Painterly Wedding Inspiration in Olive, Lavender, and Chili Red at The Eyrie at Glen Eagle

Olive, lavender, chili red, and a peach that reads almost gold, all in one white rotunda under a brass ring chandelier. Nothing here matches, and that is completely on purpose. These colors were picked to argue a little, the way paint does on a palette before the painter commits, and the room was picked because it could handle the argument. So if your Pinterest board has three colors everyone keeps telling you don’t go together? Keep them. They might be the whole point.

The Eyrie at Glen Eagle in Syracuse, Utah has two semicircular apses lined with windows, and Brianna Hooper of Velvet Ant Studio (planning, design, and florals) treated them like twin stages: one for the ceremony, one for the food table. Coley Cook was behind the camera, and Nanyal and Yves are the couple in front of it.

“This styled shoot brings an energy to wedding inspo that honors traditional art forms with a fresh new twist,” says Brianna. Every detail, she told us, “was thoughtfully curated with a painterly look in mind.”

Stationery Sets the Palette Down First

The Printed Jewel set the palette before a single flower showed up: a Monet water-lily envelope liner in green and white, a lavender oval details card with a red tassel, a scallop-edged green RSVP, and a copper monogram. The invitation itself stays cream and quiet.

If you love a bold palette but want your invite to feel timeless, do exactly this. Let the liner and the tassel carry the color, so the mood lands the second the envelope opens.

The rings are Forge Jewelry Works, an emerald cut and a pear, both bezel-set.

Two Columns Under One Chandelier

The ceremony backdrop is a pair of freestanding floral columns that tower well over everyone’s heads. Brianna calls them “whimsical, with asymmetrical forms that look like they defy the rules of gravity,” and that lopsidedness is exactly why they feel like art instead of topiary. The heaviest color sits low, purple hydrangea and red ranunculus, and the top is saved for anthurium and allium, the flowers with the boldest shapes. Worth knowing if you’re planning a big installation: the flowers with the most interesting outline belong wherever the light is behind them.

Peach anthurium next to deep red anthurium is the same flower in two temperatures, and it’s why the red feels warm instead of harsh. Blue delphinium and purple allium cool everything down in between. Want red at your wedding without it feeling like Valentine’s Day? Pair it with its own softer shade.

The Hoop Bouquet

The bouquet is a hoop, and we can’t stop looking at it. Red ranunculus, rust and peach garden roses, green rosette buds, and blue delphinium florets are attached loosely enough that the metal ring shows through, with green and amber amaranthus trailing off the bottom. Brianna calls it “a deconstructed twist on a traditional bouquet, featuring negative space for movement and unexpected details such as cascading dried peppers.”

A classic hand-tied bouquet is a solid mass in every photo. This one has open space in the middle, so Yves’s olive lapel and Nanyal’s lace show through, and the bouquet frames the two of them instead of blocking them. If you’ve ever worried a big bouquet will hide your dress in photos, this is your answer. Little bonus: Nanyal’s nails match the red ranunculus, and so does the boutonniere, a thread that started all the way back at the invitation tassel.

Lace, Because the Room Already Has Color

Nanyal wore Barbie Anne Bridal from Bridal Image, an all-over lace A-line with a square neckline, cap sleeves, and a cathedral train that pools across the floor. Brianna wanted “a textural dress,” and lace is how you get texture while staying white. Between two columns of saturated color, a beaded gown would have been fighting for attention; lace gives your eye somewhere to rest. Planning a colorful wedding? Let the dress be the calm one.

A Still Life You Can Eat

The food table from Tables by Valaney sits on olive silk from Specialty Linens, and it opens with a garland along the front edge: red chili peppers, halved purple figs, and cherries. Brianna wanted “an air of abundance and sophistication,” and pairing a pepper with a fig is the same trick as the bouquet. Put something nobody expects at a wedding right next to something everybody does, and suddenly it all looks intentional.

A plaster bust wearing a cascade of green grapes. A silver goblet holding three oyster mushrooms upright. A halved pear, brussels sprout rosettes, a spotted egg, a wedge of pale cheese. It’s a Dutch still life you can actually eat, or in Brianna’s words, “edible art, with details that felt both regal and contemporary.” If your caterer is up for it, a grazing table styled like a painting is a very fun conversation to have.

Granny Smith apples and artichokes fill a footed silver bowl, with purple allium and blue iris rising out of the fruit and pale amaranthus spilling over the lip. It’s the cool half of the palette, all green and purple, and proof that produce can absolutely be your centerpiece.

Painted Live

And yes, there was a live painter. Kelsey Jane of Painted by Kelsey Jane captured the ceremony in watercolor, which Brianna chose because it “tied in the impressionist art look.” Even better, Kelsey painted in Ava Gowns’ Hyacinth gown, tiered lavender organza with puffed sleeves, a peplum bodice, and a watercolor floral print of its own, so the painter was literally standing inside the palette she was painting. If you’ve been on the fence about a live painter, consider this your nudge.

The Cake

February Flour frosted the cake in powder blue with a palette knife, painted florals across it in pink, lavender, and red, covered an entire tier in burgundy sugar petals, and topped it with a translucent sugar shard collar. Brianna’s reference was “a Claude Monet painting,” and you can see it.

“Overall, this shoot stands out because it dares to be abstract while romantic, innovative while refined, and funky while regal,” says Brianna. “We would love to show future couples that they can embrace different aesthetics in a way that elevates their event and shows off their personality without constraints.”

We are so charmed by this painterly, playful, and palette-bending shoot! And we cannot wait to see the colorful celebrations it inspires. Congrats to the entire team!