Creative Backdrops

Planning your wedding is the perfect opportunity to get creative and express your personality. With such a variety of venues available today, the possibilities are endless when it comes to decorating your wedding space. So why not make it a unique day that all your guests will remember? It doesn’t need to be expensive, it just needs a little bit of imagination!

One of the best ways to make a statement is to design and create a feature backdrop. This can be used as a feature for your ceremony alter, behind the head table or guest book table, or even behind the cake or dessert table. It can be purely for decor or functional to hide something in your venue that maybe clashes with your colour scheme or style ideas (great for hiding ugliness in a room!!)

Making a gorgeous focal point makes sure that your guests are drawn to the areas that are most important to you so go BIG and make something that will wow them!

It can be as simple as a twinkle light backdrop..

(Image from Wedding Wire)

Fabric, ribbon and paper are also perfect materials for creating something amazing! How about tissue pom poms, embroidery hoops or pinwheels?

(Image from Green Wedding Shoes)

(Image from Green Wedding Shoes)

(Image from Sweet Designs)

If you’ve got plenty of time (and plenty of lovely friends and family willing to help!!) why not create a beautiful curtain of origami birds?

(Image from The Little Canopy)

My absolute favourites are these stunning backdrops of giant paper flowers..

(Image from Jasmine Star)

(Image from Therese Jacinto Design)

I hope you feel inspired to try something a little bit different for your big day! So what are your favourite ideas?

Winter Wedding Style!

Anybody who knows me will know that Christmas is my absolute favourite time of year! So, as you can imagine, whenever I am asked to style a winter wedding I get just a little bit excited!! I love the idea of getting married by warm candlelight on a cold, dark wintery afternoon! The biggest challenge, however, is how to make your winter wedding seasonal without being too ‘Christmassy’ or even ‘tacky’!

The first instinct is often to use lots of white, soft blue or silver which can seem quite cold but with the glow of lots of candles, this colour scheme can be absolutely gorgeous. Why not try adding soft gold metallics to warm up the look?

     (Image from The Antique Door)                              (Image from B Z Events)

The biggest trend I have noticed in my own brides recently is their desire to incorporate lots of gypsophilia into their flowers. This is such a simple, understated flower but when used on its own in large arrangements it can be simply stunning...

        (Image from from Martha Stewart)                (Image from The Cinderella Project)

It creates the effect of huge clouds of snow when used like this and is also perfect for winter bouquets.

Another great idea is to use lots of natural wintery materials such as twigs, pine cones, raw cotton and moss to create a more relaxed rustic style. You could even spray these with snow for a more wintery effect...

         (Image from Junkerman Jones Events)              (Image from Martha Stewart)

(Image from The Natural Wedding Company)

How about a pine cone bouquet for something a bit more daring? Or try incorporating seasonal foliage into your bouquet...

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(Image from Elizabeth Anne Designs)

Red is also a fantastic colour at Christmas but why not try a deeper burgundy or aubergine colour instead of a traditional red for a very chic look?

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(Image from Aileen Tran)

So what do you think? Would you swap a summer wedding for a magical winter wonderland wedding?