Ceremonies With Lynsey

25/01/2025

So lovely to have a January wedding to brighten a dull month - and to get me back to it! Johnny and Charlotte crammed their gang into the cider barn at Hamptonne Country Life Museum, Jersey for a cosy ceremony with candles and lots of laughter - especially when the bestman was pranked with a missing ring 🤣🩷

Jersey Heritage .morethanflowers Wonderlands

24/12/2024

This Christmas is a bit of a different one for me as I’m travelling around India with my sister.

We’ve learnt about weddings along the way and visited Jaipur’s bustling wedding sari street.

Weddings are huge events and expensive business here too. The average medium size wedding costs 10,0000 rupees (just under £9,500).

Wedding guests’ cars are decorated with flowers and the partying goes on for a long time over many days.

Pre wedding shoots are common and we’ve seen them being done in historical sites and on rooftops and busy roads!

Brides traditionally wear red; symbolic of life and fertility (white is worn for mourning which; symbolic of life being taken from someone) and a wedding sari costs from £20.

It’s customary to give grooms a necklace of money, a white horse and a sword on their wedding day. It’s said with these, a final get away is possible!

Merry Christmas 🎄

08/12/2024

This poem was chosen by a family for me to read at a recent funeral. I’d not come across it before and think it’s a lovely farewell, especially for those, like me, who are fond of a train journey for reflection…

Last Journey
by Timothy Coote

There is a train at the station
With a seat reserved just for me
I’m excited about its destination
As I’ve heard it sets you free.

The trials and tribulations
The pain and stress we breathe
Don’t exist where I am going
Only happiness, I believe.

I hope that you will be there
To wish me on my way
It’s not a journey you can join in
It’s not your time today.

There’ll be many destinations
Some are happy, some are sad
Each one a brief reminder
Of the great times that we’ve had.

Many friends I know are waiting
Who took an earlier train
To greet and reassure me
That nothing has really changed.

We’ll take the time together
To catch up on the past
To build a new beginning
One that will always last.

One day you’ll take your journey
On the train just like me
And I promise that I’ll be there
At the station and you will see:

That life is just a journey
Enriched by those you meet
No-one can take that from you
It’s always yours to keep.

But now as no seat is vacant
You will have to muddle through
Make sure you fulfil your ambitions
As you know I’ll be watching you.

And if there’s an occasion
To mention who you knew
Speak kindly of that person
As one day it will be you.

Now I can’t except this ending
And as it’s time for me to leave
Please make haste to the reception
To enjoy my drinks, they’re free!

16/11/2024

My last wedding of 2024 was blooming beautiful! It featured oodles of divine flowers bursting with autumn colours and a beautifully handmade orange bridal gown - and fortunately I had shoes to match!

Kayleigh and Tom also did a special sandpouring instead of exchanging rings as they became Mr and Mrs Hathaway with family and friends at Chateau la Chaire.

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03/11/2024

Nearing the end of my 2024 weddings and thinking back to Libby and Sam’s super dreamy boho summer wedding… a gorgeous couple and the perfect day for a barefooted ceremony in the sand 🩷

“Thank you so much 🥹🤍🙏🏽 it was all perfect 💕💕💕💕. “ Mrs Chinn

“Thank you so much for being a massive part of our day. It was the best day of our lives filled so much love!” Mr Chinn

02/11/2024

20/10/2024

Dreamy blues for my penultimate wedding of 2024. The sun shone and St Brelade’s Bay was a perfect back drop on such a lovely October day. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Isherwood! 💙

18/10/2024

06/10/2024

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04/10/2024

24/09/2024

Happy anniversary Mr and Mrs Laing!
Lang may yer lum reek! 🥂


Chateau la Chaire Daisy the Photographer

23/09/2024

Another lovely outdoor wedding spot…

21/09/2024

Groom Fab and best dog Finn 🩷 The boys arrived in style and special guests included the local goats! Such a stunning location with amazing views across St Ouen’s bay and perfect weather for Mr and Mrs Amy. Flower lover Pip made the arrangements and local flower confetti herself and friends sang/played guitar and took the photos before everyone headed off to party at Le Catel Fort.

The National Trust for Jersey

14/09/2024

Sam and Libby lucked out with the weather today! They chose 14th September - which would have been Libby’s grandma Betty’s 90th birthday - as it’s always sunny on her birthday. Betty was certainly looking over them!

It was a gorgeous bare footed ceremony for all on the beach. One friend sang, another did the flowers, another read a personal story and another wrote and read a poem and their final song, Is This Love by Bob Marley, was Libby’s parent’s down the aisle song. A beautiful wedding and a perfect day for it but I forgot my phone 🤦🏼‍♀️ so can’t show you just how lovely it was, yet!

11/09/2024

Looking for an outdoor wedding spot? A lovely new one here…