Helen and Luke's wedding at Leybourne Church and afterwards at The Tudor Park

We first met Helen and Luke after they attended a wedding where we had provided the flowers.  It's always nice to meet couples who have seen our flowers "in real life" rather than at a wedding fair and it was lovely to meet and talk to Helen and Luke.  They were planning a contemporary fuschia pink and white wedding with additional sparkle and wanted flowers to match.  They are a particularly handsome and glamorous couple and we knew the flowers had to follow suit and spent time ensuring that the colours of the flowers closely matched the overall theme.

We chose roses including Dolce Vita, anthuriums, Oriental lilies, germinis, grevillia and light foliage all which worked well with the colours and theme. 

For Helen's bouquet, we decided on a teardrop shaped shower bouquet using all the flowers and with additional sparkles added throughout.  Helen's dress was a white, full princess style dress with plenty of sparkle and the bouquet gave additional focus to the front of the dress.

For the bridesmaids, we wanted to provide hand-tied bouquets that complemented Helen's and so chose white roses, fuschia pink germinis, grevillia and foliage.  For the Flower Girls, including Helen and Luke's gorgeous baby girl Cara, we chose rose pomanders with loops of ribbon in between, all in silk to allow them to be lightweight and to act as keepsakes.

For the boys, we decided upon a double buttonholes for Luke with a sparkle in the centre of the rose, and then chose slightly simpler germini buttonholes for the rest of the boys.  The stylish Mums had dendrobrium orchid corsages with  added detail to match outfits and Grandma also had a slightly smaller orchid corsage.  For the rest of the congregation, white carnation buttonholes were provided with sprigs of eucalyptus.  Thank you bouquets were also provided for the Mums and Grandma.

At the Tudor Park, we provided a full, long top table arrangement and qdded Dolce Vita roses to the place settings.  We then added tall martini vase arrangements to each of the guest tables including fuschia pink sisal in the base.  Very striking.

Finally, we have to mention the cake, made by Lynn Oakley (07720 127645).  As ever, the attention to detail for the cake was amazing!  Helen and Luke had surprised all of their family and guests by arranging a Christening for their baby Cara at the same time as their wedding, and hence the cake acted as both wedding and Christening cake...complete with Minnie, Mickey and baby mouse made by Lynn.  How cute is that!

We hope Helen and Luke had a lovely day as we know the hard work that went into the planning for their big day.  They are a fabulous couple and we wish them all the very very best in the future.

Laura and Ivor's wedding at Bletchingley Church and Brewer Street Farmhouse

Having met Laura and Ivory through another of our recent brides, it was lovely to find that we would be working in a new location and with a fabulous selection of flowers to complement all the lovely items Laura and Ivory were planning.  Laura and Ivor are a wonderful couple and so easy to work with.  They had a clear idea about how they wanted their venues to look, and flowers were very important to them to set the scene.  Scent was also very important.  The overall feeling they wanted was a magical, romantic, soft English Country Garden set of flowers in pinks, blues and ivories with an underlying vintage feel.

When talking flowers with Laura and Ivor, we decided upon roses including Carousel Illusion and English grown old fashioned musk roses, peonies, hydrangea, astrantia, astilbe, chincerinchee, lisianthus, eryngium, bouvardia, ammi majus, flowering mint and lots of other soft and beautiful flowers (with odd names that Ivory thought I made up as I went along...especially chincherinchee!)  What a fabulous mix.

Laura chose an exquisite quite fitted lace Pronovias gown with small cap sleeves and detailing under the bust line.  Laura is so pretty and petite it was always going to look fabulous, despite looking small enough to fit one of my legs!  She decided whilst she wanted lots of different blooms included, she didn't want too large a bouquet, hence we added minimal foliage and added as many gorgeous flowers as possible.  We dressed the stems with lace and added Laura's wedgewood blue cameo brooch to the stems.  Gorgeous!  Can't wait to see the photos as it really will be a magazine model look.

Laura had a Maid of Honour for whom we provided a slightly smaller version of the bridal bouquet.  She then had an additional four bridesmaids and two cute Flower Girls.  We decided to scale down the Maid of Honour's bouquet for the bridesmaids and then provide a simple rustic circlet for each of the little girls.  We wrapped the bridesmaids' bouquets with ivory ribbon to contrast against their wedgewood blue dressed and finished them with a random assortment of buttons.

For the boys, we wanted to continue the textured, soft look used elsewhere so used a scented English rose for Ivor with lavender, eryngium, astrantia, rosemary and eucalyptus.  For the groomsmen we used a soft mix of chincherinchee, lavender, astrantia and lisianthus.  They looked very handsome in their outfits, with Ivor looking particularly swish in a gorgeous suit.  The perfect groom!  The Mums had delicate lapel corsages designed to tone with individual outfits.

Bletchingley church is a lovely village church with plenty of space to fill, which we decided to do by providing two large and gorgeous pedestal arrangements to frame Laura and Ivor taking their vows and also pew clip arrangements for the aisle.  To welcome guests to the church we provided two baytrees dressed with a selection of flowers and a lace bow.  The grooms party were also busy adding church candles and ivy to the windowledges which looked lovely.

From the church, the wedding party went over to the gorgeous Brewer Street Farmhouse.  What a lovely venue!  Not only did they have a fabulous marquee in a wonderful setting, but guests are given free rein to wander through the beautiful gardens and trees in front of the immaculate Tudor farmhouse.  The owners are also so helpful and friendly and happy to let you wander around and enjoy...it really is an idyllic setting. 

Laura and Ivor had purchased candelabras and birdcages for the tables, which we dressed with flowers as well as providing a selection of additional vases and votives filled with flowers to surround each arrangement. 

A long, full and textured top table arrangement was added to with a foliage garland along the full length of the table, with additoinal flowers and vases added.  We then placed a small section of hydrangea on each of the table settings and added another small vase of flowers in front of Laura and Ivor.

Laura and Ivor had the most wonderful selection of items to finish the marquee dressing, from vintage suitcases (for which we  provided a full arrangement of flowers), a vintage map tableplan and tablenames, hanging hearts made from vintage maps, a wonderful treat table, lanterns, birdcage tealight holders to line the way to the marquee and birdcage styled favours containing macaroons (how fab to have my fave macaroons again).  It all looked amazing and one of my particular favourites were the personalised vintage looking planters which greeted guests to the venue...these were actually made from scratch by Laura's lovely Dad and what a wonderful job he did. 

So, this for me had all the elements needed for a perfect wedding...fantastic couple, a pretty village church, wonderful outfits, lots of lovely styling, a really lovely and welcoming family and some pretty nice flowers if I say it myself!  We really do have the best job!  A future wedding of the month, so keep an eye out for lots more photos to come.