This afternoon I have another WWW reader wedding, you guys are the best... it's official :-)

WWW readers Tom and Emma married on the 28 ^th September 2013 at Flanesford Priory, Herefordshire. With a vision of a countryside rustic celebration they home made almost everything themselves.

They had pretty paper details, luggage tag labels, hessian, logs of wood and decorated jam jars filled with flowers. I love the gorgeous bouquets and the bridesmaids in pink. Emma looked stunning in a classic dress with birdcage veil while Tom went for a dapper grey suit. Beautiful.

Thanks so much to the wonderful Marta May Photography for sharing her imagery.

The Proposal... The proposal was perfect, although not so perfect for Tom who had the ring for 3 months! He tried so hard to create the dream proposal; romantic walks and picnics in the forest; at the beach in Rhodes; carving 'Will you Marry Me' into a pumpkin. None of the proposals quite went to plan; either I ditched the romantic walk in favour of a shopping trip, or the pumpkin fell apart...either way I had no idea what was going on! Eventually Tom decided to boycott the traditional proposal and do something more understated and private. He drove us to our favourite spot along the River Wye a couple of miles from our home. It's really beautiful but seems to be relatively unknown so he knew there would be no one around. He completely surprised me when he took the ring out of his pocket and to this day we're not sure if I ever actually agreed to marry him!

I thought I wanted something untraditional but when I tried this dress on we all really loved it. I had it customised with a waistband to add a bit of sparkle to our otherwise un-sparkly day! My very talented friend Kate Brown is a trained milliner and designed and created a beautiful headpiece for me and my bridesmaids, all with a new born baby to look after!

My jewellery was all very special. The bracelet was given to me by my Grandma B, she'd had it specially made for me using crystals from her mother's necklace. My other Grandma had given me the pearl necklace the day I was born, but my mum didn't tell me about it until a few weeks before the wedding. Even my wedding ring came from Tom's late Great, Great Grandma who got married with it some 50 years earlier.

My birthday was at the end of August and Tom bought me some pink Converse to wear in the evening (because he knew my shoes wouldn't last through the night!), he then surprised me on the wedding morning with a bottle of Channel perfume, so I had a practical and romantic gift!

My best friend (and bridesmaid) Sam Glover did a beautiful reading during the ceremony; 'A lovely love story' by Edward Monkton, the author of Purple Ronnie. It's about a couple of dinosaurs so the younger ones loved it and the adults all had a giggle. She did such a great job!

The flowers for the jars were also supplied by Like's but our close family friend, Tracey, and my sister Nicky arranged them for the tables - they all looked so professional!

Part of our bargain hunting involved spotting things in shop windows and asking if we could hire it. Field Fayre, an organic fruit and veg shop in Ross, had two enormous milk churns and they let us borrow them for free! Like's filled them with tall flowers and they made the entrance to the marquee look fab!

We wanted something sweet so we asked some of our friends and family to bring cakes with them. My mum and sister made an amazing two-tiered fruit cake, decorated with pink flowers; and our friend Sarah made the most amazing red velvet heart shaped cake and cupcakes...unfortunately they disappeared so quickly I didn't get to try them!

We also had a Photo Booth in the evening from Enter Leisure (owned by Tom's Best Man's dad!) so we have hundreds of hilarious photos from that.

The meal itself was very relaxed, in fact, we made our guests do the hard work! We secretly selected 8 guests to be the 'Head Chef' and they were dressed in chef's whites and given pork and crackling joints to carve and serve-up. It was a great way to break the ice for those people that didn't know each other too well.

We had lots of other weird and wonderful little details, but there were two things that kept appearing in peoples Facebook posts after the wedding; some teeny little wooden hearts with Mr and Mrs Waller carved into them, and a sign that Tom made to go next to our bacon baps in the evening saying 'Roses are Red, Bacon is Red, Poems are Hard, Bacon.'...it goes to show it's not the expensive things that people take notice of!

The whole day was so enjoyable, but the night was so much fun! We had about 140 guests and there was a real party atmosphere. The dance floor was full into the early hours of the morning and the photo booth was a huge hit!! Even the pretty chair sashes we handmade were whipped off and used as headbands!

We did lots of touristy things in New York, visiting Central Park, going to a Show, walking along the High Line and taking a trip out to Statten Island. In San Francisco we travelled out to the wine country and drove along Highway One, with the most incredible views of the coast. Despite it being October we were lucky enough to have 30 degree heat every day, so our bike ride across the Golden Gate Bridge was a real highlight! We then relaxed in the tranquillity of the Japanese Tea Gardens in Hyde Park.

We ended the night on a high... with me being lifted up on the dance floor to the Dirty Dancing music, that's something everyone keeps talking about!

The main highlight though was just having so many of our friends and family there celebrating with us, we are so lucky to have such brilliant people around us.

Venue | Flanesford Priory

Photography | Marta May Photography

Cider | Ross Cider

Flowers | Likes Florist

DJ | Peter Stead

Entertainment | Enter Leisure

Suits | Mervyn James

Dress | Bride at Home

Cheese | Mouse Trap Cheese

Marquee | County Marquees

How gorgeous, and all of those details looked so amazing.

Thanks so much to Tom and Emma for sharing their wedding with us here at WWW XOXO Lou