Happy Friday everyone! I do hope you have had a good week and that you are now looking forward to the weekend ahead of us" We ave a quite one planned in our house hold, ‘the lull before the storm’ as they say, as we are having major building work start in a week or so, so lots to get planned before it all begins. On with today’s wedding though and today Lauren and Charles are sharing with us their gorgeous wood themed wedding, courtesy of Flash Charlie Photography. Charles is a tree surgeon, so wood and trees play a large part in their wedding. It also meant that they could create a lot of the decor themselves which worked well with their budget. To keep costs down they manged to get creative with lots of DIY ideas and some really helpful friends and wedding suppliers. It sounds cliché, but the day was magical ? so relaxed and such fun – everything that we hoped for and more.  To see the joy on the faces of our friends and families? faces made all the hard work worth it!

Lauren and Charles were married on the 20th August 2016 at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Barrington in Oxfordshire followed by a reception at Great Barrington village hall. ‘The 2 years before our wedding were hectic to say the least: we bought our first house, Charles was setting up his tree surgery business, I started teaching at a new school and also decided to train as a yoga teacher, so money was verrrry tight!  It really didn?t look like we would be...