INSPIRATIONAL SCHEMES

INSPIRATION FOR A GOLD-BLUSH WEDDING

Combine the luxury of iridescent gold with the warmth and femininity of blush pink. Create your theme with our hints...

Warm up your white wedding with the twin hues of soft gold and blush pink. The two shades go hand-in hand and are easy to work with. Warm up the appearance of your bridesmaids with Essence of Australia’s glittery gold bridesmaids’ gowns and add a sparkle to their outfit or your own with sparkly shoes from brands like Paradox or Jimmy Choo. Invitations are another ideal way to incorporate gold in your wedding theme. Don’t try to DIY your own invitations as your domestic printer won’t be able to recreate a gold colour faithfully. Instead, opt for a commercial supplier and use gold stock of paper or foil embossing to create a realistic looking gold. Gold leafed cakes and gold candles will look good against your wedding breakfast tables, as will pearl and gold accessories around your crockery, especially if your caterer is just using white china. It’s tricky to utilise gold in your flowers without combining with another colour. Especially for spring and summer weddings, combine with light pink ad incorporate that shade as well. n

INSPIRATION FOR A BOTANICAL WEDDING

Perfect for a summer wedding in a rural county such as ours... taking botanical inspiration for your wedding with a palette of fresh mint and sage greens will help you create a wedding thats naturally beautiful...!

Some sage advice for those planning a wedding... incorporate some mint, sea or sage greens into your big day. They work extremely well as part of a botanical or woodland theme, perfect for the area’s rustic weddings. Combine them with rough-sawn timber signs and blackboards directing guests to your wedding, hay bales and hessian table plans for rustic looking weddings with big bushy bouquets of eucalyptus or gypsophila for rustic looking summer weddings. Alternatively, you can glam up green with watercolour botanical invites backed by simple cream, and tables that have shiny slivers of copper hues to them. In the case of the later, you could even use a stronger green shade and create a dark sophisticated look with bright white Old English roses in your bouquet and straight-sided white cakes with simple elegant sage ribbons. Alan Hannah provides our white A-line wedding dress, and is also the designer of our sage bridesmaids’ dresses. n