Homemade Pretty Pink & Green Wedding in Northamptonshire Dodford Manor | Whimsical Wonderland Weddings

Homemade Pretty Pink & Green Wedding in Northamptonshire Dodford Manor | Whimsical Wonderland Weddings

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Let's start the week with a happy sun shining loved up celebration shall we?

WWW readers Jake and Terrie tied the knot on the 28 th July 2013 at the lovely Dodford Manor, Northamptonshire. With a vision of relaxed wedding day with all of their loved ones, they went for a handmade feel with a pretty pink and green colour scheme.

Perfect home made touches included the amazing dolls house table plan, decorated jam jars and luggage tag place names. The bridesmaids looked gorgeous in pastel coloured flowing frocks and I adore the lush blooms.

Terrie donned a Pronovias lace dress with lovely Harriet Wilde shoes while Jake looked dapper in grey tails and tan brogues. Oh soooo delightful.

Thank you so much to the wonderful Jordanna Marston for sharing her photographs with us today.

Picking the music was one of our favourite parts of planning the wedding, we're both really into our music, which is why our tables were actually named after our favourite bands! We got a lot of nice comments on our music choices.

The guests walked in to 'Home' by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and 'Us' by Regina Spector - when I heard that music start and peeked at the guests coming in my heart was in my mouth! It gave be serious butterflies.

My bridesmaids walked down the aisle to 'I Love NYE' by Badly Drawn Boy and I followed to 'Maestro' by Hans Zimmer.

'Beating Hearts' by King Charles played whilst we signed the book and we walked back up the isle together to 'Somewhere over the rainbow' by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. A perfect eclectic mix of all of our faves, as was the music for the reception and wedding breakfast.

Some of my dear friends had a couple of late nights gluing ribbon and lace and buttons to old jam jars with me a few nights before the wedding which were filled with flowers from the market. In all, the centre piece clusters of flower jars for 15 tables cost around £35, and £28 of that was spent on the flowers!

Another memorable moment for us was when we went to the bridal retreat just after the ceremony to take a couple of minutes to take it all in - we couldn't stop smiling.

Jake's 95 year old grandma out-dancing everyone at the reception, despite just flying over from Canada!

My dad coming in to give me away and choking up when he told me how beautiful I looked.

Make time to make things if you're on a budget. We made lot's of our own details and the invites and really enjoyed it. There are always friend and family willing to help you out and it is a fantastic way to save money - plus we really enjoyed recycling old things and making them into something new. You just have to make sure you start getting crafty way ahead of time.

Set a realistic budget. We didn't count things like dress alterations and postage to send out invites which all really adds up, so it is important to include everything when you make your budget and to shop around - there are always cheaper alternatives if you shop around a bit.

Photography | Jordanna Marston Photography

Band | Pure Genius

Venue | Dodford Manor

Dress Shop | Serendipity Brides

Honeymoon | The Tide House

Make Up | Liza Smith Make Up

Flowers | Perkins Florists

Suit | Vickers Menswear

Bridal Accessories | L ola Bridal

Dress Alterations | Irina

Perfection. Such a lovely day.

Thanks so so much to Jake and Terrie for sharing their beautiful wedding with us today XOXO Lou

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