This weekend was the long awaited wedding of Emily and Rob at Cooling Castle Barn. We met a long while ago to discuss ideas for Emily's wedding, and with the exception of a few tweaks, the final flowers were as originally discussed. Emily had chosen a warm colour scheme of champagne, chocolate, gold and bronze and we matched the flowers to the colour scheme, using Vendella roses, brown, gold and ivory cymbidium orchids, natural willow and black tie leaves along with gold birch, some with touches of glitter. Emily wanted plenty of light and sparkle in all her arrangements, and we added fairy lights wherever possible.
As Emily was wearing a stunning flowing slimline dress, we decided upon a slimline shower bouquet of cymbidium orchids, vendella roses along with touches of chocolate brought in via black tie leaves and willow.
For Emily's bridesmaids, we designed hand-tied bouquets of Vendella roses surrounded with chocolatey photinia leaves. These toned beautifully with the champagne coloured knee length dresses with a chocolate sash and we wrapped the bouquets to match. We also have to mention the stunning sandals Emily chose for the girls...beautiful and very high!
The buttonholes were very simple and comprised Vendella roses (with an orchid for Rob) and all with willow sprigs. For the ladies, we designed corsages to match details of their outfits (gold leaves, chocolate brown touches of ribbon, or pearls). We provided thank-you bouquets for the Mums, each designed to match their preferred flowers.
For the all important ceremony, we designed an arrangement for the celebrant table using orchids, roses, birch and willow along with hypericum berries and chincherinchee. This was then to be moved to the centre of the top table. We also added two tall vases either side of the dais to frame Emily and Rob taking their vows.
For the main barn and the wedding breakfast, we added a mirror to each of the guest tables and a tall glass vase filled with crystal fairy lights for added sparkle. We added a full, yet very open arrangement to the top of each vase using Vendella roses, birch, willow, chincherinchee, black tie leaves and photinia leaves. We also added fairy lights to each of the beams giving the final magical sparkle Emily wanted.
The overall look at Cooling Castle Barn was elegant and slightly wintery yet warm and sparkly. The colours worked beautifully with the outfits chosen, and alongside the warm wood of the barn. Overall, it was such a lovely elegant wedding, and having seen how lovely the bridesmaids looked, we can't wait to see how beautiful Emily looked in her dress.
Amanda was absolutely amazing. Her enthusiasm, idea's and friendly manor made me so relaxed and I knew I had found the right person for the job. My bouquet was outstanding it was perfect for my dress (even with my terrible drawing I gave her) the table centre's lit up the barn and everyone told me how glamorous the room looked. The barn felt warm & sparkled all through the cold November evening. It was perfect.
ReplyDeleteA huge Thank You again Amanda.