After a four-year long distance relationship, Holly and Simon found an incredible old world setting at Montpellier Wine Estate, a historic manor steeped in rich, wine-making history. The couple instantly fell in love with the beautiful white chapel on a hill, surrounded by magnificent mountains and rolling vineyards. The travel theme were DIY’d by the couple and featured maps for the menus, seating chart and order of services, and a ?boarding pass? inspired invitation representing the many journeys they?d taken to see each other ? and to celebrate the promise of the journey to come. Dearheart Photos captured the couple soaking up the historic and natural beauty of the grounds after the ceremony, with their tiny chapel just visible on the surrounding hills. The Couple:
Holly and Simon
The Wedding:
Montpellier Wine Estate, Western Cape, South Africa

The most important thing was to remember that the day was a celebration of our relationship, surrounded by our family and friends and that to do this all we needed was to share the day together, plus good food, good wine and lots of dancing! We didn’t want to get lost in the details and wanted to be as relaxed as possible on the day, just soaking up every minute of it.

When we were deciding on designs and themes we wanted to capture our story leading up to the day and celebrate the promise of the journey to come – We had been in a long distance relationship for 4 years before we got married!

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