The Wedding Experience at the Kent County Showground, Detling

Well what a day it was yesterday.....I think they're still counting to work out how many thousands of people came to the Wedding Fair yesterday!  And how brave of people to queue in the rain under (or even without) umbrellas to come in.  It was a day and a half and we lost track of time for most of the day.  However, it was lovely to meet everyone and hear their exciting plans, from feathers to multi-coloured English summer garden themes, via pretty much every colour and theme you can think of.

To stimulate some interest and hopefully inspire some people, we decided to make it a "game of two halves" on our stand yesterday, with one side being monochrome and the other being vibrant, multi-coloured and a little bit fruity.  We even managed to squeeze in a softer, more vintage style bouquet (and matching wand) in no-mans land in the middle.

Thanks to everyone for their fantastic comments, and thanks to the amazing girls (Sharan and Harj) at http://www.pinkkajol.com/ for the beautiful flowers that have been henna'ed on my hand....so pretty, so detailed and so quick.  Their work is extraordinary and they'd be great for a hen party (or if you're not getting married, why not plan a girlie night / day as we are and invite them along)

We've included photos of all the individual arrangements / bouquets as promised, and will split them between the monochrome set and the coloured set.  Apologies for the candelabra on the multi-coloured section looking a little odd....forgot to add the tall middle candle until the last minute!

The black and white collection first....

And moving onto the colours....

Hope some of them inspire you!

Kailey and Robert's wedding at The Knowle Country House Hotel in Higham

Yet another lovely day for another very pretty wedding which really suited Kailey and Roberts' style and personality.  Their bridesmaids were great too and really worked as a bridal party.  Kailey and Robert wanted a very pale pink and ivory floral theme to complement the Celadon green dresses the bridesmaids were wearing.  They wanted to get married outside in the garden and wanted their flowers to be soft, pretty and romantic.  We choose a mixture of large headed Sweet Avalanche roses along with seasonal bi-coloured ranunculus, freesias and sweet smelling stephanotis.  To work with this shade of dress, we choose eucalyptus and used both large and small leafed varieties to give additional texture.

Kailey decided in advance that her hand-tied bouquet would be too nice to throw and hence we created a small and simple throw bouquet to allow her to complete the ritual of throwing the bouquet, whilst preserving her bouquet.  The scent from Kailey's bouquet was gorgeous with the freesia, stephanotis and eucalyptus working really well together.  We had to keep burying our noses in the stephanotis for a "quick fix" from time to time. 

For the older bridesmaids, we provided smaller versions of Kailey's bouquet and kept them soft and pretty.  The stephanotis was left out of their bouquets but the scent was still lovely with the freesia and eucalyptus.  We decided it would be nice for Kailey and Robert to have a special flower between them, and as it was Kailey's Mums' favourite flower, the stephanotis was just used for these three .

For the flower girl, a small pomander was provided using spray roses and with a few silver pins added for a touch of colour, and to tie in with the dressing of the bouquet stems.

Finally, the bridal party all had Sweet Avalanche rose buttonholes with eucalyptus, although we added the all important stephanotis to Robert's buttonhole and to Mum's corsage.

We think the colours looked lovely together and are great with the green dresses.  Green is becoming a very popular colour for weddings, and I think the pale pink looks lovely against it.  See what you think.

Chapeldown Wedding Fair

Last weekend we provided flowers for the Terrace at Richard Phillips at Chapeldown and also exhibited in the marquee at their wedding fair.  Although a quiet fair for us, we met some lovely people and are delighted to have converted one great couple away from the silk flowers they had booked to fabulous soft and romantic flowers....always nice when that happens.  But equally sorry to the couples that wanted to book us for dates we are already pre-booked....as promised, the photos from the day are attached below for future reference.

Thanks to the lovely Marc at Designed Events for keeping us stocked up on goodies and thanks to Kate, Alex and the team at Richard Phillips at Chapeldown...it's always a pleasure working with them.

As promised, here's a few photos of the flowers we displayed at the Fair.

And finally a few more of the Terrace looking lovely in the morning sun.