Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography - Autumnal Rainbow Day

Siobhan and Jesper are two of the most happy, smiley people I’ve ever met and Siobhan is the personification of a rainbow! This meant that their day was a beautiful explosion of colour, fun and happiness in spite of the rain.

They were as frugal as possible with the whole wedding. Coombe Lodge was actually the cheapest of the venues that they saw – which they couldn’t believe at the time because they loved it so much. It was perfectly what they wanted in terms of period and architecture, that they didn’t really need to decorate it any further.

They enlisted help where they could from family members and friends, and did loads of stuff themselves. They knew where they were happy to spend the money – venue, food, photographer – and where they were happy to save it – flowers, cake.

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 2 Dress in window 1 — Siobhan’s Rebecca Ingram dress was from the amazing Pirouette in Exeter. She saw this dress about 9 dresses in and had the ‘oh my gosh, I think this is The Dress’ moment. Fiona of ‘Lovely As It Seams’ then did all the amendments and created the colourful satin belt. They were amazing, and totally understood what Siobhan was going for!

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 1 Make up 1 — Siobhan’s makeup was done by one of her best friends, Dani, who does make up and knew exactly what Siobhan wanted.

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 4 paper bouquets 1 — Siobhan wanted paper flowers – partly for cost, partly to keep them forever, and because she loved the way they look. Made by Floral Derangement, she requested a custom bridal bouquet with bold rainbow colours, and the pages of her favourite book, Persuasion by Jane Austen. The buttonholes were made from maps, which Jesper loves. They’re now in an empty gin bottle in their bedroom!

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 7 groom prep 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 9 red hair flower crown 1 — Siobhan’s gorgeous braid and crown was done by RG Hair Design. Wedding and event hair is one of her specialities.

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 12 red hair flower crown 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 14 leaf acrylic earrings 1 — Siobhan wanted some big and colourful earrings as she was having her hair up, with a relatively low cut dress. Little Moose did the trick!

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 25 bride walking down the aisle solo 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 38 ceremony 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 40 first kiss 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 41 first kiss 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 47 just married aisle walk 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 48 just married aisle walk 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 50 colourful tissue paper confetti throw 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 51 colourful tissue paper confetti throw 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 52 colourful tissue paper confetti throw 1 — They only decided to do a confetti shot when they were completing my questionnaire about two weeks prior to the day; they weren’t going to do one, but my photos actually convinced them otherwise. They spontaneously bought the confetti, and were both SO glad they did because the photos are amazing!

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 53 colourful tissue paper confetti throw 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 54 colourful tissue paper confetti throw 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 55 colourful tissue paper confetti throw 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 56 funny group photos 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 57 funny group photos 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 61 bridesmaids laughin 1 — Siobhan was worried about all her bridesmaids finding one dress that they all liked – they all have different body shapes, skin tones, and tastes! One of her bridesmaids (also sister) was in America, and started looking for a dress, and found this one. Everyone was on board, and that was that! All Siobhan cared about was that they were all happy in the dresses, so it was a bonus that they were so gorgeous!

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 63 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 64 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 65 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1 — The grounds of Coombe Lodge in Autumn were the perfect setting for Siobhan and Jespers couple portraits!

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 67 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 68 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 69 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 70 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 71 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 72 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 73 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 74 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 75 relaxed romantic couple portraits 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 78 bridal portraits 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 81 1 — Siobhan’s sisters designed and produced all the invitations, table name signs, menus, the seating chart, order of service cards, and a custom sign telling people about their Instagram hashtag. They looked incredible, and so professional.

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 83 wedding breakfast room set up 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 84 wedding breakfast room set up 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 85 wedding breakfast room set up 1 — Coombe Lodge didn’t really need much decorating, so the decorations they did have were a hodge-podge of home-made and bought! They collected beautiful gin bottles, bought cream jugs from IKEA, with artificial tulips and crocuses. It was very much a mish-mash of different things!

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 87 1 — They had an M&S cake, decorate in secret by Siobhan’s mum and sisters. They were blown away by the incredible decoration. Check out those cute marzipan bees! The cake topper was custom from Etsy, saying ‘Dr & Dr’.

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 90 receiving line hugs 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 91 receiving line hugs 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 92 receiving line hugs 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 96 speeches 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 97 speeches 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 100 speeches 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 101 speeches 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 110 speeches 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 111 speeches 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 112 speeches 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 114 natural candid guests 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 115 natural candid guests 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 116 natural candid guests 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 117 natural candid guests 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 118 natural candid guests 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 119 natural candid guests 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 120 natural candid guests 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 121 cake cut 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 122 first dance 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 123 first dance 1 — They had two first dances. The first was a traditional Danish waltz, with Jesper’s dad playing the accordion as accompaniment. DJ Kieran Clarke was recommended to them by Coombe Lodge. They told him the type of music they wanted, and he played loads of personal requests.

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 125 first dance 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 126 first dance 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 127 first dance 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 135 fun dance floor photos 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 137 fun dance floor photos 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 143 fun dance floor photos 1

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Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 147 fun dance floor photos 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 148 fun dance floor photos 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 149 fun dance floor photos 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 150 fun dance floor photos 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 151 fun dance floor photos 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 152 fun dance floor photos 1

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography Autumnal Rainbow Styling 153 fun dance floor photos 1

Thank you Siobhan and Jesper for having me as your photographer!

I’m taking bookings for 2020, 2021 and 2022 so if you are looking for a wedding photographer, then please check out my portfolio or get in touch! As always, please feel free to share!

Holly xx

Coombe Lodge Wedding Photography – Siobhan and Jespers Autumnal Rainbow Day