Today with the sun shining through the window, it felt like a day to feature a very recent (last weekend in fact) wedding of lovely soft, pretty colours. Kelly and Scott married in the Orangery outside at Chiddingstone Castle and had a wonderful day. They are a really relaxed couple who wanted everything pretty and natural but not too wild...not for them big formal arrangements and many of the finishing touches they did themselves...I even had to prise bunting out of Scott's hands a couple of hours before the wedding to pack him off to the pub! Very hands on indeed...confetti cones were handmade (with petals and holder provided by us), as were the lovely planters for the olive trees.
Kelly wore a stunning slimline lace gown with a beautiful lace edged veil. She had the gown altered to add lace sleeves and keyhole back and further customised it with a sparkly detail section at the waist. We provided her with a textured and soft bouquet of O'Hara roses along with Amnesia, La Belle and Majolika roses alongside ranunculus, veronica, freesias, bouvardia and astrantia with sprigs of thlaspi and soft foliage. We wrapped the stems in an open lace and finished them with a bow.
For the five bridesmaids, we provided hand-tied similar bouquets just using the spray roses, ranunculus, freesias, bouvardia and astrantia with soft foliage and wrapped them in ivory ribbon.
For the boys, Scott had a La Belle rose buttonhole with veronica, spray roses and astrantia whilst we replaced the rose with ranunculus for the rest of the crew. Even the adorable three year old Page Boy wore a tiny buttonhole of spray roses. Mums and Nan weren't forgotten with pretty lapel corsages.
For the ceremony, we added a simple pitcher and teapot to one side of the table and assisted with the bunting! With Scott's wonderful planters in such a gorgeous setting, it didn't need more.
Inside the castle, we added a stack of suitcases filled with flowers, lace etc for the postbox, and then also added a further suitcase with random books, crystals, pearls etc to fill the table. We dressed the mantelpiece in the White Rose room and added some wooden hearts to the tree in the entrance hall.
Within the Great Hall, we dressed the mantelpiece with random vases and Kelly and Scott's bunting. Each table was then dressed with a central pitcher filled with soft flowers and with vintage teacups filled with flowers around the outside with lace wrapped votives. We draped pearls around to finish the effect.
For the top table, we continued the vintage vibe with a random selection of vases, pitchers, arrangements, pearls, books etc along with Kelly and Scott's bunting.
Despite the high ceiling in the Great Hall, the whole room looked beautiful and got lots of lovely comments as the wedding party walked in to finish off their preparations. It was a fabulous day for a fabulous couple and we know they had a great time. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves too!
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