Genevieve and Tim's wedding in St Peters, Limpsfield followed by Squerryes Court

We first met Genevieve with her Mum at Chiddingstone Castle's Wedding Open Day and knew straight away that this was going to be a beautiful and elegant wedding.  Genevieve wanted a classic, unfussy yet glamorous look to her special day and chose the ever stylish cream, green and ivory as her colour scheme.  Although Genevieve didn't want anything too big or flashy, we chose the blowsy and gorgeous hydrangeas as part of the floral theme and teamed them with roses, gypsophilia, lisianthus, bouvardia, freesias and foliage including herbs.

Genevieve wore a beautiful gown with a understated yet glamorous detailing, like the fabulous fabric rose corsage on the hip (as you can see from the photos I've "stolen" from Facebook).  We decided her bouquet needed to be soft and textured yet neat and we used hydrangeas as the base flower with Vendella and White Naomi roses along with gypsophilia, rosemary and ruscus. 

For Genevieve's adult bridesmaids, we decided on simple hand-tied bouquets of White Naomi ross interspersed with gypsophilia and rosemary sprigs.  We then used the gypsophilia on its own for the Junior Bridesmaid and scaled it down further for her Flower Girl.  So elegant  yet pretty. 

The boys followed suit with their flowers with Tim wearing a rose with gypsophilia and rosemary and the adult groomsmen wearing spray roses, gypsophilia and rosemary.  We then scaled down the buttonholes to a single spray rose and gypsophilia for the junior Usher and finally provided just tiny gypsophilia and rosemary buttonholes for the young Page Boys.

At St Peters Church we kept to the idea of simple and elegant for pew ends and used single roses attached with ivory ribbon.  We alse added a large pedestal arrangement to the pillar facing guests as they enter the church.  To welcome them to St Peters, we dressed the lych gate with three individual arrangements on each of the stanchions (as the gateway is rather an assymetric triple gateway).

At Squerryes Court, Genevieve and Tim had dressed the marquee the day before with some lovely welcoming sofas, cushions, fleece blankets and even personalised bowls of M&M's!  They also had the best slogan sign re alcohol (see below!)

It was a lovely sized marquee and we agreed with Genevieve that it would be nice to provide a mix of candelabra arrangements and rosebowls to ensure it didn't look too uniform.  We therefore used five tall candelabras with ivy trails and a compact arrangement at the top full of flowers to match the rest of the wedding.  We then used six rosebowls on other tables with flowers to match, and smart candles to bring a touch of glow to the evening. 

For the unusually shaped top table, we used a front of table arrangement to fill the unseated section and then added small candelabras at either end in the middle, and added vases along the mid section ready for the girls' bouquets.  We finished their napkins with hydrangeas as a small finishing touch.

All the individual touches, the g&t references (which made me so thirsty when setting up!) and the general style of the marquee all added up to a beautiful wedding.  We know from Genevieve's Mum that she didn't stop smiling from the second she got up until the end of the day (as you can see from my snatched photos from facebook) and I am so pleased they had the day they both wanted.  We've even used a before and after clip from the wedding for our new video as it looked so elegant, so thanks to Genevieve for providing inspiration for others!

Linda and Alan's sophisticated Penshurst Place wedding

When I first met Linda, I knew that her and Alan's wedding would be gorgeous.  She had already chosen an absolutely gorgeous, glamorous and quite sexy Jenny Packham dress and hairpiece and had decided upon a black dress for her Maid of Honour.  Combined with Penshurst Place it was going to be a fabulous day.  Linda and I spent quite a few hours together getting the details right as the wedding plans came together and we decided that we wanted to have a slightly different look to the three distinct elements of the day (ceremony, reception and evening celebration).  We decided on a soft muted colour scheme of green, ivory and champagne with a hint of the black accent colour.

Linda's dress was so striking that we decided upon a hand-tied, soft and spriggy bouquet using O'Hara. Quicksand and Vendella roses along with paperwhites, ranunculus, white lilac, anenomes, tulips, veronica and chincherinchee along with soft spriggy foliage.  We didn't want to make it too large and wanted to add a little touch of glamour to the stems with a brooch that echoed the detail in the dress and hairpiece.

For the Maid of Honour, we decided upon a smaller version of the bridal bouquet with less variety of flowers.  We wrapped the stems in ivory to match the bridal bouquet but added a small black bow at the top to match the dress and added a smaller brooch.  For the Flower Girl, we created a tiny posy of chincherinchee, spray roses and paperwhites and wrapped the bouquet to match the bridesmaid's bouquet and added another smaller pin to tie all the bouquets together.  Ruby, the Flower Girl was very focussed on sprinkling petals, so we provided a little black box wth a lace ribbon filled with fresh petals.  All so pretty.

Alan had a textured buttonhole of O'Hara rose with chincherinchee, waxflower and foliage whilst the rest had buttonholes to match without the rose.  We also provided corsages for the Mums.

For the ceremony in the Barons Hall, we only had 30 minutes to set up after members of the public had left the building so we decided upon dressing the long side tables wth lots of trailing ivy interspersed with votives and tealights and with hydrangea florets and ranunculus heads sprinkled randomly along the full length.  We dressed the existing candelabras with lots of soft ivy as well.  We then added two large pedestal arrangements to frame Linda and Alan taking their vows and added a rosebowl (not photographed) overflowing with flowers on the present table in the hallway along with trailing ivy and ranunculus heads and hydrangea florets to finish.

For the wedding breakfast in the Sunderland Room, we provided large, full, soft and trailing arrangements on elegant candelabras for each of the guest tables.  We dressed each of the windowledges wth candelabra and foliage.  We then added two softly trailing rosebowls to the top table along with foliage and votives and added an empty vase for Linda's bouquet in the middle. We added roses to the place settings on the top table and added hydrangea florets to the cake table to finish.   It was lovely to hear the staff at Penshurst Place saying that they had never seen the room look so lovely, which they also told the bride and groom in the evening.

For the evening celebration, Linda and Alan had a marquee in the courtyard set specifically for the evening with a starlit ceiling.  We had decided that we didn't want to move the candelabra, but wanted to create a bit more of a sophisticated nightclub feeling, so we added crystal globe candelabras with candles and also added vases of flowers around the base.  It looked quite magical.

I know Linda and Alan had a wonderful time.  They were so easy to work for and I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of their day.  They also loved what we had done which is what mattered... this is what they said in a lovely email immediately after the wedding.  

Amanda

The wedding flowers were absolutely beautiful, stunning, I loved them. They dressed the venue to perfection, and the scent from them was gorgeous. We all loved our bouquets - my bridesmaids couldn't believe how beautiful they were. Ruby threw her petals, it was lovely.

Each room looked fabulous. The marquee looked like a glamorous club! Fantastic. The Penshurst staff commented that the Sunderland room had never looked so good. Everyone loved them - I don't think anyone had seen such a grand display at a wedding before!

We have brought a few of the displays home and given one to each Mum - the house is full of gorgeous flowers.

Thank you so so much. You and your team must have worked so hard, the attention to detail and creativity was amazing. You are very talented.

I have enjoyed working with you, you have been very supportive and full of fab ideas, thank you.

I will send photos when I have them!

Take care and thank you again.

Linda.