Let the wedding season begin- a wedding at Dove Barn Suffolk

Mr S and I had the honour of being invited to wedding of Jess and Luke at Dove Barn on Friday 20th April.

For those of you who have been following the blog remember I had the chance to be abit sneaky and visit this beautiful venue when I did a wedding fayre with my china earlier in the year. This was also where all my stunning photography (supplied by Kliq media) on the website was shot.

The big day started at St James's church in Colchester and we all lived in hope that the weather would hold out for the couple, which it did right until the photographer wanted to take pictures outside the church, damn those April showers. Everyone then rushed back in to the church for the photographs to be taken! 

As you may of read I wrote a piece on what to wear as a guest to a wedding so I will let my loyal readers judge my outfit for the big day! Guess which 1 is me!

With the ceremony over we move on to Dove Barn www.dovebarn.com, Mr S and I were greeted to a champagne reception. The main dining was hidden from view so I took the opportunity to check out the table plan as I always like to know where I am going! I came across this little beauty! Each table was named after a letter of the venue and tied in beautifully

We were then welcomed in to the dining area which was decorated in stunning sage green and cream chiffon draped from the beams. 

The table were about to become my favourite part of the wedding as they have used scrabble pieces for the place settings and for the table names, which I thought was an amazingly unique idea and became a really talking. In fact it began the game of who could score the highest scrabble points with their name which I won! (the smallest victories- 19 points! :)

The floral centrepieces were stunning and allowed the guests to easily talk around them, us girls always love a good gossip and we don't want to have a look around the centrepiece to do it! 
These centrepieces tied in beautifully with the sage and cream colour scheme

By this time I was thinking of my belly and we were treated to a yummy wedding breakfast supplied by Chimney catering. It was a stunning presentation of tomato and pesto tartlet, pan fried chicken and my favourite CHEESECAKE!

Then we were treated a selection of touching, clever and humour speeches from the Bride's father, Best man and the groom. The best man managed to find a fabulous balance between ribbing the groom and some brilliant jokes which kept the room highly entertained. This has got Mr S worried about the standard of his speech now!


I then got down to the important job of partying the night away!

Congrats to Jess and Luke, wishing you all the best in your married life together


Ruby
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