An Anna Kara Wedding Dress for Rosie and her Fitzrovia Chapel London Wedding

Anna Kara bride in London. Groom in informal blue suit.

Lawyers Rosie and Alex tied the knot on 25th August at Fitzrovia Chapel in London, followed by a reception at Milk Beach in Queens Park.

Rosie wore a beautiful Anna Kara wedding dress, with elegant botanical lace motifs and chose to carry a gorgeous blue hydrangea wedding bouquet.

This effortlessly elegant and romantic city wedding was captured beautifully by Osman of Wolf & Co. Photography. You can see more Anna Kara bridal gown inspiration here on Love My Dress.

Anna Kara bride with large blue hydrangea bouquet.

An Anna Kara Wedding Dress

I had a wonderful time choosing my dress. My mum and sister came down to Brighton, where Alex and I live, for the day and we went around bridal boutiques in the Laines.

We ended up finding my dress at White Leaf on Trafalgar Street.

White Leaf is run by Blanka who was so helpful in helping me choose my dress – I must have tried at least ten before I put the Anna Kara design on and I loved it straight away.

The botanical motif looks magical and I love the asymmetry and the romantic style. Definitely an experience I would recommend to other brides. I did not really know what I wanted other than something I felt good in that would be comfortable all day. I loved the dress straight away.

The botanical motif looks magical and I love the asymmetry and the romantic style.

Bridal Beauty & Accessories

I wore Le Labo Santal 33 because its a fantastic long lasting scent and Alex bought me a bottle for Christmas which I’ve hardly had the chance to wear. My best friend and bridesmaid Sian kindly lent me the garter worn by her granny and her mum – it was the best something ‘borrowed’ I could imagine.

Anna Kara bride with floral lace motifs. Wolf & Co. Photography.

My bridesmaids and I had our hair done by Guy Parsons, at Gorgeous Salon in Kensal Rise, and my sister and I did a bridal make up lesson together at Paintbox London a few months before which was brilliant. We were then able to do our own make up on the day which felt more fun and intimate.

Alex’s mum, Nicola, very kindly bought my shoes for me and I chose a pair from Australian label Essen – the Elevated Essential in sand. I love them it as they are so timeless and chic.

A Blue Hyndrangea Wedding Bouquet

Our florist was Phillo Florist on Chepstow Road near Royal Oak. We chose them because they’ve won an RHS award and create beautiful arrangements.

Large blue hydrangea wedding bouquet. Wolf & Co. Photography.

I knew I wanted hydrangea bouquets, blue for me and white for my bridesmaids, because I like the way hydrangea have a vintage look and create lots of volume to a arrangement while being quite robust.

The flowers look fabulous all day.

Large blue hydrangea wedding bouquet. Bride getting out of a London black cab taxi. Wolf & Co. Photography

A Sunspel Suit

Alex’s suit came from Sunspel and was tailored to fit him by Hugo Morris in Brighton.

Alex’s shoes were Trickers which is a timeless English brand made in Northampton where my mum is from!

A Fizrovia Chapel Wedding Ceremony

My mum walked me down the aisle to Vivaldi’s Spring 1 recomposed by Max Richter. We chose our ceremony songs quite carefully together to make a big impact in the chapel and that piece of music worked beautifully.

We had a Westminster registrar who had been a senior registrar for 30 years. She’d even married Paul MacCartney once upon a time.

Fitzrovia Chapel wedding London. Wolf & Co Photography.

We had our recycled platinum wedding rings made for us by Sally Grant. Mine is set with different blue and green shades of sapphire and white and grey diamonds – it is totally unique and I love wearing it!

We chose two poems together which seemed to speak to different parts of our relationship:  First Meeting (to Diane), by A.S.J. Tessimond, and
Atlas, by U.A. Fanthorpe.

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Photography by Wolf & Co

We were lucky to have found Osman of Wolf & Co Photography, through our wedding venue Instagram page. We loved Osman’s intimate, relaxed style of wedding photography as he seemed to capture people having fun and ‘off guard’ rather than posing for photos.

It was great to have Osman there on the day as he put us both at ease and took some amazing photos for us to treasure.

A Champagne Reception

My favourite part of the day was seeing Alex at the altar of Fitzrovia Chapel and the champagne reception we had after the ceremony. It is such a beautiful space in the heart of London and it was lovely to share it with our friends and family.

Alex says his favourite part was “seeing rosie’s face (and dress!) for the first time. all the nerves fell away and she looked incredible. its an image that will stand out in my memory forever.

I didn’t wear a veil, but my dress has these whimsical ‘wings’ at the back which trailed in a similar way when I walked down the aisle.

How They Met

Alex and I met at law school in Chancery Lane in 2015. We were in classes together and became pretty inseparable (at first as friends) on the course and in life more generally. We would go out ostensibly to ‘study’ and end up, a few drinks later, dancing until the early hours.

Groom in informal blue suit carrying bouquet of large blue hydrangea. Bride wears Anna Kara wedding dress. Wolf & Co. Photography.

I decided to propose to Alex during a celebratory meal at the City Social in 2020. We had discussed marriage and knew we both wanted to take that step and I thought Alex would appreciate me taking the initiative – and the swiss watch I gave him!

We were engaged for two years before we got married. Partly because of covid-19, but also because we wanted time to enjoy the engagement and to plan the wedding ourselves.

Reception

Our reception was at Australian bar and restaurant, Milk Beach, on Lonsdale Road catered for all of our guests on the day. Milk Beach printed us an event poster which we love. It’s a great memento( which we’ll frame when we get round to it!)

Anna Kara wedding dress. Wolf & Co. Photography.

We opted for two cakes from Punk Cake Rocks and they were both delicious. We had one traditional floral sponge cake with blueberries and lemon curd and the other was a beautiful biscoff flavour creation.

We also had a cheese tower of English cheeses that we sourced through Cheese Please near where live in Lewes.

The Inspiration

I would say our inspiration came mainly from the way we wanted our guests to feel on the day. We wanted to be relaxed and for the day to be simple, laid-back but sophisticated. Alex is positively allergic to anything fussy or pretentious and so we had many conversations about whether elements of the day felt like ‘us’ and cut things down to what we felt were the best bits of other celebrations we had been to.

We chose a blue palate for our colour scheme as my engagement ring has blue sapphires and we love Japanese indigo. Alex is red/green colour blind so I wanted to make sure we chose something that looked great for him as well as everyone else.

I’m a Londoner and grew up round the corner from our reception venue. We also first met in London and had our first place together in NW.

Evening & Dancing

We hired Pocket Jukebox – Louis and his band were absolutely fantastic! Guests kept telling us they were the best band they’d seen at a wedding

Our first dance was to Elton John’s ‘Crocodile Rock’, because it’s fun to dance to. g

My favourite part of the day was seeing Alex at the altar of Fitzrovia Chapel and the champagne reception we had after the ceremony.

It is such a beautiful space in the heart of London and it was lovely to share it with our friends and family.

Anna Kara wedding dress. Groom embracing bride on the dance floor. Wolf & Co. Photography.

Alex says his favourite part was: “seeing Rosie’s face (and dress!) for the first time. all the nerves fell away and she looked incredible.

It’s an image that will stand out in my memory forever.”

Words of Wedded Wisdom

Our words of wisdom would be try not to stress about the day and enjoy planning it together – if there’s something you’re not that bothered about or feels forced, whether it’s table plans or fancy cars, then don’t worry about cutting it from the day. Your guests are there for you and will have a brilliant time whatever you decide!

Our words of wisdom would be try not to stress about the day and enjoy planning it together – if there’s something you’re not that bothered about or feels forced, whether it’s table plans or fancy cars, then don’t worry about cutting it from the day.

Your guests are there for you and will have a brilliant time whatever you decide!

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Bridesmaids

I chose a sky blue linen shade from Linen Fox and asked my four bridesmaids to choose the style they wanted. I was so pleased with how the colour looked on each of them and that they were comfortable in the August heat.

 

 

 

 

 

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Annabel

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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and Editor. Annabel lives in rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business partner Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and star gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she's not working on Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip in the running of the family's sustainable flower farm and floral design business, Moonwind Flowers. In 2013, she became a published author.

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