Bespoke Wedding: Clifton Observatory

22 Jun

It’s no secret, I love weddings! There is no wedding too big or too small - from the smallest boutonnieres for elopements to overhanging dance floor floral installations for large celebrations.

I also offer services for the design and styling for weddings, which includes the entire look and feel of the event. From tabletop details, hiring, furniture styling, and photo opportunities.

Recently I had the pleasure of curating for Louise and Michael’s wedding. Both Louise and Mike are creatives and I found it a huge compliment to be approached by creatives of their caliber in the creative industries. Louise is an animation producer and Michael is an illustrator, storyboard artist and character designer for Aardman both having worked on Wallace and Gromit and numerous other well known Aardman productions.

It was very special that the Clifton Observatory was their venue of choice (other than the obvious view of the suspension bridge and that they live locally in Clifton village) but at the location is an iconic Wallace and Gromit bench (the sort that are exhibited all over Bristol City.) The type of sight-seeing bench that one can sit on to take photos with, it provided an extra special touch as it just so happened to be at the venue for their wedding.

The reason for this being such a special moment was because Louise and Mike met over the designing and developing of the famous Aardman characters, Wallace and Gromit.

Louise and Mike had a civil partnership and chose to celebrate the 70's as it was an era from their childhood that they were nostalgic of. I was asked to do the florals, as well as the styling which included all hiring of items including chairs, glassware and tablecloths. I even got napkins custom made in a 70's themed print which was screen-printed in Berlin, sewn in London before being sent to me, here in Clifton.

The bottle green glassware and champagne saucers were a real trend in the 70's, which I couldn’t miss out on exploiting - especially as these trends have started to resurface. I chose tones of sage greens: used in some complimentary napkins and vases, dusty pinks: in the central retro vases and mustard yellows: brought through in the table cloths, Erasmus and unusual mustard yellow Roses. Louise wanted something unusual and creative for the curation which gave me lots of creative freedom.

Oh and just as a little extra, we added a gold disco ball because if a 70's party doesn’t have a disco ball, is it really 70’s?

Louise and Mike were just so lovely and easy to work with, had such a vibrant and playful vision for their wedding and gave me the creative freedom to execute this beautiful vision on their special day.

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