One of the most lovely things about looking at wedding photography on a daily basis is that it makes you incredibly happy.

Seriously, there are moments EVERYDAY where an image makes me grin from ear-to-ear, or brings tears of joy to my eyes. As soppy as that sounds, it really is true.

And that's before I've even read the lovely write up from one of our Brides...

Jill and Pete's wedding is one of THE most joyous weddings I've come across. It is brimming with positivity and it brings me great pleasure to share it with you lovely lot this Friday afternoon.

And if Jill's seriously pretty hair and the wonderful multi coloured decor aren't enough to make your heart sing...wait until you see the images of the moment her Dad serenaded the guests with an acoustic guitar. Have a lovely weekend!

Jill The Bride: We struggled to find our venue at first - we live in London, but got married at St Mary's in Honley, where I grew up and my parents live. We wanted a barn for our reception - somewhere our lovely London friends could enjoy the Yorkshire countryside - but soon discovered most Yorkshire barns have cows in! Luckily we found Woodhead Barn - a mountain rescue centre high on the Yorkshire Moors, with a small, refurbished barn. We fell in love with it, but needed more space. It was surrounded by fields so, after umming and ahhing about budget, we hired a tipi from Papakata and we're sooo glad we did.

The tipi created an amazing ambience with its open fire and picnic bench tables - it definitely had the wow factor and was completely suited to us. The combination of barn, tipi and field created our dream venue and the perfect setting for our relaxed, fun day.

I wanted a simple dress (nothing stiff, puffy or strapless) and found this tricky initially. Then I discovered Charlie Brear and knew I'd found the place for me. I'd always imagined wearing lace, but found when rating dresses in a magazine with Pete (recommended to find what he likes without giving the game away!) that he's not into it.

The dress I chose didn't look anything special on the hanger, it was so fluid and simple and felt risky as it was quite unforgiving. I wasn't 100% sure I loved it until the day, when I knew it was perfect for me and the day we'd planned.

My shoes were my first wedding purchase! Vivienne Westwood Lady Dragons - they were so fun and it turned out the plastic was perfect for muddy fields as they wiped clean! I wore the Scarlett necklace from RMB - I was a RMW addict leading up to the wedding and when I saw the necklace I knew it would be perfect with the low back of my dress. I'm a musician and often wear long gowns for concerts so have worn it a few times since already! My Mum bought my earrings from my favourite jewellers Dower & Hall, they complemented the mint of the necklace and glowed iridescently. Pete gave me a little ballet wrap cardigan from Jigsaw as a wedding present, which kept me snug when the night drew in.

Our theme (if you can call it that) was things we love - music, birds and the sea all featured heavily. Pete spent hours making 800 origami birds, which we strung on fishing wire in the barn. We scattered tealights inside and out, and had tiny medicine bottles filled with flowers everywhere. My Mum sewed metres of bunting and we hung paper lanterns with LEDs in the tipi and barn.

We collected different coloured wineglasses for every setting so the tipi was full of colour and used biodegradable palm leaf plates by The Whole Leaf Company instead of traditional crockery. We brought décor from home - old crates and books, metal cabinets, vintage chests - and glued buttons onto 3D letters spelling LOVE, which we displayed with the cake. We also displayed old family wedding photos - we come from an inspiring line of long, happy marriages!

I love natural flowers so did them myself, with the help of my Mum and her fantastic garden. We were lucky that the awful spring weather meant my favourites - bluebells - were out for our late May wedding. We gathered cow parsley from the roadside, random flowers from the garden, and ordered astilbe, delphiniums and sweet peas from Triangle Nursery.

We also went to Covent Garden Flower Market to buy peonies at 3am the night before we drove to Yorkshire - definitely worth the effort, as they were beautiful on the day!

My bouquet was made by our amazing photographer Tarah Coonan, with daisies from my Mum's wedding dress wrapped around the stems. Tarah was absolutely brilliant, we knew as soon as we met her she'd be perfect. She got so many beautiful, natural snaps throughout the day, and sneaked us off for a couple of portrait sessions too. Some of my favourite photos are the ones she took during the ceremony - we didn't notice she was there but she perfectly captured the love and intimacy between us. She was definitely one of our best choices (after each other!).

The ceremony was our favourite part of the day - standing in front of the people we love most and saying our vows was incredible. My old vicar came up from Bude to do the address, and our talented friends provided the music. We had lots of Bach and our friend's a cappella group The Lovenotes sang 'Happy Together' as we signed the register.

Faith taught everyone The Beatles' 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' before the ceremony, and our guests sang us out - it was amazing walking up the aisle as husband and wife, surrounded by our friends belting out the song at the tops of their voices!

The Lovenotes sang for us throughout the day and my Dad sang Bob Dylan's 'Tambourine Man' between the main course and dessert - he was absolutely brilliant and I cried A LOT, standing in the arms of my new husband watching my other favourite man in the world.

In the evening we had a ceilidh with Mason's Apron, who were fab and joined us later in the tipi, playing an acoustic set whilst we stood around the fire toasting marshmallows - just the kind of evening that we love.

We made our own invitations and order of services, cutting out hundreds of tiny paper flags to make the bunting. My Grandad was an artist, and it meant a lot that we could use his painting of St Mary's church in our stationery.

We loved our day because it was true to us. We saw it as an opportunity for our guests to really get to know us as a couple, so we only included things we love and/or wanted in our home anyway! Our guestbook was a surfboard which is now on our wall (I love surfing), our tables were named after birds with musical names (tying together my love for music and Pete's love of birds) and we didn't have a first dance because, well, we didn't want one..

We were surrounded by the most fantastic team - our suppliers, who all went above and beyond, and our wonderful family and friends. This was very useful when our tipi blew apart the day before the wedding in 60mph winds, sleet and hail. Amazingly we had blue skies and sunshine on the day, so Papakata came first thing in the morning to secure the tent, then we went in shifts to decorate it and lay tables etc.

Our wedding was the best start to married life we could ask for and the beginning of a lifetime of adventures together. Keeping calm amidst the chaos was easy as I knew that just a few hours later I would be married to the most incredible person I've ever met - and that is without a doubt the most amazing feeling in the world.

Photography by Tarah Coonan
Dress Charlie Brear | Jewellery Dower & Hall | Shoes Vivienne Westwood | Bridesmaids Marks and Spencer | Venue Woodhead Barn| Tipi Hire PapaKata | Entertainment The Lovenotes | Groom Reiss | Catering Saunts