A look inside Millie Radford’s winter wedding with a £9,000 venue and seven bridesmaids
MILLIE RADFORD has tied the knot with the beautiful Harley Passmore in a beautiful winter wedding ceremony.
The mother-of-three, 23, looked stunning as she and Harley said their vows at Wennington Hall in Lancashire on Saturday.
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Millie, the seventh child of Sue and Noel Radford of 22 Kids and Counting, looked to the moon as she shared a series of photos from her big day on Instagram.
The bride, who shares two children with Harley and has another child from a previous relationship, looked a vision in a glamorous white lace gown from Deborah Jane Bridal, with an elegant floor-length veil.
She captioned the post: “23•11•2024. Mrs. and Mr. Passmore.
“Thank you everyone for making our day so special and especially a big thank you to my mum and dad for helping to arrange our day from start to finish and making everything so perfect.
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“We had a great day with everyone, I’m so proud of my whole family, everyone looked fantastic.
“I was bursting with a radiant smile all night long. I am so proud to call them my family.
“Without a doubt, they all made our day even more special.”
Bridesmaids
Millie had no fewer than seven bridesmaids for her big day, all of whom looked sensational in purple Monsoon dresses.
The dresses were one shoulder and the girls all held beautiful white bouquets in their hands.
Sisters Sophie, 30 and Chloe 29, were among those chosen as bridesmaids for their siblings’ big day.
Flower girls
In addition to an abundance of bridesmaids, Millie also had ten flower girls.
The youngest daughters in the great Radford brood were flower girls, including Heidie, Bonnie, Pheobe and Hallie.
Millie’s own daughter Ophelia was also a flower girl, as were several other Radford grandchildren.
The girls all looked adorable in white dresses and had beautiful white headbands in their hair.
What do we know about Millie Radford’s wedding?
Millie, 23, the seventh child of parents of 22 Sue and Noel Radford, will walk down the aisle by the end of the year.
She’s set to say yes to fiance Harley Passmore after he popped the question during a family trip to Disneyland in Florida in April.
Sue, mother of Britain’s largest family, went to live with the family Instagram stories to share a photo of Millie and her sister Sophie admiring wedding dresses at a local wedding shop.
She let the image speak for itself and left it without any captions, simply tagging Millie on top.
Sue recently revealed that Millie and Harley’s wedding will take place in 2024, as she shared OK! magazine about the storylines in the new series of their Channel 5 reality show 22 Kids and Counting.
“There are a lot of things in this series,” she said.
“It will show Noel’s adoption story, Millie’s engagement is very exciting – the wedding should take place at the end of this year – and Katie’s gender reveal is coming up.”
Saxophonist
The wedding in Radford was a lively affair, with the family hiring a saxophonist to entertain the crowd.
The bumper brood hit the dance floor and boogied to songs like Whitney Houston’s classic I wanna Dance With Somebody as disco lights lit up the room.
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£9000 Wedding venue
Earlier this year, mum-of-22 Sue Radford took to her Instagram Stories to take a look at Wennington Hall in Lancashire, where Millie tied the knot.
“Wonderful afternoon spent chatting about wedding preparations at the wedding venue,” Sue wrote alongside a photo of one of the beautiful lounges in the venue, which didn’t open until 1pm. spring this year.
“So exciting!” she added, tagging Millie, Harley and her husband Noel.
Wennington Hall is located between the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and Ribble Valley, and has four locations for couples to choose from for their civil ceremonies.
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It has a capacity for 140 guests in the main hall for the wedding meal and can accommodate 250 guests in the evening.
It has also been crowned Hotel Venue of the Year in the North East, Event Team of the Year in the North West and Best Venue in Lancashire.
But it’s not cheap to get married there, with packages starting from as much as £8,995.
After the big day, the wedding party has the option to stay at the venue, while new couple Millie and Harley will undoubtedly have opted for the bridal suite.
Harley’s nerves
Earlier this week, Harley said he was nervous about his wedding.
Harley shared a photo of himself and Millie on his Instagram Stories: “Only a few more days until I see my beautiful wife-to-be walk down the aisle.”
He then invited followers to ask him any questions they wanted answered, which Instagram users happily obliged.
Someone told Harley to “enjoy the wedding and embrace everything,” to which the 23-year-old replied, “We will, thank you very much.
“I can’t wait!”
“How are the nerves?” another wondered.
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While Harley admits: “Not great lol, so nervous.
“But thank you very much.”
Millie became pregnant for the first time at the age of 18 and welcomed daughter Ophelia into the world in September 2020
Millie is no longer with Ophelia’s father, whose identity remains a secret, as they separated not long after she became pregnant.
The reality star opened up about her relationship with him, revealing: “he just wasn’t happy about stepping up and being a father so he was never mentioned”.
On February 20, 2022, she welcomed her second child, a son, Chester.
Millie kept her pregnancy a secret until her due date and opened up about Chester’s birth in a March 2022 question time “catching up” on her Instagram stories.
She also identified Chester’s father for the first time, revealing it to be Harley.
In May 2023, Millie revealed that she is pregnant for the third time with her partner.
Her baby, another daughter named Jade, was born in September 2023.
In April 2024, Millie excitedly told fans that Harley had proposed to her during a trip to Disneyland in Florida.
In July 2024, mom Sue revealed that Millie and Harley would tie the knot before the end of the year, and even shared a get it of the bride-to-be looking at potential wedding dresses.
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