Being a Bridesmaid at my cousins wedding

On the 21st September, my cousin got married and what a wonderful and amazing day it was. The wedding took place at Stoke Place Hotel (Buckinghamshire), such a gorgeous and stunning venue to have your wedding. Anyone looking for a venue for your wedding, I would highly recommend this as a contender and considering to view the venue itself.

Prior to having heard some family members say that the venue looked like a barn yard where the reception would take place and for that money not worth it. I would highly disagree and think it’s a wonderful venue to have your wedding. The whole venue and place itself is huge and so many places to wonder off to like the spacious outdoor area or the different separate bars and many more.

A photos of a bit of the drive way and view from the front of venue:

Photo of the inside back garden/ outside of  the venue:

After the wedding ceremony, we all arrived at the stunning venue and when we arrived we were directed to a hall way room entrance full of champagne and then headed outside to mingle. Shortly after the photographer took the bride, bridesmaids including me, the groom and groomsmen to snap some photos, which did take a rather long time. After that it was all the brides and grooms family to take photos. 

Bride, Groom, Bridesmaids and Groomsmen:

Bridesmaids and Bride: 

Lucky when we got back they had some little snacks like canapés served for you to help yourself. By this point I think everyone was getting hungry and waiting to get into the reception. So having some snacks, whilst we waited was ideal.

Finally everyone inside for the food and speeches and seeing the actual hall where it all took place looked amazing and very nicely decorated. We had a mixture of Polish and Nigerian dishes in the form of a buffet style. I found this to be a great idea as always you will find someone at such an event still hungry and if so they could go help themselves to a second serving of the food and given the choice with the variety of food, no one could possibly go hungry and not find something that they don’t like.

Inside the reception and where the evening took place for dances too:

After the food, it was time for the speeches from the groom himself and best man. I must say I did find the best man trying to get some attention on himself despite it not being his big day and that did sort of ruin the speech itself in my opinion.

So speeches done and everyone was asked to leave and wait outside in the other room or outside whilst they moved some of the tables around and placed a dance floor. I could tell some people just wanted to be inside already and when finally in the music was playing and everyone taking their seats. It was time for the brides and grooms dance.

Brides and grooms first dance: 

Towards the end of the brides and grooms dance and towards the end everyone just joins in and the celebration continue until the cutting of the cake which is done in the other room where the champagne was which now had cakes and everyone could help hem selves to.

The bride and groom then cut the cake and after the celebrates continued with great music and lots of fun and they even had some food in the evening which of course was help yourself to and few drinks on the table like Vodka. That was a nice gesture to do for everyone and have few bottles of alcohol on the table.

I can officially say this has been one of the best wedding I have been too. Great music, nice food in a stunning venue. I even managed to meet some new faces and get tipsy towards the end of the night. I would love to attend this event agin if I could.