Your London Wedding - Page number 51 - September/October 2021 (Issue 79)

There were blue and gold details running through everything; we had gold cutlery, gold rimmed glasses, blue napkins and blue sashes across the chairs. The flowers had a mixture of blues and white with green foliage, and we of course threw in thistles the Scottish national flower. We wanted to infuse bits of our respective cultures into the wedding – Nigerian and Scottish – so we had tablet favours on the table tied with Black Watch tartan to match the best man’s kilt, a piper pipe us into the reception venue and Ankara bag favours with chin- chin (a Nigerian snack) in them. We arrived in a Bentley Mark VI, my dad collects classic cars and I must have caught the bug, so I wanted a classic car and this was one I had seen that caught my eye. We also had colour-coordinated macarons in a clear box tied with a gold ribbon on the table. REAL WEDDINGS 51