For ladies, we recommend longer dresses or jumpsuits as they will be more suitable for Norwegian autumn weather. Hats are not typical in Norway, but welcome should you choose. Please ensure you bring a warmer coat or that your partner is prepared to depart with theirs. In terms of colours, please feel free to wear what you feel most comfortable in (including black and red, should that be your preference). For our gentlemen, we advise dark suits. For those that have smoking or morning suits readily available, we'd love to see your best 007 impression. We are also fortunate enough to have men who have or are serving in uniformed forces, and for those individuals we very much welcome dress uniform. In Norway it's also commonplace to wear a national costume (bunad) to weddings. As such, anyone wanting to wear their national costume will fit right in!

For our ladies, there will be a walk on grass from the marquee to the main house so Thea would recommend leaving your finest suede stilettos at home. Other than that, please feel free to pick your poison!

Of course! However, we ask that during the ceremony and the bridal entry, you put your phone away. There's only so much photoshop can do and our photographers advise that a room full of people on their phones doesn't do much for the ambiance of the wedding photos

Although we do recognise that Norwegian weddings typically encourage a lot of speeches, we do ask that anyone wanting to say a few words register it with our toastmaster extraordinaire Greg Whitby-Cox!

Another (perhaps odd) Norwegian custom. Should you wish to do a 'costume change' from your bunad or other outfit, you will be able to do it at the reception location. We will happily store your change of clothes until you can collect it at a later point in time.

The majority of the ceremony will be in english. However, due to the church belonging to a rural constituency the priest will likely conduct some parts in Norwegian. If this is the case, the norwegian word for "I Do" is a rather unimpressive "Ja". Pronounced quite like the way a entitled uni fresher would say "Year" when talking about their south east asian Gap Year... We ask that out of consideration to our english speaking guests, all speeches are in english.

Although we love your little ones, we also recognise all parents' need for a night off. As such, the wedding weekend will be adults only.

Given we're planning a wedding in October in Norway, we're taking the attitude of 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst'. Snow is highly unlikely but going by prior years there will be a 50/50 chance of rain. The ceremony will be inside, and the reception in a marquee, but in the event of rain we will have umbrellas stashed away. Heaters will be provided, as well as blankets for the ladies. This being said, we would recommend the ladies to bring a woollen coat (fur is also widely accepted at Scandinavian weddings)

For the ceremony there is plenty of parking outside of the church, and you can park at the property for the reception. We kindly remind our British and American guests that the legal blood alcohol limit in Norway is 0.02% vs. the 0.08% in the UK/US, so we strongly advise against driving if you intend on drinking anything stronger than a mocktail. Taxis from the reception to central Drøbak are typically available at c.a. NOK 350.