DIY Farm Wedding with a Woodland Ceremony

DIY Farm Wedding with a Woodland Ceremony

June 23, 2012

Published 23 June 2012 · Last updated 19 October 2026
By Chanelle Segerius-Bruce & Craig Bruce

I am breaking all the cardinal rules of blogging with this wedding.

First of all, we shot it last year. I haven’t blogged the full wedding yet for a number of reasons. Robyn & Robin’s wedding was featured on Rock My Wedding and published in both Wedding and Wedding Flowers magazines.

I wanted to wait until those features had all run their course and then to share the full story from my point of view right here on my blog.

What has made it so difficult is narrowing down a number of images to do a blog post. There were so many gorgeous handmade super DIY details, special moments between the couple, an outdoor ceremony in the woods, a barn decorated and renovated from scratch by the family, a Jenny Packham gown… oh the list goes on and on and on.

So here it is. With lots of images. Enjoy.

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Chanelle Segerius-Bruce and Craig Bruce are co-founders of Segerius-Bruce Photography. Together they have photographed weddings since 2008, from the UK to destination weddings overseas, and their work has been published 74 times in wedding and photography magazines. They now live in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, where Craig photographs families and weddings and Chanelle photographs personal branding shoots.

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