Megan and Leigh's pretty Broome Park wedding

We met Megan through one of our florists Claire, and despite having another wedding booked for the same day, we just knew we had to be involved.  Megan and Leigh are two of the nicest, most unassuming people you can meet and with their lovely family (Isla, Finlay and Seth), it was clearly going to be a wonderfully relaxed family day.

Megan wanted a soft, pretty and feminine look with vintage overtones for her wedding and we chose Roses, Spray Roses, Bouvardia, Hydrangeas, Stocks, Waxflower, Sweet Peas, Freesias and Astrantia along with lovely scented foliage. 

Megan's bouquet was a beautiful, textured and soft hand-tied bouquet based around roses.  It really was perfect for Megan...so very pretty.  We added a brooch to the stems to finish it off.

 

 

For the two elder bridesmaids, two junior bridesmaids and the lovely Isla (who was recovering from chicken pox on the day), we provided bouquets and posies very similar to Megan's, but smaller and with less detail.  Lace was added to the stems to work with the theme.

Buttonholes were designed to follow suit, with Leigh's being a Vendella rose with astrantia, chincherinchee, freesia, rosemary and mint whilst the rest of the boys wore the same buttonholes minus the rose.  The Mums' corsages were designed to work with their outfits and we provided thank-you bouquets for them too.

 

 

For the venue, we provided Megan and her sister with buckets of flowers to match the theme and they did an amazing job designing the tables, and the aisle and venue flowers...we told them they could come and work for us but they politely said we couldn't afford them....dammit!  But what a wonderful job they did.

All we did to tie in was provide a tableplan mannequin, a wishing tree with labels, a cake decoration, a stack of vintage suitcases for the cards and a few finishing touches to the top table. 

It was such a pleasure working with Megan, Leigh and all the family.  We know they had a great day, the weather was gorgeous, the children played outside all the day long, the food by Chives was evidently wonderful, the venue beautiful and every little detail was thought about.  What a perfect recipe for a perfect wedding.

Kellie and John's fresh and elegant Cooling Castle Barn wedding

 

Kellie was very clear about the style she wanted in Cooling Castle Barn, and had seen pictures of similar styled arrangements.  This usually makes us very nervous as we worry we may not match the picture in a bride's head.  But we needn't have worried as Kellie and her family (including Mum's lovely lovely dog Bella) were all lovely.  Whilst Kellie was so nervous on the morning of the wedding, and worried more about walking down the aisle rather than any of the other details, but we know she had a great day. 

Kellie and John wanted a glamorous and striking look for their wedding day all in greens and ivories and featuring calla and oriental lilies.  As the accent colour was gold, we added subtle touches of the gold via foliage sprayed gold and with touches of glitter.  Very subtle and very lovely...just like the happy couple.

Kellie's bouquet was a quite unusual graduated hand-tied bouquet featuring calla lilies, spray roses, ornithogalum arabicum, freesias and with foliage.  It was edged with a collar of pittosporum and finished with ivory organza and two rows of diamante pins top and bottom.

For Emma, we tried to replicate the feel of the bridal bouquet, but using smaller calla lilies and using less diamantes to finish.

Buttonholes were elegant calla lilies with John's having a touch of rose and freesia added to match Kellie's bouquet.  Corsages were also provided for the Mums along with thank-you bouquets which we took to the venue.

For the top table, we designed a long and low arrangement using all the lilies, roses, spray roses, freesias, delphiniums, trachellium, chincherinchee along with foliage, some sprayed light gold.  It really looked the part and filled the end of the room perfectly.  We also added calla lilies and chincherinchee to the place settings for extra impact.

 

For the guest tables, Kellie and John wanted tall martini vases which we filled with sisal and fairy lights and then added  full, soft and tapered arrangement on the top with additional height provided by elegant white delphiniums.  This really filled the large space that Cooling has and we liked the additional height for the impact it gave.

The final finishing touch was the cake from our friends at Creative Cakes.  We work together a lot at the moment, so it's nice to feature some of the cakes they provide...this one looked yummy.

Kellie and John are such a lovely couple and we know they had a fabulous day at Cooling.  Hopefully this blog post gives them a little reminder of their big day.  We wish them all the very best for the future.

Lisa and Simon's detail filled beautiful Cooling Castle Barn wedding

 

I loved Lisa and her family right from the start...and having met Simon and his family, loved them straight away too.  With a fab couple, great family, beautiful venue, loads of lovely details and items sourced from the family and Lisa's desire to have a soft, romantic and natural look, it was always going to be a fave.

The colour scheme was ivory and green with hints of blush pink, the flowers were soft and summery and the centrepieces a mix of high and low (candelabras and rosebowls) all with lots of other lovely vases and containers full of flowers.   It was the hottest day of the year so far, so the fab gardens at Cooling were used to their full, and as a strictly one-off agreement, Lisa and Simon brought in their own chevari chairs which finished off the overall look.

The bouquets were soft, spriggy, scented and textured and the buttonholes followed suit.

Guests were welcomed into the Heritage Barn with rustic, pearl draped hearts on the fireplace, a birdcage for cards on the table, and small vases of flowers on plates on the tables.

For the ceremony, the aisle was lined with gorgeous candlesticks and candelabra at the front.  The dais was dressed in soft blossom garlands and a rustic heart dressed with flowers was set off beautifully on the wall at the front and balanced with a smaller heart on the end of the stairs.

And then onto the main barn where the tables were overlaid with lace cloths and dressed with either a tall elegant candelabra with soft flowing floral tops and vases of flowers at the base or with rosebowls overflowing with flowers and additional flowers at the base.  Votives and tealights were added everywhere.

The top table was a long one and dressed with lots of different vases along the length, some being on rectangular mirrors which created fabulous reflections.  The plough was also dressed with another rustic heart fully finished with flowers.

For the rest of the details, we finished all the beams with faux blossom garlands intertwined with lights and added more subtle fairy lights to the staircase...enough to give a little twinkle without being too brash.  We then dressed other birdcages with flowers to place on the goody tables set up by the Groom's Mum.  We also loved her Wishing Tree (all the way from France).

The registrar came down to say she'd never loved it so much at Cooling, the bride said we'd "nailed it" and the groom said it was better than he imagined, so we've not stopped smiling. 

For more photos, check it out on the Featured Wedding of the Month under the Wedding Flowers Portfolio section off the front page of the website.  Enjoy!