14th June 2010
One of our favourite wedding venues is Micklefield Hall, nestled off the beaten track, but conveniently located near London and the rest of the world in Hertfordshire. A family home that opens itself to weddings and other events, we have been a regular photographer for quite a few years. We recently popped in to say hello and thought we’d show off the spectacular gardens…

The entrance to Micklefiled Hall

elegant and romantic gardens

a water fountain

the rose garden

A beautiful country house wedding venue

Oscar says a friendly hello
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25th May 2010
Our previous blog was about Victoria and Ben’s wedding in Hertfordshire. The details and colours that made up their wedding were so beautiful that we thought they deserved to be showcased in a separate piece.
They chose to use colours of silver and white with a dash of aubergine. This was worked beautifully throughout: in the flowers, decorations and accessories, with the aubergine colour appearing in subtle ways. The top table had aubergine chiffon around their chairs whilst the rest of the chairs in the marquee had silver chiffon. Little bridesmaids complimented their ivory dresses with the same aubergine chiffon tied as a waistband. Even the cake had a slight colouring of aubergine on the fondant petals.
Andrew Fleming was the florist and he produced beautiful bouquets and amazing table centre pieces, as well as decorating the church with his wonderful displays. Again aubergine effectively featured throughout. Tall, silver candelabras were stunning when lit, giving the marquee such a warm glow.
Other lovely touches were the white grand piano, being played throughout the meal; the white dancefloor with sparkly lights; and decorative trees which surrounded the dancefloor with blue fairy lights.
Finally, we have to comment on the favours, as they were so very clever. Each guest had been bought a lottery ticket! Let’s hope someone went home richer that night.

Bouquet and confetti

Flowers in the entrance to the Church


Chair covers and lottery card favours

Marquee showing silver and white colour scheme

Centre piece and cake detail

Glowing candles and sparkley trees
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17th May 2010
Victoria and Ben were married on May 1st at Christ Church, Chorleywood. Their reception was held at one of our favourite venues, Micklefield Hall in Hertfordshire. The bride looked stunning in dress made for her by her Godmother and the colour scheme for the day was predominantly silver and white with a dash of aubergine, simple but very stylish. The weather had been predicted rain but it held out until just after everyone was inside the marquee – perfect timing!
The wedding was kept on schedule by the toastmaster, Vanessa King, and the moving images of the day were filmed by the lovely Damo at Reel60. If you want to see more of the images from the day, please take a look at our Flickr page.

Victoria getting ready

Outside Christ Church, Chorleywood

Victoria & Ben at Micklefield Hall

Guests in the gardens at Micklefield Hall

The group shot

Beautiful table flowers and the cake

Father of the bride and Ben giving their speeches

Granny on the dancefloor!
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9th March 2010
Savoir Weddings organise boutique weddings for contemporary couples.
Run by Josie and Dan – oh yes grooms-to-be, you can have your very own male planner – Savoir Weddings work with couples who want to do something a little bit different and step away from tradition. “We felt there were many companies catering for more conventional weddings but we wanted to offer something for those who wanted to do things differently” says Josie. In particular, Savoir specialise in planning festival style weddings (both Josie and Dan have a background in music events), green/eco friendly weddings, home receptions and weddings abroad.
Savoir Weddings can come in to help couples at all stages of the planning process. They offer a variety of services from sourcing creative and unique wedding suppliers to consultancy in a particular area, to full planning. “We like to think we make the planning process and day as smooth, relaxed and stress free as possible for all our brides and grooms and help them have a wedding they didn’t even know was possible!” concludes Josie.
http://www.savoirweddings.com
The following are some photographs from weddings Pearl Pictures have photographed in the theme of festival, eco and home reception weddings.

cool musicians

making use of existing materials

home reception

teepees - festival style

flowers from the garden
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28th October 2009
The latest edition of ‘You and Your Wedding’ (Nov/Dec 09) magazine is featuring a wedding shot by Pearl Pictures earlier this summer. This was quite an unusual wedding, taking place in the gardens of a beautiful country house estate in Hertfordshire. To read more about this wedding scroll down this blog as it was are very first post!

The couple exchanged rings in an outdoor blessing

Vibrant yellow complemented the browns and greens of the unique countryside wedding.

The speeches were held in the gardens before dinner

Guests made their way to the tipis for dinner and dancing
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15th October 2009
Our very own Director at Pearl Pictures, Lucy, got married to Matthew Barbour on 5th September this year with an English country garden wedding in Wiltshire. “We wanted a wedding that was truly personal, so chose to have a marquee in the garden where I grew up” says Lucy. “The idea was to start with a very english, country feel at the church and move the day through to a chic and contemporary styled marquee to reflect our life in London, where we have lived for the last 10 years.”. With guests transported to the quaint country church by a red London routemaster bus, Lucy and Matthew opted for a horse and carriage. Once back at “The Chestnuts” the champagne flowed and guests mingled in the garden to music by the “Stickey Bass Jazz Trio”. Once in the marquee the guests sat at tables named after trees in the garden and dined on cannon of lamb with summer vegetables, followed by lemon and passionfruit tart. At 9.30pm, one of the Ushers, Nick, played with his band “The Black Hats” and the guests danced the night away until carriages at 1am. Photography by Graham Morgan & Jemma Watts.

Guests arrived at the church in a red London routemaster bus

The two bridesmaids wore taupe chiffon dresses by Dessy

The bouquet was made up with ivory, champagne and pale pink roses

Lucy's lace gown was from Caroline Castigliano, while Matthew's suit was hired from R.Scott & Co in Cirencester, Glos.

Fresh rose petals were thrown as confetti

The reception was held in the garden of Lucy's parents home

Inside the marquee

The happy couple cut their wobbly cake!
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10th August 2009
Pearl Pictures very proudly shot their first wedding in July, in the fantastic setting of the unique gardens of St Paul’s Walden in Hertfordshire. Escaping the rain, the gardens took a key role in this “Midsummer Night’s Dream” style wedding. The guests took part in a procession throughout the day which took them from ceremony to readings, speeches and music ending up at the teepee tents for a feast and dancing.

A country style bouquet

Poles decorated with country flowers mark the entrance to the outdoor ceremony

The newlyweds in the gardens

A shower of confetti!
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