Katie and Steve were married at Knowlton Court earlier in June on a lovely day that would have allowed them to explore all the topiary animals in the grounds whilst enjoying a Pimms. All this, croquet, suits of armour and a wedding party that continued all weekend. What could be more English or more perfect for a wedding. It really was a lovely wedding and perfect for Katie and Steve.
To fit with the beautiful location, Katie and Steve chose soft, romantic, very English style flowers in a dusky pink and ivory palette. We added David Austin roses to the bouquets and the scent was amazzing. So very pretty too. Katie's bouquet was a textured hand-tied bouquet of roses, freesias, bouvardia and trachellium. It smelt gorgeous! We decided to add pearl pins at random around the stem of the bouquet rather than in a more formal straight line, and this reflected the slightly more relaxed style that Katie and Steve wanted.
Katie's four adult bridesmaids carried smaller hand-tied bouquets and we used more ivory than pink in their bouquets to contrast against their dressees. For the Flower Girl, we used a single Cezanne rose surrounded with bouvardia and foliage.
The boys buttonholes followed suit (if you'll excuse the pun) with Steve wearing a Cezanne rose, a freesia head and a sprig of trachellium. The remainder of the groomsmen had an ivory rose with foliage and the Page Boy had a "mini-me" version designed to be appropriate for his size. Mums and Nans had corsages with the addition of spriggy pearls for the Mums. All very pretty indeed. We also provided a sweetly scented thank-you bouquet for Nan and Grandad.
As the ceremony was going to be held in the Great Hall, as was the reception, we used a long and low arrangement of flowers on the gorgeous table at the front of the hall, along with clusters of additional vases at either end. As you can see, it's a long table that really needs to be dressed along it's length.
As we couldn't set up the reception tables, we did the next best thing and arranged the variety of vases on other pieces of furniture, keeping each grouping together as closely as it should be provided on the tables. We're perfectionists and even provided photos taken from every angle of how each table should be set-up to ensure that the caterers would get it just right (probably a bit OCD, but we thought it was important). We wanted to ensure different heights, so used cake plates and vintage books to raise certain items up from the tables. Against the wood panelling, the colours Katie and Steve had chosen, and the range of vases, jugs etc that we used looked really striking and very appropriate for the hall.
Katie was already looking gorgeous when we delivered the bouquet and was only in the process of having her hair and make-up done. I can only imagine how lovely she will have looked walking down the aisle. I can bet she took Steve's breath away. We hope it was a perfect day for them both. They were so very easy to work with and it was a pleasure being at Knowlton Court again. We hope all their guests had a lovely weekend.
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