Form an illuminated trail between different parts of your venue by hanging up festoon lighting.

Hailed as a crowd-pleasing option that’s full of flavour, swap the traditional wedding breakfast for a hog roast or barbecue. Complete the culinary line-up with salads, cheeses and chutneys, and you’re guaranteed full stomachs and very happy guests.

Prepare a basket of flip flops, sunglasses and sun cream and leave them in the wash rooms for guests to grab. You don’t want the risk of lobster skin in your group photos and they will love you for it!

Your guests’ snaps will be ultra beautiful if you make a photobooth backdrop to frame them. As simple as a suspended picture frame or as elaborate as a vintage doorframe decorated in cascades of flowers, the choice is yours!

A favourite when it comes to wedding themes, summer is the perfect season for an English garden style wedding. Choose a venue with pretty gardens of its own and you’ll have built-in décor to match!

Why not make the most of the good weather and say your vows in a woodland glade, beneath a floral arch, or in a romantically decorated lakeside gazebo…

Enlist everyone you can to collect jars, then pretty them up with ribbons and sprigs of garden blooms. Pair them with milk churns or enamel jugs if you want to display taller sprays of flowers like delphiniums and stocks.

Give your wedding all the fun of the fair with fete-inspired games – everything from hook a duck to carousel rides! For a quirky twist, we’ve seen couples swap coconuts for pineapples for a more unique take on the classic coconut shy.

Create a super-comfortable lounge area for your guests to kick back and relax in after the wedding breakfast. Fill it with a collection of colour co-ordinated striped deck chairs, perfectly placed to watch all the action.

Seeing as you’ll be making the most of your chance to enjoy al fresco elements, why not put up some rustic signs to direct your guests so they know where’s best for dancing, drinking or dining? 

You’ll be crossing everything in the run-up for streaming sunshine on your wedding day – but have you planned for that actually happening? Make sure your venue has parasols ready to provide shade.

Overflowing with juicy berries and filled with light, fluffy buttercream, the naked cake is the ideal laid-back cake for the summer season. Just make sure you position it out of the sun to stop the buttercream from melting!

These small, beautifully scented, summer-flowering blooms come in a range of hues, from pastels to brights. Work them into your bouquet for a whimsical style that smells divine.

No country wedding should be without these! Peg the charming shepherd’s hooks into the ground to mark out pathways, then hang dainty jars containing mismatched candles or flowers from them for a pretty effect.

Embrace the relaxed, al fresco atmosphere of the best summer weddings in your set up. Look for opportunities to introduce tulle drapes, creating an airy feel for your venue, or tie lace bows to chair backs. Or perhaps you could add streaming silk ribbons to your bouquet.