How London couples can bring their wedding vision to life

Roberta Burcheri, designer and lead planner at Roberta Burcheri Events advises on how to confidently bring your vision to life and be confident with the final look before your wedding day.

How would you feel if you could plan your wedding ceremony and reception in detail months ahead of time and be in complete control of your decisions? Perhaps you've been browsing the Gram for inspiration but still find it hard to put together a concept, furthermore you haven't been able to find anything that is really "you". Guess what? You actually won't be able to, since there is no other couple and love story like yours. Perhaps your vision is crystal clear, but your suppliers keep telling you that they 'can't see what you see'. Does this sound familiar?

It happens to all wedding couples! It can happen at any stage of stages of planning, and while this time can feel frustrating, you're just worrying that your wedding day won't turn out anything like you've imagined. There comes a point in every wedding planning journey when you hit a brick wall, even though you started things off with so many fantastic ideas!

You visit each and every wedding blog, devote countless hours to moodboarding, and read each and every wedding magazine published anywhere in the globe, hoping to find the perfect images. However, you start to feel a little bit overwhelmed about what to do next, because there are so many options. And even if your friends are supportive and always there for you, it's possible that they don't fully understand how they may help you in achieving your vision.

Wedding digital sketches and illustrations aid in the translation of your wedding concept, transforming all of your creative ideas into something tangible and visible that can be quickly shared with all of your wedding vendors, improving your planning visual communication efficiently without adding additional tasks to your plate. Imagine being able to visualise your wedding surroundings, including precise components, textures, hues, and how they might fit together. Pretty cool, right?

All those custom installations, tabletop decor, dinnerware, and settings. With the ability to swiftly change colours, layers, textures, or the entire appearance before renting décor and furnishings.

You can only start imagining how much easier it would be to quickly demonstrate your suppliers your clear vision, instead of giving them mood boards of someone else's wedding, and explaining how that would work for you, but not quite, and at your venue.

That isn't to say that Moodboards on Instagram and Pinterest aren't valuable for planning and design-related imagery. They are not quite as tailored to your preferences and precise in terms of details and amount of specificity, though. On the other hand, you would use them in a variety of ways.

Instagram images collections are great for learning what general style you like, such as whether you're drawn to bright, white contemporary spaces versus ones with warm, muted tones and cosy elements. Pinterest moodboards are a terrific resource to have at your disposal when you want to deep dive into a specific area, like how to style a fireplace mantel.

When you are working on establishing a design, look at what kind of images you are inspired by, before selecting any furniture, florals, and rentals from a wedding supplier. Pull out components that you keep seeing over and over again.
The next step is to evaluate whether or not your opinion of these elements is simply based on their aesthetic appeal or whether or not they are genuine components of your personal style.

In addition to this, you need to ask yourself if the function of the space, budget, and time frame of the day all fit well with these elements (and ensure about safety compliance too). This requires a significant amount of thought, as well as the execution of several tests, after which one must return to the drawing board. Behind every design are countless abandoned draughts and ideas!

Digital Illustrations truly are the best way to easily overcome this extensive process, move forward in your wedding planning journey, because you have a tool that can really help you hammer out the specific vision and aesthetic that you want to achieve. Furthermore, you're in control of your design, at all times and even whilst you're on holiday.

If you don't undertake this kind of work, it will almost always end up being much more expensive, and it might lead you to spend thousands upon thousands of pounds on rentals that sometimes don't actually work well when put together and are not particularly personalised to you. Your digital sketches can be delivered straight into your inbox and all your creative ideas can be tested over and over and you can easily make changes without involving any logistics, which all works out in saving time and money.

There's a lot of talk in the wedding world about timeless and people think it means entirely lacking colours or uber classic in the most common connotation of the word, but I disagree. Timeless means sticking to your own taste, ignoring trends, or taking them only as inspiration. It also means staying true to your vision as much as you can.

Click here to find out more about how wedding sketches and illustrations may assist creative couples in their wedding design process in a way that works for them and their wedding suppliers.