Electric Cinema Wedding ~ An Art Deco, Cinematic, Stylish Celebration!

So how's everyone today then? I know many of my Wedding Industry colleagues are attending the Wedding Ideas Magazine Awards today (good luck everyone!) but for us not taking part in the fun and frolics, I've a little visual treat for you this afternoon 🙂

Suzie and Tom tied the knot on 4 September 2010 a wedding at The Electric Cinema in Birmingham – the UK's oldest working cinema.  Tom actually owns the cinema and has spent the last few years restoring it {the couple actually lived on the top two floors of the building during a 2 year period of restoration}. I just love how the Art Deco style of the cinema lends itself so beautifully as back-drop to this couple's wedding day.

And as for Suzie? A Bride with bright red lipstick gets me EVERY time, but elbow length black gloves? Father head piece? Choker pearls and a vintage cocktail dress?

Swoooooooooooon!

"I wanted a vintage cocktail dress – I bought this new in Selfridges London. I was with two of my favourite girlfriends and I remeber them screaming when I put it on – so that was a good sign!  I have always been in to vintage clothing and aspire to old-style glamour when I dress up.

With the venue being so magical – the two things just came together…"

Love My Dress Wedding Blog – Photography Copyright (c) 2011, Emily Quinton

This is a chic and stylish Bride if ever there was one…

These cute Bridesmaids wore embroidery anglais lace and cotton dresses from Marks & Spencers, shoes from Childrens Zara and a vintage pink pearl accessory from Not On The High Street….

I just love Suzie's feather headpiece, a design by Lily Lewis – how very chic!

"I asked Lily Lewis to design me a vintage styke hat to match the dress. She went one step further and used feathers from 1930's, vintage jet beads and vintage silk…"

Suzie borrowed a pearl and diamond choker necklace from her Mother and wore a pair of pearl drop earrings form her Husband to be…

The Florist, Julie Flowers, provided lilies, peacock and ostrich feathers…

"…the flowers were based on art deco flower deisgns of that period."

As Suzie walked down the cinematic aisle, the last full-time UK cinema organist, Steve Tovin, played the Wedding March on Tom's 1960s Hammond Organ…

"We had a special film poster made for the cinema, the cinema letters read 'Electric Wedding'.  On the big screen we had a pre-wedding film which we shot on the day Tom proposed to me in Antigua…it's a spoof of him proposing and it did make everyone laugh lots!  Then to end the wedding we had credits rolling naming everyone involved and a photo montage…

Tom wore a suit that was Tailor-made by an old friend Mark Purcell (Yusef Tailors), and a skinny, silk knit tie that was £3 from a vintage shop…

"Tom asked for his suit to be modelled on Johnny Cash's suit he wore in Folsom Prison for his infamous concert…"

Those are a pair of very high Marc Jacobs patent leather heels by the way! ..

The couple moved their wedding party to the Ikon Gallery for the reception..

"We had 1970s music through-out the reception to fit with the 1970s retrospective exhibition at IKON…"

The Electric Cinema Film Orchestra – Tom's in-house cinema band, did an hour-long set…

Words of Wedded Wisdom 

"Don't overplan – go with the flow (even though this may sound like a total impossibility)…don't expect everything to go to plan, it won't, so try to roll with it on the day…"

Fabulous cinematic art deco style! LOVE it!

Thanks so much Suzie for sharing your wonderfully stylish wedding details – congrats to you and Tom – I am definitely going to be popping by next time I'm in Birminhgam.

The Electric Cinema in Birmingham is available for venue hire for weddings and other functions – click here for more details or email Tom and Suzie on [email protected].

Thanks to Photographer Emily Quinton for providing these fabulous photographs – you can see more form Emily Quinton on the Love My Dress Wedding Blog here – including a recent photoshoot that I took part in myself! 😉

Much love all, see you again tommorrow 🙂

Annabel xXx

♥