Jack Whitehall and Roxy Horner’s English Country Wedding Included 2 Dresses and an 8-Tier Cake

When comedian Jack Whitehall proposed to his girlfriend of four years, model Roxy Horner, he had an unexpected witness: the couple’s baby daughter, Elsie. “I’d organized a trip to Estelle Manor, just the two of us, but we messed up our childcare and didn’t have any,” remembers Jack. “We got there quite late, so I said I wanted to just go to bed and have room service,” laughs Roxy. Jack persisted, and the couple did end up going to dinner—joined by Elsie, who had eventually fallen asleep after her dad took her for a few laps around the hotel grounds in her pushchair. “The room was full of Christmas trees, it was so beautiful,” says Roxy. There, with their daughter threatening to stir (“We saw her foot twitch!”), Jack popped the question.

Roxy, 34, grew up loving Disney movies and anything with a “happily ever after” storyline, and knew that she wanted a fairytale English countryside wedding. She spoke to one planner, Studio White Events, who instantly got her vision. “They showed me a couple of venues, and Euridge Manor in Wiltshire was one of them—it was just perfect,” she says. “It was exactly a year ago, on a beautiful day like today, and there was wisteria everywhere, which I love.” Indeed, the wisteria did a lot of the legwork on the day—although the couple did hire Wild About Flowers to add some white blooms, to make everything feel more “wedding.”

When it came to finding her wedding dress, by contrast, Roxy wasn’t sure what she wanted. “I’ve done so many wedding brand shoots in my life, but I’ve never paid much attention to what I liked,” she explains. “When I went to try on dresses for my own wedding, I ended up choosing one of the first I tried on. Well, two…” The bride-to-be fell in love with two beautiful Galia Lahav gowns, and ultimately ended up deciding to get both—keeping one to change into for the party—as well as a veil.

For her accessories, Roxy chose Alaïa’s Le Coeur heels, switching into another pair by Freya Rose for the reception. “I wore them the next day too for our farewell brunch, they are so comfy,” she shares. The couple’s wedding bands were by Brilliant Earth, while Roxy also wore a diamond necklace, earrings, bracelet, and ring by Rox Jewellery. “I also wore my grandmother’s engagement ring that she handed down to me when she passed away, which was so special,” she reveals. For her “something borrowed,” she wore a bell on her bouquet—a family tradition that goes back hundreds of years. “I also wore a little blue ribbon on my garter, but it fell off!”

It wasn’t the only wardrobe malfunction. Groom Jack, 37, started the day in a Tom Ford suit, but was forced to change into his back-up suit by Dunhill. “I squatted down to pick up Elsie and my trousers split, my whole ass was hanging out,” he says, deadpan. Elsie, who was one of three flower girls at the ceremony, wore a white dress to be a mini-me of her mum. “It was very sweet when she got to the end of the aisle,” says Roxy. “I just heard her go, ‘Daddy, Daddy!’”