The Rococo period is the third era we explore as part of our five part series on the Five European Influences on Modern Day Flora Design. So we’ve already bent our minds reconstructing the ancient in the Renaissance era in the first part of the series and then we experienced all the drama of the world of Baroque in the second, so now let’s soften everything up by stepping back into the Rococo period with all its french prettiness.

The 18th century Rococo period ran from 1720 to the 1760 and saw a movement from the deep and dramatic to the light and pretty. Floral bouquets started to appear on ceramics, tapestries and fabrics not just art.

Along with Marie Antoinette think of the French Drouais and his Portrait of an Elegant Lady, Nattier and his Portrait of a Woman, Called the Marquise Perrin de Cypierre and his Henriette of France as Flora, along with Fragonard’s The Swing. While just a short moment in time, its impact has been instrumental in the world of weddings – if Style Me Pretty ever needed to go undercover it could use the name Style Me Rococo – and no one would know the difference.

For Rococo wedding ideas, typical flowers of the time would have been delphiniums, blue hyacinths, white roses and pale pink hydrangeas in a compote, alabaster urn or Dresdenware.

And the great news for couples looking to celebrate a destination wedding in the Cinque Terre in Italy is that there is an abundance of delphiniums,  hyacinths, roses and hydrangeas here and we just happen to be right down the road from the home of alabaster Volterra – Rococo wedding style sorted!

So step back in time to the Rococo era through a sweet peice of inspiration here:

Photo Credit (clockwise): Marie Antoinette / Nattier / Vernon / Nattier / Drouais  / Nattier / Marie Antoinette

With its dusty pastels and prettiness, Rococo continues to play center stage in weddings today, with terms such as French Country, Provence Style and Shabby Chic without the Shabby, creating new spins on this old style. Bouquets are fuller, tighter and ow, so much more feminine – très belle!

So for a modern spin on Rococo to inspire your up and coming destination wedding in Italy here are 9 Rococo wedding ideas dipped in loveliness for you to enjoy:

Photo Credit (clockwise): Style Me Pretty Bouquet / Pinterest Centerpiece / Style Me Pretty Centerpiece / Style Me Pretty Centerpiece /  Weddbook Centerpiece / Style Me Pretty Centerpiece / Style Me Pretty Shoe Florals / Style Me Pretty Bouquet / Style Me Pretty Bouquet

For more historic inspiration for your wedding style check out our take on the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

And see these eras played out in our real wedding flower designs here.

To celebrate your Rococo Wedding here in the Cinque Terre of Italy contact us here.

Written by Melina Nicholson

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Today, 5 European historical eras: Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Georgian and Victorian continue to play a major role in influencing trends in styling flowers for the modern wedding.

So we’ve created a five part series of Wedding Flower Inspiration Boards on these super eras and five more Wedding Flower Inspiration Boards with our modern day take on them, so you can fuse the past with the future in your destination wedding design.

So let’s dive back into the past, so we can jetset into the future to discover wedding floral designs that will inspire forever.

Renaissance: The Renaissance era spans the longest of the five periods from the 1300s – 1700s. While in English we use the french word “Renaissance” we really should be using the Italian word “Rinascimento”, afterall Italy is where it all began! Meaning “rebirth”, this period saw a return to the teachings of art, architecture, literature, science and philosophy from Ancient Greece and Rome and a new spin on these learnings. So there is a great fusion between ancient history and the modern age in this period. It was also a period which saw people break away from the social and cultural moulds of society and create new and inventive ideas that had ripple effects across the globe.

To take you back, think of the Italians Botticelli and his Primavera and Caravaggio and his Basket of Fruit. If you are lucky like us, and live in the Cinque Terre, you can pop down the road to Florence and see Botticelli and Caravaggio’s work in the flesh – face-splitting smile across our dials. With the Italians ruling this period we can’t help but love it ourselves and are constantly looking to this period for inspiration in our wedding flower designs for destination weddings here in the Cinque Terre.

But if you are a bit further north there’s also Renaissance inspiration around you. How about the Dutch, Bosschaert and his Flowers in a Window, the Flemish, Brueghel and his Bouquet, ow, or of course, the English, William Shakespeare and his Romeo and Juliette. Other giants of this period include the English, Queen Elizabeth, the Spanish, Queen Isabella and back here in Italy, Catherine de Medici.

This was a time of wedding flowers like lotus, jasmine, iris, tulip, rose, hyacinth and lilac along with foilage, fruit and vegetables often used for decoration in urns, vases, compotes and woven baskets.

Renaissance Inspiration Board for Wedding Flower Design

Photo credits (clockwise): Ambrosius Bosschaert Flowers in a Window / Caravaggio Basket of Fruit / Queen Elizabeth / Romeo and Juliet Book Cover / Queen Isabella di Castiglia / Botticelli Prima Vera photo by Cinque Terre Wedding / Jan Brueghel Bouquet

Modern Renaissance Inspiration Board for Wedding Flower Design

Photo credits (clockwise): Style Me Pretty Bouquet / Style Me Pretty Table Centerpiece /  Pinterest Centerpiece / Style Me Pretty Fireplace / Martha Stewart Floral and Fruit Centerpiece / Style Me Pretty Berries in Minature Goblet / Pinterets Floral and Fruit Centerpiece / Oncewed.com bouquet

To start planning your Renaissance inspired destination wedding in the Cinque Terre Italy contact us here.

If your style is more Baroque, enjoy our modern day take on a Baroque wedding in part 2 of the series here.

Or if your ideal wedding style is full of pastel prettiness, perhaps the Rococo era is more your style. Find out more about this era is part 3 of the seriers here.

Written by Melina Nicholson

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