Abbie Walsh - one-off vintage fashion accessories

Wednesday 31 July 2013

Anna & Elliot's Country Castle Wedding




At Lympne Castle in Kent on Monday 29th July Anna and Elliot Townsend celebrated there gorgeous wedding with a relaxed atmosphere, sunshine and beautiful country surroundings.

In March I had a lovely appointment in my studio with Anna, Anna knew which sort of design she wanted for her birdcage headdress and brought along her dress and shoes. We matched colours, played around with flowers, veil size and hairslides. The result is this beautiful vintage off-white silk flower with handbeaded centre using spare beads from Anna's dress, off-white veil with haircombs either side, so sits across the face for the wedding ceremony. The veil was then wrapped around Anna's bun for the evening, this gave a fresh new look without any effort, beautiful, elegant and relaxed, sums up the wedding.
The dress was a whimsical internet purchase which was a heavily beaded Sue Wong from America, shoes by Benjamin Adams. Anna's flowers were picked and arranged with her bridesmaids Jenny and Jo in Blooming green flower farm in Kent. Anna's little girls Ava and Olivia were her flower girls.

I also made a wedding garter for Anna as a gift from her Maid of Honour, Katie Greengrass, I used spare beads and embroidered flowers from Anna's dress to create a keepsake of her special day. It was a pleasure to be a part of Anna's wedding, best wishes and happiness to Anna and Elliot x

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