DARLING BUDS We hate the idea of chucking our flowers away after our wedding. How can we enjoy them after our big-day? Flowers play an essential role at weddings as the blooms will show your personalities, add a romantic atmosphere to your venue and convey memories after the day through the certain florals used. But what happens to all those lovely and expensive flowers once your wedding is over? They can be given away to guests or displayed for a week or so, but they will inevitably get thrown away. Aside from your wedding photos, there’s no lasting physical memory of the beautiful florals. You get more value out of your flowers by getting them professionally pressed while gaining a genuinely bespoke and sentimental piece of artwork to display for years to come – it might even become a family heirloom! For loved ones that have been a big part of your special day, giving them a piece of art created from your wedding flowers is a personal and special gift. If your wedding has passed and you didn’t preserve your bouquet, there’s always the option to get it recreated to be pressed – can you think of a more perfect anniversary gift? Lucy Whitfield | Fields of Pressed Flowers www.instagram.com/fields_of_pressedflowers SETTING THE TONE What venue styling trends should we look out for in 2023? It’s going to be all about colour this upcoming wedding season, whether that’s focusing on the tones within a specific spectrum or pops of bright hues. Viva magenta has been released as Pantone’s Colour of The Year 2023, which has been described as a brave and fearless shade that promotes a joyous and optimistic celebration. As we desperately need the most extravagant sense of celebration, incorporating this colour will only cement these feelings. Opting for a statement colour doesn’t mean your look needs to be garish and overbearing. Get the best results from your desired shade by featuring it through arrangements alongside complementing hues. Perhaps you might decide only to bring hints of your statement colour into your table styling through the candles and napkins or by adding silk ribbons to your bouquet. Why not take that colour and roll with it, choose to use nothing else but the tones from that shade spectrum for some serious wow factor? However, this tends to lend itself to colours on a more neutral scale. Select tones of lavender, also prominent for 2023, blush, nude or mocha to explore the scale from the very pale through to the much deeper tones. Consider a tonal spectrum for bridesmaids’ dresses, table styling and florals to create a bangon-trend look. Tessa Haskell | Penn Creative Collection at Pennsylvania Castle Estate www.thepennestate.co.uk https://philippa-sian.co.uk EXPERT ADVICE 79
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