Today’s wedding features the most stunning bride in a sparkly dress, as Trang marries her love Kurtis. The couple’s love bursts from the screen in the sweetest glances and moments.  Trang and Kurtis filled Cripps Barn with the most incredible florals by The Wilde Bunch, and the day is captured in breathtaking images by English Wedding member Barb Asboth Photography.

Wedding photographer’s website

Banbury & Cotswolds wedding photographer Barb Asboth
It was really special when we got the photos & were able to relive everything, including things guests were doing while we were preoccupied. All the big moments were captured brilliantly and will be a lovely representation of what our wedding was for decades to come.

Your best wedding moment or memory

The first moment I saw Trang in her dress & looking into her eyes during our first dance. – Kurtis

Venue name + review

Cripps Barn was the first venue we visited and as soon as I saw the interior I fell in love with it! I knew before that I wanted a venue with period features, and the barn’s indoor ceremony room was amazing with a fireplace and a big hanging greenery wheel. Kurtis was also very happy with the venue and mentioned to me that he noticed I had these excited sparks in my eyes when we were looking around the venue, so it was a very quick decision for us.

Styling touches and inspiration

The colour palette was inspired by a scene in Spirited Away (Studio Ghibli), where the main characters go through a narrow flower alley. I love pink and wanted to go for a soft romantic look. I showed this image to my florist as inspiration, had a discussion with her about what flowers would be available and we decided on using multiple types of flowers in shades of pink and lilac: rose, delphinium, clematis and lisianthus. For my bridal bouquet, I asked for lilies of the valley because of what they symbolise, I had always dreamed of having them as my wedding flowers.

The decorations were also provided by my florist; we added a lot of small touches like hanging tea lights on the ceremony room flower ring, mirror welcome sign, tapered candles on dinner tables for a cosy and classy look.

Tell us a little about your outfits – both of you!

Trang – My wedding dress is Aretta from Eva Lendel. During the earlier phase of wedding planning, I spent a lot of time on Pinterest and I just saw this dress pop up on my feed one day. I could not forget about it and luckily Ellie Sanderson Bridal had it in stock. This was the first wedding dress I ever tried on and no other dress made me feel as special as it did. I was looking for a design that would age well when I look back in decades’ time; and this dress is exactly it! Classic silhouette, quite a statement piece with sparkly fully beaded body but not too ‘loud’.

To compliment the look, I wore a cathedral length blusher veil, dainty pearl tiara and pearl embellished wedding shoes. All had very simple designs, to not take the attention away from the dress

Kurtis – I wore a light-brown/grey tweed 3-piece suit from Moss Bros, using the waistcoat to differentiate from the groomsmen. I wanted to fit in with the aesthetic of the venue & avoid the risk of something like a morning suit making me look like a toddler dressed in his dad’s clothes. I have quite a short and wide body, so some things that look good on most men look silly on me. I also wanted it to look relatively muted because – honestly – the dress is more important.

Cake maker name + review

The Village Cakery
We only wanted a small two tier cake because we do not have a lot of guests. I found this hidden gem of a local bakery via Instagram and saw a design that I really like (sprinkled edible pearls that look quite similar to my wedding attire). The cake tasted amazing and we even asked the venue to save a big chunk of the cake for us!

Musical entertainment

We both love Ghibli movies (as can be seen from decoration choices), so we wanted to have Ghibli music for our special day. It was very difficult to find local wedding musicians that play these, but we were very lucky to have found the Aderyn String Quartet. Their example performance was amazing, one of the members even had Ghibli music for his wedding as well, so we knew we got the right team. Their performance brought me to tears when I was walking down the aisle because it was everything I had imagined it would be.