Natasha and Nick's wedding at English Martyrs Church, Strood followed by Cooling Castle Barn

Following the hot colour of this year (blue), Natasha and Nick wanted a very natural, warm and wintery Midwinter's Night feeling to their wedding, using lots of subtle lighting.  Natasha had chosen a dark navy dress for her bridesmaids, and wanted the blue and white to come through in the flowers, without being too bright blue.  She also wanted the natural, more rustic feeling to her wedding.  They had sourced lantern trees for the tablecentres and hence we started from these in terms of designing all the flowers to be used.  We decided on lilies, honeymoon tulips, roses, eryngium, willow, pussy willow, eucalyptus and highly scented paperwhites, all with lots of unruly ivy.  We also added agapanthus to the arrangements for additional blue colouring.

Natasha's dress was a gorgeous gown with a very full, yet not too detailed skirt, hence we decided on a full but natural and slightly messy shower bouquet of lilies, tulips, roses, eryngium and broom along with ivy, pussy willow and willow.  Although we don't yet have a photo, the bouquet looked stunning against Natasha's dress, allowing her to show off her fabulous figure and tiny waist and to showcase the detailing on the top of the dress.

For her bridesmaids, we designed hand-tied bouquets of honeymoon tulips and eryngium thistle with ivy.  We wrapped the stems in ivory ribbon but added a navy blue bow at the top to bring in the main colour.  For the flower girl, we designed a slightly smaller version of the elder bridesmaids' bouquets.

Nick wore a rose, eryngium and ivy buttonhole whilst the remainder of the boys wore honeymoon tulip and eryngium buttonholes to tie in with the bridesmaids.  Mums had corsages of spray roses and eryngium.  We also provided hand-tied bouquets for the Mums as thank-yous.

For the striking church, we designed a front of altar arrangement and two pedestals to frame Natasha and Nick  taking their vows.  We also added floral balls to the front pews and bows with roses to the other pew ends making a beautiful aisle for Natasha to enter.  We thought it all looked very lovely, and having the blue carpet and chairs was an added bonus for the colour scheme.

For the reception at Cooling Castle, we used the lantern trees Natasha and Nick had provided for the tablecentres.  Half of the tables had lanterns with blue flamed tealights inside and half had white flamed tealights. For the lanterns with blue lights, we decorated them with all white arrangements and for the white flamed lanterns, we designed blue arrangements.  We designed the bottom half of the arrangements in hidden dishes to allow them to be taken away by guests and added a further arrangement to the top of the trees to allow an all around view for guests.

For the circular top table, we designed a very loose and natural front of table arrangement and then added a lantern tree with blue and white floral arrangements.  We then added roses to the chair bows and sprinkled paperwhite heads amongst the table crystals.

For each of the vertical beams, we twisted an ivy garland around entwined with fairy lights.  We left various sprigs of ivy loosely attached to give a slightly more natural look.

All in all, it was a lovely wedding and looked very different and quite natural.  Natasha looked truly stunning and I know they all had a wonderful day.  We loved the lantern trees and the choice of flowers and hope that you all like them too.