Happy Wednesday everyone, I hope the sun is shining where you are. It has been lovely here in Sheffield over the last few days, however I have been in the office, so today I am looking forward to enjoying a day with Dexter in the Park, ice creams all round! We are taking you back a couple of months today with this fab vintage inspired day. It’s a train museum wedding, a wonderful location in Essex, where Train loving Patrick took advantage of the location and lived out his passion for trains within his wedding venue and with lots of lovely details and decor. Helen the bride added in her own twist on things by adding in lots of pretty vintage elements, which worked perfectly with all the train memorabilia. Big thanks to Marianne Chua for the images.
There are very few experiences you wouldn?t change a thing and this was one of them. Trains for Patrick and vintage for Helen!
Helen and Patrick were married on the 7th May 2016, East Anglian Railway Museum, Chappel & Wakes Colne, Essex. ‘We both knew the venue from a Beer Festival we go to every year and Patrick lived and came to the museum as a little boy. We had 130 guests and the wedding took just over 18 months to plan.’

How they met

We met in 2005 and were friends for five years before getting together in 2010 after a cocktail filled evening in a bar next door to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
The proposal

It was my 30th birthday and being National Trust geeks, we went for a picnic and a nose ar...