Ruth and Simon's wedding with reception at St Julians Club, Sevenoaks

When I first met Ruth to discuss her flowers, she was very clear about the style of flowers that she wanted.  Ruth's wedding was going to be very relaxed, pretty and romantic.  Her dress was a stunning empire line dress, soft, flowing, with beautiful detailing, yet essentially very simple and so we needed to provide flowers that added to, rather than overpowered the dresses.  Her bridesmaids were wearing palest pink and hence we added hints of pale pink into Ruth's flowers and the venue flowers, and yet kept the bridesmaids' flowers all ivory to contrast with the dresses.  Ruth loves roses and multi-petalled flowers and as she wanted texture and a very natural feel, we used a variety of flowers throughout the wedding.

For Ruth's bouquet, we used La Belle and Gletsjer roses along with trachellium, chincherinchee, hypericum, lisianthus and freesias.  For foliage, we used eucalyptus parvifolia and rosemary to bring additional scent and texture to the bouquet.  Ruth and her bridesmaids all wore small ivory spray roses in their hair.

For the bridesmaids, we tailored the bouquets in size with her chief bridesmaid having a full hand-tied bouquet of Gletsjer roses, trachellium, chincherinchee, hypericum and freesias all in ivory along with rosemary and eucalyptus parvifolia.  We then scaled down the flowers for the two younger bridesmaids.

For the buttonholes, we used the La Belle rose for Simon's buttonhole to tie in with Ruth's bouquet and matched the groom's party to the bridesmaids via the Gletsjer rose. 

For the reception tables, we used simple tapered vases with a full, natural and textured hand-tied bouquet in pale pink and ivory tones, using all the flowers we used elsewhere in the wedding.  Whilst each guest table had a single vase in the centre, Simon and Ruth were framed by a vase each side of them on the top table.  We then finished the floral dressing by providing flowers for the cake to mirror the flowers used elsewhere. We used a floral topper, along with small wired sections on each tier to provide a pretty tie-in to the overall wedding flowers.