Gabrielle and Tom's wedding at Combe Bank School

We met the lovely Gabrielle late last year to talk through her wedding flowers and immediately knew this was going to be a beautiful, relaxed, pretty and fun wedding.  Gabrielle is a naturally beautiful lady who was so easy to work with and who was planning the kind of wedding we love...all about the bridal couple and their likes and dislikes.

Gabrielle had chosen an exquisite gown with a fitted bodice, belt and full skirt all overlaid in beautiful lace out to the train at the back.  She also had a lovely lace bolero jacket to wear over the top.  For her bridesmaids, she chose knee length royal blue dresses.

Gabrielle knew she wanted paler and stronger pink in her flowers as well as blue and ivory and wanted a very soft and pretty look.  Following the theme of the wedding, Gabrielle and Tom didn't want too much formality and wanted to keep everything relatively relaxed.  We therefore decided upon ranunculus, roses (Dolce Vita, Avalanche and Sweet Avalanche), freesias, lisianthus, bouvardia, muscari and agapanthus with rosemary and eucalyptus parvifolia.  Small touches of lace to tie in with the dress were also added. 

For Gabrielle, we provided a gorgeous textured bouquet using all the blooms and colours.  We wrapped the stems simply in a piece of lace ribbon to complement (and not detract from) her dress.  We also provided a smaller "throw" bouquet designed to resemble the main bouquet.  Finally, Gabrielle's beautiful naturally curly blonde hair was going to be loosely put up with flowers dotted here and there according to need.  We therefore provide lisianthus heads and buds, spray roses and muscari on wires to be placed throughout her finished hair style.

Soft, pretty and quite relaxed...a perfect bouquet

A smaller "throw bouquet"

Individual wired blooms for the brides' hair

For the bridesmaids, we designed smaller hand-tied bouquets using the range of pinks and ivories and omitting the blue.  We again tied each simply with lace ribbon.

For the boys, we decided the pale pink Sweet Avalanche rose was best and for Tom, we added an ivory ranunculus and muscari to tie into Gabrielle's bouquet, and for the other boys, we added a stronger pink ranunculus to tie in with the bridesmaids.

 
To welcome guests into Combe Bank, we designed a very pretty and simple newel post arrangement for the bottom of the very decorative staircase, tied with a simple piece of lace ribbon once again.  This really attracted the guests' eyes towards the beauty of the staircase.  We then added three vases of differing heights to the celebrant table, each containing a soft mix of flowers used elsewhere.  We then added a gift box arrangement to the grand piano, and one into the hearth of the fireplace in the Adam Room.

For the wedding breakfast we dressed each table, including the circular top table, with a large ivory gift box arrangement filled with all the flowers and colours used elsewhere.  We added a royal blue organza ribbon around the side and finished it with a lace bow.  So effective, yet so simple and soft.

We know Gabrielle and Tom will have had a wonderful day, and they have promised to send us a photo of them together on their special day when they have had time to honeymoon and re-group, so watch this space.  In the meantime, you can see what a beautiful wedding it was, and we wish the lovely couple all the very best in their lives together.