Lou Stoppard and Jamie Shaw always knew they would have a small wedding. “It fitted the time of life we were in,” says Lou, a , who gave birth to a daughter, Clark, 10 months before she walked down the aisle in London’s Fitzrovia Chapel. “I didn’t have the brain space to think about hiring linens or glassware, so we ended up relying on the skills of our amazing friends and family.
” The two creatives (Shaw is a , whose “blob” vases you will no doubt have seen on Instagram) had a talented line-up to call upon. Max Rocha, of Café Cecilia, hosted a wedding breakfast of bacon sarnies and homemade scones for the bride and groom, along with their closest family, and Stoppard wore Simone Rocha to the service in the ornate former hospital chapel. “I roped the Rochas in in a big way!” laughs Lou, who made the five-minute journey from The London Edition to the ceremony on foot, wearing her whimsical pearl-bedecked dress, which she likens to a child’s drawing of a bridal look.
“I found the idea of ,” shares Stoppard, who sent Rocha a few pictures from previous collections but ultimately said, “Do whatever you want.” Simone declared it the best possible brief to receive from a bride and imagined an ivory confection that, says Lou, looked like it belonged to a different era. For a new mother still breastfeeding her little girl, the tropes of womanhood stitched into the very seams of Rocha’s work resonated with Stoppard as much as the thoughtfulness at the .
