A weird and wonderful wedding

2 Sept

Lucy is holding a bouquet of red, pink and orange flowers. She's wearing a floaty vintage wedding dress.

Lucy and Stuart’s criteria for the colour palette was ‘orange and pink and red … that kind of craic.’

I knew this was the wedding for me!

A sign is decorated with red plants and streamers for an alternative wedding vibe

Lucy and Stuart were a really relaxed couple. It was such an easeful process working with them. The notes I took from the first consultation with Lucy were:

‘Colours: Pink and orange and red, that kind of craic’
‘Bouquet: Weird, manic, not compact, difference in height’

The most fun brief I’ve ever had. This is some of the best work I’ve done and I think that’s a good lesson for couples getting married: Hire suppliers that you trust and let them really go for it. I couldn’t have created these designs and arrangements if Lucy had come with a really strict brief and images from Pinterest that she wanted me to copy directly from.

Lucy and Stuart are standing outside Queens Park Bowling Club in Southside Glasgow. Lucy is holding a flowing and unusual wedding bouquet and Stuart is wearing a kilt.

The iconic, rusted green gates were my favourite thing to decorate. I loved the contrast of brick and the metal, and I knew it would be sacrilege to obscure the writing at the top of the gate. So I decorated the base of the gates with foraged foliages and then added in pops of colour. This gave guests a small taste of what was to come.

A close up of an alternate floral design, it's got a base of red hydrangeas, and decorated with oranges and pink anthuriums and moss.

A close up of an alternate floral design, it's got a base of pink hydrangeas, and decorated with gold streamers and pink canterbury bells and moss.

The ‘alter’ where the ceremony was taking place was decorated with garish hydrangea designs. The couple had secretly sneaked off to the courthouse earlier in the month for a private wedding ceremony. The DJ also used the stage as well as the person who led the cèilidh.

Tables are decorated with red plants and flowers in milk bottles

Tablescapes were created with pillar box red anthurium plants, moss, milk bottles filled with pink canterbury bells, blackberries and pops of orange. Small satsumas and gold streamers added an extra touch.

A close up of Stuart and Lucy smiling. Lucy is holding an alternative wedding bouquet.

And finally, the bouquet. It was so much fun. I filled it with orange calla lilies, trailing amaranthus, vibrant roses, pale pink canterbury bells. Lots of trailing colourful ribbons were added to the bouquet as well.

I’d included blackberries, but overnight it had got quite warm and so I spent the morning picking off all the ripe berries. No way was I letting a blackberry stain Lucy’s dress!