Today I would like to introduce you to Jan and Malcolm Emery who were married on the 11th June last year at Beaulieu in Hampshire. To see their Hampshire wedding story here on our blog, please click the following link – Beaulieu Wedding
Here is Jan…
Hi Courtenay
Our favourite picture is this one….
Malc and I chose The Domus at the Beaulieu National Motor Museum as our wedding venue because as a child my family used to vacation in the New Forest and visited the museum
several times so it held special memories for me and I was grateful that my fiance Malc fully accepted and understood that. It also resonated with us because we both have a keen interest in classic cars and architecture, and the buildings at this venue really lend themselves to being captured on film creating some beautiful shots. However, it was one of the final shots that Courtenay took, at the end of the day, when we had left Beaulieu and moved to Bucklers Hard to be alone for a while, which really caught our eye because it is so striking. Produced in black and white, and composed with us as a couple on the far right of the shot and a yacht on the far left with the estuary in the background really is beautiful. But for me, the
image does more than that. For me, it evokes happy memories of my childhood spent sailing around the Solent with my father, who passed away in 2005. This image in one glance really does remind us of our special day and shows us sharing our love for one another for just one tiny moment as our new life together begins.
Our three top tips:
1) Decide on your budget then add 10% for contingency – planning a wedding is not an exact science but nor is it a free license to over-spend. However it is always a good idea to have a back-up portion of money to allow you some flexibility.
2) Ensure you get a good balance of what you as a couple want from the day and what you want to provide for your guests. It’s easy to worry too much about everyone else and not enough about yourselves. Equally, neglecting your guests and their desire to feel part of your special day would be a bad thing.
3) Arrange your wedding day so that you can take time-out as a couple, even if it’s just for 10 minutes every few hours or so. Just taking a moment to say I Love You and sharing a kiss in peace and quiet away from everything happening around you acts as a reminder that it’s not about ‘the day’ so much, it’s perhaps more about being married to one another and looking forward to sharing your life with them.
Best wishes
Jan and Malc
