Wedding cars occupy a strange middle ground. They are working vehicles that spend most of the year doing airport runs and board meetings, and then for one morning they become part of a photograph that will hang on a wall for decades. Getting the dressing right matters rather more than the small amount of effort involved would suggest.
The good news is that traditional wedding dressing is modest by nature. A ribbon across the bonnet, perhaps a small arrangement on the parcel shelf, and that is genuinely the whole convention. Complications only begin when somebody arrives on the day with a box of things they hope will attach to a car worth considerably more than the box.
What can normally be fitted
Ribbon is the mainstay, and it is fitted the way it has always been fitted: a V from the base of the windscreen out to the edges of the bonnet, secured under the bonnet lip or at the wiper mounts so nothing sits against paint under tension. Ivory and white are the defaults, and other colours can usually be sourced if you tell us early enough.
- Bonnet ribbon in ivory, white or a colour matched to your scheme
- A small floral arrangement on the rear parcel shelf where one exists
- Ribbon tied to door mirrors, on cars whose shape allows it
- A single arrangement for photographs, removed before driving off
- Coordinated ribbon across two or more cars in the same booking
- Nothing at all, if you would rather the car stayed entirely plain
What cannot be attached to a car
Anything adhesive is out, without exception. Tape, suction cups on paintwork, magnetic signs, cable ties around trim, and anything that pierces or clips into a panel all risk damage that is expensive and slow to put right. On a car drawn from our vetted network of professional operators it is not ours to risk. This is not fussiness; it is why the car looks immaculate in the first place.
The other firm limit is visibility and safety. Nothing goes across the windscreen, the rear screen or the door glass, nothing may sit where it obstructs a mirror, and nothing loose travels on the parcel shelf while the car is moving. Trailing cans, confetti inside the cabin, and anything that could become a projectile are declined politely but firmly.
Sorting the details when you book
Raise decoration in your first message rather than in the final week. Which vehicle you are allocated depends on availability for your date, and whether a particular car takes ribbon in a particular way depends on its bonnet shape and where its fixing points sit. Asking early means we can check the actual vehicle instead of guessing at it.
If your florist is supplying the arrangement, tell us and we will agree who fits it and when. Flowers usually arrive at the collection address and are placed before the car leaves for the ceremony. Send a photograph of the style you have in mind and a colour reference for the ribbon, and it becomes a five-minute job on the morning rather than a negotiation.
