Lucy and Reece's wedding at Cooling Castle Barn

Lucy and Reece married at the weekend at the fabulous Cooling Castle Barn, and have been planning their wedding for over eighteen months now.  Despite having booked her flowers so long ago, Lucy has always known what she wanted in terms of colour and style and when you see her choices, you'll know why.  With hot pink and orange, gerberas and exotic proteas and celosia, it was a wedding to remember. 

Lucy was looking stunning on her wedding morning, and will have been a radiant bride.  Her hair and make up was stunning and her choice of a simple, yet striking and contemporary hand-tied bouquet of hot pink and orange gerberas along with simple grass loops would set off her dress perfectly.

For the bridesmaids, we decided to mirror Lucy's bouquet, but use the smaller germini.  We then scaled down bouquets from the older to the more junior bridesmaids, and then finally went for a single gerbera and shaved feathers in a "wand style" for the Flower Girl.

For Reece, we opted for the burnt orange germini and loops of grasses, with the hot pink germini used for the rest of the groom's party. The Mums decided they would like wrist corsages to match their outfits, and again we incorporated germini to match the focal flower.  We then provided lapel corsages for the Nans and sisters.

For the ceremony in Cooling Castle, we removed the artifiical arrangement at the front of the ceremony room and replaced it with a striking hot pink and orange arrangement using gerberas, germinis, celosia and proteas along with palms, grasses and other striking foliage.  We matched this arrangement with a long, low striking arrangement for the celebrant table.

Within the main barn for the wedding breakfast, we dressed the guest tables with central mirrors onto which was placed a large martini vase filled with hot pink sisal.  Into the top of each martini glass, we placed a striking hot pink and orange arrangement designed to give plenty of width and to give that "wow" factor.  As we had a larger number of tables, using such striking arrangements filled the barn with bright, summery flowers.   We also dressed the beams with fairy lights which framed the whole barn perfectly.

We finished the top table with a long and low arrangement placed over the front of table draping.  We then added a few small clusters of flowers into the stunning (and large) tower of cupcakes Lucy and Reece had chosen for their wedding cake.

We think the barn and the colour scheme looked lovely and lots of people commented on how summery and attractive it all looked on the day.  It was a lovely day and we're sure that everyone will have had a wonderful day....hard not to at Cooling Castle Barn!  We just hope it lived up to Lucy and Reece's expectations and to their long planning period.