This Offbeat London Wedding Featured a Pajama Party, Angel Wings, and Surprise Performers Alexa Chung, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Joséphine de la Baume attended painter Oda Jaune and set designer Robin Scott-Lawson’s fantasy wedding in the city. It’s almost inconceivable to think now that Oda Jaune and Robin Scott-Lawson might have gotten married in Hydra or Scotland, two destinations that were originally posited. As the couple notes, their London wedding—staged at the Painting Rooms, the home of Scott-Lawson’s creative event production company, My Beautiful City, and 180 the Strand—was so resolutely them. “Our love story is here,” says Robin, who first met artist Oda at one of her show openings. “I didn’t really notice him at that point,” jokes Oda, before continuing: “I remember the first time I really saw him—I can’t even think of the place, I just thought, I can’t look further into his eyes, I’ll wait for him to approach me.” Robin finally made a move during the pandemic. Oda had relocated from Paris to London to be close to her daughter, who was studying fashion at Central Saint Martins. All of a sudden, she was locked down with the phone number of just one person: Robin. The near stranger offered her his studio to paint in. “I dreamed away the hours, weeks, months,” says Oda of creating her largest work to date: a 32-foot-long work entitled Tree, 2021, that Robin, who had retreated to the countryside, saw develop bit by bit when visiting the city for hospital appointments with his mother. “It was really love in the time of Covid,” remembers Robin. “It was very beautiful, very quiet, there were no distractions.” Both believe that had the world not stopped, they might not have connected in the same way. The proposal took place while the couple was in Venice for the Biennale. While party-hopping in torrential rain, soaked to the bone, they snuck into a pop-up club and lost themselves on the dance floor. “Will you marry me?” shouted Robin over the music, sans ring and sopping wet, but overjoyed to see “Yes!” mouthed back in response. Robin delivered an engagement ring later, while on a trip to the Indian jungle. Back in London, the pair kept all notions of a celebration under wraps as they set out to create a wedding that reflected their imagination and creativity, giving themselves the freedom to dream big. In the end, they invited their inner circle to a pajama party. “We thought about that feeling children get the night before something big is going to happen—like a birthday or Christmas—when they don’t want to go to bed,” says Oda. “They’re so exhausted that they mix reality and dreams.” Stage one: transforming the Painting Rooms into three different spaces. The first: a cocktail reception that looked like a dissection of a bedroom, where guests—dressed in “the most glamorous going-to-bed attire”—could congregate around sleeping-related ephemera. The second: a 50-foot-long table built to look like a bed, with Oda and Robin at the head, wearing a vintage pink slip and Harvie & Hudson pajamas, respectively, and with a “dreamy” banquet laid out before them. “Everyone was in hysterics,” they remember of the big reveal—but not for long, because the third space, backed by the opera-singing Ellie Edmonds, accompanied by Milo McKinnon, opened to reveal “the ultimate pillow fight room.” “You couldn’t see, it was so white,” says Oda, with Robin adding: “We’re going to be finding feathers for the next 20 years.” However, this was just the warm-up. The day after, still on cloud nine, the couple wed at St Mary le Strand before heading over to 180. To make Alex Eagle and Mark Wadhwa’s industrial venue their own, Robin constructed a gigantic version of the wings Oda had sketched for their wedding invites. “We wanted to bring a softness to the space,” he says of continuing the feather theme from the night before, but with a sense of the wings “holding the room together.” Snowdrops that “grew” out of the tabletops also contrasted the raw, concrete surroundings, while a reflective laser light bathed everything in gold. “And then, I rented a ridiculously large sound system to get the feeling of being in Berghain,” quips Robin—perfect for a lengthy set from 2manydjs and Alexa Chung, who manned the decks into the early hours, and live performances from “friends” Eliot Sumner, Tom Odell, and Chrissie Hynde. Oda’s wedding dress was only ever going to be by one designer: her daughter, Ida Immendorff, whose costume-adjacent work explores the intersection of fashion and art. “It was the highest honor of all,” says Oda of the simple heavy silk dress overlaid with a hooded wool coat, crafted from 32 feet of ivory wool that draped at the back like a sculptural waterfall. When the bride arrived at the chapel and took down her hood, a round headpiece comprising scores of ceramic porcelain snowdrops was revealed. Oda carried a simple bouquet of snowdrops and eschewed any other accessories—“no phone, no bag, absolutely nothing.” Robin wore traditional tails by Gieves & Hawkes, before changing into Dior black tie for the party. As the night unfolded with speeches from both their children , the bride was deeply touched by the wonder of it all. “I work with the principle of making something to last, so it was fascinating to see this moment shine for one night only—I found it incredibly touching,” she says of her husband’s work. Robin, meanwhile, was preoccupied with celebrating his marriage and, quite possibly, the best potato of his life. After Keto dieting in the run-up, chef Florence Knight’s slither of a spud laced with caviar and crème fraîche was almost as mind-blowing as Tom and Chrissie performing their rendition of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love.”