Lapstone Barn Cotswold Spring Wedding Inspiration

Spring barn wedding inspiration at Lapstone Barn in the Cotswolds with whimsical, timeless styling, romantic and colour popping spring wedding colours perfect for stylish and modern couples.

Floral ceiling hoop Lapstone Barn Cotswold Wedding

Spring Wedding Breakfast Table Inspiration

Foliage wedding table runner with succulents, eucalyptus, wax flower & soft ruscus decorate the wedding table, along with vintage gold china, cut glass and vintage brass candlesticks paired with rustic dinner candles, gold tealight holders creating timeless, elegant wedding decor.

The green foliage, white and gold wedding table design is perfect for spring, winter, summer and autumn weddings, just change the colour of the candles and accessories to compliment your wedding colours or why nit add coloured wedding napkins from the knotted napkin company we stock their colours and materials and coloured wedding tablecloths from 88events luxury wedding linen hire. We also stock dinner candles in different sizes and colours.

Lapstone Barn Table Decoration

Lapstone Barn sporing floral arch backdrop

Vintage A Frame Ladders were used for a wedding floral arch backdrop with hanging candle tea light holders, with floral bikes and rugs, cushions with Moroccan lanterns.

Spring Floral Wedding Crown

The bold pink florals in the wedding flower crowns and wedding bouquet, not to mention the floral hanging hoop in the barn ceremony room. Spring wedding flowers peonies, roses & ranunculus in bright hot pink.

Spring Floral Wedding Crown

Lapstone Barn Spring Wedding Bouquet

Spring wedding bouquet flowers with peonies, roses & ranunculus in bright hot pink and pale pink. Foliage bouquet with peony and hellebores.

Lapstone Barn cotswold Spring Wedding ceremony decor

Cotswold Barn wedding ceremony decor with pink chair sashes, silver lanterns & floral ceiling hoop.

Grooms Country Barn Wedding Suit

Featuring country tweed groom wedding suit

Country tweed groom wedding suit

lapstone barn spring wedding colour popping wedding cake

A semi-naked wedding cake, with artist palette markings and gold leaf. The pop of bright colours and macaroon off set the soft pinks and greys.The trailing jasmine foliage create shape and ‘grow’ around the cake. This gave a real sense of romance by adding our vintage brass candlesticks and tealight holders.

bridal looks

Options for wedding dresses were classic and timeless and another wedding dress style boho with a twist of glamour unique with its stunning over skirt train complimented with an off the shoulder merino wool shawl. The shawl; not only did it keep our bride cosy and warm but the beautiful mink colour went perfectly with the brides flower crown.

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Spring colourful wedding cake with it’s painted brush stroke effect and lush blooms, delicious!

Photographer | Katie Hamilton Photography

Organiser, stylist & florals | Cotswold Caboodle 

Photographers assistant | Laura Martha Photography

Wedding dresses | Butterfly Bridal Boutique

Cake | Laura Urschel’s Kitchen

Suits | Country Master

Hair | Blushes Salon

Make up | Beauty by Lexi

Head dresses | Kate Latimer Millinery

Wool Shawl | Only Wul

Props | Rustic Rentals

Venue | Lapstone Barn  

Vintage China | Vintage Gold China 

Stationery | One Last Thing

What Help a Wedding Stylist Provides For Your Cotswolds Wedding Venue Decor.

Are you struggling and feeling stressed choosing your wedding decor & style? Do you feel overwhelmed by social media and Pinterest? Then a consultation with a Cotswold based wedding stylist can help you decide on your decor and help you bring it all together on your wedding day.

Cotswolds Wedding Rustic Wooden Pillar Candles Trestle Table Decor

How to Chose My Wedding Style?

Start with your venue when deciding which decor to design.It is possible to bring in any elements of your own style into your wedding.

For example you can have a traditional Manor House Wedding Venue but introduce modern touches with your decor, or conversely you may have a modern wedding venue but wish to add industrial or vintage wedding decor items to compliment the venue. The options are endless and your wedding stylist will help guide you and tease out your own style.

We always advise that your wedding day is designed with you as a couple at the heart and “ its your day your way”

Chosing Your Overall Theme

Do you love rustic wedding decor? Or prefer modern contemporary wedding decor, maybe timeless wedding decor is more to your taste. Conversely you may chose an elegant wedding style or a boho wedding?

There is no right or wrong choice - it is all about what you love and your style. Always remember its your day.

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Rustic Wedding Decor & Barn Wedding Styling

Rustic Wedding Decor does not have to mean log slices and hessian. Barn Wedding Styling can be created in a more modern way blend vintage, rustic and modern elements. Why not upcycle vintage items in a modern way?

Florals and greenery always elevate any wedding decor, don’t forget to ask your florist to include extra greenery, florals for your display areas- welcome sign, drinks reception and cake displays.

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Modern Wedding Decor

You can add modern wedding decor to all venue types be it a barn, marquee or manor houses. Incorporate elegant glass hurricane lanterns , candlesticks in brass or glass., modern gold lanterns. Contemporary signage and metal industrial elements help modernise your wedding decor.

Lapstone Barn Wedding Venue & Modern Barn Wedding Decor

Boho Wedding Decor

Whilst boho is not the most popular wedding decor style in the Cotswolds many couples love to introduce a touch of boho. Boho decor style really suits a tipi, marquee or festival outdoors wedding.

Autumn Boho Wedding Bouquet

Timeless Wedding Decor

Whenever this is your decor of choice you know that you can look back in many years and your wedding decor will still be relevant as vintage, timeless and elegant wedding decor are always on trend.

Crowcombe Court - Somerset Wedding Venue - Timeless Wedding Table Decor

How Do I Make My Wedding Decor Look Like Pinterest?

This is where your stylist can help you - we offer styling consultations either by the hour or our complete styling, and set up package. We have learnt the tricks of the trade to give you that Pinterest Look at a more cost effective way .

Modern Rustic Wedding Table Styling

How Can I Make My Wedding Decor Sustainable?

We reduce, reuse and recycle and up cycle all our hire props, packaging and use recycled products wherever possible and “grown not flown” florals and foliage. In using our services together we are helping wedding more sustainable.

Sustainable Wedding Blanket Ladder Display

If you would like to book a consultation to discuss your wedding venue styling please get in contact

How to Style & Decorate a Rustic Barn Wedding in the Cotswolds - The Wool Barn

Styling Guide for a Rustic Barn Wedding - The Wool Barn - Frampton Court Estate - Cotswolds

The Wool Barn Frampton On Severn

The Wool Barn Frampton On Severn www.framptoncourtestate.co.uk

Bride wearing Augusta Jones Lace Dress

Beautiful Orangery Frampton Court

How do you chose the theme for your wedding decor?

Firstly, decide on the theme for your wedding – do you want a minimalist or a more elaborate style? Do you favor a rustic or an elegant, boho, festival, scandi, or minimalist theme?

If you’ve chosen a rustic theme there are different styling options for a rustic wedding – rustic with hessian and lace, rustic chic, rustic woodor why not combine all of them - always remember its your day so do it your way.

Choosing a venue that suits your wedding style will mean that you naturally will need to do less to create the wedding of your dreams and for a rustic wedding a barn has to be one of the first choices.

I always recommend visualising the day as it will unfold and imagine a walk through starting with your guest arrival. How do guests know where to park, is signage needed to the entrance, do you want some décor at the entrance other considerations include – would you like any of the following - a Welcome sign, card display, ceremony décor, your table plan.

Lastly any other items you would like to include such as photo opportunities, sweet or olive bars, drinks stations, cake displays.

Round table -With hessian runner, vintage milk churns, hessian and lace tea lights and flower jars - Photo Curtesy of www.louisebowles.co.uk

Wedding Styling tips for a barn wedding

When planning your décor whether it is large props or small tea lights always think in 3’s – a tall, middle height and low height item.

Aim to create a few area that provide impact and don’t be tempted to sprinkle a few props all around the venue – barns are large spaces and a few items in lots of places can look lost, unless you’re lucky enough to have a large budget.

Flowers in small necked glass vases or jars or garden centre plants or herbs in terracotta or zinc flower pots are a cost effective way to add additional florals to compliment your florists flowers for décor areas, as well as garden centre plants in hessian sacks which you can then plant in your garden as a reminder of your day – hopefully they will flower at the same time on your anniversary.

Long table dressed with hessian runner, vintage milk churns, flower vases and tea lights, chalkboard table name

Wedding Venue Entrance styling

This is the first thing guests will see and allows you the opportunity to welcome your guests, create an impact and set the style of your wedding. Opportunities for the entrance décor are endless and can include signage, step ladders, vintage or decorative bikes, wheelbarrows, milk churns, crates, lanterns, tin baths, rustic crates, shepherd’s crooks.

Entrance sign to drinks reception with vintage decorative bike, vintage milk churns ad flower vases

What Props to add to the wedding Welcome Area

This will normally have a welcome sign which can be personalised to your taste - options include calligraphy hand written signs on wood, Perspex, crates made for you and that you can keep as a memento of the day for the order of the day, sign writing crates, chalkboards, hanging hoops & shutters. You can include your card box here, there are many options that can be used which include vintage cases, hat boxes, wooden crates, galvanised tubs. Wicker baskets, tools boxes & vintage trugs decorated with flowers in jars, on log slices and with tea lights and candlesticks. I love using ivory or pastel coloured taper candles to tone with the décor colour.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - vintage step ladder dressed with vintage school props as the bride and groom were teachers and dancing shoes galvanised bath

rustic wedding Table Plan ideas

Vintage bikes with decorated floral baskets look so pretty for these, as do pallets with hanging pots of flowers, wheelbarrows full of flowers, crates or ladders with photo frame table names, all decorated with flowers, greenery, glass jars of flowers, candlesticks and tea lights.

Other options include vintage window frames with floral or greenery garlands or shutters with flower pots with the name places on them or on mini hoops.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Table Plan created form pallet with galvanised flower pots and hessian table names

wedding Order of The Day ideas

One of my personal favourites is to personalise a pallet with calligraphy writing for the order of the day, other options include rustic style signs, sign writing crates, chalkboards, hanging hoops & shutters.

Alex Cars Vintage Bedford Bus fr the guests to get to the church

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Order of the day

Wedding Ceremony Décor

How to dress your ceremony table, I love to use tall pillar candlesticks for the ceremony table along with wooden hoops in stands with a beautiful floral display in an urn or vintage galvanised mini feeding trough. Foliage and floral runners with pillar candlesticks, taper candlesticks with pretty coloured candles or ivory or a floral or foliage swag look amazing as well.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds -shepherds crook and sweet pea floral decoration

Aisle options include glass, copper, silver lanterns on log slices with foliage, pine cones and small wooden hearts at the base. Wicker hearts with floral or foliage décor. Floral or foliage hanging sprays from the chairs, swags on the backs of chairs or hessian or lace chair sashes- - I don’t use these as I prefer natural floral and foliage and candlelight.

If you’re having an outdoors ceremony you could decorate the aisle with shepherds crook with pretty floral jars and candles in jars

A tip if using hessian sashes please be careful that they don’t scag guests outfits or leave fibres on their clothes.

Barns afford fantastic opportunities for hanging installations – these can be hoops, canopy lights, cart wheels. Bunting, material swags in muslin look amazing, festoon lighting.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Hanging vintage cart wheel

 Wedding Confetti Trugs

I love to collect and dry rose and other flower petals and then put them in a Vintage French Trugs with or without cones, this is a lovey way to introduce some of your home into your day and also friends and relatives can collect them for you making it a lovely way to introduce friends and family into your day and an added bonus it saves quite a bit of money as well.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Confetti Trug

rustic wedding Table Decor

The choice of décor will depend on whether you have long trestle type tables or round ones.

You can use wooden trestles with foliage, hessian, lace or silk runners, there are now so many different runner options in natural materials or hand dyed or cheaper material ones available. Add small log slices, wooden pillar or vintage brass taper candlesticks of different heights with groups of three tea light and floral jars or vases in between with a delicate foliage runner looks so pretty.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds -Vintage Milk Churn Table Decor

I don’t think any round rustic table is dressed without a log slice –we’ve struggled as venue decorators to find an alternative to these, they help ground the table center and gave additional height.  There are so many options for round tables. Vintage milk churns and jugs, lanterns in glass, rose gold, brass or silver, geometric shape terrariums, wooden, glass or mercury silver pillar candlesticks, glass, silver or vintage brass taper candlesticks all accessorised with small flower vases, tea lights all in groups of 3 and not forgetting foliage, you can add pine cones or other small accessories . There is always the option with round tables to add foliage or material runners as well.

Trestle tables are increasingly popular and mu personal favorite, these can be dressed with runners in cheesecloth, chiffon, macramé candlesticks, pillar candles, tea lights they can be rustic with bare wood or more elegant with tablecloths and candelabra.

Table names can be displayed in vintage frames, on mini easels, written onto log slices, chalkboards or Perspex.

Name places can be written on mini blackboards, slate, marble, agate, card or vintage handmade paper with silk ribbons that match your invites. Other alternatives include Perspex, written on mini log slices, accessorised with foliage or flowers and ribbon, hessian twine

Barn wedding Hanging Décor

This can include hanging flowers from ladders, hoops, greenery garlands, fairy lights, festoon lighting, flags, giant hoops, paper lanterns, origami, bunting, pom poms, geometric shapes or lanterns.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Barn floral decor

Wedding Bar, Cake Table, Dessert table ideas

Individuality is the key here - Why not include an Indian Cart, Vintage Trestles for your drinks or back bar? Add crates, vintage scales, boxes to create impact. Gin, imp your prosecco, his and hers cocktails and whisky and cigar bars are all options. Prosecco bar. Of course no vintage wedding is complete without vintage galvanised tubs for wine, beer and soft drinks coolers.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - Cup cake stand

Wedding Dance Floor Ideas

You can consider using a different canopy dressing over the dance floor to highlight this area.

Wedding Chill Out Area Ideas

Hopefully your venue will have gorgeous outside space where you can have fire pits, smores and toasted marshmallows, accessorised with festoon lighting, rugs, sofas, giant cushions, low tables, lanterns, poufs, flowers and not forgetting blanket displays in galvanised baths, on ladders or railway trolley for those chilly English nights.

The Wool Barn Wedding Frampton On Severn Gloucestershire, Cotswolds - dancing shoes in galvanised tub - very popular with the ladies

Gardens at The Wool Barn - Horse and Carriage Benford Carraiages

Credits

Prop hire, planing and stylist - www.rusticrentals.co.uk

Photographer - www.louisebowlesphotography.com

Venue - www.framptoncourtestate.co.uk

Brides Dress - www.cliftonbrides.co.uk

Designer - www.augustajones.com

Bridesmaid dresses - www.whistles.com

Catering - www.napiercatering.co.uk

Florist - www.sororidesignflorist.co.uk

Band - www.themoonloungers.com

Horse and Carriage - www.benfordcarriages.co.uk