Concept project  ·  every commission below is invented. No real couple or venue is represented.
Merrow & Fane

Selected work — invented

Four that would have been ours.

A real practice would show real weddings here. This one cannot, so it shows invented briefs instead — written as design exercises and supported by governed concept imagery that depicts no commission or client.

A barn in late October
Ninety guests, one long table, no seating plan. The whole scheme built from the fact that the light goes at 5.40 and the ceremony was set for 4.30. Candles ordered by burn time rather than by look.
A city registry, then a rooftop
Eighteen people at the ceremony, two hundred at the party. Two entirely different events sharing a date, a couple and nothing else. The difficulty was the four hours between them.
A house that had never held a wedding
A family home, no infrastructure, no loading access, a single domestic power supply. Six weeks of engineering so that it would look as though nothing had been done at all.
A second wedding, thirty years on
Both widowed, seven adult children between them, and a brief that amounted to: make it feel like a Tuesday lunch that got out of hand. The hardest of the four.
An open dark wooden door frames a bare stone courtyard with a potted tree and bench.

An empty stone courtyard

Blank ivory paper pieces, a graphite pencil and frayed linen ribbon arranged on a dark wooden table.

Blank paper suite, top down

No testimonials appear on this site.

There are no clients to have written them. A concept project with invented praise would be a different kind of thing entirely, and not one worth building.