On the morning of the 1st May Andy and I set off down to Gloucestershire to go and view the place where we were to be married in 2.5 weeks – Clearwell Castle, and hope it wasn’t in ruins! It was breathtaking as we drove through the portcullis into the castle grounds and saw it there with our own eyes. No matter how many pictures of it I had stared at, to see it there was just amazing, and I truly could not believe that in a few weeks it would be ours for the day! We had a chat there with our wedding planner, Sharon who was really helpful and finalised a few details. We then got to look around the whole place on our own and take pictures. It was so exciting, we went in every single one of the 15 bedrooms, walked down the huge aisle in the room where we would get married, had a look in the cellars where our night do would take place and then wandered around the immaculately kept grounds. We felt really happy after seeing the castle and our impending marriage finally felt very close!

From the castle to the cake we travelled, Magda the cake lady lives in Malvern so we drove up to see her to discuss the final design for the wedding cake. Magda made Andy and Amy’s wedding cake which inspired us so we already knew how good she was. She was really creative and between us we came up with a great design for the cake which would be very personal and special to us.