We knew that we wanted to be involved in Lydia and Gareth's wedding as soon as we met them. They're a great couple, so easy to get on with and we had fun planning their flowers. Lydia wanted orange, and Gareth was adamant that being "ginger" (or more properly strawberry blonde!) that he couldn't possibly have orange and wanted his favourite colour, hot pink. So, we of course decided on hot pink and orange!
It's also lovely seeing a new location and the fantastic Slaugham Place was worth a little trip into East Sussex. The crisp, bright, immaculate marquee (
http://www.superevent.co.uk/) is set in the most beautiful 12 acre surroundings of a ruined Elizabethan manor house. It's so lovely and we can only imagine the photos that Lydia and Gareth will have. The recent dodgy weather also decided to stay away for their wedding day, making the surroundings look even more lovely.
Another reason we wanted to work with Gareth and Lydia, was Lola......their fabulous blue roan cocker spaniel. We're biased having a blue roan ourselves, but we think she is gorgeous and she was so perfectly behaved amongst all the pre wedding preparations and people in and out of their house. She also sat so beautifully whilst we attached flowers to her new sparkly collar specially to go to the wedding ceremony in church....and then bounced off to bring us her ball. Absolutely adorable!
Lydia had chosen a gorgeous slimline dress which will have looked amazing on her. Her hair and make-up was also looking beautiful, despite not being finished when we saw her. To accentuate the slimline nature of her dress, Lydia chose a hand-tied bouquet of Mango Calla Lilies with the stems being left long. A glittered flexi grass cage was added to the top of the bouquet, and the stems had additional sparkly pins added down the length of the ribbon.
For Lydia's bridesmaids, we chose simple bouquets of ivory calla lilies with a glittered flexi grass cage. We then designed a Mango calla lily "wand" for her flower girl.
The boys wore buttonholes to match the bouquets, and Gareth gave in and wore and orange calla lily .....but with a hot pink feather! The rest of the party wore ivory calla lilies, and Mums corsages included ivory, orange and hot pink.
Lydia and Gareth were marrying in Albourne Church and then welcoming guests at Slaugham Place for their reception. We thus added baytrees to the entrance to the marquee with pink and orange bows, and added sparkly fairy lights to the tops for later in the day.
Within the marquee, we alternated between martini vases and candelabra on the tables. For the top table, we used a martini vase filled with hot pink sisal (for Gareth) and added fairy lights inside for the evening. We then added a full top arrangement of calla lilies, lilies, roses, gerberas, anthuriums and contemporary foliage, some of it glittered for extra sparkle. The backs of the chairs were dressed with bows finished with sparkly brooches which looked so glamorous, especially when we finished them with calla lilies or roses.
For the other tables having martini vases, we chose ivory sisal in the base and made the top arrangements slightly smaller and less packed with flowers, but still very striking and contemporary.
For the remainder of the tables, we used tall silver candelabra to which we added glittered ivy and Milano roses and Mango calla lilies.
Finally, we provided two pedestal arrangements to seperate the reception area from the dancefloor.
We knew Lydia and Gareth would have a fabulous wedding day and were so pleased to be able to work with them, and to finally meet the lovely Lola along with the rest of their family. We know they will have a wonderful life together.....all they need now is a Dalmatian to keep Lola company!!
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