Toma and Matt’s wedding date was two years to the day since they met back on July 16, 2020.
knew that they “couldn’t get more English country wedding than that.” With readings from Wendy Cope and Edwin Muir, and fistfuls of homemade floral confetti made by the bride’s mother, it was a touching, and at times raucous, celebration of their relationship. Even better? The 13th-century building was a stone’s throw from Toma’s family home.
An intimate and homely garden reception was always the bride’s dream, and once Matt and her parents had fallen for one another, it was a no-brainer. They couldn’t not have loved him: Matt took them to Chez Bruce, a family favorite, to ask for their daughter’s hand in marriage, to which her father deadpanned, “It depends how good the lunch is.
The proposal was no less memorable. Matt made up a fake plan with friends and dragged his reluctant soon-to-be fiancé out of bed early on a Saturday morning. Instead of an Uber waiting outside, there was a white Cinquecento, which harked back to their first date: an Italian picnic in the grounds of the Serpentine. The extra sweetener? The suited chauffeur holding two coffees for the couple to sip while taking them on a wild goose chase around London.
A date with their friends awaited at the Windsor Castle in West London, the scene of many of Toma’s birthdays. “We announced the news and, with everyone screeching and crying, we drank the pub dry,” she recalls of showing off her grandmother’s engagement ring, which Toma’s mother had slid across the table at Chez Bruce . Matt and Toma then worked with theto realize the bride’s dream emerald-cut diamond set with traps on a minimal thin gold band, “so that the stones felt like they were the stars.
After the church service, guests headed to a marquee that the bride says, “had a sense of wedding drama, but was cozy and intimate, like the best dinner party you’d been to with a sense of surprise.” Three long tables were festooned with flowers, inspired by the bouquets Matt gifted Toma fortnightly from their first date onwards, with pretty place settings byToma’s bridal look was her version of timeless. “I wanted to have a really exaggerated waist and Dior New Look-style skirt,” she shares.
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