Welcome!

Hi All,

Thanks for coming to our website.  We're planning on using it as a place where we can announce plans, post interesting ideas, leave useful links about Bury St Edmunds and hear from any of you who want to give us some ideas or feedback.  At the moment we're still planning things, so will announce stuff as it's finalised and are very happy to hear your suggestions!

We'll put up information and details on our venues and some of the people you'll meet at the wedding, and hopefully provide everyone with a good idea of our plans and help you make plans of your own for the big day.

We have put up details of St Edmunds Church, http://www.stedmundkm.org.uk/ where our ceremony will take place, and the Grange Hotel, http://burystedmundshotel.com/ where our reception will be held.  All of these events will happen on the 24th May 2013.  We'll be sending round save the date cards soon (honest)!

We both can't wait to see you all soon, and hopefully we'll catch up with a good few of you between now and the wedding.  As always feel free to send me an email at tommit4@hotmail.com and we'll get back in touch with you as soon as we can.

Lots of Love,
Tom and Naomi

p.s. apologies for the obnoxious picture...

The Grange Hotel

The Grange Hotel can be found a few miles outside of Bury St Edmunds in the quiet village of Thurston.  With its beautiful Tudor style exterior, and secluded gardens, we're hoping the Grange will provide a really lovely backdrop for our wedding reception.  

We will endeavour to ensure this keeps flowing!

Guests will be greeted with canapes and drinks on arrival after the service, and will be able to explore the surrounding of the hotel.  A three course Dinner will be served shortly after, with all the usual speeches, toasting and revelry.  The hotel will remain at our service until midnight, although if it is deemed necessary we can book in advance for it to stay open later (Let me know if you think this is necessary, I imagine I'll be pooped).

The Grange is a 3 star hotel with 18 rooms (including 2 detached challets).  Accomodation is available at the grange, with rooms ranging from £80 for a single to £160 for a family room (although prices may rise soon).  Rooms can be booked online at: http://burystedmundshotel.com/ 

We will list details of other accommodation as soon as I have details to put online.  For now I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Tom and Naomi

About St Edmunds King and Martyr Church

St Edmund, King and Martyr church is the main catholic church in Bury St Edmunds and is where we are planning on having our wedding ceremony!  It's easily recognisable by it's classic roman style frontage and is located on Westgate street, at the end of a row that includes Greene King's brewery and the rest of the famous brewer's offices.

The Westgate Street face of St Edmunds, King and Martyr church

The Priest who will be doin' the stuff for us is Monsignor Phillip Shryane, who Naomi has known since moving to Bury St Edmunds in 2004.  He has kindly agreed to even tolerate my heathen ways (in no small part to Naomi's charm).

The Entrance for the Brewery tour of Greene King, at the far end of Westgate Street

"Fr Philip Shryane has been parish priest at St Edmund's for more than 10 years. The Council is very much part of our parish life and is a great source of advice and a lively area for consultation, those elected can make a valuable contribution to the life of the parish. The advice of the Council has been particularly important in the planning of our building projects over the last two years." -St Edmunds Website

The view down the isle from the altar

There's loads more information, and more photographs of the church on their official website: http://www.stedmundkm.org.uk/

As a final note, I would just like to say the front of the church does not at all make me think of this classic lunn poly advert