Bride in a Maggie Sottero Wedding Dress for a Colourful Spring Marquee Wedding

What Made Our Day Unique

We wanted our wedding to represent who we are. We both love sport (for our mini-moon we went cycling in Mallorca) so all of our tables were named after our favourite sportspeople. Matt’s main sport is rugby so we had a ‘rugby ball toss’ instead of a ‘bouquet toss’. We also had crazy golf, a bowling alley and garden games to keep guests entertained! We also wanted our dog Bertie to be at the heart of our day so he was our ringbearer and our table place names were labels with an illustration of Bertie. We also had bunting that was custom-made by a family friend Denise that incorporated both dog and cycling-based fabrics and it looked fantastic!

Inspiration & Styling

We found Rumbolds Farm from an online search. I love barn venues and there was a beautiful Catholic church in Petworth, only a short drive from Rumbolds Farm. Rumbolds is a beautiful 16th-century rustic barn with a lawn and lake. It is very picturesque and also has a bridal suite and farmhouse which sleeps about 12. We wanted our wedding venue to allow dogs as it was really important for us to have our 3-year-old cockapoo, Bertie, with us on our wedding day. I adored our flowers! We wanted to make the most of the beautiful English Spring flowers so we had lots of tulips, peonies and delphinium. We both love bright colours and Matt loves orange, so we really wanted our flowers to be bright and beautiful, with a rustic feel. Jodie at The Little Violet did an absolutely amazing job – we had so many compliments about our wedding flowers!