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Picnic Wedding With Drinks & Dessert Wall

Photography by Rebecca Carpenter Photography

We suggest you don’t look at this whilst you’re hungry. This picnic wedding is everything you’ve dream of, and a little more… get ready for all the inspiration you need! Complete with recommended supplier Touchays, mouth-watering food, and the most deliciously styled photoshoot you have ever seen. We absolutely love the eye-popping jewelled colour scheme, which works perfectly within the brides bouquet. Oh, and don’t forget to check out the grooms socks… where can we grab a pair of those?

Picnic wedding complete with drinks & dessert wall

For a glorious luxury indoor wedding breakfast, lashings of very cold white and rosé wine was served, with plenty of English pink fizz to toast! The wines chosen, were all handcrafted, from a boutique family-run, 5-acre, hidden gem of a vineyard in rural Sussex. The emphasis is on low intervention. The wine is bottled on-site and, as a result of all their hard work and dedication, it tastes like summer in a glass!

Seafood hors d'oeuvres for the guests on a rose plate with sprigs of flowers

Dessert with edible flowers on rose china plate

Bride in a satin wedding dress with colourful flower crown and matching bouquet of pink, purple, orange and blue assorted flowers

Colourful bouquet or blue, pink, orange and purple assorted flowers with blue ribbon

Groom in bright orange checkered socks and brown shoes

Bright and colourful bouquet of assorted flowers with blue, orange, purple, pink details

Floral tablecloth with deep purple napkins and blue ribbons and tapered blue candles with three wedding cakes and tall centrepieces in conservatory

Bride wears rose and pampas grass and other assorted flowers crown and embraces with groom with orange details

Saxophone player shares his music in front of rustic wooden bar and pastel flowers

Rose tablecloth with lobster and edible flowers for picnic wedding

Wooden laddered shelves of picnic mini desserts with summer berries, edible flowers and chocolate covered strawberries

Groom in orange bow tie and bride in colourful flower crown share wine

Dish of smoked salmon and boiled egg with edible flowers on rose tablecloth with purple menus and blue gingham ribbons

Lobster with edible flowers for the picnic wedding

Bride exits car in vibrant flower crown and bright wedding bouquet with blue, purple, pink and orange flowers

Vision

Clare, owner of the multi-award-winning caterer, Touchays, understands better than anyone that a picnic done well should be pure decadent bliss. She knows how to elevate picnics to a new and exciting level. So, teaming up with Holly, the creative stylist and owner of Locate to Create, together they set about deconstructing the British classic picnic, and putting it back together to capture the absolute essential elements.

Location

With luxury as a pre-requisite, only somewhere totally glam will do. For the styled shoot, Wadhurst Castle was chosen an incredible, romantic venue with a wonderful, recently converted Victorian Carriage Barn. Surrounded by beautifully restored gardens, its terraces offer amazing views over extensive parkland (140 acres) and the Sussex countryside.

Decor

Instead of sitting on traditional picnic blankets outside, Clare and Holly ask that you put aside all your preconceived ideas of a picnic, as they set up their gorgeous, banquet, feast inside the Winter Garden Room. To further elevate the dining experience, they have layered details, onto the dining experience of vintage objects, dashes of colour to work with your chosen theme, to add a touch of chintz a sprinkling of glamour and that’s what the best picnics are made of!

Young bridesmaids smile inside the lace teepee with pink fluffy pillows

Young ring bearer inside lace teepee with orange bow tie and pink fluffy pillows and white lanterns

Groom in denim style trouser poses with bride in boho wedding cover and wedges on a plush sofa outside with a purple and red flowers

Bride holds bright and vibrant bouquet tied with light blue ribbon

Clear acrylic menu with pastel flower petal confetti and wedding stationery

Bride and groom embrace as the sunlight illuminates the bride's golden hair and stunning white flower headband

Bride and groom stand together under archway with bride in lace boho cover and groom with bright orange bow tie

Groom picks up bride in satin wedding dress and lace cardigan with wedges

Bride poses in golden hour with lace cardigan and satin wedding dress

Bride in white satin jumpsuit with boho lace cover and wedges on a plush olive sofa outdoors

Bride with soft shimmer makeup poses with her bright and colourful bouquet

Bride poses outside with nature in a white flower headband and soft wavy hair

Bride with soft shimmery makeup posing with her bright wedding bouquet

Young ring bearer in white shirt and bright orange bow tie to match the groom

Tickerage wine surrounded by flowers and foliage

Tablet set up with 3 wedding cakes tall blue tapered candles and flower decoration including gladiolus and roses

Intimate, laid-back, and quintessentially British picnic wedding

If this beautiful inspiration has got you thinking, then take a look at this socially distanced outdoor picnic in the Lake District. Or, if the popping colour-scheme is more your vibe, then head on over to this wedding in Croatia! With the most beautiful jewel coloured bouquets and high low wedding dress you’ve ever seen.