Ginger Bread Wedding Boutique Bridal Shoot | Creative Wedding Photographer

This shoot is called ‘Ginger Bread Wedding Boutique Bridal Shoot’. No-one can explain it better than the person who dreamed it up, Charlotte from Wilden Bride!

“I first got to thinking, that as a small business, it’s such a shame that I can’t afford the funky shop space that I would love to exhibit, and how strange it is that when planning a wedding, everything is often done online, that you rarely meet a person on your journey, unless you book that person. But even then, everything is widely based upon an online persona. Even coming to your blog for ideas and advice, where brides may once have gone out to buy a magazine and browsed with friends.

My business is absolutely about the experience – having a bespoke frock is a pretty awesome experience!! A pre-wedding experience which will last long after the wedding!! My Grandma remembers almost every detail of her wedding dress being made despite that being 60 years ago!

With my shoot, I wanted to bring a sense of ‘wedding shopping’ back, and create a little bit of a community. Aside from the Big day of course, planning and shopping for your wedding should be a huge amount of fun, discovering new people and products and inspirations and ideas. Blogs can make a wedding planning fun, but when you’re directed to the online shops, you’re in a world of scrolling and non-interaction.

While the shoot does not act as a shop for all those involved, I wanted to inspire some exploration and fun into some new and exciting ideas which can be a part of your planning, as well as ideas for on the day, like a boudoir shoot to present as a gift to your lover. . .with a little Hansel and Gretel twist.

Our shoot is all about the planning experience, the pre-wedding experience, which, if you get it right prepares you for the post-wedding experience. Making sure you’re having fun being in love!!

As well as a bride and several mannequins each with pretty dresses upon them to match my designs, all beautifully hand-painted. It took several hours to construct into a 3D form too!

Not content with just a ginger bread boutique, I wanted a real one too! But the people who helped me had to be people who offer something a little bit more special than a product – an experience!!

Perfect was the Champagne Yurt from Wedding yurts, with a pink interior and pretty fairy lights, it inspired something very funky and playful without being silly and childish.

Our setting was Coppins Farm, which is a beautiful conservation farm in Suffolk. John, the owner has restored two beautiful vintage railway carriages into holiday homes, and they are just adoreable, and unbelievably cosy (and spacious too).

With beautiful flowers from Fearless Florals and Vintage Style Hire with her array of – everything you could possibly want!! the Yurt looked great as our pop-up Wedding boutique. (popping up in the middle of the farm!)

Kate Ruth Romey thought up brilliant ways in which stationery can become more than just a piece of paper, Kite invitations with streamers, hand-painted posters, and specially designed headed paper.

The bride in our story is in love, in love with her man (she writes him love letters), she’s in love with her wedding, and she’s in love with her suppliers.”