“Everyone should believe in second chances and magic,” says Good Culture co-founder Liz Matthews, who married Al MacCuish on the banks of the Thames as their blended family of five children looked on.
Over that life-changing Sunday lunch on Columbia Road, Liz and Al discovered all of the ways in which their worlds overlapped. “We had many people in common, and had been at the same events on a fair few occasions, but just hadn’t been introduced or spotted one another. We even had offices opposite each other in Clerkenwell. ProperThe pair spent the next six months dating “like 20-year-olds” – “From day one we weren’t following the rules or playing it cool.
That same word defined the couple’s big day on 7 July, an intimate, sun-drenched celebration at Oakley Court, the luxury gothic pile overlooking the Thames recently refurbished by tastemaker Alex Eagle. The couple chose to organise the celebrations themselves rather than hire a wedding planner, and the bride wanted a similarly fuss-free approach to her wedding look. “I knew I didn’t want white, or traditional. I wanted something I could wear and enjoy again.
After the emotional ceremony, the wedding party walked in procession to the Alex Eagle Sporting Club marquee on the bank of the Thames, where an Aperol spritz station, a rosé bar, and most importantly, the artist Jeremy Deller’s inflatable Stonehenge lay in wait. “Kids and adults alike were obsessed!” says Liz.
Once guests managed to drag themselves from the bouncy castle, they took their seats at tables laid with bamboo cutlery and decorated with wild flowers, to feast on sharing plates of beef carpaccio, chargrilled peaches and burrata, vibrant crudités from the hotel garden with the “most delicious black sesame tahini”, and poached salmon with mini BBQ potatoes and cornichons. For dessert: slices of the pistachio, almond and cardamom wedding cake with orange blossom frosting.
After a first dance in the marquee as the new Mr and Mrs MacCuish – to Aretha Franklin’s “Baby I Love You” – the bride swapped her gold dress for a cream corset by Kate Halfpenny and satin wide leg trousers from H&M. “The high/low!” says Liz, who kept her Aquazzura heels on to dance to DJ Aimee Philips’s set. Buoyed by dirty burgers on the lawn as darkness fell, the party continued up at the main house, where Philips played until the small hours. “We went to bed at 2.
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