Laura and Glenn's wedding at Combe Bank School

I know I've said it before, but we are very lucky to meet some lovely people in our work, and I have to say that Laura, Glenn and their families fall at the top of the nice list.  It has been such a pleasure working with them for their special day, and I hope all was as they dreamed of throughout the day.  Laura and Glenn chose a pale pink and green theme (after Glenn was persuaded that green really did work with it by looking at the ceiling in the Adam Room in Combe Bank School!).  Laura wanted it to be soft, English, pretty and romantic and was very open about the flowers we chose.

Laura is such a pretty and gentle bride that we decided her bouquet should be a soft mix of roses, bouvardia, trachellium, chincherinchee, lisianthus, eucalyptus and rosemary.  We also added freesias (Honeymoon) for additional scent and because they were her Mum's favourite...Mum noticed the scent at Combe Bank straight away so choosing a really scented variety was definitely worth it. 

For her bridesmaids, we provided hand-tied bouquets all in ivory to contrast against their dresses.  We used roses, trachellium, freesias, chincherinchee, rosemary and eucalyptus.

For the boys, Glenn wore a pale pink Sweet Avalanche rose buttonhole with rosemary and eucalyptus to tie in with Laura's bouquet, and the remainder of the bridal party wore ivory Avalanche roses.  Mum had a corsage contianing freesias (of course), chincherinchee and foliage with ribbon to match her outfit and spriggy pearls.

For the ceremony in the very pretty chapel, Laura and Glenn chose bows of alternating colours for the pew ends, and then we added a long, low, pretty and full arrangement on the altar. 

For the drinks reception in the Adam Room, we added a long and low arrangement to the beautiful mantelpiece.  This just shows how well the colours went with the venue..it was definitely a perfect choice for the Adam Room!  Well chosen Glenn!

We added battery operated Smart Candles along the window ledges in the ante chapel for additional glow and flicker later in the evening, interspersed with rose petals.  A very simple, pretty and safe option.



For the reception, Laura and Glenn had quite a large number of tables, so we decided that providing wide and tall arrangements for every table may be too much.  We therefore used tall lily vases with soft arrangements on every other table, and then low tapered vases containing full hand-tied arrangements for the others.  It gave a lovely open look to the room, rather than being too packed.  The top table was dressed with a long and low arrangement to allow the guests to easily see Laura and Glenn and to frame them during the wedding breakfast.  All arrangements were designed to be given away at the end of the day to selected guests.

For the evening in the ballroom, Laura had made a sweet topiary tree for each table....they were fabulous.  Each was different and each had sweets at the base as well as the top.  What a fabulous job! 

Laura and Glenn had their cake made by a family friend and decided on a simple stacked cake with alternating ribbon which we dressed with a topper and a couple of wired arrangements.  Very pretty and yet not overdone.

We had such a lovely time working on Laura and Glenn's wedding...they are such a wonderful couple and every conversation has been a pleasure.  Laura was extremely trusting about the flowers and really left it all to us to decide on flowers, varieties and what best to do.  We know they loved the flowers and we hope they had the best day ever!