Jamie Toms and Amy Toms's Wedding in Faversham, Kent

Our Real Wedding

We had a church service at St Mary of Charity church in Faversham, most of my family have married in this church, even though I now live in Nottinghamshire, I always knew I wanted to get married here too. My grandma is a retired vicar, but wanted so much to conduct the service for us, and so she did. My grandma married us, which made it even more special and personal.

We had family from New Zealand and the Canary Islands fly in, and numerous people from all across the country came all the way down to our little town for us, it was magical.

Following the service, we had a beautiful reception at The Cave hotel and golf resort near Canterbury, which we originally booked when it was being built, but had a feeling it would be perfect, and it was, we hired their marquee which was perfect for our 70 guests. We had a surprise singing waiter and Saxophonist which we kept top secret, they were fantastic and really broke any tension between family members who hadn't seen eachother for years, we all sang and danced around the marquee.. a great start to the evening. The food was amazing, everyone looked incredible, after covid, this was the first big event for everyone and we knew we had to make it even more special. After a fantastic night of dancing, singing, reconciling, laughter and hugs all around, we went out with a bang with a 10 minute firework display which brought people to tears. It's safe to say, everyone was on cloud 9, almost as much as we were, we had the most perfect day.