Real Weddings

Real Wedding | Jamie & Christian

I started working with Jamie and Christian two years before their wedding day, and it was an absolute joy planning the perfect wedding for them. They adored Aynhoe Park, but as that sadly wouldn’t fit within their budget, I scoured the UK to find something which would tick some of the same boxes that Aynhoe had done for them. After several days of venue visits, we settled on the stunning Voewood in Norfolk as the setting for their nuptials. It had a homely feel to it, with the ability to stay for a long weekend, along with dreamy gardens, and being situated close by to Christians family was an added bonus!

A spell of rain the day before scuppered their initial plans of having a ceremony in the woodland, but the centre of the formal gardens with the stunning arts and crafts style house behind them turned out to be the best decision we could have made – it looked absolutely phenomenal, and even featured a beautiful greenery adorned fountain backdrop!

Here are a selection of images from their day, but to read more about our fabulous team of vendors and to see plenty more images, head over to Rock My Wedding to read the full feature!

Some lovely words from Jamie & Christian:

“We found Jeni from Vanilla Rose Weddings shortly after our engagement. We knew that juggling a busy work life along with planning an event that neither of us had any experience in would be a challenge. Looking back, it’s the best decision we made.
Jeni brought with her a wealth of experience, which meant that we had a range of options to choose from. In that respect we were never starting from scratch and we were able to clearly see what we liked and didn’t like.

Jeni created mood boards that started to bring all the ideas together and focused our attention to the right preparation at the right time in the lead up to the big weekend.
She also introduced us to some fantastic suppliers who understood just what we wanted and were really fun to work with, creative and excited about the project.

On a personal note, Jeni was a joy to work with; she is completely thorough, has amazing ideas based on a huge range of experience and was a total star during the wedding weekend. There is no way we could have imagined the wedding we ended up having without her input and we’re really missing our regular planning discussions! We can’t thank her and everyone else involved enough.”