Today is a real gem of a wedding (I love winter and spring weddings and adore spring flowers, so it was always going to be a winner with me). Anna is very similar in her approach to me and had a very clear idea of what she wanted her wedding to look like, had purchased lots of containers, attached personalised labels, shopped on ebay, written list after list and had everything planned out...it might sound a nightmare to some of you, but it really is just how I work and I loved working with her. We'd previously worked with her for her company's Christmas party and I was thus so looking forward to doing something special for her wedding day.
The brief was all white, green and ivory with a soft, spriggy, seasonal, slightly rustic feel and a vintage edge...right up my street! We used calla lilies, freesias, tulips, hellebores, lilac, paperwhites, ranunculus, bouvardia, blossom, ginster, gypsophilia, pussy willow, birch and hypericum berries and it was a perfect combination (and smelt gorgeous too).
Anna's dress was a gorgeous all lace dress with a bolero for warmth. Being petite, we didn't want to overpower her with too many flowers, so went for smaller headed flowers and provided a gorgeous hand-tied bouquet of small calla lilies, lilac, ranunculus, hellebores, tulips, freesias, blossom and birch. We wraped the stems in lace and added an heirloom brooch (the actual brooch Anna used was attached at the venue, hence the one photographed was one of ours).
For her three bridesmaids, we provided smaller versions of the bouquets but omitting the lilac and calla lilies. We then provided a heart-shaped wire basket dressed with flowers and filled with petals for her Flower Girl. The boys had a range of buttonholes, dependent upon their role on the day and we also designed different corsages for the Mums.
To welcome guests to the barn, Anna provided us with a vintage suitcase which we overfilled with flowers and which sat on a table for the ceremony and moved to the gift table later in the day. We then added vases of flowers to the celebrant table and tied glass lanterns filled with soft hand-tied of flowers to the aisle chairs...so very pretty.
For the marquee, we dressed the centre line (where there are no guest seats) with tall, dramatic and very pretty vases filled with hand-tied arrangements of flowers and then added smaller versions in between. For the sprigs of the table where guests are seated, we filled a range of containers provided by Anna with hand-tied arrangements of all the flowers used elsewhere, and then added votives and tealights in between.
I think it all looked truly gorgeous and heralded the start of Spring (well here's hoping). The weather was variable and I left in the middle of a hailstorm BUT I also know it was fine for the wedding and photos outside and that Alex and Anna had a wonderful day.I can't leave without showing the lovely cake by Creative Cakes who, as a surprise for Alex from Anna, had designed a replica of the happy couple with their fabulous rottweilers...so cute! Being a "dog person", this was literally the icing on the cake of a wonderful wedding.
