Hana + Alex | August 2025
“We had such a fun day and soooo many people were talking about the ceremony and really buzzing about it. People said it was the best ceremony they’ve ever been to and really set the tone for the day!”
Ooof I loved everything about this wedding. The girlhood-fever-dream Sunday Girl florals. The disco balls and pink streamers adorning Healey Barn’s rafters. The bridesmaids in mismatched pinks. The bride, Hana’s, dress.
Puffy sleeves? TICK. Bow at the back? TICK. Bodice? TICK. Frilly veil? TICK.
Iconic much?
But most of all: the gorgeous, young couple. I learned it was the first wedding ever on Hana’s side of the family, so I wanted to blow them all away. Make it as fun and memorable as possible.
Alex and Hana are so chill, and Hana is hilariously sarcastic. But she was visibly trembling as she arrived at the top of the aisle, it was very sweet. I did my best to relax her; I always want my couples to feel authentically themselves at the front, and able to enjoy it, but it’s easier said than done when dozens and dozens of people are staring at you!
Plus it began in a very moving way. Hana was accompanied down the aisle by her mum (who at first, that morning, I’d thought was a bridesmaid or a sister! First MotB who’s been pretty much the same age as me). As the guests stood, and before the mother and daughter duo walked down the aisle and the music began, I explained the significance of the song Only You by the Flying Pickets. The song of the greatest love story Hana's ever known: her Nana and her late Grandad. And her Nana was in tears on the front row.
Photography by Patty Wijas
But it was all the emotions that day, not just sentimentality. Like I said, that Hana is a sarcastic lil’ madam. It quickly became a laugh-out-loud ceremony, regaling silly stories from Alex and Hana’s time together and how they’d acquired certain nicknames. ‘Wormie’ was one such nickname and you’ll see their cake had worms on top in place of a human bride and groom. Very cute, very them.
As well as meeting talented photographer Patty, I was reunited with Aaron from Just Press Play films - we reminisced about a wedding we’d done together a couple of years ago and I’d forgotten one fact: it had been my first ‘proper’ paid wedding and his too (look how far we’ve come, Aaron babyy!).
During the ceremony I read the popular extract from Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love, popular for a reason. I love the book it comes from - a celebration of female friendship, as well as the pursuit of great, expansive, romantic love. And Hana, the stunning bride, has both. A man she adores, a man she’s co-parents to a scrappy bird called Scrap with.
And then she has a bevvy of bridesmaids who made her laugh all morning. And all day. LOVE.
“THANK YOU, a million thank yous, you’re such a special human”