Happy Friday everyone and how are you all" Looking forward to the weekend" I am super excited as I am out on the town this evening with a few girlfriends. Dinner and cocktails are on the menu, it’s been too long, so I’m really looking forward to it. To end the week I have another barn wedding for you. We seem to have been featuring a lot of barn weddings recently, and each time it’s a joy. So many lovely ideas of how to keep the budget low when working with a barn venue, lots of DIY projects and friends and family getting involved to help out. Rhian and Daniel’s wedding is no exception, they really pulled out all the stops to stick to their £8K budget and the results are fab. Thanks to Katie Winter Photography for the images. Our wedding day was truly joyful. It was filled with sunshine, happiness and love.

Rhian and Daniel were married on the 23rd July 2016 with the ceremony in St Mary?s church on Hayling Island in Hampshire, with an incredibly jolly female vicar. The reception was held in an 18th century barn on Manor Farm. ‘I grew up on Hayling Island and have a large family so it made sense to be close to home.  St Mary?s has recently been refurbished and is wonderfully light and open for an old church.  We chose the barn as it was such a unique venue.  It?s not in any way a ?wedding barn? and was going to involve a lot of work but we knew it would be worth it.We had 120 guests. We went for a quick turn around and planne...