Saturday's Winter Wedding

Yesterday, we worked at a wonderful wedding situated in a quiet little barn in the heart of the countryside. The barn was beautifully decorated by a company called Jane Lawrence flowers. Visit www.janelawrenceflowers.com to see her lovely work.

The theme for the wedding revolved mainly around winter and Christmas; with a large Christmas tree by the dance floor, lovely table decorations featuring pine cones and dramatic pheasant tail feathers. If you're having a wedding this close to Christmas, you have to be festive!

 Stag heads hung proudly in the hallway by the entrance and large blooms of roses and fir sprigs were suspended from the beams in the barn.

The food carried on the winter and country theme. The Pot Kiln Anywhere’s Canapés were circulated during the reception drinks; there were mini Yorkshire puddings with rare beef and horseradish, honey mustard sausages, carrot and cumin filo pastries, fish cakes with a chilli dip, lamb koftas with mango chutney and lime and garlic king prawns.

 

How delish? Don't think we could resist...

 The Pot Kiln Anywhere served a comforting feast of butterflied legs of venison with caramelized shallots, creamy dauphinoise potatoes and bowls of winter vegetables. The dessert was a choice of sticky toffee pudding or a classic crème bruleé, Tough choice isn’t it!

The evening food was a selection of cheese from the cheese tower, game terrine, carving ham, olives, sunblushed tomatoes and doughnuts sourced from a company called pippin doughnuts. We think cheese and biscuits is great evening food for the winter with spicy chutneys, reminds us of Christmas!

We loved the winter and Christmas themes of this wedding… Pine cones, fir sprigs and white roses are a must have for your weddings this winter. DIY is definitely an option with décor, pine cones are easy to source, team with red berries and gold sprayed twigs to make the perfect festive centre pieces! 

Our Wedding Mood Board!

We noticed the blog was a bit sparse at the moment so we wanted to get it looking all jazzy again. We thought we'd make a mood board of some lovely things we'd seen on pinterest to give you an idea of some of our favourite wedding styles!

As you can see from the mood board, we love vintage, boho, home made, upcycled, lace, pastels, creativity and lots of flowers! We've been trawling pinterest recently as it's our Auntie's wedding next September so it's been great for inspiration! We thought we'd pass on the inspiration to all you lovely people...

The mood board looks pretty small on the blog, just click on it to see it bigger!

November Wedding at Ufton Court

Please excuse the lack of pictures for this blog post but we were just so busy! It was a very traditional reception this weekend, except instead of the drinks reception being held in the archers hall it was held in the lovely grand house itself. We love Ufton Court as a wedding reception, it's so beautiful. This photo is of the room where the drinks reception was held and where the canapés were served, including mini yorkshire puddings, mini greek salads, duck pancakes, carrot samosas and red onion and goats cheese tarts in the shape of little hearts!

 As you can see in the photo, the room features a huge log fire which is perfect for your winter weddings! Very picturesque too!

We apologise for the next snap, we wanted to take a quick one to show you the table set up! Yes it's a little blurry but you get the idea!

You can kind of see in the photo that instead of just having one colour for their napkins, they had a selection. Loved the idea. They had a range of different purples which tied in with the pretty flowers in the centre.

This couple decided to go for smaller bunches of flowers dotted around the table which was lovely, very different to some of the other weddings we've been too but we liked it!

Only one course was served at this wedding which was a bit different! The guests had a choice between braised beef with mash and kale, monkfish on a bed of creamy risotto (looked lush) and a vegetarian option which was mushroom wellington.

Their wedding cake was served as dessert which was a lovely tiered chocolate cake with loads of chocolate decoration! Looked fab.

Due to our rubbish amount of photos, we thought we'd show you the wedding cake from last weekend at Ufton Court. Very lovely looking cake for those of you who want a cottagey themed wedding!

Pretty ey?

October Wedding at Ufton Court

Yesterday we worked at a refreshing little wedding at Ufton Court, we've been out of the wedding scene for a couple of weeks due to holidaying in Cornwall! This wedding was really different with bold yellows and colbalt blues. Instead of the usual vintage theme this wedding followed a Bolivian theme because the Bride and Groom met there on their travels (how sweet!). 

As you can see from the picture above, the centre pieces were very extravagant, they were so tall and filled with beautiful yellow gerberas and gladioli. We did not hesitate in removing these from the tables before we moved them about after the ceremony, as you can imagine it would be pretty risky leaving them on! They were the perfect height as the fuss of the flowers didn't get in the way of essential mingling, they were just above head height!

As well as the centre pieces, each table had a bottle of limoncello with shot glasses for the guests to enjoy after their meal which was really lovely and different. We really liked the menu for this wedding as it allowed the guests to have a slight say in what they'd be having! There were platters of cold meats, gradvalax, vegetable salads and olives for the starter. For the main the guests could chose between a selection of Vicar's Game sausages with cabbage filled with crispy bacon and mash, monkfish on a bed of mixed beans and a vegetarian option which was roast vegetable wellington. All of these made our mouths water, delish! The desert was either spiced stone fruits or chocolate caramel torte (one of our favourites).

This was our beautifully colourful drinks reception where champagne, peroni and soft drinks were served. The whole table added a really summery feel to the day, it was lovely. 

Please excuse the not-so-great photo but we had to show you the cake, it was so creative! It was a Bolivian mountain cake, something we definitely have not seen before. It even featured the lovely couple at the top, so cute. 

'My Mummy's Yummy Cupcakes' makes yummy brownies too!

We were lucky enough to be sent three beautiful brownies from from MMYC!

Two triple chocolate and one salted caramel; although both flavours were incredible, we've never had a salted caramel brownie before and we are now converts! THE most amazing brownie we've ever tasted, and they're gluten free. What a bonus. Highly recommend MMYC, lovely company and lovely cakes.

Rebecca has been doing some baking herself today; she baked 12 raspberry coulis and white chocolate cupcakes for The Great Pink Bake Off tomorrow for Break Through BC, a truly amazing cause.

How amazing do they look? Jasmine was very tempted to nick one, but the cause is too great. Plus a belly full of brownies was definitely good enough! ;)

North Hidden Barn

This Saturday we worked at a wedding in a really cute, small barn in Hungerford. As the name suggests we couldn't find it at first thanks to our not so trusty sat nav! As soon as we got in the barn we knew it would be a lovely evening, the decor throughout worked perfectly and the whole place had a really nice feel. We also knew it would be a fun evening; a section of the barn had been turned into a photo booth with loads of props and wigs (yes, of course we tried them on). We're sure the wedding album is going to be quite amusing!

The cute little purple lantern lights you can see in the photo (left were spread throughout the barn and were a really nice change to the typical fairy lights you usually see!

The centre-pieces were a bit different at this wedding, we very much approved! Each table had a wooden bucket with different gins in the centre surrounded by a ring of beautiful flowers. Around each centre-piece were individual tonics so each guest could have a gin and tonic - great idea! The table plan was really unique, it consisted of hand drawn pictures of the gins on the tables which acted as the table numbers, it was really clever!

As you can see in this photo there were curtains all the way down the barn which gave the room a really romantic atmosphere, all in all the whole place looked so lovely.

The bride and groom rocked up in this little vintage car, such a good wedding car! One of our favourite parts of the wedding!

Now for one of the most important parts of the day - FOOD. We really liked the menu at this wedding, we hadn't seen it before, it was Spanish themed starting with tapas for canapes. The canapes looked amazing on the wooden boards and included spanish meats, calamari, ham and cheese croquettes and patatas bravas! As you can imagine they were very popular. The main course was paella which Mark and Kev cooked in huge paella dishes with lots of sea food and other very very yummy ingredients!

The evening was definitely a success and every one clearly enjoyed themselves, towards the end of the evening the bar opened and the evening guests joined the bride and groom's special day!

Templar's Barn

This Saturday we worked at such a lovely wedding, everything went so well and looked so good! There was a vintage/up-cycled theme to this wedding which is the kind of thing we love. Sometimes when a wedding follows this theme it can be a bit too girly and you end up feeling a little sorry for the groom but this couple got it spot on! The barn itself is quite small and is perfect for shabby chic weddings, as you can see in the photo.

They had pretty bunting all around the barn which is so easy to make yourself and looks really good, you can use whatever fabric you want to! Bunting is a really good way to decorate a wedding without spending loads of money; you can buy it pre-made quite cheaply, but it's cheaper to make yourself! The rafters provide a really good place to hang lights and other decorations too. This couple opted for big bulbed string lights that gave off a really nice ambience during the meal and evening entertainment.

We loooved the tables. They were set up really differently and the flowers were the best we'd seen yet! They were meadow flowers and grasses in a painted tin jug which looked really natural. Everything on the table was rustic and basic which all together looked perfect! This was the first time we'd seen the cutlery all together in a vessel rather than laid out on the table which made the tables looked much more tidy and added to the rustic feel, we loved it!

The cutlery was great for the hog roast buffet we served, the chefs made a selection of salads including a pea and feta salad which always goes down well! We're pretty certain there were a few who had thirds...(our kind of people!)

The vintage theme carried on throughout the wedding - even during reception drinks! They had what looked like a massive sweetie jar with a tap built into it filled with their chosen cocktail which we made with cloudy lemonade and vodka, it looked so good!

The couple even worked their shabby chic magic into their dessert. Rather than having a wedding cake, they asked some guests to bake and create their signature puds. There were big rustic meringues, sponges full to the brim with cream and jam and chunky rocky road slices. Our mouths were watering. 

All in all, a great wedding!

Ufton Court Wedding

On Friday we worked at a wedding at Ufton Court, most of the weddings we work at our here, we love it! What we didn't love Friday was the weather - it was absolutely chucking it down.

Luckily the drinks reception was held in the archer's hall but taking canapés up to the guests was very wet and that was Rebecca's job!

We really liked the colours at this wedding, it was all pale blues and the bridesmaids had beautiful cream lace dresses with pale blue nails, it was really unique. The grooms-men all had pale blue ties which looked really nice, we like a pale tie! It's nice to come away from tradition sometimes.

The bouquets of flowers around the barn were so pretty, some of the nicest we've ever seen. The whole theme really worked and the day went really well. Our favourite part was the cheese tower, decorated by The Pot Kiln Anywhere chefs with exotic fruit and nuts. We think cheese towers are such a fun and good idea, especially when they're decorated as well as ours!

You'll have to excuse some of our photos - Some are taken on our phones so when the weather is bad so are our photos!

Tea Party Wedding

This is a short post about a wedding we worked at last weekend. The wedding's theme was 'tea party' so the wedding breakfast was a selection of sandwiches and cakes on vintage cake stands. Instead of wine and water on the tables the couple wanted coffees and teas which looked very shabby chic!

The cake table was amazing as you can see above with old fashioned typewriters as decoration and bunting on top of some of the cakes. Belly Button Boo were the stylists for this wedding and were perfect for the event, everything was done so well and they were really friendly. Check out their website by clicking on the link, they're awesome!

Wasing Woodlands Wedding

So here's our first post, we work for a catering company called The Pot Kiln Anywhere. A few weeks ago we were asked to cater for a wedding in the woods.

When we got there we found out the wedding breakfast was being served in a yurt, which we'd never done before! It was all very bohemian with a lot of feathers and gems dotted around the tables.

A lot of ducking under doorways was involved, but luckily the couple had asked for a buffet so table service wasn't an issue. Us Pot Kiln girls are pretty short so we were left with the job of serving the tables in the tiny rooms that came off the main tent where the guests were sat on cushions!

All their food was vegetarian which is quite rare but the couple decided as they were vegetarian, everyone else could be for their big day. The chefs made big bowls and platters of lentils, sweet potato salad, salmon and pea salad with feta! You could tell every one was eager to get in the buffet queue.

This is one of the alcoves that came off of the main tent... as you can see it is a little on the cosy side but the style came before convenience with these guests and they all seemed excited to be there!

Each table decoration was carefully thought out by the bride who was wearing hippy chic - a lace wedding dress coupled with a crochet bolero with a peace sign on the back!

The theme was spread throughout the tent and woods with dream catchers, Moroccan lanterns and peace signs hanging off of various trees (which many of us caterers bumped our heads on).

Feathers, flowers and gems were scattered as table decorations with hand decorated candles and ceramic elephants.

The event finished with an open bar, a folk band who have performed at Glastonbury and a table of evening food. The Pot Kiln Anywhere served vegetarian bagels; salmon and cream cheese, humus and salad, and goats cheese. Guests drank by the camp fire until early hours of the morning then retired to their tents in the woods!