A tulle dress with flowers in her hair, Vicky looked absolutely stunning for her English manor house wedding. An Australian living in Paris, now marrying an Englishman & starting a new life in the UK. Paul & Vicky chose Pynes House in the beautiful Devon countryside for their elegant wedding and Tracy from Blue Fizz Events dressed the venue beautifully with abundant bouquets & table centres filled with pastel coloured peonies & greenery. I loved exploring the grounds, the formal gardens and the woodland filled with purple flowering rhododendrons and views across the valley. 

Their wedding was inspired by a vintage and a travel theme… both being world travellers and with guests in attendance from 11 different countries all over the world.

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Paul & Vicky’s engagement story is pretty amazing & romantic.

Paul proposed on my birthday in November 2014; it was an amazing day. We had rented a little chapel in Cornwall for the week and the morning of my birthday a Rolls Royce arrived to collect us to take us to a secret location- a beautiful stately home in Devon. Paul had arranged for our Yorkshire Terrier Millie to come with us and when we arrived at the stately home we were met by the owners with champagne and Millie was also greeted as if she was royalty. I realised at that point that he had hired the entire place for the afternoon so we had full run of the house.

 

We sat and had champagne by the fire and looked at the carefully planned menu that was designed just for me- it even had my name on it. We were then escorted to our private dining area at the top of a grand staircase with candelabras and frescos, which was incredible!

 

After this we were off to the Eden Project as Paul had hired out the whole place for the evening. We were escorted in for more champagne and there was a small 2 piece band playing just for us.  We had full run of the place to wander around the gardens together and I was sure that maybe the time was now, but no, there was still more to come in this incredible day.

 

We watched the stars come out over the domes and it was truly magical, and then got back in the Rolls and off to yet another secret destination. After a long drive we ended up back at our chapel where we were met at the door by Tracy, our soon to be wedding planner, and a private chef. The chapel had been fully dressed with flowers and candles everywhere and a dining table had been set.

 

After everyone had left Paul go down on both knees and asked me to spend my life with him. I of course said yes…

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Miss Gen was amazing… she was there at every turn, I don’t think she sat down once- that camera was snapping and flashing all the time. I think we can all see by the results that she is great at what she does, we chose her because she had a more unique style to other wedding photographers.

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The venue was styled with vintage suit cases from Paris, shabby chic candle holders, apple crates and vintage boxes. The table settings were vintage aeroplanes named with the countries around the world where the guests were from.

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I loved my morning with my sister and 2 best friends, one even flew over from Australia to be by my side.

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Sadly, Vicky’s parents were not able to fly from Australia for the wedding, so her sister proudly walked her down the aisle instead to ‘I Was Made For Loving You’ by Maria Mena.

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I made the wedding favours to go with the vintage travel theme. We had three layers- the bottom was home-made chocolate bars wrapped in atlas paper, the second layer was a cream vintage suit case with our own brand of home-made tea and the top layer was a brown parcel box with vintage sweets.

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As my husband was a little bit of a metal head in his youth… our first dance was to the original version of ‘I was made for loving you’ by KISS

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Favourite parts of the day:

I loved my morning with my sister and two best friends, one of whom had flown over from Australia for the weekend to be by my side, it was a very valued time. Another favourite moment was when I saw my husband waiting for me at the end of the aisle, I was filled with emotion. I also loved the time that Paul and I had alone with Miss Gen.

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Words of wisdom from Vicky:

Relax and enjoy the day, try not to let it become a circus about others, it is your day to share. A wedding is just one day, a marriage is about the rest of your lives together.

This beautiful wedding was featured on Love My Dress.

Photographer – Genevieve of  Miss Gen Photography
Wedding Planner – Tracy from Blue Fizz
Venue – Pynes House, Exeter
Wedding dress – Viola Armtzen
Hair accessories – Fresh flowers
Shoes – Badgley Mishka
Accessories – Edwardian diamond necklace from Paul
Perfume – Femininite De Bois by Serge Luton Paris
Bridesmaids’ dresses – Made to measure, seamstress not named
Accessories- Vintage Diamanté clips
Florist – Laura Hingston Flowers
Cake – Kate Burke Cakes
Catering – Posh Nosh Catering
Stationery – Organised by Blue Fizz
Hair stylist – Dean Brown from Stylepixie Salon, Paris (Vicky’s own salon)
Entertainment – Call Me Blondie

Genevieve from Miss Gen Photography is a London based photographer specialising in creative reportage wedding photography – documentary style photography that tells the story of your day and creative, natural couples portraits. Genevieve is available to shoot weddings, elopements, couples sessions and family sessions in London, throughout the UK, Europe, Australia and worldwide for destination sessions. To book me get in touch, I’d love to hear all about your plans.

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Beautiful wedding beautifully photographed and the flowers are gorgeous x

Oooh – the woofer is just like my own dog – people should include dogs in weddings more often – adorable!!!

Ace colours, what a pretty wedding!

Love these photos, looks like such a gorgeous wedding and you’ve captured it perfectly! Nx

Such a beautiful wedding, great colours & light and I love the styling of this wedding. Wonderful photography Gen!