![]() It also represents so many things that we love-the countryside, family, community, ruins, good ale and plenty of fresh air! We wanted the wedding to feel like us so it was really disheartening visiting venues that we felt didn’t fully represent us. For Tom the Yorkshire Dales has become a special place for him having been in my family such a long time, but also somewhere he traveled with his own family over the years for walking holidays. My granny’s ashes are also spread there, so my connection runs deep. As we looked for somewhere to get married, it felt natural to pick somewhere with meaning and for us that really had to be the Yorkshire Dales where my family heads every year for a holiday, and where both my uncle and great uncle own cottages. Where did you get married? When we arrived back in the UK we had no fixed abode and didn’t feel connected to Nottingham anymore as we hadn’t lived there for many years. So the wedding was three years in the making! We stayed in the grounds of a manor house in a bell tent and Tom popped the question on a beach in Salthouse in Norfolk after ten years together. How did they propose? Tom proposed to me a few days before we left the UK. We live in a converted stables in the Gloucestershire countryside and are planning a winter honeymoon in Mexico. We spent a wonderful year working at a school in Hertfordshire and then took a leap of faith and packed our bags for two years abroad in the southern hemisphere, where we lived and worked in Australia and New Zealand before travelling to Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Japan.These days we live in Bristol Tom works as a boat builder at the very idyllic Underfall boatyard in the center of town and I work for the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust as a Corporate Relations Executive. I guess you could call it destiny! We went off to university Tom did a degree in Fine Art Sculpture at Brighton University and I completed an English Literature degree first at the University of Portsmouth and completing my degree at the University of Hertfordshire.We then decide to work and save with a view to travel. How did you and your partner meet? Tom and I met at school so are childhood sweethearts! We grew up in Nottingham in a village called Radcliffe-On-Trent and even played together as young children in my next door neighbor’s garden. In all the photos the dress just sparkles in the light. What was your favorite part of the dress? The luxurious feel of the beading-the dress wasn’t heavy at all but had a luxurious weight to it that made me feel like a princess. I tried on several dresses but I just felt so beautiful in the Ettia dress, it really wasn’t a difficult decision once I’d tried it on it just felt so right for me. I danced ALL night in that dress too, so it was everything I could have dreamed of and more. ![]() How did you know when you found “the dress”? I bought a very cheap and very pretty dress for our wedding while in Australia but my mum desperately wanted to take me to a wedding dress shop and have the ‘whole experience.’ So we trundled off to Morgan Davies in Hertfordshire and despite my reservations, I found a Maggie Sottero dress that made me feel all kinds of wonderful and myself at the same time – which was the most important thing for me… I wanted to feel like myself all day, not holding my stomach in or keep my arms at funny angles for flattering photos. Which gown did you wear? Ettia gown by Maggie Sottero This sunny and playful wedding in medieval ruins was shot beautifully by Shutter Go Click Photography of the UK. Then check out our Store Locator to find vintage-inspired wedding dress Ettia at a retailer near you! Normally we preface our “Real Bride” blog posts with a little insider expertise, but, trust us, Verity’s feature is like a wedspo blog unto itself! Keep scrolling for a magical love story and fabulous tips for an easy-breezy vintage-inspired wedding in medieval ruins.
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