Silver Pear Weddings

Silver Pear Weddings Welcome to Silver Pear Weddings at Friars Court. As a privately-owned property, Friars Court can offer prospective couples an enviable degree of privacy.

Friars Court is a mid-17th Century Cotswold stone manor house, in secluded landscaped grounds within 600 acres of beautiful Oxfordshire countryside, which has been home to the Willmer family since 1917. Silver Pear Weddings at Friars Court specialises exclusively in hosting ceremonies and small wedding breakfast receptions. We don’t restrict ceremony-only couples to certain days, times or location

s nor do we constrain reception couples with set packages. Each and every wedding, irrespective of size, is equally important and equally worthy of dedicated care and attention.

Ends and Beginnings...After more than 20 years (~how~ long?!) and 500+ weddings, it is - for me - time to explore a fres...
21/05/2024

Ends and Beginnings...

After more than 20 years (~how~ long?!) and 500+ weddings, it is - for me - time to explore a fresh new challenge!

Hosting ceremonies for wedding couples in search of something special and unique will continue to be a part of the diverse and busy world of the Friars Court estate - definitely search them out if you're not following already.

For me, personally, it's a total change of both scene and direction: swapping the Cotswolds for the (equally picturesque) Tanat Valley (a gateway to Snowdonia); swapping Friars Court for a minute cottage, converted stables and semi-derelict barn, and swapping weddings for (eventually) self-catering holiday accommodation.

These pages will stay as a record of all those special celebrations we've hosted; I suppose it's a library resource, too. If you're interested/ nosey/ curious enough to see what I'll be doing (which, of course, you will be because, frankly, who doesn't enjoy following a house renovation?) then please do head to your preferred platform (we're on both Facebook and Instagram) and search out Green Fach as we've finally made our debut post!

It has been a privilege to have played a small part in the lives of so many wedding couples.




Perhaps the unscheduled downpour an hour beforehand helped, but the clouds cleared and the sun came out just as today's ...
22/09/2023

Perhaps the unscheduled downpour an hour beforehand helped, but the clouds cleared and the sun came out just as today's bride was poised to start her entrance walk... the weather stayed with us just long enough to complete the ceremony and group photos...

Control over the weather is a little bit beyond our capabilities, but we'll do our best to help achieve an outdoor ceremony if we can - hence today's switch to dryer gravel over wet grass which paid off beautifully...

And there ends our 2023 ...



Later today, we'll be setting up and hosting the final ceremony of our 2023 season with, shall we say, a somewhat 'mixed...
22/09/2023

Later today, we'll be setting up and hosting the final ceremony of our 2023 season with, shall we say, a somewhat 'mixed' weather forecast. Yesterday's walk-through encompassed a change of outdoor location and 5 possible routes for the bride to make her entrance, so I think we covered every eventuality!

No such issue with this wedding earlier in September - our biggest concern wasn't rain but ensuring everyone would be shaded and cool - what we got was close to perfection.

Flowers by photographs by with flute and harp music from Silver String Duo (a previous bride). The glamorous Rolls (via AD Vintage Car Hire) whisked the couple off to dinner



17/05/2023

Welcome to the Moat Ponds - now with added (un-named) pergola! This is one of our freshly-ratified ceremony locations which we're hoping will host its first ceremony at the end of May - assuming it isn't raining and the plant life hasn't grown into a 6' jungle blocking the view.

Space for seating on the bank opposite the pergola isn't huge, so it's a location better-suited to the smaller guest list... and, of course, those romantic post-ceremony "couple" photos 📸



Watching the from the comfort of our armchairs, accompanied by cinnamon buns from ... and quietly wondering just _how...
06/05/2023

Watching the from the comfort of our armchairs, accompanied by cinnamon buns from ... and quietly wondering just _how many_ rehearsals...


Wedding flowers and a new phone. And a dilemma. It's only taken 6, maybe, 7 years to upgrade my phone so, obviously, tha...
15/04/2023

Wedding flowers and a new phone.

And a dilemma.

It's only taken 6, maybe, 7 years to upgrade my phone so, obviously, that means playing with the camera to see what it can do...

Whether it's the new phone or a propitious planetary alignment, I finally achieved linking the Silver Pear Instagram and pages - there have been countless frustrating and frustrated attempts bringing the two together (one was created long before the other).

And here's the dilemma...

Streamlined, small-scale Silver Pear is, mostly, going to be focused on civil ceremonies now but *how* many photos of empty chairs grouped in the same locations would anyone really, ~really~ want to see?

That's, kind-of, a rhetorical question by the way...

Plan had been to mothball this page and migrate wedding content to expand the Friars Court page... but now I can (finally) cross-platform should I keep this page going...?

Answers on postcards, please...


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It's always worth listening to wedding couples: "fresh eyes seeing things differently" and all that... With the rules on...
08/02/2023

It's always worth listening to wedding couples: "fresh eyes seeing things differently" and all that...

With the rules on where a civil ceremony may take place now (thankfully) relaxed, couples can now choose their own location... well, up to a point - each location still has to be ratified by the registrars. So, as several of this year's couples have chosen brand new locations, that's exactly what I am doing. Some are obvious, some a little less and some don't look their best at this time of year. It's all about helping a couple realise their 'vision'.

By the end of it, we'll have a grand total of nine outdoor locations!



24/12/2022

With apologies for the abrupt ending with a blink-and-you-miss-it caption: videos only allowed to be a minute long!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Friars Court

🎄🎉🎁🍾🥂🎁🎉🎄

Wedding-related and a lot of fun... bringing together some remarkably talented (very) local suppliers for a vibrant and ...
31/10/2022

Wedding-related and a lot of fun... bringing together some remarkably talented (very) local suppliers for a vibrant and colourful Hallowe'en-themed photoshoot. Just about everyone involved has a base at Friars Court or has worked at Friars Court wedding or is getting married at Friars Court!

Wedding dresses by Susie Grist Couture
Floral work by Margarita of Allaboutflowers Florist
Face & body painting by Erica of
Twig Chandelier by Yours Truly

Linens provided by Sadlers

With a credits to Silvi (Studio Schaumloeffel) and Merlin and Svetlana who braved the chill and posted patiently like consummate professionals.




The weather's a lottery really, all one can do is hope and plan for the worst. It's always one of the main causes of anx...
18/05/2022

The weather's a lottery really, all one can do is hope and plan for the worst. It's always one of the main causes of anxiety for a wedding - especially if an outdoor wedding is The Big Thing - but the same applies to other events too.

The day before this Ruby Wedding Anniversary reception was gloriously sunny: "I do hope our guests get to enjoy your lovely grounds tomorrow ..." Well, Dear Reader, they managed a few photos at the front of the house in a short break in the rain. But... the weather might have rendered exploring the grounds a washout (though the garden will have really appreciated the rain) but, judging by the gales of chatter and laughter, all the guests had wonderful food and a wonderful time reminiscing. As I often remind couples - any event is really about the people.


When a self-professed 'minimalist' bride somewhat surprises herself (and you) by suddenly coming over all vibrant pink a...
15/05/2022

When a self-professed 'minimalist' bride somewhat surprises herself (and you) by suddenly coming over all vibrant pink and you, as her just-booked stylist, encourage her to release and indulge her inner 'maximalist...

Thought was that if very early May proved to be dank and grey we'd have glorious vibrant colour inside. As it turned out, we had glorious sunshine _and_ glorious colour right through to the wedding cake and a guaranteed outside ceremony.

The 'big reveal' when a bride and groom first see the final decor is always a bit of an anxious moment (especially so when the groom pulls a 'not sure' face at the mere mention of Shocking Pink) but handled well (he said, modestly) colour is nothing to be scared of and a wedding should be about self-expression...

So a wonderful way to start our season 💐


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