UK: Tim Smit

Social entrepreneur, business man, passionate motivator and ex rocker. Tim Smit is the man behind the Eden Project and The Lost Gardens of Heligan. He seems to be able to achieve the impossible, to convince people that great ideas can work and social enterprise and charities can be incredibly successful businesses.

Having worked on a number of regeneration projects it has become clear to me that you need a passionate voice to believe in what you are trying to achieve. Someone who can see through to the solution, who can bring people together and inspire change. Someone like Tim to lead every local council.......

UK: Eden Project Wedding

Pete and Susanna's wedding at the Eden Project.

What a fantastic venue for a wedding, an unbelievable setting, perfectly summed up by Pete's mum as a "cathedral to creation"

The Eden Project has always been fascinating to me as a landscape architect but became even more so after I was introduced to the work of Tim Smit by a classmate on my MA. I became a little bit obsessed by this fascinating and charismatic man and watched a lot if his lectures on you tube, but more about him in my next post. 

Pete and Susanna's wedding was one of the most magical weddings I have ever had the pleasure of attending. The venue and staff were superb, guests were able to wander around the project after all members of the public had left. The marriage took place in the Mediterranean dome and it really felt like we were sitting in an Italian piazza. As the sun set and it became dark outside, the lights were reflected like twinkling stars on the glass roof , the swing band played and we drank great wine and chatted to old and new friends. 

Come on Susanna!

The moment Dan and Pete realised they were now brothers

What an incredible setting

Mr & Mrs Wood