Yellow wedding flowers: A sunshine shoot
We, like 99% of the population, appreciate enthusiasm when it’s directed our way and there’s one girl in the wedding industry who knocks it out the park when it comes to this kind quality. We’re talking about Ellie, who aptly brands herself under the name ‘The Wedding Enthusiast’. It’s not just us who think Ellie is great (and we promise, despite this ode to her, we’re not even related), she works with some of the best wedding professionals in the industry, including The Wedding Collective and the Most Curious Wedding Fair as well as running her own bouncy, beautiful podcast called The Business Proposal.
These nods to Ellie’s talent and her ever-positive emails are what had us immediately excited back in the summer when she got in touch to ask us if we’d like to provide florals for a styled shoot she was producing. We – of course – wanted to help and replied with probably a few too many exclamation marks.
The brief was a syrupy, sunshine one that required yellows in all their glory; hold the mustard, we want buttercup here, people. Always ones to enjoy a chance to do something a little bit different we headed off to London’s incredible New Covent Garden to source (mostly) British blooms that radiated warmth and positivity. We plumped for roses, kangaroo’s paw, cosmos and more to create Ellie’s vision. Our final pieces were a presentation bouquet (which we think are going to become more popular in the next few years in a nod to retro pageant-style florals), a sweet little buttonhole, and a handful of table arrangements and bud vases. We also sent a few candlesticks (the glass ones are ours, sadly not the cool little pottery ones), our favourite beeswax golden candles and the frayed edged napkins. The other suppliers knocked it out the park when it came to exuding pure joy, with Nat’s Paper Studio delivering as ever on the stationary, Isobel Bakes handing over one of the most beautiful cakes we’ve ever seen, Maid of Gingerbread who created those fortune cookie masterpieces, and fellow-Scot Rasbery Pavlova sending a gloriously frothy, fun dress for the beautiful model Natasha Soodeen to wear (whose hair and makeup was done by Lucy Jones working for Knot your Average Bride and whose SPLENDID hairband was made by Lilley Studio). The whole thing was captured at The Dead Dollhouse by Rachel Takes Pictures and directed by Ellie under her ‘The Wedding Enthusiast’ umbrella. A talented team, we hope you agree. Thank you x a million to all the other guys who made everything tie together so, so beautifully and allowed our flowers the perfect elements to pal about with for the shoot.
Below are a few (okay, quite a lot of) snaps to give you an idea of the final look we created together. If you like what you see, let us know if you have a project you’d like to work on… like your wedding. Okay, bye.
