Cherishing my moments- Gary Wilson Photographic

Our hunt for a photographer was quite short to be honest. We met Gary just after we had booked our venue so we had quite a long time to plan the shots we wanted really wanted and having seen the photos, I am elated with them and we do have some amzing memories to cherish

I have been to weddings where the photographer had the potential to ruin the flow of the day by making people wait for hours when all the bride and groom want to do is spend time with their guests. This was my biggest worry about the day!

But I had not worried as Gary and Sarah were amazing at getting everyone in order and keeping everyone entertained in the process of getting the photos done ( with help from our team of Ushers) and we have got loads of amazing shots of the people we love having a great time.

The images from our day can be viewed via the link below 

http://garywilsonphotographic.co.uk/kayleigh-bens-wedding-7th-july-2012-essex-wedding-photographer

Gary and Sarah can also be contacted via

www.garywilsonphotographic.co.uk

Thanks for your amazing help on the day and now Me and Mr S have a tough job deciding which photos to put in to our album

Ruby x

www.rubysvintageteaparty.co.uk

The suppliers who made the day

As many of you know I got married to Mr S recently and became Mrs RS. You are also wondering why, as I am so keen on writing about real life weddings I haven't written about my own!

Well I have decided that I am going to thank the suppliers who really made the day truly special for Mr S and I, in my own special way by write a blog for each of them over the coming weeks.

So first up is Mr Adam Parry of Parry's Ice Cream Bikes. Their packages start from £300 for up to 100 guests and the ice cream is yummy. Adam can be contacted via his facebook page https://www.facebook.com/parrysicecreambike. Go along and give him a big like.

For a long while I had been umming about hiring an ice cream bike with all the debating about the great British weather but two weeks before the wedding I took to the great sphere that is Facebook, asking on the off chance if anyone was available to do my wedding.

As chance would have it, I was meant to have a ice cream bike at my wedding as Adam answered the call!

The ice cream bike made a stunning addition to the day and certainly attract the crowds outside in to the stunning grounds of the venue. By the time I had reached him, all the mint choc chip was gone but I blame Mr S for that as it is his favourite.

We also had fun trying to get me up on to the bike with my layers and layers of gown, which took 3 people to get me up. I personally wanted to take the hat home.

My favourite quote of the day,"I have never served ice cream that quickly" and the most interesting memory I have of my day is doing our 1st dance with 50 people swaying along with ice creams.

Over all a worthy investment for that memory 

Ruby x

www.rubysvintageteaparty.co.uk 

Weekend of weddings- Nic and Aaron 9th June 2012

We were very excited to feature this wedding on Ruby's as it was of our dear friends Aaron and Nic. Mr S was also getting to practice his speaking for our big day as featuring as best man at this fabulous wedding.

Having heard so much about the wedding planning, we were excited to see how it all pulled together at the stunning Granary in Sudbury. Knowing Nic had loads of shabby chic touches at her wedding, the Granary provided a fabulous backdrop for their big day. And our lovely cake stands were one of her main features so we were very excites to see it all pieced together.

So here is their day in pictures....

Ruby

www.rubysvintageteaparty.co.uk

A weekend of Weddings- Alyson and Dan De Souza 8th June 2012

Firstly I would like to apology for the lack of blogging over the last few weeks, I have been busy planning the finishing touches to mine and Mr S wedding. Also I have been struggling with terrible writers block! But I am back and we have a lovely real life wedding for this blog entry.

This weekend became the weekend of weddings as I was attending two of my dearest friends weddings in two days. Think of the outfit nightmares as the weather was not playing ball with the day remaining wet and windy but this didn't stop us enjoying the beautiful wedding of Alyson and Dan at the Barn Brasserie in Great Tey Colchester http://www.thebarnbrasserie.co.uk/.


This wedding also gave me the opportunity to try out my new camera which I was uber excited about!

The barn provided a beautiful setting for Alyson and Dan civil ceremony with an international twist with the groom's family watching the ceremony on skype all the way from Brazil and their stunning cake played on this international connection, shaped as the landscape of Rio! I was feeling a little bad that this stunning creation was going to be cut up.

 The table settings had a distinctive rustic charm featuring bright sunflowers in wooden boxes. There was also beautiful wooden boxes with candles to create a stunning glow in the dark and damp weather. 

Each guest had a picture of themselves as their table setting which created a great talking point as everyone was trying to guess where Aly and Dan had got these pictures from. Mine was from my work's Christmas party fortunately still in a sober state!

The bride had chosen gorgeous sunflowers to accompany her stunning ivory dress and she had created a beautiful contrast with the bridesmaids having ivory flowers

Determined to keep the international element of the day going and with the groom being a keen drummer, we heard the rumblings of a samba band which appeared from the courtyard to entertain all the guests, even had me dancing around so apologies for the lack of good pcitures of this as dancing leads to camera shake! I just could stop dancing to the latin beat :)

Fortuntely the weather improved for us to get this lovely shot of the bride and groom outside on their wedding day. Like they say you can never rely on the British weather!

Ruby x

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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