Three Floors, One Palette: Ava and Kyle Push a Garden Look Toward Formal at The Gadsden House

Ava and Kyle set out to take a relaxed, garden-style wedding and dress it up, and they picked The Gadsden House in Charleston to do it. The venue has three floors of historic architecture, and that did most of the work: when the building is already formal, the couple doesn't have to buy the formality in. The flowers were calla lilies and hydrangeas, two different shapes. Calla lilies are a single sculptural line, and hydrangeas are a full, soft cluster. Sage green held the scheme together. Sage is a quiet color that tends to pick up the foliage around it rather than compete with it. For a bride weighing the same idea, the lesson is in the order of decisions: choose the room first, then let a short flower list and one restrained color carry the garden feeling inside it.

With reporting from Style Me Pretty.