A Spiritual Blessing at Hoxton Docks
In collaboration with our friends at LAMP LDN, this spiritual blessing and celebration at Hoxton Docks in east London, allowed us to work with three distinctive spaces – each with a different story to tell.
The spiritual blessing was held at dusk, offering soft, romantic, fading light. Guests were invited to join the couple under a central dried sculptural installation surrounded by clear Perspex ghost chairs. The installation was impactfully lit with a bright white light, lending the spotlight to this central moment, while the guests were bathed in that low dusk light.
Designed to offer the blessing texture, movement and drama, the dried grasses suspended from the ceiling provided a soft contrast against the warehouse space, and were a tactile blend of raw, wispy British thatch, date palm, hay, oat, lagarus, lunaria and bleached ruscus.
All the grasses used were later fashioned into beautiful paper-wrapped bouquets for guests to take home, minimising waste and creating a lasting memento of their hosts’ day.
After the blessing, guests moved into the reception space, which centred around eating, drinking and merriment, accented by textural houseplants and hot colours.
Amazing food stations offering global feasts from parmesan pasta wheels to spicy fish tacos were anchored by a custom-built, fully bespoke tiled bar in the centre of the room, crafted from Milagros tiles in shades of red, blue, green and yellow. A central plinth, which was also bespoke tiled, housed the DJ for the night and made a fun focal point.
Our decoration played to this colourful vibe. Masses of hand selected rare and interesting houseplants sat in varieties of concrete pots. Smaller plants were styled on bespoke printed recyclable plywood coffee tables along with hand poured concrete candlesticks made in Glasgow filled with Wiltshire-made True Grace dinner candles.
Larger plants were placed at seating areas, and a pair of oversized tropical leaf arrangements were used to decorate the bar. To complement this hothouse of greenery and texture, colour-blocked light was projected onto each wall, offering vibrancy and movement.
For the closing hours of the evening, a disco haven was created in the third and final space. Each wall was dramatically draped in glittering gold foil curtains and 50 disco balls of different sizes were hung from the ceiling, bouncing light and sparkle around the room. It was a playful last port of call to raise a margarita and shake a tail feather.
A multi-faceted and mindful celebration, it was important for our couple that everything we made was able to be recycled, reused, or taken home by guests at the end of the night, which we did, from the dried grass bouquets to the houseplants in their hand poured concrete pots and even the plywood tables.