Dani and Matt's gorgeous Cooling Castle Barn wedding in the snow

Dani and Matt had the most beautiful snowy day for their Cooling Castle Wedding last week.  The photos will be fabulous especially as Dani had a gorgeous pair of Weddington Boots for the time she couldn't wear her glamorous heels.  Dani and Matt wanted their wedding flowers to be soft, pretty, scented and with a vintage English feel.  Colours were pale pink and ivory and they really were a perfect match for the very pretty bride and her entourage.

Dani wore a stunning low backed strapless dress with the most exquisite lace detailing.  On her petite frame, it was going to be gorgeous.  We designed a full and soft bouquet of roses, spray roses, bouvardia, paperwhites, freesias, ranunculus and freesias.  Foliage was soft and spriggy eucalyptus parvifolia and rosemary.  We wrapped the stems in lace and finished them with a couple of vintage style pearl and diamante hatpins.

Dani's bridesmaids were wearing very elegant long blush pink dresses with a beaded sweetheart neckline and a sexy split!  They were also going to look lovely and having met more of the families at Cooling, it was going to be a very glamorous day.  We decided to provide smaller hand-tied bouquets for the bridesmaids to resemble Dani's bouquet but being more ivory in colour as a contrast to the dress.  We wrapped the stems in lace and finished them with a single hatpin to match Dani's bouquet.

For the boys, we decided on a La Belle rose buttonhole for Matt with sprigs of rosemary and eucalyptus parvifolia and then used the slightly smaller headed Vendella rose for the rest of the boys.  The pageboys had their own mini buttonholes and we also designed corsages to match outfits for the Mums, Grandma and Matt's sister.

For the ceremony, we replaced the silk pedestal display at Cooling with a large rustic heart dressed with flowers and added to candelabra in front of the dais to frame Dani and Matt taking their vows.  We then added a full, long and low arrangement to the celebrant table for the signing of the register.

For the wedding breakfast, we dressed the top table with mini candelabras at either end and a long and low arrangement in the middle.  As was said as we were setting up...."you don't do small arrangements, do you!"  Well we think the top table needs to be a focal point and as it is a long table at Cooling, it really does need something decent in size.  We also decided to add roses to Dani and Matt's place settings, and ranunculus to the others to finish the table.

For the guest tables, we used our tall elegant silver candelabra topped with a full and pretty arrangement of all the flowers used elsewhere.  We added trailing ivy and amaranthus and finished the look with battery operated candles.  With the lovely double chair sashes with lace overlay from Confetti Connections, we think it looked lovely.

We loved Dani and Matt's wedding, we loved the snow and we hope they had a perfect day.  When they get their photos back, we hope to be able to share some with you, but in the meantime enjoy!

Hazel and Andy's stylish winter Eastwell Manor wedding

 On Twelfth Night, Hazel and Andy celebrated their wedding at Eastwell Manor, with a link across the internet to Hazel's family overseas (very clever eh).  We looked forward to this wedding as we loved spending time with Hazel and her daughters Clarissa and Dixie planning their wedding.  They are such a lovely family and we loved the theme of blue and snowflakes (which were kept as a surprise for Andy).

Hazel wanted an elegant and wintery blue and ivory wedding with a different twist.  She loves lilies and hence we decided to incorporate oriental lilies, longiflora lilies and calla lilies along with the unusual Honeymoon tulip, blue eryngium thistle, hypericum berries and lots of snowy branches / pussy willow etc.

Hazel's bouquet was a structural overarm bouquet of lilies, eryngium, freesias and pussy willow with rolled leaves and spriggy foliage.  Hazel is tall and slender and this bouquet was perfect for her stature and to show off her dress.  We finished it with a sparkly butterfly brooch to match the brooches on the Flower Girls' bags.  We also provided a range of spray roses and hypericum berries for Hazel's hair which was being dressed by the lovely Nina (a former bride of ours) who is an ace hairdresser!

For Clarissa, Hazel's bridesmaid, we decided to design a wrist corsage to extend up her arm.  This tied in with Hazel's overarm bouquet but was easier to manage, and not at all itchy!!  We added snowflakes to the ribbon trails to tie in with the theme.  Lovely!  We also provided roses for Clarissa's hair.

For Dixie and Mac the gorgeous Flower Girls, we designed floral handbags in silk so that they could have them as a keepsake.  We added blue detailing to the handle and in between the roses.  We then finished them with butterfly brooches front and back.

For the buttonholes, we used a calla lily for Andy with an eryngium thistle and pussy willow to tie in with Hazel's bouquet.  We then provided a tulip buttonhole for Dad and corsages for the Mums to tie in with their outfits.

For the ceremony table, we decided to keep it relatively simple with three different height cylinder vases with hand-tied honeymoon tulips with spriggy foliage.

We then designed rather unusual square tablecentres for the tables in the Rose Garden room using a more contemporary grouped approach and added raised glass tealight holders.  We also added snowflakes to the arrangements and to the wine glasses on the top table.

We loved the elegant simplicity of the wedding with the odd quirky detail such as the snowflakes, the diamond shaped cake with snowflakes cascading from the side, and the fabulous wellies.  We hope that despite it not being a frosty day (misty and grey unfortunately) that Hazel and Andy had a wonderful day.  They put so much thought into the details and the planning and I hope it was all perfect for them.