Helen and Dave's wedding at East Peckham Church followed by Holiday Inn

The lovely Helen and Dave married in September and had the most wonderful weather imaginable.  Helen chose very glamorous and elegant dresses for herself and the bridesmaids, and we wanted to bring an element of this into the flowers whilst still using romantic English style flowers.  Whilst the colour scheme was ivory and purple, we used a touch of cerise pink to give a pretty contrast.

Helen kindly sent in some photos of her special day and it allows me to show you just how beautiful and glamorous her dress was...very Marilyn Monroe, curvy and yet elegant.  Her bouquet was designed to be a slimline teardrop bouquet so that Helen's dress and figure weren't hidden by the flowers.  We used calla lilies, hydrangeas, lisianthus, chincherinchee, bouvardia and foliage and we think the bouquet looked perfect.  Helen's make-up was stunning too and really natural, having been done by a former bride of ours, the gorgeous Susan from http://www.beautybysusan.co.uk/. 

Helen's bridesmaids wore deep purple dresses, all with slightly different styles and necklines which really worked well.  We designed hand-tied bouquets of calla lilies, lisianthus, chincherinchee and bouvardia with the junior bridesmaid's flowers being a scaled down version of the older attendants.

The boys were given toning buttonholes with Dave's being a calla lily to match Helen and the rest of the groomsmen wearing lisianthus and chincherinchee buttonholes to match the bridesmaids.  Mums wore lisianthus and chincherinchee corsages.

For the reception, we provided low tapered vases filled with a lovely hand-tied arrangement of hydrangeas, lilies, chincherinchee, lisianthus and bouvardia.  The top table had a vase at each end and Helen used her bouquet for the centre of the table.  Unfortunately we were a little early for the venue to have completed their set-up, so photos are a little limited.

I know Helen and Dave had a fab day, as you can see by the very natural smiles, and have since had a wonderful honeymoon away.  Hopefully these photos will be a little reminder of their special day.