Inspiration

NYE was always our original and the two year build up wasn’t anything short of a rollercoaster. We dropped from 150 guests to 15. The day before we were made “Tier 4” (no weddings) but they considered us exceptional with 22 hours to go. Fergus was walking up a mountain when I called to tell him we were allowed to marry, but it would only be with six of us. he didn’t falter, “let’s do it!”. We married, did speeches, drove home, slippers on, popped a champagne and ordered Chinese! Serendipitously it snowed which made it incredibly romantic!

I didn’t have an inspiration really, I just went with what I loved and what felt right, obviously, our big original wedding was a bigger version of what we did for six people. We did have ten tables of huge canopy trees planned but unfortunately, we didn’t use these. Time for Flowers did an amazing job helping us work from this huge plan down to the beautiful ceremony room and bouquets we had in the end.

I asked Fergus if he had a favourite moment and his immediate response was “seeing you walk down the aisle and meeting you at the alter”! I have to say that this was mine too, a surreal moment because we’d been through so much emotionally to get there. We also loved our photos in the snow, we didn’t feel the cold at all and we totally enjoyed our champagne-fuelled game of trivial pursuits with my parents that evening! Just go with the flow and seriously don’t sweat the small stuff. I’ve never been a micromanager or bride that wanted to plan every last detail but ultimately covid didn’t allow me to. Nothing is worth falling out over, nothing is worth getting upset over because at the end of the day the only thing that mattered was that moment when we met each other at the altar.