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Well hello Wednesday afternoon! How on earth did you come around so quickly? We're not complaining however, especially not when you bring gifts like Joanne and Luke’s fabulous 60's and 70's inspired whimsical wedding. Readers - I think you're going to fall head over heels for Joanne's pretty dress,floral headpiece and infectious smile.
Joanne, a Fashion Grader/Marker for Karen Millen tied the knot with her beau Luke, a retail manager for a games brand on 15th August last year at The Royal College of Physicians on Queen Street in Edinburgh.
“Luke and I are really into music, and have a really eclectic taste however a few of our all time favourites are best know from the late 60’s and 70’s, such as Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Neil Young, The Doors, Joni Mitchell etc, so the music by these people and the eras in which they are from was a big influence on the style of wedding we had."
We of course wanted the day to feel special but we also really wanted it to be really easy going, relaxed and fun for us and our guests. With yellow and green being our favourite colours and with daises being my favourite flower we took inspiration here to have bright colours and wild flowers. So with that and our music influence we ended up with elements of 70’s bohemian while keeping the day elegant and special.
We also thought that having the ceremony in Edinburgh centre would be ideal as we really fancied just going to a local restaurant afterwards to keep the day relaxed and with the Fringe festival being on during this time that the city would have a lot of atmosphere around it. So after lots of searching in the city, we found The Royal College of Physicians, which is just stunning!! We chose the Cullen Suite as it’s a Georgian town house room that over looks the Firth of Fourth to Fife. It’s a beautiful pale blue and white airy room, the perfect size for our wee wedding of 32 guests.”
“At the time we got married we had been engaged for five and a half years. Luke is from Kent and I’m from Fife, Scotland. I moved down to Kent to study Fashion at UCA in August 2006. During this time I started working part time for Gamestation to help support my studies. It was then on a work night out in Jan 2007 that Luke and I met. He was working in the other branch in the same town, and we ended up becoming friends for a couple months before we got together in March of that year.
We spent that first year going to gigs, getting to know each other, spending time together with our families and going on holiday, before finally moving in with each other. Then a day shy of a year of together Luke proposed. He asked me at our home in Kent - I needed a bit of convincing as I didn’t think he was being serious at first, however he assured me he was, and the next day we went to an antique jeweller in Rochester and picked a ring!! Since then we have been lucky to have spent lots of time together, go a few trips, and make ourselves a lovely wee home. We finally set a date during Spring 2012 for the August 2013.”
“I had three wedding dresses (I'm honestly not a diva!). My main dress that I wore for the majority of the day was from Phase Eight. Then just before the wedding meal, I changed into an original Edwardian tea dress that I purchased from Hope & Harlequin. Very late on in the evening of the reception I changed into a beautiful wee lace and tulle dress from Karen Millen - though sadly our photographer had left by then so I have no official photographs.
I wasn’t really sure what kind of wedding dress I wanted before I started looking, all I know was that I definitely didn’t want a big dress, but possibly something shorter, vintage, or vintage inspired - I wasn't even sure if I wanted an actual wedding dress or not! So with a couple of friends I decided to go shopping in London, heading to John Lewis so I could see a range of styles that suited our budget. Amongst the selection I picked up was an elegant, all over lace, full length wedding dress by Phase Eight, that had a train. As soon as I tried it on, it made me feel beautiful and I loved that it was vintage and bohemian inspired in it's design."
"Decision made, I was so happy and loved my dress! Knowing that I'm not always the most traditional of girls, my Mum was thrilled when she found out that I had chosen a full length gown. Having made my purchase, I stopped looking at wedding dresses, but I was at a vintage wedding fair in London looking for a head piece when I found this little Edwardian tea dress from Hope & Harlequin, that I tried on as I fell slightly in love with it at first sight. It fitted perfect, so I thought I would buy that one too!!
As I was in love with both of my dresses, I decided that the Edwardian one would be ideal for after the ceremony when we are heading out in Edinburgh city centre as I wouldn’t need to hold up the train. The simple lace one felt so special and bridal which I loved and when else can you wear a train! And the Edwardian one was so original and fun and also fitted into that bohemian vibe that I love so much.”
"I had thought of going for some kind of head piece but really loved the idea of having fresh flowers in my hair so our florist, Erin from Narcissus Flowers in Edinburgh, made me the most beautiful floral crown. She used my favourite flowers daisies and made sure there were a lot of yellow and green in there for a really natural summer rustic look - and of course a few thistles to represent my Scottish heritage."
"I really wanted flowers that were wild looking, almost like they had been picked out of a field, I also knew that I didn’t want anything uniform or formal, but a fabulous mix of fresh flowers with lots of colour and texture. Luke and I aren’t the most formal of couples, so we wanted something that represented us - something fun, and fitting for the occasion. I knew I definitely wanted there to be daisies as these are my favourites and for my bouquet for there to be yellows and a bit of greenery.
I adore rustic and bohemian style, so when searching I kept this in mind. I came across a florist called Narcissus not far from the venue which looked ideal, and when I went to meet with Erin from the store she knew exactly what I was after for the bouquets and buttonholes, and immediately started sending me over bloom images so she could put together all my favourites. We also wanted to make sure that there was a few thistle in there, which were just beautiful, and she also put in a little blue into the girls bouquets to match the buttonhole and then a muted tone of blue in mine to tie them all together, and as mentioned before Erin also made me the most amazing flower halo for my hair! I loved the flowers we had; they were elegant, summery and wild!
"I really loved the idea of my three bridesmaids wearing different dresses and in different colours. Again we wanted a fairy relaxed wedding and wanted the girls to be comfortable and suit all their different styles and shapes. So I picked a colour for each of them that I knew would suit there skin tones and match the flowers, and I decided to have lace dresses so that they would all tie in nicely together and with me. The girls all helped me search through ideas and had a lot of input in the decisions, this was tricky at times as I was in Kent, Nina and Lee in Fife and Gail in Australia.
So my cousin Nina is in a yellow dress by Almari from House of Fraser, Lee’s pink dress is be Ben De Lisi for Debenhams and Gail’s blue dress is from Oasis."
"I asked the girls to pick their own shoes so that they were wearing something comfortable and their own style as long as they were a neutral shade so not to distract from the amazing colours of their dresses. So they were bought from different places including Marks and Spencer’s and Debenhams.
I also gave each of the girls a personalised initial bracelet as part of a thank you gift the day before the wedding. These are really simple silk thread and silver and are from Oliver Bonas Other than that I was happy for them to wear whatever accessories they liked as long as they were effortless."
“Luke is usually very casually dressed and wanted to wear something sharp but didn’t fancy wearing a black or grey suit. He also wanted to stand out a bit and he wearing something different to his best men, so when looking for something he liked we came across this sapphire blue suit from Burtons Menswear.
He instantly felt good wearing it, the colour really suited him and the blue with his tan shoes really worked. With yellow being one of our main colour inspirations we searched for some vintage looking ones for all the boys, which we ended up finding in Next. His tan belt is from Rokit on Brick Lane. He also wore a pair of beautiful leather brogues by Peter Werth. He looked incredibly handsome on our wedding day, he always does to me but it was lovely seeing him looking so sharp.”
"Our wedding cake was made my Mum’s friend Alisa Reddick. We wanted a simple cake, nothing over the top so to tie in with the flowers we had chosen we decided to go with a daisy cake, but for the daises to look as though they were cascading down the cake. I had seen a cake online that I really liked so I printed off the image to give to Alisa and let her do her magic. Not being fans on fruit cake we went with each of our favourite kinds of cake, so we had chocolate and lemon! She even created the peony roses out of icing!"
Those yellow peep toe shoes of Joanne's are from Dune by the way!
for capturing this part of the day.
