The Button Factory · Cheltenham

Georgia & Josh: Seven Days Apart

Georgia and Josh’s emotional Jewish wedding at The Button Factory in Cheltenham, shaped by seven days apart, hourly check-ins and humour.

Georgia & Josh in the defining frame of their wedding at The Button Factory

Georgia and Josh spent the seven days before their wedding deliberately not seeing each other. It was a Jewish tradition they chose to observe, and Georgia admits it was tough. But when they finally saw one another, there was no need to manufacture a big moment. The anticipation had already done its work.

For Georgia, seeing Josh for the first time was the clearest memory of the whole wedding. The emotion, the excitement and the weight of what was about to happen were all right there. It is the sort of detail photographs can suggest, but they cannot fully explain: the reason that first meeting carried so much was because they had made space to miss each other first.

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A wedding with room for both gravity and mischief

That balance seems to sit at the centre of Georgia and Josh’s relationship. They were clearly up for the significance of the occasion, but never interested in becoming overly serious about themselves.

Their bar sign said “Hydration Station”, an inside joke that has since found a place at home and still makes them smile. Georgia’s favourite photograph is the one where she is grabbing Josh’s tooshie—an entirely unsurprising choice, she says, because it captures their usual dynamic. It is a small piece of evidence, but a useful one: these two know how to keep a meaningful day feeling like their own.

The jokes did not make the emotion any less real. If anything, they gave it somewhere to breathe. The seven-day wait, the personal sign and that classic bit of cheekiness all belonged to the same wedding because they belong to the same couple.

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Choosing people who felt right

Georgia and Josh chose The Button Factory in Cheltenham because it immediately felt like their vibe: simple, intimate and with enough character that it did not need to be overloaded. They held their Chuppah downstairs, then moved upstairs, where the changing afternoon and evening atmosphere was part of what they had hoped for from the venue.

What mattered most once they arrived was seeing their idea become real. The florals were a major part of that, as were the festoon lights and the electric florals later on. But Georgia and Josh’s approach to the day was less about adding more and more, and more about trusting the right choices.

That extended to the people around them. They took time to choose vendors whose work they loved and whose personalities felt compatible with theirs. Georgia’s advice to other couples is refreshingly practical: weddings do not need to be stressful when you have chosen people you genuinely vibe with. For them, that care in the planning meant the day felt supported by people who understood their style rather than working against it.

The Button Factory team also made the process straightforward. Georgia and Josh found them easy to speak with about everything, which is no small thing when there are plenty of moving parts and decisions to make.

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The hourly return to each other

After the ceremony, Georgia checked her Garmin for her step count. More importantly, she made sure that every hour she found Josh for a proper check-in and a moment alone together.

It is one of the loveliest details from their story because it is so practical. A wedding can pull a couple in every direction at once, especially when there are people to greet and so much happening around them. Georgia’s small ritual gave them a way back to one another throughout it all.

Those brief moments are among the memories she values most. They were not grand gestures or scheduled highlights; they were simply a decision to pause, find Josh and remember that the day was theirs.

Georgia and Josh’s wedding at The Button Factory was full of feeling, but it never lost their humour or their sense of perspective. They made room for the gravity of seven days apart, then kept choosing each other—in the quiet check-ins, the in-jokes and the moments that were unmistakably, brilliantly them.

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