Janina and Steve's wedding at Combe Bank School

We first met Janina and Steve last year just after Steve had proposed to Janina at the end of the New York marathon....which they'd both run!  Both Janina and Steve were focussed on having a lovely wedding day but without going over the top with details.  They knew they wanted orchids to feature, wanted a relatively contemporary look and the colour scheme to be a warm, autumnal one to match pot pourri Janina had already bought.  We therefore decided upon cymbidium orchids, calla lilies, anigozanthus (kangaroo paw), skimmia, hypericum and light foliage. 

To welcome guests to Combe Bank School, we provided slim lily vases with arrangements of orchids, anigozanthus and hypericum for each of the alcoves in the entrance hall.

For the wedding ceremony in the chapel, we provided two slim candlesticks to frame Janina and Steve taking their vows each with a contemporary arrangement of orchids, calla lilies and skimmia.

Janina chose a truly stunning Ian Stuart dress and we therefore decided to provide a wired shower bouquet, but designed in a more contemporary style.  We used red vanda orchids, Charlie Brown cymbidium orchids, calla lilies and grasses for the bouquet which would set off Janina's dress perfectly.

For the bridesmaids, we decided upon more unusual over-wrist bouquets designed to be held in the hand and curved elegantly over the arm at wrist height.  We used orchids, hypericum berries and a few touches of skimmia along with grasses and they looked really elegant.  For the young Flower Girls, we decided upon fun orange gerbera "wands" surrounded with burgundy feathers.

Steve wore a calla lily buttonhole to tie in with Janina's bouquet and we then used the cymbidium orchids for the remainder of the buttonholes and corsages.

Janina and Steve provided the hurricane lamp arrangements for the tables, so we just added a small arrangement for the cake table to bring in the flowers used elsewhere and finally we provided thank-you bouquets for the Mums which echoed the flowers used throughout the wedding, presented in a more contemporary style.

I'm not sure Janina will have sprinted down the aisle in her fantastic dress, but I do know that both Janina and Steve were so looking forward to getting married and just wanted to have a great day with family and friends.  We hope they enjoyed every second of it.