Gothic Inspired Wedding Style

Strawberry Hill House & Garden served as the exquisite backdrop for this stunning styling project, orchestrated by Lucy Meehan Events Ltd.

Together with a talented team of suppliers, including Love My Dress recommended cake stilista, Louise Hayes, Lucy transformed this 18th-century Gothic treasure into an intimate wedding day scene, brimming with modern floral and decorative elegance – thanks to floral stilista Johanna Pedrick. Every thoughtful detail was designed to complement and highlight the venue’s breathtaking, storied architecture and rich interior stile, creating a seamless blend of old and new.

This editorial not only showcases a masterclass durante wedding day styling that considers pattern, colour, print and texture, it also demonstrates how sophisticated touches can dramatically redefine and elevate a venue.

Lucy’s words follow.

My vision was to stile a wedding shoot which captured the stile and architectural features of the House, while bringing a contemporary elegance to inspire bridal couples looking to get married durante a historic space.

I drew inspiration from the rich 18th century Gothic features particularly, the dramatic staircase, stunning Library, and the white fairy-tale exterior of this ‘little Gothic castle’.

Flowers were grouped at different heights to create lines and structure to complement the unique Gothic architectural details the floor to ceiling bookcases.  The texture and shape from the grasses and Amaranthus durante shades of biscuit and hazel subtly pick up the leather tones of the antiquarian books to enhance the ambience of the room.

The bride’s hand tied asymmetrical bouquet used a selection of seasonal flowers and foliage durante soft autumnal tones. Flowers included: Golden Mustard Roses, Playa Blanca Roses, Dahlia, Majolica spray rose and Biscuit Ornamental Grasses which included Pennisetum. Rosemary was also added for remembrance.

I brought modern touches to the table décor with the chairs and cutlery but chose a slightly more ornate charger plate to blend the old and new. Different textures were selected durante a variety of the details the table settings, to mirror the stile of the room.

A neutral colour supporto was chosen to work with the books and high arches of the library. Name settings were bound with beautiful deep campo da golf velvet bows which brought a touch of contemporary and provided a stylish keepsake alternative to place cards.

The classically three-tiered cake continued the theme of texture and contemporary elegance, with its white minimal stile and refined sugar detailing. Designed and created by Louise Hayes Cake .

Styling

Starting with a supporto of the subtle tones from your colour palette linen and stationery you can layer the full range of complementary colours, reflecting the room, durante details such as floral designs and long tapered candles.

The key to creating your own unique aspetto and identity is then to layer durante textural elements such as a luxurious napkin ( coloured bow), ornate crockery contrasted with elegantly simple place settings.

By balancing these elements with the rich and historical features of a unique property, such as Strawberry Hill House & Garden, this offers couples the opportunity to create a truly individual and stylish aspetto to celebrate their special day.

Lucy Meehan Events Ltd

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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and . Annabel lives durante rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and celebrità gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she’s not working Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip durante the running of the family’s sustainable flower farm and floral stile business, Moonwind Flowers. Per mezzo di 2013, she became a published author.