Jessica and Graham's wedding at The Museum of Kent Life

Another of our recent weddings was Jessica and Graham's at the lovely, rustic Museum of Kent Life.  Jessica and Graham wanted a pretty but contemporary look to their flowers, but we also wanted to ensure that they worked in such rustic surroundings.  Jessica's colour scheme was a deep red and ivory and she wanted to keep her flowers really simple.  Whilst wanting to include some calla lilies in the flowers, we decided to keep them just to her bouquet, Graham's buttonhole and a small section on the cake.  Everywhere else was focussed on gerberas.

For Jessica's bouquet, we used gerberas, freesias and calla lilies in a palette of red and ivory along with variegated china grass, ruscus and ivy leaves.  Her bouquet was hand-tied and smelt delicious.  We also used two different ribbons to wrap the stems to bring in the colour of both Jessica and her bridesmaid's dress.

Graham's buttonhole was designed to tie in with Jessica's bouquet and was different to the germini buttonholes used for the rest of the bridal party.

The bridesmaid's bouquet of ivory germinis contrasted with her dress and used the same foliage (china grass, ivy and ruscus) as Jessica's bouquet.

For the tables in the Wagon store, Jessica and her family had been collecting Yankee Candle jars (their houses must be permanently sweetly scented given the number of pots they'd saved!) for some time and wanted to use a new candle on each of the tables.  We thus used all the empty ones they'd been collecting, wrapped them with a leaf and tied them with ribbon and added a simple gerbera with loops of china grass to each jar.  We used larger jars for the top table.  Whilst very simple, they looked effective and pretty on the tables when clustered together.

We then chose a selection of sizes for the entrance hall in the Village Hall. 

Finally, Jessica wanted to dress the cake with some flowers, but again wanted to keep them simple....we thus added a small topper to the cake to tie in with the gerbera theme, and finished it with a calla lily section to bring in the special bridal flower.

With sunshine streaming down, and some very cute pigs playing in the background, it promised to be a perfect Kent day.  We hope Jessica and Graham had a great day and that it was everything they had dreamed of and planned.