Perfect for a Monday, we’ve got a bright and cheery English wedding for you today! Imogen and Adam celebrated their wedding with orange and teal details at a gorgeous estate in the English countryside. Utilizing vintage pieces and their bold color palette, the pair sought to relive a day in a London park with their friends and family. Beautifully captured by CG Weddings, Imogen and Adam’s wedding will have you singing, dancing, and longing to spend a day at your favorite park. Enjoy!
The Couple: Imogen & Adam
The Wedding: St. Michael and All Angels Church & Walcot Hal, Shropshire
The Inspiration:Theme was ‘a day out in the London parks’. We love the art nouveau Art Deco underground posters advertising days out in the London parks. We wanted to do a contemporary take on this using bold colours (turquoise and orange).
Thank you to Imogen and Adam for sharing their gorgeous day with us! If you’re loving Imogen and Adam’s orange and teal English wedding, head over to our Wedding Photo Gallery for more orange and teal inspiration.
While we are well into springtime this April, I couldn’t help but share this gorgeous winter wedding from Alison Conklin Photography. If I could close my eyes and imagine the perfect snowy soiree, this would be it! With a cool color palette of soft whites and hues of silver and gray, sweet pine cone details and snow globes placed on a soft knitted tabletop, cozy mittens and roasting s’mores by the fire – what could possibly be better for a winter wedding?
The Goals: Tom and I both envisioned a very intimate and warm setting. It was very important to us to have a relatively small wedding with just close family and friends present. (We both tend to get nervous in front of crowds, which is why it was such a great comfort to have my brother-in-law marry us!) Food was another one of our priorities–and it was one of the things that made Terrain so attractive to us as a venue! Food has always played a big part in both of our family lives; my mom is a chef and Tom’s mom is a fantastic cook. We knew we wanted to have some of favorite Croatian (for Tom’s family) and Polish (for my family) comfort foods served at the wedding. We wanted to create a sense of family and intimacy for all of our guests—and the best way we knew how to do that was through food.
The Look: All along I felt very strongly about choosing a classic, traditional gown and creating a wedding day look that was very timeless. I saw the “Bridgette” dress (a silk, cap sleeved, V-neck lace gown with a silver guipure belt) from Claire Pettibone online and asked Marina at Nicole Bridal & Formal Shoppe if they could get a sample in the store for me to try. It was the first dress I tried on, and it just felt right. The dress was so lightweight and comfortable, very easy to move and dance in. The frosted silver belt fit perfectly with the winter theme of the wedding. I loved that the dress was very romantic and traditional, but the open lace back gave it a just a hint of edge. It’s just a happy coincidence that the dress shares my name! I had a lot of fun with my accessories – and certainly made the most of having a winter wedding! To keep warm, I wore a beautiful, vintage fur stole, cozy bow-bedecked gloves that I found on a spur-of-the-moment visit to Anthropologie and rabbit-fur ear muffs from BHLDN. My blush booties were purchased from my favorite shoe designer, Loeffler Randall. For my beauty look, I was definitely inspired by the Old Hollywood look. I don’t wear much makeup everyday but I love a bold lip for special occasions. My makeup artist used MAC Ruby Woo, which was just the perfect, quintessential red lipstick. My hairdresser Zaneta from The Studio CL totally nailed the vintage ’40s waves.
The Design: I wasn’t ever motivated by a strong sense of color when planning the wedding. Instead, we had this vision of a nostalgic winter wedding, one that would conjure up memories of childhood snow days. My mom and I started thinking a lot about old Dick & Jane books and old Golden books, which eventually inspired the idea of our save-the-date and the custom illustration for our invite. From there, we thought about all the things we loved best about winter. We wanted our friends and family to feel as if they were encased inside a winter snow globe and recall the rosy cheeks and cold fingers and toes of childhood snow days. To warm up with cozy blankets and wool mittens and mugs of hot chocolate and roaring fire pits. The tables were decorated with knit table runners and snow globes that my family and I made out of mason jars, pine cones and bottle brush trees. My florist Sullivan Owen created beautiful wintery arrangements in mercury vases and bowls. She also turned a pair of vintage skis I purchased on eBay into a floating chandelier over the head table. She took the ice skates and sleds my family and I found at flea markets and thrift stores and made them come alive with cotton, flowers and pine cones. (Fun aside: I now work for Sullivan as her studio manager. I just couldn’t get enough of her inspired designs!) The simple, rustic (and delicious!) cake was iced with a Swiss meringue butter cream and topped with pine cones and placed on a vintage child’s sled that my mom found at one of her favorite antique shops. Our guest book was an old copy of The Three Little Kittens Golden Book – the story that inspired the little rhyme on our save-the-date. We used an old Nestle cocoa tin I found on Etsy as our card box.
The Moments: One of my favorite moments was during our first dance. My nephew, who is normally a really shy guy, ended up coming out and joining us. We have a great picture of him standing right in between Tom and my legs as we slow danced. We wouldn’t have had it any other way! A similar moment occurred during my dance with my Dad (“Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison). My niece and nephew and my cousin’s kids couldn’t wait to get out on the dance floor. So my dad and I started a conga line with them all! That night was all about celebrating the love we’ve received from our families over the years—and the new family Tom and I are starting. Another really special moment was when Tom and I snuck out of the reception to roast marshmallows at one of the fire pits we had set up outside the barn. It was so nice to sneak off and have a few moments alone to celebrate.
The Advice: One piece of advice I would give couples is to not get too caught up trying to create picture perfect, choreographed moments. Sometimes, and definitely in my and Tom’s case, the more spontaneous or unrehearsed moments, like when my nephew joined us for our first dance, are what you end up remembering and cherishing most about the day. And one more: sit down and eat at your wedding! Tom and I took photos before our ceremony so we could spend the cocktail hour welcoming and thanking our guests. When it came time for dinner, we sat down with our guests and really enjoyed our first meal together as husband and wife.
James and Sascha made a good decision when they hired Soda Films Europe to film their wedding. In fact, their wedding videography made it pretty clear to us why hiring a filmmaker for your wedding can be such a wonderfully creative way to hold on to memories from that day. We interviewed Marcus Sanders of Soda Films about his experience shooting the wedding and his own personal style as a filmmaker. It was extremely interesting to see the front end of the wedding production, but to also hear about the behind the scenes action.
“My initial meeting with Sascha and her mother Leslie in Sydney about 6 months prior to the wedding for their enquiry.
It was during this meeting that they described certain elements of the wedding (in particular location) and whilst I had no visual aids to support what they were describing it was the level of excitement they put forward in their words that in turn got me excited and above all else told me that it meant a lot for them to take the wedding abroad. Once I told them about the philosophy behind a Soda Films coverage and what to expect from my own presence on the day they looked at me with such trust and belief and I sensed on Leslie’s behalf just how invested she was in having me with them on the day. To have gained their acknowledgement, trust and respect in this regard became my first inspiration point because every wedding presents an unforeseen playground of possibilities and before even seeing a glimpse of it all I already knew how valued my record of the day would be to them in terms of providing that keepsake memory for the couple and their families. The next time I saw Sascha and Leslie would be in Florence the morning of the wedding.”
How would you describe your own artistic style?
“Many key words are often thrown around by wedding cinematographers because they induce a trustful feeling of what they bring to the table, however I emphasize my true loyalty to the notions of candid and natural approach to my wedding cinematography. Soda Films is a rare supplier that has the confidence to send out a single person to obtain a coverage – and obtain it at the standard we are known for. The goal of our coverage is to simply document the day in as comprehensive and unobtrusive manner as possible. While doing this our follow up goal is to obtain this coverage with an artistic eye for the shots we are going for – a heightened sense for nice, clean and interesting framing wherever possible.
There is no reliance on excessive and bulky equipment like glide tracks, steady cams, dollys, cranes, helicopter cams etc which are easy go-to gimmicks typically utilized to generate impressive shots. Our couples are impressed with our simple and natural approach to cinematography that is coupled with masterful editing that truly listens to the story of the day and compiles a well structured representation of each unique day in order to present it back to the couple.
Ghost like presence on the day is particularly important also. There is no purposeful playing to the camera required. Our couples haven’t booked us because they want to act for us – they’ve selected us simply because they want to enjoy the day and retain a great record of it all while not imposing this feeling upon their guests that a large production is going on which can be offsetting and simply has no place at a wedding.”
Are there any funny stories to share from this wedding?
“This is perhaps one not necessarily fit for publishing but the first thing that comes to mind pertains to the final moments right before the ceremony commenced. Just prior to the bride making her entrance I myself managed to stumble in the aisle whilst taking my last shots of the guests waiting. It turned out that the aisle had been positioned over a concrete area where there was an upraised brick that was covered by the white carpet. I immediately thought to myself – oh dear, this wouldn’t look too good if the bride tripped over when walking down the aisle! Although the music had already started I walked right up to Sascha and her dad and said “guys – just want you to know there’s a raised brick under the aisle that you might trip on so please watch your step!” Sasch said “oh ok, cool thanks!” and repeated it to her dad. Of course 30 seconds later I filmed the father of the bride stumble in the exact spot I fell victim to. Thankfully he did not fall over but just smiled, had a chuckle and shrugged it off as he continued walking his daughter to the front. It was an endearing moment for me to see when I thought about it because it told me that the moment of walking his daughter down the aisle was so strong that even a relatively important warning given 30seconds prior completely disseminated from his mind and area of concern.”
Thank you to Marcus from Soda Films Europe for letting us have a sneak peak into a cinematographer’s head and sharing Sascha and James’ magical day with us!
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