CELEBRATE THE SEASON We want our summer wedding to reflect the season throughout the styling. What colours and designs would work well for the stationery? Sarah says: Peonies, sunflowers and soft blush pink tones are perennial favourites for summer weddings. Think blush painted Perspex signage with gold vinyl detailing for an on-trend look. Vellum paper is very popular for the invitations and on-the-day stationery and passport designs are increasingly in demand, especially since travel restrictions have been lifted. Sarah Gibbs | Graphic designer | www.topsdesigns.co.uk YOUR DAY, YOUR WAY As two brides, we both want to make a grand entrance in our beautiful gowns on our wedding day and enjoy that magical first-look moment but we can’t decide who should walk up the aisle and who should wait at the end. Any ideas? Rob says: The most important thing to remember is that this is your day and there are many ways you can have that magical first-look experience. You may like to share this special time in private with only your photographer for company to capture your reactions. It could be arranged for you both to be either backto-back or behind closed doors, so you can’t see each other, and then have the big reveal. Alternatively, you could walk up the aisle together, blindfolded so all your family and friends get to witness and share the happiness and delight with you when the blindfolds are removed. If you have your hearts set on tradition, each of you can still have your moment being walked up the aisle and have two photographers at either end to capture it all. There are no rules on how you should enter the ceremony and it is entirely up to you how you do it. Rob Head | Independent civil celebrant | www.oaktreeceremonies.co.uk 72
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