Classic Blue Mood Board

So to start with, Sarah turned to her friend Mr Pantone, who always sets the colour palate for the year and for 2020 the Pantone Colour is Classic Blue. Well, if any colour title suits the style of a destination wedding here in the Cinque Terre it is Classic Blue. Classic Italian Riviera style on the Blue Mediterranean Sea. Oooo, doesn’t get much better than this.

Confession: I have a blue crush. A very similar colour palette, Midnight Blue, was the colour palette of our wedding back in 2010, see this article on our wedding published in Cosmopolitan Bride for a peek. What can I say, in 2010 I was ahead of my time, or rather I just love blue so much that whenever Mr Pantone announces a blue colour of the year, I’m instantly on-trend. But enough reminiscing about yesteryear, in the inspiration board below you, can see how Stylist Sarah hoverboards this classic colour into the crisp pretty present. Pairing free-spirited bouquets with classic accents of deep blue, metallics and fresh clean white. The Cinque Terre’s signature rustic look underlining all.

Photo credits (clockwise):   fior_deco bouquet  / Instagram wedding cake / Whimsical Wonderland Weddings table set  / Wedding Wonderland stationery / fior_deco bouquet  /  Grace & Thorn boutonnieres  /Mariage.com place cards / Grace & Thorn bouquet / Wedding Wonderland table set

Tutti i Frutti Mood Board

Well, we are all fruity here in the Cinque Terre, seriously: oranges, grapes, figs, olives, apricots, peaches, cherries, loquats and the most beloved of them all: the lemon. To give you an idea, outdoors you’ll find lemons hanging out on pretty much every corner, over every wall and from every balcony in the village, just lazing around in all their golden yellow glory. Then once indoors, the lemon adoration continues on every table with our Limoncino, Sorbetto Limone, Crema di Limoncino, Lemon Marmalade, Lemon cake and Acciughe Limone… we are unofficially the mecca for all lemon worshipers. Why, just like all the Saints, we even have an annual date to celebrate the Lemon at the Festa di Limone. On most years, aside from this strange one, the Festa di Limone takes place on the last Saturday of May.

So what better way to bring the spirit of the Cinque Terre into your wedding décor than by welcoming the citrusy fruits themselves onto your table. The result: an explosion of fiery colours and playful compositions that don’t just look deliciously sweet, they are deliciously sweet. So feast your eyes on these incredible edible table settings below and if you’re thinking ow, two for one: free fruit salad for dessert included in a table setting, you’re right on our wavelength. Wink wink!

Photo Credits:  Pinterest bouquet / Pinterest table set / Style Me Pretty decor / Pinterest centerpiece / Style Me Pretty table set / Pinterest decor / Pinterest bouquet / Pinterest table set

Freedom Pass Mood Board

Hoo boy, if like us by now you’re tired of being cooped up, locked down and distanced from, we gift you the idea of a Freedom Pass in the mood board of wedding delights below. Think of all the colours in the rainbow, times them by ten, then times them by ten again and your starting to visualise the brilliant colour palette below. Then forget physical restraint and your four walls and stretch out your arms out as far as they’ll go to scoop up every bloom type you can think of. And don’t worry about staying in the lines of the design, no one-metre rule here folks, as you pull together your bouquet of wildflowers let your buds press up close together any way they like. Now, also forget matching tableware, that’s for those who are housebound three meals a day – instead imagine running through your best home-ware stores, not online, but actually in the store, and picking out one favourite tabletop item from each, no one item the same, all exquisitely different – just because you can!

Now if you’ve followed our train of creative thought then you’ve probably styled a wedding similar to the one styled by stylist Sarah below. And if you haven’t, better still, that’s the beauty of the Freedom Pass, go ahead create the wedding of your dreams with no limits.

Photo Credits:  Style Me Pretty table set / Pinterest bouquet / Rock My Wedding cake  / Love and Lavender centerpiece / Pinterest bouquets / Etsy stationery / Pinterest boutonniere / Pinterest chair decor

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Mood board by Cinque Terre Wedding Stylist Sarah Pozzi.

Written by Melina Nicholson.

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And while our first response was mild panic: florist is closed, decorations are out of reach and stylist Sarah and I are in lockdown, separated from each other, turns out there was a whole heap of beautiful decorations to be found without even leaving my front gate.

So with inspiration from Stylist Sarah, keeping with the rustic spirit of the Cinque Terre and using yellow, the colour of spring and the colour to brighten even the darkest of days, we pulled together this Easter table decoration tutorial for the community.

You’ll see we used local muted succulents that can be found all year long growing here in the Cinque Terre, bright Monterosso lemons and wild playful Daisies and Buttercup that I found sprouting from a crack in the road in front of my home. Limoncino bottles hand-painted by my mother-in-law served as the vases. And we raised the table setting to a level of meaningful celebration by including metallic details in the candle-holders, painted eggs and ribbon napkin holders. And if Stylist Sarah had been with me, with her magical pens and calligraphy powers, she would have finished off the setting by delicately scrolling guests’ names on each egg. Then we could have called ourselves the Geese that Laid the Golden Egg place cards, and laughed quietly at ourselves, as no one else would have found it funny.

Anyway, once we got started there was no stopping us, under the same theme Sarah found endless ways to get creative in lockdown and now we have enough Easter table decorations for five Easters!

So, if like us, you are looking to decorate your Easter table, without leaving home, hopefully our simple centerpieces will help give you some ideas. You can check out our Easter table settings by turning your gaze below.

But before you do, from all of us here at Cinque Terre Wedding, we wanted to say a big thank you to all our couples, some from as far back as 2011, who have contacted us over the past five weeks of lockdown to check in – a great excuse to reconnect with old friends. All is well here where we fortunately have no cases – one of the perks of living in tiny isolated fishing villages.

And we also wanted to wish you and your loved ones a safe, healthy and happy Easter.

Now let’s get creative!

Written by Melina Nicholson. Photos by Melina Nicholson and Sarah Pozzi.

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