Botticelli’s paintings host over 500 species of plants and almost 200 types of flowers! We knew our shoot was going to feature some pretty awesome florals. We, like Botticelli, used flowers that bloom in the month of May, so we sourced local organically grown seasonal florals to recreate a renaissance feel garden. This gave us the extra special opportunity to use flowers like sweet peas and digitalis. The floral design by Sfumature di Cipria recreated an explosion of spring, naturally wispy, overgrown and ethereal garden.

Botticelli’s painting refers to a May wedding and sweetpeas are a flower that epitomises the month of May. Despite this they are rarely used in weddings and events: the imported sweetpeas which have travelled thousands of miles in refrigerated tanks are so fragile by they get to the destination they are too fragile and so inevitably get disregarded.  

From Bridal Musing