Hopetoun House, Summer, Champagne and Happyness!

Lauren and Rob got married at the beautiful Victorian venue of Hopetoun house near Queensferry, on a glorious sunny day back in May. 

Lauren had opted for an elegant full-length silk duchess satin gown in a dark ivory, with a pretty chantilly lace overlay in a lighter shade of ivory. This created a slight vintage and three dimensional feel to her outfit, which also had elbow length lace sleeves, an internal corset, button fastenings down the back and a long flowing train.

The Freja team also made her two bridesmaids dresses from a champagne coloured orissa silk and with a beautiful duchess satin sash around the middle. The bridesmaids wore sleeveless, midi-length dresses with a high neckline, a concealed zip fastening at the back and with pockets at the sides. One of Lauren's male best friends was also part of the bridal party and wore a waistcoat made from this same fabric.

Lauren looked absolutely stunning on her big day with her make-up done by Michael Becman, flowers by Planet Flowers, hair by Heidi from Paterson SA Dalkeith, head piece by Rene Walrus and photography by Rankine. A special thanks also goes to the staff at Hopetoun house, the Designer Cake Boutique and the catering team at Heritage Portfolio for making their big day so memorable! The happy couple even chose to celebrate their first dance with a surprise flashmob routine for their unsuspecting friends and family, marking a fantastically fun start to married life!

Black & White Wedding at Dundas Castle

Amy came to us after having tried on a hundreds of dresses in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, she had seen a few she liked, but still not found the right one.
We met with Amy and discussed what we could do for her. Amy settled for a dress with internal corset and Chinese silk organza bias strips all around the dress, in total was over 200 meters of silk organza strips. The strips swirled round and round and made into big flowers on her skirt.
Amy wore a small veil on a simple pearl comb.
For night-time Amy had a black velvet ribbon round her waist for the night time.
Amy decided on black bridesmaids dresses, she had 2 adult bridesmaids in black one shoulder crepe dresses and one younger bridesmaid in an empire line cut dress, with a sash.
We also made Amy's Mum's outfit, she was in a silk - wool jacket in an a-symmetric style. And with that she had a dress in black-beige Chantilly lace, backed with neutral coloured satin.
The whole wedding came together so well with the black and white colour scheme. Ada Breckenridge from "The Flowerhouse, Balerno" had created the floral decorations, Julie Gilchrist created bespoke jewellery, and Iain Grant was the piper and toastmaster for Amy and Dean's wedding at the Dundas Castle.
Amy, her mum and bridesmaids,  have all been so lovely to work with and her dress was such fun to make.
The photographs have been taken by Kevin Walsh Photography. Thank you so much for letting us use them.

Debbie's Cowl-neck wedding dress at Dundas Castle

 

Debbie came into Freja with a few simple wedding dress ideas, and ended up going for something a bit more extravagant as her ideas grew and grew!  

She finally opted for a beautiful silk satin dress with a train, front and back cowl neck and crystal embellishment on her waist, a very similar style to one we had created for the Drumlanrig shoot!

She looked absolutely stunning, complemented by her accessories from Corrine Smith Design, flowers from Planet Flowers, make-up by Lucy Gourlay and hair done by Keith Marshall.

 

Debbie was so lovely to work with! She had lost a lot of weight before her wedding and it was so wonderful to help her celebrate her lovely figure in a slinky and elegant dress.

Dundas castle was the perfect venue for Debbie and Allan's big day, and was beautifully captured by Allan and Jackie at Rankine photography!

Pink Wedding Dress for Winton House

Kristy was such a good fun no work with… she had been recommended to come and see us from Blue Sky Photography. Kirsty has a degree in costume design, and alltough she does not work today with her costume degree, it is clear to see she has a lot of artistic flair and design skills she use in her work.

Kirsty had given a lot of thought to her dress, she brought in an amazing drawing and had a little scrap book with details and period features and things she wanted involved in her dress…. We LOVED it all and we were so so keen to get to work with Kirsty on this project.

We discussed Kirsty’s technical requirements of the dress, and we got to work. We sourced very fine pink silk chiffon with matching silk satin. The colour is called Peach Melba, and it is a pink, but it has a shade of peach to it, the colour suited her perfectly…. Next problem… how do we get a matching lace? Well I managed to dye it in my little alchemist kitchen, the colour turned out a very good match, in fact, it turned out quite 3 dimensional as the treads of the lace had different fiber content, which absorbed the colour differently.. We thought it made it very nice.

Then Kirsty asked for beading, and we sourced the same beading as was in her head dress, from Rene Walrus this was a mix of different shades of Swarovski pearls, crystals and beads… it took a while.

The dress had internal corset and internal lace up, and even though it looks like a very fine and light dress, which it is, but it has very many layers to blog out transparency and lines of the different internal layers. The dress had a detachable train at the back.

There was a small train on the dress also, which came up for the evening.

We loved being part of this wedding at Winton House Blue Sky photographed it all so well. if you would like to read more, have a look here Bluesky Photography Blog

All the best to Kirsty and Adam.