Today on Marry Me Ink, I get to share with you another gorgeous wedding from Memories and Milestones Photography – Sasha and Josh were married at Bickley Mill Inn and even had alpaca visitors on the day!
We both attended the same secondary school where Josh was the year below me. If I remember rightly I think I might have added Josh on a social media website after seeing him around school. We spoke on there for a while before actually plucking up the courage to speak in person. We bumped into each other a couple of times whilst out with our friends of an evening and after that started meeting up on our own quite frequently and eventually started “going out”. We were 15/16 years old at the time. We were together for roughly 5 months and then I left year 11 to start my college course and decided it would no longer work and we went our separate ways. Obviously not for long as we got back together 6 years later and are now happily married living as a new little family of 3 (I have a daughter, Sienna, from a previous relationship, Josh is the most amazing step parent).
Josh was very much a silent partner when it came to planning the wedding. I would ask his opinion on things and would always get a “I don’t mind babe” or “yeah whatever you think” so in the end I stopped asking and just did it my way, which to be honest was probably the best thing to do anyway.
However, we both knew that we wanted to keep the whole day as chilled and as laid back as possible. We knew that we were not a traditional couple so there was no point trying to fake it with a traditional wedding. We weren’t bothered about timings, who sat where, whether the tables were set up properly, we just let it be. We didn’t really have a theme but we wanted to include lots of woodland/rustic elements to the day. We didn’t want classy. And as for the alpacas, that was simply me just being an animal lover (I work with animals as a career) and not being able to help myself.
We didn’t really under go any massive DIY projects however we bought a lot of stuff second hand and then personalised them to make them our own. For example, we had log table numbers placed on a log slice, we sprayed them gold. We made little children packs out of metal chip buckets, we added wooden hearts to the flower girl baskets and we made luggage tag labels for the bridesmaids hangers.
The wedding day was such a blur. There was so much excitement and nerves mixed into one, it was very overwhelming. I would definitely say the highlight of our wedding day. From the guests’ point of view was the alpacas that I had secretly hired, they went down a treat. For us, we can’t pick a highlight, the whole day was just amazing. Having all our loved ones in one room watching us become husband and wife was just unreal. Josh cried A LOT so this was certainly one of my favourite parts (Shhh!)
How beautiful is Sasha and Josh’s wedding?! I must agree with their guests – The alpacas are amazing! Thank you to them both and to Memories and Milestones Photography for sharing with Marry Me Ink today.
