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Now I've wittered on a bit recently about the longevity of the vintage shabby chic style as a wedding theme as it has been around a while now {and the Vintage Glamour style of the Royal Wedding probably serves as a hint as to what is to come for weddings over the next year or so}, but vintage for some people is a way of life and not a passing phase.
So this next wedding for me encapsulates what a truly vintage wedding is, completely effortless and unforced, relaxed and unpretentious. I adore the little page boy in a top hat and am in love with the ribbon binding to signify the marriage and joining together of the couple. I can't help but think of Pride and Prejudice when I look at the pictures, they just can't help but make you smile. This wedding seems to be inspired by the simple things in life, by love and nature creating a real English countryside wedding.
Thank you so much to the bride and groom for allowing us to share their special day and also to their photographer Ian Han for letting us show his perfectly captured images, here are a few words on the day by Ian himself...
Rowan and Carl’s wedding up near the Lake District in the beautiful English countryside was a real creative day. This was a wedding of two halves; firstly the guys went over to the local registry office in Grange-over-Sands to do the official wedding bit, then came to Castle Head and did the whole thing again for their guests. You could tell that this couple’s life is one of art and theatre; Carl treading the boards in Liverpool and Rowan an artist, creating street theatre puppets amongst other things. Everything from the bunting to the home made picnics, in beautiful old baskets; gave a real vintage wedding feeling to the day. The ceremony was fantastic with stories of how the happy couple met, readings and poems written specifically for them; and guests singing songs in celebration. The culmination of the ceremony was a tying of the knot… literally. All the guests brought along ribbons which they were invited to tie around the bride and groom’s hands to show they were now man and wife.
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