Rosie and Tyler met through Hinge. Four months later they got engaged and just ten months after they first started talking, they were married. “It was a whirlwind romance”, Rosie told us. “We knew instantly we were best friends and soulmates – people told us we were being crazy but we didn’t care! We knew what we knew. We heal the broken parts of each other and and lift up the beautiful mess. It was young love found in a generational hellscape of toxic dating culture.”

Giving themselves six months to plan and doing it all themselves, they brought together Tyler’s Texas upbringing and Rosie’s childhood fascination with fairies for a wedding. There were cowboy boots, antique lace, handmade clay favours and a bucking bronco. After a church ceremony in the village, everyone headed to Rosie’s childhood farm for the reception in a stretch tent.

Rosie’s starting point was the Cottingley fairy photographs, whose staged woodland scenes fed her love of vintage imagery and make-believe. “We wanted our quirkiness and love of a free spirit, full of imagination and whimsy to shine”, she explained. “Both of us drew inspiration from what brought us joy in our childhood, or what we thought sculpted us most into adulthood. It was the perfect blend of vintage with an edge of mystery.”

Rosie walked into the ceremony to Enya’s Caribbean Blue. The couple had written their vows together and chose to make the same promises to each other. For Tyler, saying those words was the part of the day that stayed with him most. “I think in that moment despite being in a room with nearly 200 people, when you are saying the vows that you wrote specifically for each other, the focus is only on the other person, and the words you say to each other have so much weight behind them.”

The ceremony ended with Rosie singing Fleetwood Mac’s Songbird. They left to another Songbird, this time by Oasis, before driving themselves back to the farm in Rosie’s Land Rover Defender.

They handmade almost everything. They designed and carved lino stamps, then hand-printed around 180 invitations, along with their RSVPs, orders of service and place names. When the RSVPs came back, they turned them into bunting for the church and reception.

Rosie’s mum helping by making bunting from fabric printed with their designs. Family lace came out of the attic, and old net curtains and strips of tulle became hanging decorations. They used the same lino designs to create roughly 180 ceramic badges and pins, cutting and glazing each one before firing them in Rosie’s granny’s kiln. Guests received fairies or bull skulls, the latter a reference to the Texas Longhorns.

They recycled coffee jars and Campbell’s tomato soup tins to use to hold flowers and candles. Even the confetti was homemade, made by drying petals from every bouquet Tyler bought her throughout their relationship.

The bride carried a dried flower bouquet from Everlasting Pastels and the rest of the flower were supplied by their families. Rosie’s grandma grew them with help from Tyler’s mum and their neighbours, and both families arranged them. The couple’s mums built the flower arch that framed the church entrance.

For Rosie, getting dressed meant revisiting what her younger self would have wanted to wear. She wore a Sarah Seven dress which she shortened so her vintage shoes could be seen. All her jewellery was antique family heirlooms. Tyler wore cowboy boots and an antique butterfly brooch, also from Rosie’s family.

Their advice to other couples is to do exactly as they did – use your own taste and life experience to inspired your day. “Your wedding can be as basic and straightforward or as eccentric as you want as long as it’s you”, they concluded. “I think being able to use our wedding as such an authentic creative outlet was one of our favourite parts for both of us. The long evenings spent sewing and crafting were so special, they are moments that we will cherish for the rest of our lives.”