Alice & Nick - Deer Park Country House

Alice & Nick - Deer Park Country House

Why did you choose Yeti?

Yeti was recommended to us by our venue team at the Deer Park. We then looked at the website and thought the videos were stunning. We rang Matt the same day and fortunately he was available for our date.

Matt made us feel so comfortable on the meetings before the big day and on the day itself be barely noticed him! He blended into the scene around us and our guests didn’t realise we’d had a videographer until they saw the absolutely breathtakingly beautiful video he captured.

You guys…what do you do?…how do you spend your days?

Nick and I are both doctors. Nick is a GP partner and I work in anaesthetics and intensive care.

When he’s not working, Nick attends to our three bee hives. The bees are wonderfully active and provide lots of honey every year. They can be naughty, however, and Nick often has to go and collect them when they decide to swarm to next door’s wood bench, much to our neighbour’s delight.

He’s also a dab hand at DIY and woodwork and has built a beautiful garden table and benches.

I love anything creative including drawing, painting and singing. I drew pictures for each of the table names at our own wedding and was in a choir for a number of years.

I am a social butterfly at heart and have friends over as much as possible to enjoy a glass of aperol spritz or five.

….what’s important in life?

Cats. Only cats.

The proposal. Tell me everything. (All the gushy details!)

The long story is that over the years, there were more than several occasions where I thought Nick might get down on one knee.

One of those occasions was a holiday in Tuscany. Nick had cooked ragù, we ate al fresco and drank red wine. He took my hand and asked me whether I wanted to go for a walk. We strolled around the Italian countryside basking in the setting sun when he stopped. ‘This is the moment’ I thought. He looked at me and said ‘right, shall we go back then?’

Christmas Eve a year and a half later in 2017, I was making gingerbread. I had a lot to achieve before we were due over at his parents house that evening but Nick kept asking me to go into the garden with him. It was freezing cold and I was busy rolling out gingerbread Christmas trees and I couldn’t understand why he wanted to go outside so much. ‘I want to ask you where you want the hives’ he said. ‘But we know where the hives are going’ I replied, rolling out yet more gingerbread (I can’t get enough of the stuff). Finally, with the biscuits in the oven, I consented.

‘Let’s walk to the tree’ he said, taking my hand in his. We walked into the field which contains (in my opinion) the most glorious oak tree in the world. I’ve always loved it and you can watch the sun set behind it from the end of our garden.

We walked past the horses and arrived at the bottom of the great oak. I pressed my palm against its trunk and stared out across the view of the picturesque Devon countryside. When I looked back, Nick was on one knee and the rest, they say, is history.

The venue/s…..Why this place above any where else?

About 2 months before Nick had even bought the engagement ring, I was talking to my mum on the telephone and she said ‘I’ve found the most amazing venue for your wedding.’

I was then out with friends on my birthday and little did I know Nick had bought my engagement ring earlier that day. I was chatting about the venue my mum had found in a joking way to my friends with no idea that he was planning on proposing soon after.

When we got engaged we visited the venue - Deer Park Country House - and fell in love with everything about it. It’s such a beautiful venue in a glorious location and was the perfect place for our traditional formal reception.

We got married in the church in the village where Nick grew up. I always wanted to get married in church because I’m obsessed with music. I was in the church choir and school choir throughout my childhood and teenage years and later was part of a semi-professional choir at university. I needed the organ, the choir and the bells and St Giles Church in Kilmington did not disappoint. Whenever I think of our wedding I can hear the church bells ringing.

What experience do you want to give your guests?

Nick and I are romantics at heart. We always knew we wanted a traditional formal fairytale wedding. We wanted our guests to enjoy the wonderful Devon countryside in a stunning venue. We wanted them to have as much food and drink as they wanted and indulge in romance and love and laughter.

Why did you have your wedding captured on video?

At first we didn’t think have a wedding video was something that was important to us. Then I watched a video of my friend’s wedding. It captured the essence of the day and really felt like I was back at the wedding. Nick and I then realised that we wanted to immortalise our wedding so that we could watch it back again and again and be transported right back to 15th June 2019 and experience our day all over again.