Happy Rainbow Wedding in Essex with a Jenny Packham Dress | Whimsical Wonderland Weddings

Happy Rainbow Wedding in Essex with a Jenny Packham Dress | Whimsical Wonderland Weddings

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Rhiannon and Tom ad one of the most colourful celebrations I have ever seen. They put so much into their wedding to make it their own and went for a fun rainbow theme.

They chose Spains Hall, Essex to host their day set in pretty gardens with ducks roaming. There were colourful florals, cake pops, balloons and a cake of cheese.

Rhiannon looked stunning in her Jenny Packham dress and handmade veil, while her favourite girls donned bright blue dresses from Oasis. Such a stylish affair.

Thanks so much to Babb Photo for sharing her amazing photographs with us today.

The Venue... We chose the beautiful Spains Hall in Finchingfield as it made such a big impression on us, everything there was geared to making the day special and we loved the slightly quirky nature of the ceremony room, the award winning toilets(!) and the quality of everything in the stables where the reception would be held. The gardens were just beautiful and we would be the only people there all day which the other front running venue couldn't offer us. There were also a number of ducks wandering around which was perfect as they are one of our favourite animals!

Finding the Dress... I started the dress hunt very early as I was too excited to wait! I first went with my sister in law and we had a lot of fun looking through all the dresses and choosing different styles to try, I loved the dresses I tried, one in particular stood out but I wasn't ready to stop shopping! I had seen Jenny Packham dresses in magazines and on the Internet and knew I loved her style so I thought I had better try some of her dresses before anything else. I found a stockist in Birmingham and took two friends along to help me but when we got there the woman wouldn't let me try on any Jenny Packham dresses, telling me it would be a shame if I liked one and then couldn't afford to buy it (I hadn't told her my budget at this point), so feeling very put out and a bit Pretty Womanesque I halfheartedly tried a couple of other dresses and left.

I then went to a few other dress shops in the area with Tom's mum but felt like I was playing fancy dress in all these big netted dresses and felt ready to give up when Tom's mum found a shop in Worcester who were having a Jenny Packham sample sale, they had photos of the dresses and one in particular caught my eye so we travelled down with our fingers crossed it would fit and as soon as I tried it on I had the feeling I'd been missing- this was "the one"!

The music I walked down the aisle to was the very first decision made. I have always loved Eva Cassidy's Songbird and I knew this song would fit how I felt about the ceremony and about Tom. We had great fun compiling playlists for before, during and after the ceremony and spent many evenings with various family members picking out the tracks we would dance to at the reception.

I was very keen to have a live band in the evening whereas Tom really wanted a DJ so we decided to have a jazz band for the afternoon and wedding breakfast and a DJ for the evening, this worked out so well, the jazz band Jazz Company gave the afternoon exactly the garden party vibe I was after and it was great having them play while we ate dinner as well. The DJ Simon played songs we had asked for in a great mix which kept everyone dancing all night, although he was slightly confused when we confirmed it was the Jay Z version of Empire State of Mind we wanted for our first dance, not the Alicia Keys one!

The Flowers... Were designed by a family friend Irene Belton who suffered through my many changes of heart and demands and ended up creating centre pieces and bouquets that were even closer to what I wanted than I had been able to explain! She captured what we wanted exactly and the flowers had such an impact on the bright and fun nature of the day. We had great fun on the Thursday before the wedding helping her to put the centre pieces together and Tom and I both loved that we had been so hands on with something so important. Tom's mum also helped with the centrepieces and grew some bright and colourful flowers in her garden for us which she then arranged in some wicker baskets to decorate the troughs in the reception hall to help add to the colour!

The brilliant Laura Babb, I came across her photos on a blog and showed Tom who agreed that her style was exactly what we wanted. After meeting her in London and liking her Facebook page where she uploads previews of her photography regularly I was convinced she would be the only person to capture the day right so we booked her up and as you can see from the photos were completely right about that!

I spent a lot of time scouring blogs and wedding magazines to find ideas for the details but the best ones came to me at random times! I made a poster for our guest book and spent an afternoon stamping out mini card balloons for people to sign, I found some mini bunting in rainbow colours to decorate the cake and found 7 giant balloons in rainbow colours which ended up behind us during the meal before being commandeered by my niece and nephew! Laura Babb also used them to take one of our favourite photos from the whole day. I have never been one to follow the crowd and didn't want the typical Mr and Mrs sign I was seeing everywhere so instead bought and painted the letters of The Puars to sit in front of us during the wedding breakfast.

Band & DJ | Definitive Music. I couldn't rev commend this company and the two acts we hired more.

Photographer | Laura Babb for our amazing photos.

Stationery | Cute Maps Stationery

Cheese | Gunton's Deli

Dress | Perfections Dress Shop in Worcester, the perfect wedding dress experience, the staff are wonderful here!

Handmade Veil | Sally Harper Milinery

Venue | Spains Hall

Ahh amazing. I soooo love this wedding, there were smiles all day long.

Thanks so much to Rhiannon and Tom for sharing their brilliant wedding with us XOXO Lou

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