A wedding, a carnival and a cast of thousands! part two

In part two of Adam and Angela’s Chester wed­ding blog we meet the car­ni­val crowds — and stars of the day! — as our brave bride and groom tra­verse the ancient city streets in their horse-drawn carriage.

As if that weren’t enough adven­ture for one wed­ding day, the cou­ple also arranged for a tour bus to take them through Chester with their wed­ding guests to enjoy the parades!

Enjoy the rest of Angela’s wed­ding report along with images by Cheshire’s CG Wed­dings!

Chester car­ni­val wed­ding day

“Our wed­ding, unusu­ally, had the added com­pli­ca­tion of a horse drawn car­riage and her­itage tour bus need­ing to tra­verse Chester city cen­tre when most of the roads that day had been closed for the ‘Ches­ti­val’ parades.

In the end the hotel staff at the Grosvenor worked extremely hard liais­ing with the police and the coun­cil to ensure our car­riage and tour bus had the spe­cial per­mis­sions needed.

After a mag­i­cal cer­e­mony in St John’s church we had the added bonus of being returned to the Chester Grosvenor in our horse drawn car­riage with lit­er­ally thou­sands of peo­ple throng­ing the streets in antic­i­pa­tion of the parades, who were also wish­ing us well.

We felt like celebri­ties and the atmos­phere in the streets that day was noth­ing short of amazing.

For the her­itage bus tour we were also extra­or­di­nar­ily lucky in that the parade went by just as we boarded the bus, mak­ing for a really mag­i­cal expe­ri­ence for our­selves and our guests.

As our expe­ri­ence quite dra­mat­i­cally shows, don’t over­look city cen­tre loca­tions as a wed­ding venue in favour of the more tra­di­tional coun­try house set­tings. The atmos­phere we had on our wed­ding day owing to the parade is some­thing a more iso­lated coun­try­side venue would never have been able to repli­cate. Also, as long as you’ve booked a qual­ity wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher who knows how to be cre­ative and manip­u­late light and colour, there is no rea­son why your pho­tographs shouldn’t be equally as dra­matic as those taken in a more rural backdrop.

The wed­ding break­fast in the Chester Grosvenor later that day was com­ple­mented by some really great food and even bet­ter speeches! It is now five months on from the big day and I still can’t help feel­ing over­whelmed about how it mas­sively exceeded our expectations.

Once again for any Chester or north west brides and grooms… here are those all important:

Rec­om­mended wed­ding suppliers

The Chester Grosvenor was com­pletely fault­less in man­ag­ing our big day from work­ing tire­lessly to ensur­ing our car­riage and tour bus could access the closed roads, to serv­ing us exquis­ite food for the wed­ding breakfast.

We of course can’t rec­om­mend Liam Craw­ley — CG Wed­dings — enough as a pho­tog­ra­pher. As men­tioned his manip­u­la­tion of light and colour dur­ing the day pro­duced some shots as beau­ti­ful and dra­matic as any of those fea­si­ble in a coun­try house type set­ting. CG Wed­dings blog is at http://cgweddings.co.uk/blog

Vic­to­ria, our florist from Lily Rose events based in Chea­dle Hulme, Stock­port. The apri­cot and ivory cen­tre piece arrange­ments for the wed­ding break­fast were stunning.

Gabrielle Fisher from King­fisher Cakes in Brom­bor­ough sup­plied us with a spec­tac­u­lar and very indi­vid­ual ‘Top Table’ style cake which proved one of the major talk­ing points of the whole day!