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in February Wedding Buttonique received an email to make a bespoke bouquet for
a bride in Germany. The Bride Christine
lives in Saarland, one of the smallest federal states in Germany, to the South
West of the country. She told me her
wedding was to be a small affair with family and close friends but it was going
to be unique and different. Her wedding
was to have a Rockabilly theme.
Now
I don’t know about you but I had to look up what a Rockabilly wedding might
entail and some of the photographs I found are stunning. The main concept that was written is that ‘Rockabilly
is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating to the early 1950s’,
but when you look at the 50’s rock and roll fashion images it incorporates a lot
of black, white, red and navy and brings the whole theme to life.
Following
conversations with Christine ruled out navy but the other three colours worked
well with her wedding plans and items she had sourced so far. We found some large flower shaped black
buttons, various heart shape buttons, a few striped and spotted buttons, lots
of vintage black buttons and ribbon.
Christine also wanted feathers on both her bouquet and the button-hole
for her soon to be husband.
The
bouquet turned out perfectly. A lovely
dome of Rockabilly themed buttons, all handmade and sculpted to shape. The feathers are added at the end and this
single bouquet has over 2 metres of black hen hackle feathers to produce the
collar. The wind flows through the
feathers and brings the bouquet to life.
I love it and to get the best images of it the bouquet and button-hole
were taken to my local church to photograph it alongside the stunning
architecture.
Christine
gets married soon so this post will be updated with wedding photographs as soon
as they are received.
Any questions please email
WeddingButtonique@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @Buttonique
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