No. 01
Ember & Bone
Wedding
A converted tannery
Bermondsey, London
2026
Project details
Event
Wedding
Venue
A converted tannery
Location
Bermondsey, London
Year
2026
Florals
Red and ivory tulips, dark garden roses, bone-white ranunculus, smoke bush, dried palm
A suspended ceiling of smoke bush and dried palm above a forty-metre supper table, lit only by candlelight.
Design direction
Industrial brick softened by a floating cloud of smoke bush, with oxblood roses pooling along the table.
The palette
Oxblood, bone and smoke
Oxblood
Bone
Smoke
The brief
Mara and Theo wanted their reception to feel like a late supper in an artist’s studio: dark, warm and a little undone. The tannery’s raw brick and iron trusses gave us the frame; our job was to make the room feel held.
The installation
We built a twelve-metre suspended form from smoke bush, dried palm and trailing amaranthus, rigged from the original trusses so it appeared to drift above the table. Beneath it, low pools of oxblood roses and bone-white ranunculus ran the full length of the supper, broken only by beeswax tapers.
Flowers from our own plot
Around a third of the ranunculus and all of the smoke bush came from our Somerset cutting garden, harvested two days before the wedding.
Gallery — select an image to enlarge
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