Art as inspiration can make your wedding as pretty as a priceless painting

To make the moment she says “I do” as pretty as a picture, Devon McCready is borrowing from the authorities of aesthetics.This August, she will walk down the aisle at her family’s home near Cisco Beach in Nantucket with her fiancé, Boston real estate developer Gaetano Morello, surrounded by elements inspired by paintings by the likes of Gustav Klimt, William Samuel Horton and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.“I have a long love of art,” said McCready, who owns an eponymous art advising business that keeps her hopping between Boston, Palm Beach and Nantucket.

“I’m always either studying it or selling it.So when I think about the visuals for the event, my mind always goes to different artworks that I’ve fallen in love with over the years.”Her wedding is structured like an elegant garden party, and for inspiration she looked to a detail from Georges Rochegrosse’s 1894 oil painting “Le Chevalier aux Fleurs” and to swirling colors of Renoir’s 1879 impressionist painting, “Spring (The Four Seasons).” Klimt’s lustrous golden phase and his later landscape paintings — think 1907’s “Bauerngarten” — influenced the selection of digital wedding invitations, fashion and decor.

Meanwhile, a keen-eyed guest might catch a reference to Odilon Redon’s 1912 watercolor “Five Butterflies” on the save the date stationery.Even the reception lighting is intended to reflect the amber glow of “Nighttime Festivities Held by President Loubet at the Elysée Palace in Honor of Alfonso XIII” by William Samuel Horton (1905).One person who definitely gets the vision is her planner, Maureen Maher of Nantucket Island Events.“When I show her an artwork she’s like, ‘That’s going to look great.

I love those colors,’” said McCready.Wedding content creator Emily Cline added that art can do more than just color your wedding — it can become a central figure in it.Cline is on iPhone duty, capturing candid, intimate moments from the big day that the f...