Stripped Back Tyne Bank Brewery Wedding

Amy and Tom, each Doctors, tied the knot on twenty first June 2025 in Newcastle upon Tyne. They each wished a marriage stripped of most of the regular wedding ceremony traditions with a concentrate on enjoyable and laid-back occasion vibes.

Instead of happening the standard bridal boutique and bridal robe route, Amy wore a gorgeous midi-dress by vogue model Aje, who she was already conversant in having rented Aje attire beforehand.

The couple exchanged vows written the evening earlier than in an intimate ceremony on the Civic Centre with shut household and mates, earlier than driving themselves to their reception venue, Tyne Bank Brewery, the place they celebrated with a bigger gathering of family members.

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We obtained married in Newcastle, the place we stay. We selected to have our wedding ceremony within the metropolis we stay in as we knew individuals must journey anyway (each our households don’t stay in Newcastle) so determined they may as nicely journey to us. And it’s the town we met and fell in love in so it’s very particular to us in addition to being our dwelling. We obtained married on the Civic Centre (registry workplace) with 50 of our closest household and mates, earlier than having a giant occasion later that day at Tyne Bank Brewery with round 150 individuals.

We didn’t have every other ceremonies nevertheless we did have lots of people spherical to our home the day earlier than and the day after the marriage which was beautiful, significantly since lots of them had travelled fairly far (Tom’s from Cornwall and Amy’s introduced up in Brussels so plenty of individuals had travelled).

We  wrote our personal vows, we did write them the evening earlier than, we weren’t organised! Both written on our telephones, however we did each find yourself crying in the course of the vow bits so we are able to’t have completed that badly.

We additionally had two readings; one by Tom’s brother who learn an extract from the Amber Spyglass, I Will Love You Forever, as we each beloved that e-book as youngsters.

My dad additionally shared a studying of Ithaca, a poem by C P Cavafy which he selected and re-translated himself from the unique greek (he’s half greek) which was very touching.

We each had one ring every which doubled as our engagement rings, each made by Dytham Jewellery. We designed these collectively which was very enjoyable.

Our photographer was Emily Carey at Silverbird pictures. Emily was fantastic! We picked her as we beloved her pictures model, not overly posed and actually pure and delightful photographs.

Emily actually delivered – we completely love our images and he or she’s a stunning one that is aware of the way to put individuals comfy.

We drove ourselves to and from the venue in our personal purple Ford Fiesta.

I designed our welcome board on Canva. We didn’t have every other wedding ceremony stationery, we used with pleasure.com for the invitations

Aside from my bouquet, the one different flowers we had have been bud vases which my mum helped us to do the day earlier than after spending about 25 kilos on flowers from Sainsbury’s and bud vases from fb market.

We didn’t have a marriage cake.

We selected ‘At Last’ by Etta May to bop to – this was a really final minute alternative impressed by the truth that we’d been collectively over eight years by the point we obtained married. We didn’t practise or put together any dance however our swaying across the dance flooring was apparently adequate to make my (Amy’s) sister cry.

No, we beloved our day and have been actually pleased with the way it turned out.

Don’t let different peoples expectations of what a marriage needs to be have an effect on your judgement and planning of the day.

There will at all times be somebody who doesn’t agree together with your selections so it is best to simply do what makes you cheerful, its your wedding ceremony in spite of everything!

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