DIY Barn Wedding // Selborne

We’re going sweet, simple and oh so stylish today with Joanna + Lucas’ wedding at the Gilbert White Barn, in Hampshire. They envisioned a relaxed and boho feel to their day and it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun. I have never seen as much love and emotion in a room before. Passion, laughter, happy tears and lots and lots of dancing. Joanna + Lucas’ friends and family really welcomed me and let me capture the day excatly as it unfolded. It was colourful, there was so much energy and happiness everywhere you looked. The barn was a visual feast of lovliness. Green hops hanging from the brown barn beams was the perfect contrast and really enhanced what was already a beautiful rustic space. Joanna designed all the stationairy herself and it tied in perfectly with the setting. Outside, the barn is surrounded by beautiful green rolling fields as far as the eye could see. The Gilbert White Barn is the perfect space for a Boho inspired, DIY wedding.

How did you spend / allocate your budget?  Decided on the things we wanted the most and were the most important to both of us and spent the most of the money on that. We also tried to do a lot ourselves to keep cost down.

What did you eat? In the day, we had delicious canapés as the guests arrived including little tarts, toasts and arancini. Then we had a huge hog roast with rolls, stuffing and apple sauce lots of lovely salads on the tables. For pudding we had lots of homemade cakes made by a local baker.
Wedding cake? My mum once again used another of her amazing talents here! – I sent her pictures of cakes I had seen on Pinterest and she did the rest! A delicious tower of three rich fruit cakes covered in marzipan and white icing with sage and gypsophila around each layer… And of course of little foxy Jo and Lucas sitting on the top! (I also bought these on etsy).
Entertainment? We had an amazing folk band, ‘Reavers Rant’ in the early evening which we had seen one time when we stumbled into a pub in Wickham. I just adore folk music and think it is the absolute best thing to dance to and you can’t help but feel happy when you hear it played live. For later in the evening we had our wonderfully talented friend Alex Yates who is my beautiful friend, Melly’s husband. Alex is one of the Sound as Funk collective, known for his awesome skills on the turntables and diversity in music selection. He takes influence from old school hip hop, funk, soul and disco and will play generally anything that gets people moving.

Words of wisdom? Don’t stress, go with the flow and you will have the most wonderful day whatever!