Hannah and Steve's wedding at Turkey Mill

On yet another beautiful day at Turkey Mill, we arrived bright and early to set up for Hannah and Steve's wedding.  We had a fair bit to do as we were managing all the venue decorations including chair covers, bows, table sprinkles, bridge dressing etc but it's such a lovely venue that we don't mind how long we spend there.  As we were dressing the bridge, the resident heron flew by and sat on the edge of the water fishing and a little robin also hopped by....it's such a lovely garden and really doesn't feel like you are in the middle of a major town like Maidstone.

Anyway, whilst nature watching!, we designed flowers to match Hannah and Steve's hot pink and white contemporary theme and added a few sparkles to complete the look!  For Hannah's bouquet, we provided a hand-tied, textured bouquet using agapanthus, bouvardia, Tenga Venga and Akito roses, germinis and ornithogalum arabicum, all with loops and sprigs of bear grass.  Her bridesmaids carried simple gerbera hand-tied bouquets in white to contrast against the dresses whislt her flower girls had triple hot pink germini "wands" surrounded in feathers and sparkles.

The groom's party had simple but elegant Akito rose buttonholes with loops and sprigs of grasses added, and Steve's had a few agapanthus florets added to tie in with Hannah's bouquet and to look a little different.  For the Mums and Nan, we used spray roses along with florets of agapanthus and ornithogalum arabicum plus soft foliage and loops of ribbon.

To frame Hannah's entrance across the bridge, we dressed the sides in white organza and added hot pink germinis and roses to bring in a touch of colour.

For the ceremony, two mini martini vases were placed on celebrant table in the Garden Room.

And as for the Orangery for the wedding breakfast, we thought it looked lovely dressed in hot pink and white.  We decided to alternate the chair bows by table, with one table having hot pink bows on white covers with white gerberas in the backs of the chairs, and the next table having white sparkly bows on white covers, with hot pink gerberas in the back.  For the Top Table, we did alternate chairs.   Each guest table had a large martini vase with hot pink sisal in the base and fairy lights for extra sparkle.  We provided a full top arrangement of lilies, roses, gerberas, germinis and ornithogalum arabicum in shades of hot pink and white.  Each of the tables was then sprinkled with crystals to finish.

For the top table, we kept to the martini vase theme but provided mini versions of the guest table arrangements, one to frame each side of Hannah and Steve, and one for each end.  We then sprinkled crystals in between to finish off.

Finally, the Mums and Nan were lucky enough to receive thank-you bouquets, and we provided these to match the wedding flowers.

With the dull morning clearing to a beautiful afternoon and everyone at Turkey Mill being on top form (as ever), we hope that the lovely Hannah and Steve had a great day.  They certainly had the perfect setting to set them on their way and although biased, we think it all looked gorgeous!

Hannah and Tim's wedding at Hadlow Church and after at Salomons

Hannah and Tim's wedding was to be an elegant and stylish wedding with deep purple and ivory as the main colour scheme, which always looks gorgeous but when we had the opportunity to incorporate stunning seasonal deep purple sweet peas, it was always going to be lovely.  It's also always lovely for us to work close to our home and hence providing pedestal flowers for our lovely Hadlow Church was really nice.

The flower choice other than sweet peas including Alliums, Picasso Calla Lilies, Vendella roses, bi-coloured Lisianthus along with eucalyptus and grasses.  A very striking mix of flowers, with plenty of seasonal elements.

Hannah wanted a hand-tied bouquet to compliment her dress.  We used a mix of roses, calla lilies, and sweet peas with foliage and although we are obvioulsy biased, we thought it looked lovely.  Bridesmaids carried rose and sweet pea bouquets and the younger flower girls carried simple "wands" of calla lilies and sweet peas.  Buttonholes and corsages toned and were very elegant.  Mini calla lilies were added to the ladies' corsages, which looked lovely.

Both Hannah and Tim wanted the flowers to be striking, but not too over the top for their wedding.  This held true for tablecentres and venue flowers as well and whilst wanting to dress the large theatre at Salomons appropriately, we didn't want to "overdo" it.  We used tall lily vases for guest tables, and mini ones for the top table and added a single Vendella rose to the stems for guest tables for a touch of floral interest once seated, and then added full, yet not too large top level arrangements on each.  Each sat on a simple mirror and was sprinkled with purple based crystals just to finish,

We heard the bells in Hadlow, but didn't have a chance to get a photo of Hannah and her bridal party, so are itching to see what we think will be stunning photos of a lovely wedding.

Emma and David's wedding at Turkey Mill

With such a fantastic wedding as Emma and David's, it's always nice to see photos of the happy couple and the bridal party.   The flowers are always shown off to their best against chosen dresses, rather than in the delivery boxes, so it's great to see Emma and David's glamorous photos.  I think everyone seeing them will agree that the dresses are fabulous...Emma's is so detailed and fits to perfection, and how nice to see halternecks on the bridesmaids' dresses...very Hollywood and glamorous.  But the star of the day has to be Emma's hair decoration....what a truly beautiful and unusual addition to her lovely outfit. 

It was sunshine all around for Emma and David's wedding at Turkey Mill.  With glorious sunshine outside and a gorgeous vibrant colour scheme of orange with a touch of lime green, it was a lovely bright day all around.  Flowers included Vendella roses and Supergreen roses along with Cymbidium orchids and orange gerberas.  Palms and various grasses finished the look.

Emma's bouquet was a lovely hand-tied bouquet of roses, orchids and germinis along with sparkles and china grass.  Her bridesmaids carried orange gerbera, crystal and china grass bouquets, and a scaled down germini version of the bouquet was provided for the flower girls.  All wore flowers in their hair to match (apart from Emma with her beautiful headpiece).

Buttonholes and corsages matched the theme with David's being the more exotic cymbidium orchid to tie in with Emma's bouquet.

Tables were tall lily vases with staggered gerberas, grasses and palms, and with orchid heads floating in votives at the base.  The top table was a more exotic arrangement including orchids and roses as well as gerberas.

The gorgeous cake by http://www.sugarplumcakes.co.uk/ was dressed very simply to match the remainder of the theme.....love the way it is offset and the detail on it was really nice.  It smelt yummy and made us all feel hungry!

We always love weddings with colour, but this one really made us smile and cheered us up.  We think it matched the lovely Emma's personality perfectly and hope she and David had the perfect day they deserved.