Courtney and Andy got married at the super cool urban venue Baad near Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland Ballroom. The venue has great light and an industrial, clean line look so contrasted beautifully with the couple’s blousey, romantic summer wedding flowers. As their wedding was in July there was an abundance of choice available in the flower field with lots of gorgeous summer blooms hitting their stride at that time of year.
The bridal bouquet and buttonholes
Courtney’s bouquet was filled with beautiful large headed summer blooms and delicate frothy flowers to give a soft romantic feel. We used seasonal scottish grown flowers like japanese anemone, roses, astilbe, margoram, sweat peas, hydrangea and peonies as well as eucalyptus, fern and frothy panicum grass to complenet the delicate lace detailing on the bride’s dress. This was all finished off with gorgeous trailing silk ribbon hand dyed with plant materials.
We wired a selection of smaller flowers for the bride’s stylist to weave into her hair which coordinated with the materials used in her bridal bouquet.
We continued this colour theme in the gents’ buttonholes using eucalyptus, spray rose and white thistle which looked great against the tweed material of their waistcoats.
Re-purposing flowers
Baad is a venue where the ceremony and reception space are the same so we designed flowers that could be moved and used for both parts of the ceremony. First we created a gorgeous foam free hanging installation in front of the bar where there is a natural arch created by the mezanine level. This was a great focal point and really framed the space where the ceremony was taking place.
In this piece we used lots of fresh foliage and big headed blousey flowers like peony, roses and hydrangea to make an eye-catching focal piece. We added in textural, trailing elements like amaranthus and grasses and frothy fillers like yarrow and veronica.
The bride and groom had collected lots of different sizes and shapes of glass bottle and we filled these with seasonal wild flowers. During the ceremony we lined them up on either side at the top of the aisle to create a kind of meadow effect and then when the ceremony finished and the tables were set out for the reception we dotted these along the centre of the tables.
We also added a loose foliage runner down the middle of the tables and sprigs of greenery to each place setting which worked well with the colours used in the stationery and the table linen.
More summer weddings
You might think a natural wild flower look is only for barns or rustic venues but urban and industrial settings create a great contrast with the flowing shapes of wild flowers and can really make their natural beauty stand out.
If you’ve been inspired by Courtney and Andy’s summer wedding and want to organise your own get in touch or have a look at some of our other recent blog posts for ideas and inspiration.
For more pastel summer weddings look at Antonia and Andrew’s wedding or Natalie and Neil’s.
Or to see Baad dressed in a riot of rainbow colours check out Becky and Scott’s wedding.