Rehanna and Chris' winter wedding at Lympne Castle

For our last wedding of the year yesterday, we were lucky enough to work with the nicest wedding couple (and families) possible.  Rehanna and Chris have been (excitedly) planning their wedding for some time now and knew that despite it being so close to Christmas, they wanted a slightly different feel to the wedding.  They wanted lots of sparkle and candlelight and a feel of Christmas but also wanted a slightly Indian accent to the decoration in the Castle.  Overall though they wanted a very striking and contemporary feel to their wedding and used purple / aubergine as the main accent colour.

Rehanna's wedding dress was stunning!  She is very petite and gorgeous and any dress would look good, but Rehanna chose the most perfect heavy lace dress with a halter neck and a smallish train.  It fitted her so well and with her glossy dark hair up with a few small decorations, she looked amazing.  We chose a smallish contemporary styled shower bouquet using Picasso Calla Lilies and Purple Vanda orchids along with grasses and small rolls of aspidistra leaf.  It was perfect for Rehanna and not too overpowering against the beautiful wedding gown.

Rehanna's bridesmaids wore lovely colourful saris and hence we decided against flowers for them.  As for Chris, he looked wonderful in a slimline three piece grey suit with a single breasted slimline jacket piped in ivory.  So different and so striking.  The Best Man was also lucky enough to have a matching suit.  All the boys wore a single Picasso calla lily buttonhole with a few sprigs of grass and a roll of aspidistra at the front.  For the Mums, we used the vanda orchid used in Rehanna's bouquet on wrist corsages.  It all tied together so beautifully.

For the main reception room, Tania from Bows Chair Covers (www.bowschaircovers.co.uk) chose a perfectly matching sash for the chairs which  were dressed in ivory tailored covers.  Her bows are quite distinctive and always perfect...they set the scene for the contemporary table centrepieces which were placed on central mirrors and consisted of tall glass trumpet vases filled with a trio of Picasso Calla Lilies in purple water and with a tall silver "tree" arrangement on top.  The "tree" tops were made from corylus and birch sprayed silver with a touch of glitter.  The table names were then added on bauble shaped cards (all tables were named after the reindeers...all nine of them....can you remember them all?) along with glass baubles containing tealights, each with the name of one of the guests on the table written in purple on the front.  Very striking and perfect for the room and time of year.

For the top table we then provided a long, low intertwined arrangement of silver branches with calla lilies and orchids woven through.  We added orchid heads onto the napkins which had been ingeniously tied with multi coloured ethnic bracelets to bring in the Indian theme.  Beautiful and very memorable.

We provided a smaller version of the top table arrangement for the celebrant table (but forgot to take photos of it....!!).  Every window ledge was then dressed by Rehanna and her friends and family with artificial pine garlands, wreaths, vases of multicoloured baubles and more glass baubles holding tealights everywhere.  It looked magical and showed just how much time and thought they had put into all their planning.

We know they had the perfect day and looked so wonderfully happy together.  Their families and friends were all wonderful and complimentary and I think everyone had the perfect start to Christmas and Rehanna and Chris had the perfect start to their lives together.  What a way for us to end our 2011 wedding season.