Inside Millie Radford’s winter wedding with £9k venue, 7 bridesmaids & 10 flowers girl as mum-of-3 weds Harley Passmore
MILLIE RADFORD has tied the knot with beau Harley Passmore, in a stunning winter wedding ceremony.
The mum of three, 23, looked gorgeous as she and Harley said their vows at Wennington Hall in Lancashire on Saturday.
Millie, who is the seventh child of 22 Kids and Counting’s Sue and Noel Radford looked over the moon as she shared a series of snaps of her big day to 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 dress from Deborah Jane Bridal, with an elegant veil that trailed down to the floor.
Captioning the post, she said: “23•11•2024. Mrs & Mr Passmore.
“Thank you everyone for making our day so special and most importantly a huge massive thank you to my mum and dad for helping arrange our day from start to finish and making everything so perfect.
“We had the most amazing day with everyone, I’m so proud of my whole entire family, everyone looked amazing.
“I was bursting with a beaming smile all night. I am so proud to call them my family.
“Without a doubt they all made our day even more special.”
Bridesmaids
Millie had a whopping seven bridesmaids for her big day, who all looked sensational in purple Monsoon dresses.
The dresses were one shoulder, and the girls all held gorgeous white bouquets in their hands.
Sisters Sophie, 30 and Chloe 29, were among those chosen to be bridesmaids for their siblings’ big day.
Flower Girls
As well as an abundance of bridesmaids, Millie had 10 flower girls.
The youngest daughters in the big Radford brood were flower girls, including Heidie, Bonnie, Pheobe and Hallie.
Millie’s own daughter Ophelia was also a flower girl, as well as a number of the other Radford grandchildren.
The girls all looked adorable in white dresses and had gorgeous 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 be walking down the aisle by the end of the year.
She will be saying ‘I do’ to fiance Harley Passmore after he popped the question during a family trip to Disneyland in Florida back in April.
Sue, mum to Britain’s biggest family, took to the family’s Instagram Stories to share a snap of Millie and her sister Sophie admiring bridal gowns in a local wedding store.
She let the image speak for itself and left it caption-free, simply tagging Millie on top of it.
Sue recently revealed that Millie and Harley’s wedding will be happening in 2024, as she told OK! magazine about the storylines in the new series of their Channel 5 reality show 22 Kids and Counting.
“There are lots of things in this series,” she said.
“It will show Noel’s adoption story, Millie’s engagement is very exciting – the wedding should be around the end of this year – and Katie’s gender reveal is coming.”
Saxophone Player
The Radford wedding was a lively affair, with the family hiring a saxophonist to entertain the crowd.
The bumper brood hit the dancefloor and boogied to tracks such as Whitney Houston‘s classic I wanna Dance With Somebody as disco lights lit up the room.
£9000 Wedding Venue
Earlier this year, Mum-of-22 Sue Radford took to her Instagram Stories to share an inside look at Wennington Hall in Lancashire, where Millie tied the knot.
“Spent a lovely afternoon talking wedding prep at the wedding venue,” Sue wrote, over a picture of one of the stunning lounges inside the venue, which only opened in spring this year.
“So exciting!” she added, tagging Millie, Harley and her husband Noel.
Wennington Hall is situated between the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and Ribble Valley, and has four locations from which couples can choose for their civil ceremonies.
It has capacity for 140 guests in the main hall for the wedding meal, and can accommodate 250 guests in the evening.
It’s also been crowned the North East’s Hotel Venue of the Year, North West’s Events Team of the Year and Best Venue in Lancashire.
But it isn’t cheap to get married there, with packages starting at a whopping £8,995.
After the big day, the wedding party have the option to stay at the venue, while new husband and wife Millie and Harley will undoubtedly have chosen to be in the Honeymoon Suite.
Harley’s Nerves
Earlier this week, Harley opened up about feeling nervous about his nuptials.
Sharing a picture of himself and Millie to his Instagram stories Harley wrote: “Only so many days til I see my beautiful wife-to-be walk down the aisle.”
He then invited followers to ask him any questions they wanted answering, with the Instagram users happily obliging.
Someone told Harley to “enjoy the wedding and embrace it all”, with the 23-year-old responding: “We will do, thank you so much.
“I can’t wait!”
“How are the nerves?” another questioned.
With Harley admitting: “Not great lol, so nervous.
“But thank you so much”.
Millie fell pregnant for the first time aged 18, and welcomed daughter Ophelia into the world in September 2020
Millie is no longer with Ophelia’s father, who’s identity remains a secret, as they they broke up not long after she fell pregnant.
The reality star opened up about her relationship with him and revealed: “he just wasn’t happy to step up and be a dad so he’s never been named”.
On February 20, 2022, she welcomed her second child, a son, Chester.
Millie kept her pregnancy secret until her due date and in March 2022, opened up about Chester’s birth in a question time “catch up” on her Instagram stories.
She also identified Chester’s dad for the first time, revealing it to be Harley.
In May 2023, Millie revealed 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 she Harley had asked her to marry him, during a trip to Disneyland in Florida.
In July 2024, mum Sue let slip that Millie and Harley would be tying the knot before the end of the year, and even shared a snap of the bride-to-be looking at potential wedding dresses.