TWEED SUITS + WHISKY – A LINDORES ABBEY DISTILLERY WEDDING
FEATURING
Nathan + Daniel cross the border to be wed and celebrate with a whisky-infused wedding at a distillery!
“Ask yourself whether you can actually remember this detail at your friends/family members recent wedding! If not, nobody else will remember this for yours either so don’t stress about it!”
~ Nathan + Daniel
We Fell In Love With…
Whisky, tweed, tartan, and the Spotify playlist of dreams!
Lindores Abbey Distillery was the perfect venue for this Scotch loving pair. We love how they brought together family and friends from all over the UK to experience the beauty of rural Scotland in the winter.
Read on to see all the gorgeous inspo and stay tuned to the end to get some brilliant advice from this lovely pair.
TELL US ABOUT YOU TWO + YOUR WEDDING JOURNEY
We met back when we both worked together, at the time completely unaware that the roots were being set for a long friendship and ultimately a happily ever after.
At the start of planning we drew up a list of non-negotiables and ‘nice to haves’ together, wanting to make our wedding ‘ours’. We decided to visit Japan in cherry blossom season for our honeymoon, which meant we were looking at early March for the big day.
We both share a love of scotch whisky and absolutely struck gold when we found Lindores Abbey Distillery. We instantly fell in love with the venue once we’d viewed it.
Lindores organised the food, flowers (sunset colours – our favourite!) and drink. Suzanne (our photographer) is a recommended supplier at Lindores. She is so positive, full of fresh air and fun.
As the venue already looks so great, we didn’t want to add too much extra decoration to it. Instead of a classic guest book we had a small barrel of whisky that the guests could sign. We then decided to get the guests to make the blend for us! So we decanted some whisky from a few different bottles into small bottles. Guests poured the whisky into our barrel and signed the outside of the barrel itself.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR OUTFITS
With a semi-rural Scottish wedding in March we knew that our suits had to reflect the feel of the location. So we each chose to wear three piece tweed. We wanted similar outfits but not the same.
Dan found his dream, dark green mottled tweed Marc Darcy suit in a little boutique, Bridgewater Menswear near Skipton. Nathan found his brown tweed by chance via an online advert for the Next Tailored range.
We both wore a burnt orange tie – one classic and one bow tie – and Doc Martens. One pair of classic and one pair of loafers. Similar enough to work well next to each other but different enough that we each had our own style.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CEREMONY
We wanted to be legally married rather than have a civil partnership. Our wedding day was almost 10 years to the day since same-sex marriage had been made legal in the UK, so it felt important to us to exercise that right.
Fuze Ceremonies has a large selection of celebrants to choose from. We also liked the fact that there was the guarantee that if our chosen celebrant was ill on the day there would be a backup able to cover. Through Fuze we found Yvonne and my goodness what a woman! She was absolutely superb at building this magical day with us both.
On the day, she told the story of us beautifully, we did a handfasting with our families’ Irish tartans, read our own vows and rounded off the proceedings by drinking from the quaich, an idea Yvonne gave us that we just adored.
TELL US ABOUT THE RECEPTION
Lindores’ caterers provided the most beautiful BBQ you’ve ever seen. We had steak and lobster, chicken and sweetcorn, chickpea curry for the vegetarians and sides upon sides upon sides. Everyone said how fantastic the food was!
Dan’s mum made our cake. We wanted something earthy to go with the rugged feel of the venue so had a tier of chocolate and honeycomb and a tier of buttercream blondie. It went down a storm.
For the music we curated (with many heated debates!) a Spotify playlist. There was lots of dancing and singing along to old and new favourites.
ANY LESSONS LEARNED OR ADVICE YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE?
A wedding day can feel insurmountably huge with 10 million moving parts. So, instead, we would just imagine ourselves as a guest in the most literal way. We would walk ourselves through the entire day in our minds as if we were a wedding guest. It made decision making for everything so much easier! It broke the wedding down into moments. We then assigned each other a job off the back of each moment and nothing got missed.
Also try thinking a little outside the box when sourcing things for your wedding. Buying our wedding favour whisky glasses from a catering supply company saved us a small fortune. Finally, before you pay for something, ask yourself whether you can actually remember this detail at a recent wedding you attended. If not, nobody else will remember this for yours either so don’t stress about it!
