{"id":207001,"date":"2016-10-03T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/uk\/real-weddings\/tea-for-two-emma-and-jons-vintage-wedding-and-classic-afternoon-tea\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T00:00:34","slug":"tea-for-two-emma-and-jons-vintage-wedding-and-classic-afternoon-tea","status":"publish","type":"uk-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/uk\/real-weddings\/tea-for-two-emma-and-jons-vintage-wedding-and-classic-afternoon-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea for two: Emma and Jon’s vintage wedding and classic afternoon tea"},"content":{"rendered":"

After many adventures together, planning of their vintage wedding was another perfect opportunity for Emma Speed and Jon Heywood to work together on a project close to their hearts.<\/p>\n

“A few months after we got engaged Jon and I went to volunteer in Cambodia, where we taught English in a\u00a0small rural school for three months,” Emma, 27, says.<\/p>\n

“It was a great experience for many reasons, and in terms of our\u00a0relationship, really brought us together…\u00a0\u00a0I came back to England feeling even happier that this amazing person\u00a0would soon be my husband.”<\/p>\n

So with a happy history of working well together, the Norwich pair took on the planning<\/a> of their big day.<\/p>\n

“I baked our wedding cake<\/a>, we decorated the venue<\/a> ourselves\u00a0with the help of our best friends, and we made the menus, place cards and orders of service ourselves,” Emma says.<\/p>\n

“The\u00a0week before our wedding, our living room looked like a card<\/a> factory! Again we were in a very stressful\u00a0situation, but working together it became (mostly!) enjoyable.”<\/p>\n

Emma and Jon, 26, wed at St Andrew’s Church Girton, Cambridgeshire on July 9, 2016 in front of 50 guests.<\/p>\n

Sixty family and friends took part in the evening celebrations, including a classic afternoon tea served in vintage china<\/a>, held at \u00a0The Secret Garden Marquee,\u00a0Barton.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t mind about things being perfect, we just wanted our wedding to focus on the important things;\u00a0love, family and friends,” Emma says.<\/p>\n

Photos courtesy of John Turner Photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Emma chose a beautiful lace gown, accessories and shoes from Norwich’s La Belle Angele<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Emma and Jon met at university, but didn’t become a couple until about six years later. Jon proposed in 2015 at a park in Brussles, where Jon had lived as a child, and which had special significance for his late father.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“We\u00a0decided upon leaving charity\u00a0donation boxes at our reception, so if\u00a0people did want to kindly spend\u00a0money on our behalf, it would be going\u00a0somewhere more useful than to us.” Emma says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The permanent marquee, part of the Burwash\u00a0Manor Barns complex was the perfect reception venue<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“I think having a female best man, a bridal (unrehearsed!) speech, a wonderful busker for\u00a0music<\/a>, and non-uniformed bridesmaids made the day feel very natural. We had an afternoon tea, garden\u00a0games, and showed a film on a projector in the evening for people who didn’t feel like dancing – we just\u00a0wanted everyone to be relaxed and to have a fun day,” Emma says of their unique vintage wedding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":207036,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"uk_real_wedding_category":[9085],"uk_real_wedding_tag":[9838,9840,9307,9374,9841,9454],"uk_real_wedding_style":[10480],"uk_real_wedding_location":[10508,10505],"uk_real_wedding_setting":[10484],"uk_real_wedding_colour":[10649,10666],"uk_real_wedding_competition":[],"class_list":["post-207001","uk-real-wedding","type-uk-real-wedding","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","uk_real_wedding_category-9085","uk_real_wedding_tag-john-turner-photography","uk_real_wedding_tag-lavender-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-marquee-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-real-weddings","uk_real_wedding_tag-slate-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-vintage-wedding-2","uk_real_wedding_style-vintage","uk_real_wedding_location-cambridgeshire","uk_real_wedding_location-east-of-england","uk_real_wedding_setting-garden-chapel","uk_real_wedding_colour-lavender-wedding","uk_real_wedding_colour-slate-wedding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding\/207001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uk-real-wedding"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding\/207001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_category?post=207001"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_tag?post=207001"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_style?post=207001"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_location?post=207001"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_setting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_setting?post=207001"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_colour","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_colour?post=207001"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_competition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_competition?post=207001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}