Lovely Emily and Shane came to me in 2019 to help them plan their lovely marquee wedding at the stunning Barn Drift. They had already booked this unique dry hire venue and knew they needed help with the rest of their wedding plans, particularly as they would be requiring a marquee for their guest numbers. Barn Drift is a wonderful venue right on the North Norfolk coast, with luxurious accommodation and views of the salt marshes, fields and sea; it is certainly one that’s hard to beat in Norfolk. This was a wedding planned to be in 2020, but Covid had other plans! So working with this wonderful couple and their families for an extra year meant I really got to know them even better, and when their wedding finally did come around, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house!

An intimate wedding is classed as a small wedding with up to 30 guests. Other than that the rest is completely up to you and the same principles apply as if you were holding a larger wedding.

When it comes to marquee weddings, you have masses of choices! Broadly speaking, you get to choose everything, as it is a pop-up event space; everything is selected and chosen by you. This will start with the address your marquee will be installed at, go through to the timings of your day, the style of the marquee you wish to hire, the size of the marquee, the finish of the marquee, and all the fittings and fixtures within the marquee. In terms of your day, you get the maximum amount of choice with a marquee – there are far fewer restrictions on your wedding day than at any other style of venue. If you have set ideas and are struggling to find a bricks-and-mortar wedding venue that will provide it, then a marquee is probably going to fulfil your needs.

Hiring a wedding planner can sometimes be seen as an extra rather than an essential part of planning a wedding. But for the right celebration and the right couple, professional planning support can make an enormous difference. A wedding planner isn't simply there to find suppliers or make things look beautiful. Much of the real work happens behind the scenes: managing budgets, reviewing logistics, coordinating suppliers, anticipating problems, keeping plans moving and making sure hundreds of individual decisions eventually come together as one coherent celebration.

Creating your wedding budget might not be the most exciting part of planning a wedding, but it is one of the most important. A realistic budget gives you a framework for making decisions, helps you understand where your priorities lie and prevents costs from quietly escalating as the plans develop. This is particularly important for marquee, private home and dry-hire weddings, where many of the things included within a traditional venue need to be sourced separately.

Choosing the music for your wedding ceremony is one of those decisions that can seem relatively small until you actually have to make it. Which hymns will your guests know? How many do you need? Should you choose something traditional, something joyful, or a hymn with a particular meaning for you?

Just a stunner of a mid-summer wedding. With an incredible line-up of suppliers, this was a true delight to work on. From the first chat we had I knew L and I would get along and work really well together and I was not wrong. Her vision for her day was spot-on, and I was able to help her achieve it with some inspiration sessions to focus her choices and planning time. The cheerful wedding design included a little bumblebee motif, mini bells (to echo the venue) tied with ribbons as favours, personalised poems for each guest and bright seasonal flowers.

Last summer I began working on an elegant marquee wedding at Holkham Hall. My couple had booked their venue and knew they wanted a marquee overlooking the lake at Holkham, with their ceremony in the magnificent Marble Hall, but other than that, we had a blank sheet of paper.

I was privileged to be part of the very first wedding at the stunning Ormesby Manor. C&G and their family took over the whole estate for the weekend. Ormesby Manor is a luxurious Manor House in the heart of the Norfolk countryside. With perfectly appointed bedrooms and luxurious Shepherd Huts, this is the perfect location for a weekend-long celebration if you have guests travelling from far and wide.

This editorial shoot was designed to showcase the stunning talent within Norfolk as well as the gorgeous venue that is Thurning Hall. Thurning Hall is a local venue in Norfolk; this editorial showcases its new addition – The Coach House, a newly renovated part of Thurning Hall.

Within the grounds of their newly refurbished home, we created an impeccably styled, luxurious marquee wedding at home in Norfolk. It was exactly how my clients had wanted; they said their vows to each other with their closest family and friends gathered around them.

With the fantastic wedding venue of Voewood as a backdrop, what could be more stunning than an outdoor wedding ceremony amongst your closest family and friends, with a marquee wedding breakfast to follow? We were lucky to have lovely spring weather and to be surrounded by delicate spring blooms in the Voewood grounds.

Looking for some advice on how to plan a luxury wedding in Norfolk? Well, you are in the right place! Planning a luxury event means attention to detail and achieving this as a bride on your own is certainly not easy, if at all possible. Therefore, recruiting a team of A-list suppliers is a necessity. Building your wedding planning dream team involves loads of research, but if you are time-poor, the most efficient and cost-effective method is to recruit a wedding planning specialist. A specialist wedding planner can save you loads of time, as our expertise makes this process so much quicker.

I am so excited to share these amazing fine art photographs from a recent shoot I had the pleasure of styling at the beautiful Thurning Hall. Thurning is a stunning Georgian mansion in Norfolk, notable for its exquisite interiors and romantic ambience. The shoot oozes luxury and decadence, with a crack team of luxury Norfolk wedding suppliers.

Whether you are located in London searching for the perfect place for your special day, or already familiar with the stunning county of Norfolk, it boasts some of the most beautiful wedding venues and locations in the whole country. From historic halls, idyllic countryside barns and luxury locations nestled amongst the hills and Broads of the county, Norfolk is the ideal setting to create memories that you will treasure forever.

Small, intimate weddings are incredibly romantic and generally much easier to organise and manage. More focus is placed on the day itself and not on the mountain of work that precedes it, resulting in a relaxed and happy wedding party. With fewer people in attendance, you’ll have more opportunity to soak up the magic and make lifelong memories with your nearest and dearest.

Set in a corner of Norfolk, the stunning venue for this wedding shoot was a glorious Vineyard. Standing in Flint Vineyard, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in the wine region of France. With such a unique backdrop the shoot had to be designed around the ethos of this vineyard, pulling together the elements of the location into the details for the shoot.

I thought it was about time I shared this stunning shoot I styled last summer at the fabulous Thurning Hall. Using Thurning Hall as the inspiration, I created a shoot that showcased the best this venue has to offer. As a stunning period property, Thurning Hall has bags of character, so we needed to create a design that allowed the venue to shine. Laid-back luxury set against an elegant, romantic setting became the core focus for our shoot. The shoot was packed with romance, seasonal flowers, drama and classic elegance. This is the very original mood board I created for the shoot to share with the suppliers the vision and ‘feel’ for the shoot.

Wow! What an amazing wedding! Looking back on my first tipi wedding back in 2016 at a lovely rural location in Norfolk, College Farm. The day was just wonderful, with stunning weather, some amazing food and entertainment. The location was excellent; the lovely owner was more than hospitable and was a great help to me on the day, too. The farm has horses, rare-breed sheep, alpacas and llamas, which made for some quirky photographs as the sun began to set.

At the tail end of last year, I began working with a lovely couple from London who had their hearts set on hosting their wedding day at Voewood. Voewood is a stunning dry hire venue in Norfolk. With bags of personality and accommodation for 40-something guests, it is perfect for creating a weekend-long wedding celebration. Being a dry hire venue (and a listed property at that), every single element of the wedding needs considering and planning perfectly. Luckily, I have planned many weddings at Voewood, so I know how this venue works and what its little foibles are. It is so unique, and every wedding there is different; it is always a joy to work there.