Where? To find venue info follow this link. Safe to assume it’s on the Isle of Wight though…

When? Saturday 3rd of December 2022. Full day guests arrive from 11:30 (ceremony is at 12 midday) with evening guests from 5pm.

Why? Because we’re in love and want to share our devotion to each other with the people that matter most to us.

Who? up to 200 of our very favourite people – including you, hopefully.

What? Food, fun, music, laughter and there’ll be a bit with rings.

A bit more detail….

Accommodation

It’s a right faff this island of ours and coming over for a wedding and going back in a day might be a bit much for some (most). Luckily we have got a bit of a deal with the venue that gives an offer (ferry travel included in the booking) at www.tapnellfarm.co.uk and their accommodation – just mention “winter break including ferry and farm park” to get a special offer. It’s also a short distance from the venue which is nice (but post-beer walking may be best avoided mid-winter so taxis are recommended).

There are lots of other providers too so have a shop around on the internet – our choice of getting married at low season should mean its as cheap as it can be! You’re so welcome. If you get stuck – let us know and we’ll see if we can point you in the right direction.

Travel

Many of your will be from or at least visited the Isle of Wight. But if not – a car can be brought across via either Wightlink or Red Funnel – with the Wightlink Yarmouth to Lymington crossing the closest to the wedding venue. But, at 26 miles across, it doesn’t really matter which crossing you use, the island is pretty easy to navigate. Buses are excellent on the Island; trains not so much – we’d recommend booking taxis way head of time if you’re planning on using them at all.

Covid

Right – I know we want to move on from this mess. But the one thing we’re aware of is that a December wedding could be scuppered by some nasty, monster variant. Nearer the time we’ll confirm our preferred covid approach via email to all our guests. Please also consider getting insurance for any pre-booking of travel or accommodation.

Food

So we’ve got a vegetarian dish and a vegan + gluten free one for the main wedding breakfast (daft name). But desserts are a little limited. We won’t be offended if you bring something along for particularly touchy dietary requirements. In the evening we will have pizzas (with veggie and GF options) and crisp sandwiches (yeah, that’s right, absolute game changer). We also don’t mind you bringing along snacks etc for hungry little ones or fussy eaters. Which brings us on to the topic of….

Kids

Question: What’s a wedding without kids? Answer: Probably easier. But it felt wrong to kick out the little blighters. We’ll do some bits for them to try help them keep entertained, especially where the weather might be a little ropey in December. But feel free to bring something as well – they might well get bored; they’re kids after all!

The only thing we would ask is that if you’re little ones start playing up during the ceremony itself that you exit with them out of earshot… we’ve both been to plenty of weddings where you can’t hear what’s being said because a little un’ is teething… and, trust me, you don’t want to be shot a death stare from the bride and groom… so please do what you can to allow the ceremony to carry on without a hitch. We appreciate your understanding with this.

How to dress?

It’s a winter wedding – so bear in mind the seasonality and challenges of a nip in the air (or, potentially, a downright soaking). But we’re not picky – something smartish but you should be comfortable enough to get your wiggle on when the band and/or DJ start up.

Gifting

Like most modern couples; we’ve lived (in sin) together for a long time and we don’t need for much. Truth is, this wedding has cost us a tonne of moolah and we haven’t booked a honeymoon yet – so any contribution to that would be awesome! Here’s a link to our gifting page and a paypal link you can use if you don’t want to do the old tenners-in-a-card malarkey.

Right… I think that’s it…

…but if you’ve got any questions pop us an email at danielcooke@live.co.uk