Cripps Barn Wedding Photography | Angharad & Dan

Cripps Barn Wedding Photographer

Your house burn­ing down whilst you’re away get­ting engaged isn’t the best omen when it comes to plan­ning your Cripps Barn Wedding!

Then hav­ing to use your third choice of prop­er­ty for bridal prep — grrrrrr

Rain on the morn­ing of your wed­ding, a Decem­ber wed­ding, with the short­est days of the year — ARGGHHHHH

But did it matter??

HELL NO!!!

This wed­ding was awe­some, a day packed full of love, joy, a few tears and much much friv­o­li­ty, we even had a rainbow!!

Cripps Barn is an awe­some Cotswold wed­ding venue, tucked away in the Glouces­ter­shire countryside

An 18th cen­tu­ry stone barn, ooz­ing charm and warmth, sim­ply ace!!

All of which is why I love Cripps Barn Wed­ding Photography

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But I’m actu­al­ly good
Can’t help it if we’re tilt­ed
I am actu­al­ly good
Can’t help it if we
I am actu­al­ly good
Can’t help it if we’re tilt­ed
I am actu­al­ly good
Can’t help it if we’re tilted

Tilt­ed — Chris­tine & The Queens

Documentary Cripps Barn Wedding Photography

If you want to cut straight to the chase, then here’s a video slideshow, turn up the vol­ume, sit back and enjoy

Or if you pre­fer to pour over the indi­vid­ual images then here you go!

So, Ang­harad had to find not one, not two but three dif­fer­ent places to get ready for of her wed­ding at Cripps Barn. With oth­ers being tak­en off the rental mar­ket or refur­bished it proved trick­i­er thank you might have thought! But all was well in the end with MANY brides­maids, par­ents, broth­er, a Bride (of course!), hair­dress­er, make­up artist and a few oth­er peo­ple all packed in to the cottage

Hav­ing dif­fer­ent mem­bers of the wed­ding par­ty get involved is fab and this was a par­tic­u­lar­ly musi­cal bunch.

The part­ner of one of the brides­maids was play­ing key­boards for the cer­e­mo­ny and arrival but OH NO, calami­ty, he got to the venue and realised that a vital pow­er cable had been left behind in Worces­ter, a two hour round trip

ARGHHH

I found out about this when his part­ner was track­ing his progress on her iPhone, ner­vous­ly con­fi­dent that he’s make it it time but reluc­tant to tell the bride until he was on the return leg, cable safe­ly retrieved.

(For the record, it was all fine, phew!!)

I men­tioned there were show­ers in the morn­ing, not ide­al for a win­ter wed­ding where day­light is lim­it­ed. But, the rain stopped and the sun came out, and whilst I made the short dri­ve to the venue, we had a rainbow!!!

I can’t say I remem­ber a wed­ding where the Groom was walked down the aisle, by his Mum, but I think it’s a love­ly addi­tion to the day.

More please!!

Side trip to Bibury

After the cer­e­mo­ny, Ang­harad & Dan want­ed to make the short dri­ve to Bibury. Even if you’ve nev­er heard the name you’ll prob­a­bly recog­nise it, in par­tic­u­lar Arling­ton Row. Bibury has been used in movies and TV includ­ing Brid­get Jones’s Diary. It is the quin­tes­sen­tial Eng­lish pic­ture post­card scene, so per­haps not sur­pris­ing that it’s pop­u­lar with tourists!!

They’d been warned by the venue that it can be over­run with tourists, lots of coach par­ties all keen to see this lit­tle cor­ner of the Cotswolds

Maybe because it was Decem­ber, per­haps because it was a week­day or it could have been because of the weath­er in the morn­ing, but when we got there it was remark­ably qui­et. Per­fect for the new­ly­weds to have a wan­der around this idyl­lic hamlet

Then…as we were head­ing back to the car…what should arrive in the car park……but two coach loads of Japan­ese tourists!!

I think it made their day, get­ting to see a bona fide British cou­ple in such a pret­ty place!!

And Christ­mas-tree-gate?!

Well, it was a Decem­ber wedding…and no Christ­mas tree 🙁

But for­tu­nate­ly Cripps Barn called in a favour and made sure there was a per­fect­ly dec­o­rat­ed tree there for the day!!

Here are some of the fab sup­pli­ers and ven­dors that Ang­harad & Dan used for their wedding

Dress from Wed­ding World in Shrop­shire and by Justin Alexan­der

Hair & Make up by Sarah Rus­sell Hair & Make­up Artist
Flo­rals by AQUA wed­ding flow­ers and events
Band Tritts and the Num­bers Band and booked through Alive Net­work
Cater­ing by Cripps & Co

If you’re plan­ning a Cripps Barn Wed­ding and would like to have a chat, then please get in touch!!