At the same time as a marriage blogger, you simply don’t see this kind of gorgeous that always. And I mean – my breath is taken, this stunning Scottish wedding is out of this WORLD! I stumbled across Richelle and Tom’s wedding via our lovely dressmaker member Felicity Westmacott. It goes without saying that Richelle’s dress is incredible; and indeed every thing from this amazing (pre-pandemic) wedding is rocking my wedding bloggy world today – not least the sensible couple who’re the celebs of all of it.
They selected the stupendously talented Lina & Tom as their wedding photographers, and it’s been an absolute joy to read their review for his or her entire wedding photography experience. Do take a look at their website when you haven’t already seen the magic they create – it’s the most effective I’ve ever seen.
I also should share this little note from Lina when she replied to my email about featuring this wedding – she put it simply and beautifully:
Felicity is a genius and the more people realize it the higher, Richelle’s dress was divine and that is literally one in every of our favourite ever weddings…
www.linaandtom.com
How did you select your photographer?
Initially Tom followed them on Instagram, then we happened to bump into them at the one wedding fair we went to – where Tom gave Tom a flyer with a tea bag on …. and so they bonded over tea! A number of meetings, calls and obsessing about cats later we knew they were the appropriate selection.
Were you pleased together with your wedding photographer? Do tell… we love a superb review!
They were amazing, from meeting up for a gin or two to debate to travelling as much as Edinburgh and the shots they took – every thing was incredible. We just wish we had confirmed them earlier so we could have had them at our party (a couple of days after the marriage down south) – not since the chap they got to sub in wasn’t amazing – but because we might have loved to have thrown some shapes with them on the dance floor. We cannot recommend them highly enough, they love an adventure, a dance and are a singular combination of talented, passionate and organised. Oh and I reckon they might DJ too when you asked them!
How did the pandemic affect your wedding plans? Do you have got any advice to share with couples planning their weddings without delay?
Luckily for us it was pre-pandemic. We did nonetheless watch our beloved suppliers struggle, so once we could, we helped out – buying additional photos from Lina and Tom, ordering takeout from our catering company and recommending the venue, and tech suppliers to others we all know planning weddings in the world. Being within the events world we know the way hard all of it has been, and we hope that everybody planning was capable of hold bookings where possible each customer and vendor sides.
Did you’re keen on wearing your outfits? How was the dress / suit shopping experience?
Tom: Mine was pretty easy, once we had selected Edinburgh I needed to get a kilt. I had promised my Nana that I’d get married in a kilt – so a visit to Geoffrey Tailor on Edinburgh High St to get a Ross tartan kilt was arranged and so they did me proud. I purchased a ravishing tailored modern Ross Kilt with a Contemporary charcoal tweed jacket and waistcoat. After all once the Groom is in a kilt, and you’re in a castle in Edinburgh, it was easy to get the remaining of the marriage party chaps into one. Geoffrey Tailor were capable of help out all with hire items and even adding to another family tartan outfits that were needed.
https://www.geoffreykilts.co.uk
Richelle: having tried dresses on at just about every wedding dress shop within the UK (and a pair outside of the country) the penny dropped and I asked a friend (Claire-Michelle T-P) where she had got her fabulous dress made and he or she passed on Felicity’s details. The planets aligned and I managed to get the last slot she was accepting before happening maternity! So on the promise that I wouldn’t gain or lose any weight that might require alterations in the ultimate days of her pregnancy we went ahead. She was incredible, I wasn’t a lot, just having a set of ideas of bits and an idea in my head. She managed to extract all my thoughts and fill in all of the gaps. What she produced was beyond what I could have imagined, it was a bodice with two different skirts designed in either configuration to appear like a dress, and yes each had pockets! The twin look was key to how we desired to do our wedding, the family formal section and the party element, plus who doesn’t love a fancy dress change!
Should you’d wish to know more about how Richelle’s dress was made, head over to Felicity’s blog where she explains her process behind creating Richelle’s waterfall skirt, bodice and jacket – it’s an enchanting read!
Tell us about your venue – what made this place special for you?
Wedding venue: Edinburgh castle, St Margaret’s Chapel — Edinburgh has all the time been a special city to us, Tom’s grandmother got here from there and we had attended the perimeter comedy festival commonly from our University years onwards… even sneaking into the castle under the guise of attending a marriage fair one yr! Funnily them letting us in back then actually paid off within the long future! Once we went back in seriousness and saw St Margaret’s we realised it was the place, the small intimate setting we wanted for our family only ceremony.
Wedding breakfast (and photography location): National Museum of Scotland. — only a incredible place with amazing food from the restaurant at the highest of the tower. Plus they’ve a T-Rex!
Wedding Party (3 days later): The Castle Theatre Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. — Richelle’s home town and the theatre she first ‘trod the boards’ at, great and really accommodating team who allow us to do just about every thing we wanted. Plus it could hold the massive numbers we wanted for our party
Did you hire a florist? Tell us about any floral amazingness
Not a florist in the normal sense but we went with plastic flowers as we desired to keep them after the ceremony for the party, and it made them a little bit more robust against the October winds at the highest of that granite mound! Alas these guys aren’t any longer around, a tragic effect of the recent times.
Did you hire a marriage planner?
No, we organised every thing ourselves, as we each worked on the time in and around events we felt we could probably sort it out, and in a mad way – would enjoy doing it!
As cake lovers here at English Wedding we’d LOVE to know who made your cake, and the way delicious it was?
Well, cakes…. the primary was actually from a small boutique outfit called Marks and Spencers! This was only a small made to order rainbow cake from the Edinburgh store – simply enough for our 30 family guests at the marriage breakfast. … but how do you do ‘cake’ for the various lots of of guests on the party a couple of days later – well again a small outfit called Krispy Kreme got here through with an order of donuts that filled the whole back of an estate automobile and even threw in a stand for them!
Tell us about any special personal touches, or creative projects you made yourselves
Our rings were made by an industrial artist we each loved who made them from the identical single chunk of super conductor material. (Copperhead superconductors rings) www.blackbadger.se Our photos (by the beautiful L&T) were within the closed National Museum of Scotland – allowing us to have an excellent time, dancing and posing across the exhibits all on our own, including THAT shot with the T Rex and dancing in the gorgeous empty atrium. Our party had many nods to our interests, our history together and our lives: Large LED screen, Storm Troopers, Arcade Machines, an inflatable planetarium with hourly shows (first date was at an observatory), commitments cover band, pub quiz, street food from our travels and gin bar!
Did you personalise your vows or have any wedding readings? What were they?
Nope – was a beautiful ceremony performed by the Rev Bill who was a part of the Chapel offering and couldn’t have been a more lovely and charming, and hilarious chap. Was an utter gem and unexpected bonus!
What was your first dance song? Why did you select it?
At Last – Etta James. As we had taken some 18 years to get to our wedding from first dating, we thought people would benefit from the selection and Etta James is a favorite of each of us, …. fun fact the live band we had (run by a mate of ours) – known as “The Lack of Commitments”.
Favourite wedding suppliers
Wonderful stationery designs done by: ImperialInvitations on Etsy. Supplied artwork to our requirements, that we then got printed on Vista Print.
Kilts: www.geoffreykilts.co.uk
Wedding accommodation in Edinburgh (Old Town Chambers): www.chevalcollection.com
Eve of wedding drinks: www.headstandtales.com – Edinburgh Gin Distillery
Edinburgh Castle: www.Edinburghcastle.scot
Fab high quality dining catering at the marriage breakfast: www.tower-restaurant.com
The national Museum of Scotland: www.nms.ac.uk
Party: The Castle Theatre Wellingborough: www.castletheatre.co.uk
The brilliantly talented collective that’s and can endlessly be our wedding band: www.thelackofcommitments.co.uk
Our patient and perfectly timed Wedding DJ: www.Disco1.co.uk Lovely Leon
Amazing Huge LED screen for the party: www.Wavecoproductions.co.uk – Iain and Fiona x
Castle Theatre Additional AV, tables and lighting Hire: ‘Prism Events Ltd’ on Facebook
Yummy street food for the party: www.stanleystreetfood.co.uk
Inflatable planetarium (Uni of Herts): www.herts.ac.uk/bayfordbury
Arcade machine hire: www.retrogamesparty.co.uk
Stormtroopers: www.ukgarrison.co.uk – the beautiful lovely Becki
Party photo booth: www.theprobooth.com – the amazingly engaging Iain
Wedding pub quiz: ‘personalised trivia’ on Facebook
Wedding programme (we had that much happening) by one in every of our fabulous Best Men: James Castro.
Previously featured on the sensible Unconventional Wedding Blog
