married Jeppe August Soerensen Rosenkilde wearing an undulating feathered top and a dramatic sheer skirt that represented her personality in a dress. The Danish designer and influencer, who runs colourful and quirky brand , did not perhaps foresee the amount of work it would take to realise her own image in plumes. The bride spent some 50 hours dyeing each quill in tea to formulate the perfect cloud-like shade, before cutting and tying them into small bouquets and hand-sewing them onto the bodice, inspired by a favourite blue top.
The fabric for the skirt, meanwhile, involved scouring suppliers in both France and the UK to source the right silk organza that wouldn’t look too thin, see-through or cheap. She enlisted the help of tailor Rikke Hubert to ensure the look toed the line between chic and cheeky, and added Bottega Veneta accessories to bring the look bang up-to-date. “It was worth it,” says the newlywed now.
“The dress turned out to be everything I dreamed of, and Jeppe thought it was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.” The couple, who met 13 years ago as twenty-somethings at a chance encounter at a Copenhagen Business School social, married in front of 88 friends and family at Grundtvig’s Church, where their daughter Lizzi was baptised, on the first day of summer. As Pernille waited for the wedding bells to ring and the doors to the most beautiful chapel in Copenhagen to open, her two “gays of honour” took a selfie and declared, “This is like.
