Clara and Paul's wedding at Cooling Castle Barn

Clara and Paul's wedding was quite a different one for us as it didn't involve many different flowers!  Clara and Paul wanted a sophisticated, glamorous look and had already decided upon ostrich feather tablecentres before we met.  The colour scheme was a dramatic and striking black and ivory with hints of red to match Clara's gorgeous dress.

All the flowers we used were large headed ivory roses along with black bear grass and different types of feathers.  For Clara's bouquet, we designed a domed, hand-tied bouquet of roses with sprigs of black bear grass, black narrow feathers and diamante sprigs.  We wrapped the stems in ivory and finished it with a black bow at the top to contrast against her lovely red gown.

For the seven bridesmaids, we designed smaller hand-tied bouquets of large headed ivory roses along with sprigs of black bear grass and narrow feathers.  We wrapped the stems in ivory ribbon and finished each with a deep red bow at the top to bring in Clara's dress colour.

For the four flower girls, we provided ivory rose "wands" surrounded in black fluffy feathers and spriggy diamantes and crystals.  We wrapped the stems in ivory ribbon and added black ribbon over the top.

For the buttonholes, we followed the theme for the girls and provided ivory rose buttonholes with black bear grass and narrow feathers.  We added a black diamante sprig to Paul's buttonhole to make it a little different.

For the ceremony, we provided a long and low arrangement of feathers, roses, black tie leaves, black bear grass and leucadendron safari sunset to add a touch of red.  This arrangement was going to be moved the centre of the top table over the black organza swagging after the ceremony.

For the reception, we used tall trumpet vases for each of the guest tables filled with black gel crystals with added red glitter.  We then added fairy lights down the stem of each and designed a top of black and white ostrich feathers for a truly glamorous look.  We offered to help Clara and Paul with the rest of the venue dressing and ended up doing the chair covers and bows for them and as we had spare chair sashes, we decided to add runners to each of the tables on which we placed mirror plates under each of the tablecentres.  We also added large ivory roses to the top table sashes.

Finally, we provided thank-you bouquets for the Mums in reds, russets and golds.

True to form we had to have a peek at the cake as well, despite once again having nothing whatsoever to do with us and it looked lovely....very stylish indeed.

Whilst we're not professionals when it comes to chair covers and sashes, we think the final look at Cooling was wonderful, and judging by Clara's wet eyes when she saw it for the first time, I think she loved it too (we're reliably informed they were happy tears!).  We know Paul did so our job was done.  We know they will have had the most wonderful day and can't wait to see the professional photos soon.  Clara and Paul deserve the most perfect wedding day, and we were so glad to have helped in some way for them.