Biker Chic, A Real Wedding – Penny & Nik

Posted on: 21/09/2011

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Well. Sometimes I get a Real Wedding submission that just fills this wedding blogger with glee.  Penny and Nik’s big day, submitted by the lovely Jamie of Emerson Photography is one of them.  Because it full on rocks.

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Brides Up North is all about celebrating Northern talent, Northern couples and the fact that the North is just all round better fabulous!  On these pretty wedding blog pages, leather can sit alongside lace and peonies alongside chocolate skulls (wait for it…!). 

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Let’s celebrate similarities, differences, following trends, forgetting trends, doing things your way, letting your parents have a little say, vintage brides, punk rock brides, classic brides and being proud to be Northern.  And above all, lets celebrate L.O.V.E. 

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Happy Wednesday!

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Jamie says:  This wedding was a long time coming – I’d been looking forward to it for months!  Our groom, Nik belongs to a motorcycle club and many of the guests crossed continents on their bikes to be there on the big day.  Penny and Nik were married in the very grand, very low key surrounds of Middleton Lodge, Richmond, North Yorkshire.  The day began with meeting a film crew in the car park.  They were from Sky Food Channel, on behalf of Choccywoccydoodah – cake makers extraordinaire.  They specialise in incredibly intricate and artful cakes – more of which later.

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Penny was soon helped into her bespoke gown.  Tailored locally to fit in with the denim and leather theme of the wedding, and cut especially low at the back to show off her new tattoos.  The more I shot, the more obvious it became that this wedding had been planned long and hard!  The attention to every little detail was astonishing; from toenail transfers to very eye-catching shoes (DMs for Penny and shark attack print heels for the rest of the girls!).

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The ceremony itself was held in the Lodge’s garden, with the sounds and smells of a beautiful Summer’s day floating over the excited babble of the guests.  Penny and Nik had managed to have a brand new wooden pergola built and Penny walked towards it through an avenue of huge motorbikes belonging to the guests. 

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After the heartfelt ceremony, the bride and groom walked back through the corridor of motorbikes, but this time, the engines were fired up and the noise was awesome, in the original sense of the word.  It sounded like the end of the world, but was strangely romantic at the same time.  My poor assistant spent the rest of the day deaf in one ear!

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You have to see the rest… and the famous cake.  Click through to read more. 

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Wedding catering can sometimes be a little bland – so it was a joy to be served a huge variety of excellent local fare, barbequed to a tee, followed later in the day with a proper, old-fashioned hog roast.  The guests were treated to a bouncy castle, adult-sized space hoppers (these went down very well with kids big and small!) and later on, a full on rock band.  The wedding cake surpassed all expectations – really quite jaw-dropping, in a good way.  Skulls fought for space with anchors and banners… it genuinely did seem a shame to cut it, but needs must!

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Eventually, bellies full of food, cameras full of amazing memories, my assistant and I called it a day, and a bit sadly, left the party which was just getting started…

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