HOT shoes! The bridesmaids dresses are gorgeous too, clever Mum!
X
I do love the flowers. The bride is a wee golden dream and the combination of navy with the peach is spot on. I may just have to purchase those shoes!!
Thanks for all your comments girls, it was the best day! Liz x
Thanks for all the lovely comments it was the best day ever! Liz x
The Emmy shoes really are divine x
Eeek… This is our wedding venue. I am a Winters Barns bride too! Liz you look lovely and you have such a clever mum
L x
Such a pretty wedding, loved all the attention to detail and am seriously impressed with your mum’s sewing skills!
I’d not thought of having the peach as an accent colour rather than as the main colour. It’s definately a ‘cream’ and peaches, I love that the mum made the dresses, they’re beautiful. I love the colour.
The photo’s look peachy toned too
Can’t wait to see part two
Part 2 is just a lovely – if not lovelier folks
Charlotte xxx
Liz you looked beautiful! It looked like an amazing day, the photos are all stunning. xxx
Oh this is making me very excited to see a peachy dream wedding with the dirty gold accents, too..we are having similar although more gold than peach. Love the bride’s dress – so elegant and vintage. How clever is the MoB making all those gorge BM’s dresses? wooey.. Love the BM’s gold shoes. Liz if you’re reading this, can I ask where you found them? I’m currently on the hunt with my MoH to find her shoes and so far…nada luck (or maybe we’re just being too fussy!) Can’t wait for part 2 x
I love your blog Charlotte – you are way too kind
Can’t wait to see the next instalment tomorrow!
Jay x
The bm shoes were from aldo of all places….I think they still have them in stock! X
Beautiful! This wedding is so elegant and looks like everyone had such an amazing day. Sorry Liz another question, where did you get the bridesmaid bracelets? I too was a peach bridesmaid back in the 80s and loving the revival! xx
The shot of the bride in the field is AMAZING – look at that gold color!
The bracelets are from Accessorize and were about £15 each i think! x
Wow just love it, your dress is a very similar colour to mine. Where did the groom get his suit? Its exactly what I’m looking for
They were from Moss Bros!
Wow! Love all these pics, especially the flower girls..Gorgeous!!
The flower girls dresses are amazing did your mum make those too? If not where did you find them?