Michelle and Rob's beautiful yet rustic wedding at Cooling Castle Barn

I was just searching the blog earlier for a wedding to show to another prospective bride and knew that she'd love Michelle and Rob's style (as did I) so I was amazed that I hadn't actually blogged this little beauty!  So despite being months late, here is their wedding in all it's glory!  It was a truly beautiful collection of pale green and ivory and included stocks, bouvardia, astrantia, guelder rose, waxflower, trachellium, gypsophilia, veronica, trachellium, chincherinchee, penesetum, freesias, daisies, amaranthus, rosemary, eucalyptus and more....pretty, fragrant and very English.

Michelle chose a natural, spriggy and textured bouquet in a very "just picked " style for herself and then all white gypsophilia bouquets for her bridesmaids.  Each was tied with hessian with a small lace bow over the top.

The boys buttonholes were equally soft using greentrick, waxflower, chincherinchee, daisies and rosemary for Rob, then omitting the daisies for the Best Man and then scaling them down to gypsophilia and rosemary for the rest of the boys, and just daisies for Flynn, the Page Boy.  Mums' corsages also took on a natural feel and it all worked so well together.

The ceremony barn looked so so pretty for Michelle's entry...we lined her route with pitchers of flowers to match all the wedding flowers, interspersed with hanging jars of gypsophilia.  We added hessian bows to the dais and the stairs.  For the celebrant table we added a rustic arrangement in a piece of driftwood and a jar of gypsophilia wrapped in hessian. 

For the top table, we provided a range of jars and earthenware containers, some with hessian attached and all filled with gorgeous soft flowers to match the wedding.  We added some small blocks of wood to give additional texture and height and left a couple of empty jars for the bridal bouquets.  We also dressed the plough behind the top table with a faux blossom garland and fairy lights.

We then provided a pitcher full of flowers placed on woodblocks for each of the guest tables, each surrounded by a few additional jars of flowers.  We dressed the beams with fairy lights to finish the look.

I loved every minute of this wedding from planning, through preparation to set-up and seeing the photos afterwards.  I know I'm a sucker for green and white flowers (I had them at my wedding) but I think you'll agree that they are stunning in their simplicity.  I'm a little embarrassed (but also very proud of the team) to include the following note that Michelle emailed over to me the day after her wedding....it brought tears to our eyes...

Hi Amanda. 

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 

The flowers and floral displays were absolutely stunningly breathtaking. Incredible. Amazing. I honestly can't find the right adjective. Its like you were in my head as its what I imagined our day to look like but so so much more. 

From the moment I saw your portfolio and displays, I knew you had to be our florist. First and foremost, thank you for putting us at complete ease. In your beautiful home, not just professional but fun, You speak with such passion, joy and confidence that it wasn't hard to put every faith in you. You took your time to get to know us and really reflect exactly who we are and created a beautiful, romantic and simply elegant feel to our day. You took a small idea and made our big day. Thank you so much. We had no end of compliments and I think you're fabulous. 

I'm a very happy and very lucky girl.  

I will always recommend you to any bride to be. They'd be mad not to have you. 

Thanks so much x all the very best x

Mich x

Enjoy! 

Abbie and Ed's gorgeous Godmersham wedding

Earlier this month we provided the flowers for Abbie and Ed's wedding in the very pretty village of Godmersham.  They married in the church and then moved just up the road to a marquee on the lawns of the beautiful Godmersham House.  We met Abbie through a word of mouth recommendation, and once again were so lucky to be working with such a lovely couple.  Abbie wanted eveerything to be fairly natural and relaxed but pretty.  She also wanted to incorporate her favourite White Company candles on the tables.

The colour palette for the wedding was ivory, pale pink, lilac and grey / blue and we were blessed with fabulous peonies, O'Hara roses, La Belle roses, sweet peas, astilbe, waxflower, bouvardia, lisianthus, gypsophilia, freesias, veronica, rosemary, flowering mint and other gorgeous bluey grey foliages.  We were like children in a sweet shop surrounded by such prettiness!



Abbie's bouquet was a soft and textured hand-tied bouquet which smelt unbelievable!   Her bridesmaids also had textured hand-tied bouquets but we omitted the peonies and swopped O'Hara for La Belle roses.  The two Flower Girls were lucky enough to have gypsophilia crowns which I'm sure looked gorgeous on them, but are very difficult to photograph without a sweet Flower Girl!  Hence my challenge is to find creative ways to photograph them!

The boys had lovely textured buttonholes to tie in with the bouquets, with Ed's being particularly lovely with the O'Hara rose.

At the lovely spacious marquee, we dressed each table with a central pitcher filled with flowers and added lace wrapped jars and other pots around the outside along with Abbie and Ed's scented candles, fluted votives and tealights.  We were just supposed to be adding single flowers to the vases, but I'm sure they won't have minded us going a little further and adding more! We then finished the whole look by adding sprigs of gypsophilia to all the napkin ties.

We filled the length of the top table with a selection of vases, jars and pots filled with flowers, all wrapped in some way in lace.  We also added votives and scented candles to tie in with the rest of the tables.  It really did look and smell amazing!

Additional finishing touches included dressing Abbie and Ed's lovingly painted stepladder with jars of flowers to complement the "LOVE" letters.  We also added random jars to the cocktail bar (and were amazed to see absolute replicas of our two cats being the inspiration for the cocktails!) and we also dressed the scrummy looking chocolate cake.

Abbie and Ed's wedding day was lovely in every way, and everyone we met from the caterers, waitresses, fabulous candy cart girls to the actual marquee providers were great to work with.  It was a fab day for us and we were only setting up, so I can only imagine how much fun Abbie and Ed will have had on their special day!