Megan + Will at home at Eshott South Farm | May 2026
“Where do I start?? Sarah quite literally MADE our wedding. And not just the one day but the weeks and months spent in the lead up chatting to her about our big day were so special.”
I imagine you’d agree with me if I said: it’s not really fair if someone is good-looking and good craic and kind. Well, Megan and Will are two such people.
And baddie recognises baddie and they found each other. On Tinder. And then these two gorgeous people found me and asked if I would marry them.
Absolutely I will.
Photos by the very cool Patty Wijas Photography
From our first video call I loved their ceremony ideas straight away - not only would it have the fun, homely feeling of taking place at Will’s childhood home, but it would also have cultural elements to honour Megan’s Gambian side of the family.
I find it so fun and meaningful when a ceremony includes elements guests might not have witnessed before, and I went away and had a little research of Gambian wedding traditions.
I discovered there’s a tradition where the bridal party and all their guests share in eating local kola nuts together…but we decided against that one, given the bride has a nut allergy!
Instead, when the beautiful sunny day at the family farm dawned, we invited Megan’s dad [the exceptionally-named Maverick] forward to place traditional wedding bangles on his daughter and his son-in-law before they exchanged rings. Bracelets that had been blessed by family members in Gambia.
Another incredibly cool element of the day was that Megan had asked her close friend Sammie to be there as a live artist. I kept nipping over to see how it was progressing, and it was such a great addition to the ‘garden party’ vibe - a painter under the trees, capturing the day in vibrant oils.
Everything had been thought of in terms of decorations, cocktails, music and guests just having a really good time. Two wedding planners were on hand on the day: Megan’s friend Bex and then event planner Hannah, who I’d met for a coffee only a few weeks before and was excited to be working with for the first time.
Megan’s dad handing over the Gambian wedding bangles
But there was something else to this wedding that was so authentic it couldn’t really be bought, planned or orchestrated. It was the sense of us all feeling so welcome in a family home. I was made to feel like one of the family, and visited the farm three times in the run-up in the end: firstly to meet Megan, Will and his parents, then for a rehearsal the night before then - of course - the wedding day itself.
And how special to marry in your family’s garden. How lovely knowing whenever you go home to visit your parents - or in-laws - you can stand in the very spot where you said I Do. I know I’m soppy enough that I would do that all the time.
How perfect if you garden already has an arch to emerge through!
At the end of their ceremony Will and Megan walked back out, through their cheering guests, across the garden and under the weighty, spring boughs of a tree, to Olivia Dean’s glorious rendition of You Can’t Hurry Love. No, you can’t hurry love, but you can have a wedding that feels full of love, homely and cool AF at the same time. I’ve seen it.
“She made us feel like friends and I genuinely miss her presence in my life post wedding 🤣 the ceremony was everything I could have wanted and more.”