Our last wedding of 2019 – An Indoor Festival of Love!

We count our lucky stars every day to be approached by couples who are bold enough to do things their own way. Gone are the days when weddings were boring and predictable and with Delia and Phil, a couple who chose to get married at HMT last Nov, nothing was too magnificent or impossible. When…

Ralph & Hilary’s Vibrant and Wild Wedding Festival

It’s not often we get the challenge of helping couples plan their wedding with less than four months to go, but when Hilary and Ralph got in touch in June, asking if we could plan their wedding in Sept 2018, we couldn’t say no!     Hilary and Ralph lead extremely busy lives with schedules…

A Vegan Tipi LoveFest in Cheshire for Dennis and Becki

Last August, it was our greatest pleasure to help Dennis and Rebekah (now Mr and Mrs Lloyd!) to plan their awesome tipi wedding at Cherry Orchard Lake in Cheshire – what an absolutely gorgeous day it was!   Now we have to admit, Dennis and Becki have been friends of ours for many years, so…

Pip & Ant’s Vintage Punk Fusion Wedding

After a crazy 16 week run of back to back weddings, we are finally ready to sit down and look back over the amazing events we’ve been part of this year. 2018 has been very busy, with our founder Stef getting fully into the swing of humanist ceremonies, and working at a few new venues…

Recommended by Us :: The Indie Wedding Fair

Have you noticed just how many wedding fairs there are up and down the country? Hundreds, literally hundreds, and sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between them. As busy wedding planners it’s important for us to spend our time wisely and going to every single fair just isn’t an option. We only visit the most interesting and original…

Nicola Thompson’s Wonderful Wedding Eye

Although we’re in the middle of a freak Mancunian heatwave, I’m reliving a very special wedding from earlier this year through Nicola Thompson’s photography. These pictures make me so warm and fuzzy inside that I had to share. Helen and Chris were one of my earliest clients and chose to tie the knot the day after New Years….

Our Wedding Planner Packages

You have three options when working with Alternative Weddings MCR depending on how much or how you little you need our help. FULL BESPOKE PLANNER PACKAGE If you need us to plan everything from start to finish, tailoring your wedding creatively around you and your partner, then this is package for you. Included in the full service is:: 6-8…

A Wedding Showcase at Hope Mill

After the success of last Saturday’s Indie Wedding Fair, where we spent an afternoon sitting in a tipi with some wonderful traders and new friends, we’re looking forward to another wedding showcase this Sat in our home Hope Mill.   Some of you might remember that we held our very first wedding there last June, and it’s where…