Part One- Photo Shoot 1st May

I am still buzzing (and exhausted!) after Sunday's photo shoot. 

4 models, florist, caterer, bridal boutique, photographer and The House Meadow

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An awesome giggly day of photo shoot fun!

It was pretty much fun fun fun from the word "Go". Nicci and Bryan from Home Gurr'own were first on set with some amazingly scrumptious food. It was really very very cruel to have all this delicious food about and yet not being able to touch it! They set up in the barn with two glorious food tables - one a cascading waterfall of everything sugary, a perfect cream tea, and the other, a savory selection of cheese boards, salmon scotch eggs (yes, salmon!), mouthwatering sandwiches and more. The highlight of the day was the genius "Trifle in a Jar" that Nicci put together at the last minute. It looked AMAZING and perect for a picnic style Wedding Breakfast. It is firmly on my wishlist for every party celebration coming up.

Enough of my babbling, the pictures say it all and check out the edible flowers...

Cheese Board

A salad I actually want to eat!

Smoked Salmon Scoth Eggs - YUM!

 Home made bread and a variety of scrummy fillings

Love love love! Mini Cream Tea sweet selection

Just because I love them so much

Savory Mini Cream Tea

Home made Quiche - delicious!

The Highlight of the day - Trifle in a Jar!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm YUM!

So. Although we'll never make you use our preffered Caterer we really don't know why you'd want to go anywhere else :) Fabulous stuff. Visit Nicci's website for the full low down on Home Gurr'own. Nicci, we love you!

Now, next on set was Emma from the Gorgeous Boutique Bridal Shop "Forever Yours of Rye". We've known Emma and her family for an awfully long time yet only recently discovered she is now the proud owner of the prettiest shop I have ever set foot in. I not only love the dresses yet also the Forever Yours shop is so very sweet, wonderfully shabby chic and to top it off you feel special the second you walk through the door. Emma is mad as a hatter but in the very best way :) Normally she wouldn't model her own dresses but on this one occasion she made an exception for us and we're very glad she did, we had so much fun with Emma and the dress looks fabulous!

Emma in her retro tea length dress - such fun!

Time for Tea

Soooo cute!

The veil is also from Forever Yours

I love this one :)

 Emma also does Bridal hair and make up and was very handy backstage getting the other 3 models ready. If you're reading this Emma (which I'm sure you will be) thank you so much for modelling for us and for providing us with such stunning Bridal Gowns, it would not have been the same without you!

Lastly in this sections I'd like to show you a selection of product shots from our Cream Tea table. Mum and I were busy baking days before and managed to make some rather delicious cakes for the shoot. We whipped up a traditional Victoria Sponge cake with fresh strawberries, a lemon drizzle cake with poppy seeds, cream cupcakes and the rather sugary three tier chocolate cake. We are all about 5lbs heavier now as obviously it couldn't go to waste. The bit I'd like to highlight in these piccies though is the China. I've been in love with it for about a year now and in my old job at Kensal and Gretel I had a field day with the new collections arriving - it felt like Christmas. My boss, Lottie, was kind enough to loan us a tea pot, milk jug, sugar pot and mugs for the shoot. This collection is sooooooooo pretty, but she also stocks the other Pip collections in her fabulous shop in Tenterden. It is the most colourful shop you will ever enter and everyone that works there is fabulous, I love them all! So, for a real WOW factor go and buy some of her China for your wedding reception - you could even use tea cups and saucers as favours or gifts for your special guests. 

Lastly, I have a bit of a thing about single stem flowers in glass decanters, jam jars etc. The lovely Juliet at The Flower Craft Workshop in Tenterden was so kind and provided us with a gorgeous selection of blooms. Without those flowers the images wouldn't look half as fabulous, so, thank you so much Juliet we love your flowers and the care and attention you put in to all of your work. Enjoy :)

Charity shop china - fabulous

Beautiful Blooms

Mummy's Victoria Sponge

Pip China

Pip China

We really like cake!

What a table!!!!

My Choccy Cake

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I'll talk about them a lot more later and really it goes without saying, but, Cap2ure photography are THE BEST and they "get it"...the personality of our venue comes through in every shoot they do for us and whats more they're fabulous to work with and technically superb...

Part II coming soon!

Thanks for reading :)