C & H·01/16/2027·
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We are getting married!

Catherine

&

Heathcliff

Invite you to celebrate their wedding

JAN162027

Thrushcross Grange - Haworth, West Yorkshire

Come to the Moors

We met on the heath as children and never quite came back. On the sixteenth of January we are making it official, in a stone hall with the wind at the windows and the fire lit early. Bring your warmest coat and your loudest laugh.

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Catherine & Heathcliff

Keep the Day for Us

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days until the moors see us wed

The Sixteenth of January

How the day unfolds

3:00 PM

Ceremony

The Old Chapel

Vows said plainly, while the winter light still holds.

4:00 PM

Warming Hour

The Stone Porch

Mulled wine and hot toddies while we steal away for photographs.

6:00 PM

Dinner

The Long Hall

Roast lamb, dark bread, and rather too many speeches.

8:30 PM

Dancing

By the Great Fire

Fiddles, reels, and nobody leaving early.

What to Wear

Moorland formal

Formal, but warm. January up here is beautiful and merciless, and there is a short walk over open ground between the chapel and the hall.

Peat
Heather
Slate
Fog
Ivory
Please do
Wool, velvet, tweed - anything with weight to it
A proper coat you can still dance in
Boots that have met mud before
Deep winter colours
Please don't
Stiletto heels - the path is old stone
Anything you would mourn if the wind took it
White, in any of its disguises

Will You Come?

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Before You Set Off

The practical things

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How do we get up to the hall?

The lane above Haworth is single-track and unlit, so cars are best left in the village. Our minibus runs the last mile from The Black Bull every twenty minutes from two o'clock.

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How cold is it, honestly?

Cold. There is about four minutes of open ground between the chapel and the hall, and the wind does not negotiate. Coats are taken at the door and blankets are waiting inside.

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Can we bring the children?

Please do. There is a quiet room off the hall with beds made up for the little ones once the dancing starts.

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Is there somewhere to stay?

We have held rooms at The Black Bull and the White Lion in the village. Mention our names when you book.

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The Two of Us

Photographs from the last few winters

Where to Find Us

Above the village, where the road runs out

Thrushcross Grange

Moor Lane, Haworth, West Yorkshire BD22

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From Keighley, follow the A629 and turn off at Cross Roads for Haworth. The village car park sits at the foot of Main Street. The lane beyond it is single-track, unlit and unkind to low cars, so please leave yours below and let us carry you the last mile.

Keighley station, then the branch line up to Haworth

Minibus from The Black Bull, every 20 minutes from 2:00 PM

Village car park on Changegate, free from 6 PM

The walk from the chapel to the hall is four minutes over open ground.

How We Got Here

In five weathers

2011

The moor

Nine and ten years old, sent out of doors and left to our own devices. We walked to the top, decided we belonged to the place, and quietly decided the rest of it too.

2018

Away

Catherine went south for work and Heathcliff stayed north. Three years of long letters, later phone calls, and trains booked the moment payday landed.

2021

Home again

A cottage at the edge of the village with a bad roof, a good hearth, and the tops framed in the kitchen window.

2024

The question

Asked on the walk up to Top Withens, in weather no reasonable person would go out in. The answer took no time at all.

2027

The sixteenth

And now the whole business becomes official, with every one of you watching.

Gifts

Your company is the whole of it

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The Roof Fund

The cottage still lets the weather in at the north corner. Slate is not romantic, but it is honest.

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A Warmer Wind

A week somewhere the wind is kind, once January has done its worst.

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The Moorland Trust

A gift in your name toward keeping these hills open, wild and walked.

Come for the day. Stay until the fire goes out.

Catherine & Heathcliff

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