Thank you to newlyweds Rachel and Dan, and their superb photographer James Hedley, for permission to use these photographs.
The wedding ceremony was held at Pangdean Barn, 5 miles north of Brighton, on a glorious spring day.
Wishing you both every possible happiness.
Vow renewal ceremonies aren’t common, but they do take place – in living rooms and country houses, on special anniversaries or any day of the week, in public, in private. I suspect many couples would like one themselves yet harbour reservations they can’t quite qualify.
Why? Feel it’s too grand a statement? That your continuing love and commitment can be taken as read?
To reminisce, publicly, on a year or a half-century spent loving someone, and to say that you have loved and still do love them – could this not be a natural step for us all? The point at which, having come safely home, we depart together again?
[Thank you to David and Valerie for allowing me to lead their renewal of vows ceremony at Wiston House on their 40th anniversary, and for inspiring this post.]
Here’s to not letting bad weather get in the way, as demonstrated by each of my undaunted outdoor wedding couples this summer.
Guests must bring umbrellas and you can hand out ponchos a la the festivals. The ceremony can be planned around the potential for falling rain with any of the following fall-backs: a quick dash under the nearest shelter, whizzing through to the important parts of the ceremony, or ending up inside and not caring one bit because when all’s said and done – it’s your wedding day, and nothing can spoil that.
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