Dark by four, roads that can turn, guests who feel the cold. Winter is a beautiful time to marry, and the one that needs the most telling.
Free up to 40 guests, and we never ask for a card
Martha&Gabriel
Saturday 12 February 2028
Askham Hall · Cumbria
One reply for your whole household. Please let us know by 1 May 2027.
Everything you need is here. Keep this link: it works even without a signal, once opened.
Please be seated by 12.45. The lane is single-track — park at the village hall (5 minutes’ walk) rather than on the verge. Biodegradable confetti only, thrown outside the porch.
A coach leaves the church at 14.15. Parking is on the grass by the barn — fine in June, less so if it rains, so leave the low cars at the village hall.
Bacon rolls, coffee and the debrief. Come whenever, we’ll be there until one.
Hats very welcome, white is Alice’s. One friendly warning: the churchyard path is gravel and the barn opens onto grass, so stilettos will not enjoy the day.
In the village, a four-minute walk from the church. Nine rooms, ask for the wedding rate.
from £165 a night
ALICEJAMES · 10% offStow-on-the-Wold, 10 minutes by car. Good if you are making a weekend of it.
from £190 a night
Pods and pitches, 15 minutes. The friends’ solution.
from £48 a night
Church → barn at 14.15. Returns to Bourton and Stow at 23.00 and midnight, from the gate.
Book the day before — there are four cars in the whole valley on a June Saturday.
AppelerSt Mary’s Church. Doors from 12.30.
From the church gate. One trip only.
Pimm’s on the lawn. Group photos at 3.15, we’ll be quick.
Seating plan by the door, or in the “Table” tab.
Three of them. James has promised to be brief.
Then the band starts tuning up.
After that the floor is yours.
In the courtyard. The best part of an English wedding.
Last coach to Bourton and Stow leaves from the gate.
Your first name is enough. Typos and accents are fine.
Seats are a guide: the plan follows the real layout of the room.
What you write here, they will read again. A few words, signed with your name: that’s what gets reread ten years later.
A few words, signed with your name. That’s what gets reread ten years later.
The rain held off for exactly the ninety seconds you needed it to. Someone up there likes you two.
Harriet · 6.45 pm
My Alice. Your grandfather would have been proud. I am proud enough for both of us.
Granny Peggy · 6.02 pm
Thirty years I’ve known James and I’ve never seen him this calm. Well done, both of you.
Rory · 5.26 pm
Yes, gladly. There is a nanny in the snug from 8 pm and a children’s menu — do tell us when you reply so the kitchen knows.
Dried petals only, and only outside the porch. The churchyard is a conservation site and the parish is firm about it — there will be baskets by the gate, so please don’t bring your own.
Your being there, first of all. If you’d like to mark the day, we’ve started a fund for the honeymoon in Japan — the link is further down.
Almost none, and the Wi-Fi is for the card machine. Open this page once before you arrive: it works offline afterwards, seating plan included.
By 1 May 2027. After that the caterers place their order and we can’t change the numbers.
Three things this kind of wedding imposes, and that the page covers without you having to think about them.
A four o’clock ceremony finishes in the dark. The timeline says so, and your guests plan accordingly.
Ice, fog, darkness. Write a line about getting there, and a train alternative if one exists.
A hundred and twenty coats is a subject in itself. Say where to leave them and the arrival stops jamming.
All of it fits on your page. And you can change it up to the night before, without sending anything to anyone again.
Markedly: suppliers negotiate from November to March, and the gap often reaches 10 to 15%. The budget planner shows it when you change the season.
Midnight was made for it: night blue, pale text, and a contrast checked at 9.4:1.
To see what it looks like
£0forever
Up to 40 guests
Enough to publish a real website and send it out.
The limits
To invite everyone
£35once
Unlimited guests
For a full wedding, with no limits at all.
Everything in Free, without the limits
For the day itself
£59once
The wedding day included
The wedding day included, not just the run-up.
Everything in The Invitation, plus the day itself
A barn, a field, a farm track the satnav has never heard of. It is beautiful, and it is hard to explain. Which is what the page is for.
Guests flying in from everywhere, the mistral at six, and a heat that moves the whole day. The page answers all three.
Fewer than fifty guests. People will tell you a page is pointless at that size. It isn’t — just not for the same reasons as a big one.