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The Designs

We decided to do two different set ups using two completely different styles. Variety is key and we wanted to show how you can have a moody or a colourful palette in an industrial setting. It’s not often you see a colourful wedding, lots of couples only tend to choose two or three colours. So we grabbed the opportunity to get creative and use lots of colours that compliment each other.

Of course It wouldn’t be a city wedding shoot portfolio builder from us without a moody set up. That’s why we decided to go with our signature colours adding a gold and dusky grey to compliment the moody blues. Yep we have to be biased and say its our favourite, but in all honestly we loved both!

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Image – Livi Edwards

Image – Livi Edwards

Image – Livi Edwards

Moody Set up

The moody set up was done in the auditorium and in the bar area. Utilising the natural light up stairs and a dark auditorium with spot lights on the stage. Zoey decided to set the ceremony up on the stage, showing how you can utilise a whole venue. Kate from Perfect bouquet full of flowers installed the most beautiful draping cloud it really looked amazing. This was teamed with one of the cakes supplied by urban cakehouse. WOW the ceremony set up looked fantastic and will give lots of inspiration to anyone looking to get married here.

For the moody style, we set the wedding reception table up in the bar area. A huge area which is flooded with natural light, so it was a perfect area. Continuing with the moody blue theme the table was layered with cotton, velvet and chiffon. Using layers in various shades of blue giving the table lots of style and texture. Zoey styled it with deep blue candles which were held in gold candle holders. It most definitely was a beautiful romantic set up.

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The colour pop

The colour pop set up was done in the downstairs area of the venue. Its a large space so we split the area in two halves, the ceremony set up was by the large window allowing a lot of natural light. Again Kate created a stunning hanging flower installation using lots of variations in flowers and colours.

Zoey styled the table in the various colours with coloured candles and flower displays from Kate. Zoey also had a ribbon hanging installation above the table which looked fantastic!

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Image – Project Valentine

Shoot day

Luckily we know some amazing suppliers and we booked 4 amazing models. Charlotte who wore a stunning grey dip dyed dress designed by Lucy cant dance and supplied by Rock the frock Cheshire. Jenny wore the most sexy black lace bridal dress supplied by legend bridal and she looked amazing with the low back. Marco and Theo wore blue and grey tweed suits supplied by groom hire Warrington, we think they looked super handsome. All the models were great and worked really well at interacting with the camera and each other.

Because we didn’t want overcrowded groups we decided on two group bookings. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. Groups were then split into smaller groups, it was decided after listening to photographer pain points from other portfolio builders and from our own research. Huge groups of 15 photographers or more trying to get the same one shot was not going to work for us.

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Image – Vicky Dubois

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Image – Gail Secker

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Image – Project Valentine

Credits

Stationery – Frain & Grain, Models – Jenny – Charlotte – Theo – Marco, Dresses – Grey dip dyed  – rock the frock cheshire, Dresses – Black  – Legend Bridal, Suits – Groom Hire Warrington, Hair and makeup – HAir and Makeup by Saskia, Flowers – Perfect bouquet full of flowers, Cakes – Urban Cakehouse

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