MarTIn anD BruCe
but they could not have been prouder. When
watching the video back we couldn’t believe how
emotional people were when we walked down
the aisle. It was very special.
We wanted to keep flowers and decorations to
a minimum. We decided our guests would rather
we spent our budget on free champagne and
barrels of West Country cider on tap than endless
flower vases and bows on chairs. Let’s face it,
we’re talking about people that like to drink!
The one thing we both decided from the start
was that we didn’t want a sit down meal. Once
we said ‘I do’ we wanted to kick off the
celebration. Because of this, we got married late
in the day at 4pm, so the traditional wedding
breakfast and evening could all roll into one.
This also meant our guests could enjoy the spa
and hotel during the day. Once the ceremony ended
we all piled out into the gardens for champagne and
a BBQ. This then rolled into the evening, a hog
roast, speeches and DJ. The fact that everyone got
rather drunk on the Friday night meant that
hangovers could be dealt with before more drinking
commenced on the Saturday afternoon!
Because we wanted to keep things
celebratory and didn’t want a big fancy cake, we
invited guests to bring something to add to the
dessert table based on the Scottish/West
Country, whisky/cider theme. We made our
favourite dessert on the day our wedding cake. It
was amazing to see how competitive people were
and the dessert table was like something from
The Great Bri sh Bake Off
!
For favours, we laid out gift bags of flower
bulbs. We named them ‘Bruce’s Scottish Haggis’
and ‘Martin’s Carrot Cruncher’. The idea was for
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