Amber + Rob by Sycamore Gap | August 2025
“Sarah thank you so much. You were so highly praised by everyone! Grandad Brian absolutely loved it too! And also rated your suit haha!”
I often say/think/feel “that venue took my breath away!” but this one had me literally gasping for oxygen. The most spectacular, unexpected view across rural Northumberland. A stone’s throw from Sycamore Gap (RIP).
I say “unexpected” because I knew where I was going on the map but I hadn’t interrogated or researched where that actually was or what I might see. You coulda knocked me down with an oak leaf, pet.
Take a look at THAT (and then imagine it in IRL with a BREEZE and a panoramic VIEW)
Especially because, even though I was early, everything was already in its place: wildflowers in position, ribbons on the chairs, billowing in a gentle breeze. It was nothing short of cinematic.
Photography by the brilliant Nicola at The Wild Love Club
The first time I met lovely Amber and Rob, and their lovely little girls, in their lovely garden, I was offered homemade blueberry cupcakes and sun cream, shown plastic horse after plastic horse, we discussed our favourite Bluey episodes, and it felt more like a playdate than a wedding planning meeting. In a good way. They made me feel so at home.
And that’s a sensation that follows them, that emanates from them, because even up on that exposed hill with hikers gawping-walking past, Rob and Amber’s presence made it feel like a home-from-home. Their two sweet flower girls running about the hill, accompanied by whatever the collective noun is for cousins (a flurry? a whirlwind?).
And the ceremony was about family life too. Celebrating not only the chapters that have brought them to this point, but the imminent chapter that they were about to embark on…moving house shortly after the wedding! By the time I press publish on this, just weeks after they said “I do”, they’re already in their new house and job.
And I have no doubt in my mind, with the four of them there, that that house will already feel like a home.