Linda and Alan's sophisticated Penshurst Place wedding

When I first met Linda, I knew that her and Alan's wedding would be gorgeous.  She had already chosen an absolutely gorgeous, glamorous and quite sexy Jenny Packham dress and hairpiece and had decided upon a black dress for her Maid of Honour.  Combined with Penshurst Place it was going to be a fabulous day.  Linda and I spent quite a few hours together getting the details right as the wedding plans came together and we decided that we wanted to have a slightly different look to the three distinct elements of the day (ceremony, reception and evening celebration).  We decided on a soft muted colour scheme of green, ivory and champagne with a hint of the black accent colour.

Linda's dress was so striking that we decided upon a hand-tied, soft and spriggy bouquet using O'Hara. Quicksand and Vendella roses along with paperwhites, ranunculus, white lilac, anenomes, tulips, veronica and chincherinchee along with soft spriggy foliage.  We didn't want to make it too large and wanted to add a little touch of glamour to the stems with a brooch that echoed the detail in the dress and hairpiece.

For the Maid of Honour, we decided upon a smaller version of the bridal bouquet with less variety of flowers.  We wrapped the stems in ivory to match the bridal bouquet but added a small black bow at the top to match the dress and added a smaller brooch.  For the Flower Girl, we created a tiny posy of chincherinchee, spray roses and paperwhites and wrapped the bouquet to match the bridesmaid's bouquet and added another smaller pin to tie all the bouquets together.  Ruby, the Flower Girl was very focussed on sprinkling petals, so we provided a little black box wth a lace ribbon filled with fresh petals.  All so pretty.

Alan had a textured buttonhole of O'Hara rose with chincherinchee, waxflower and foliage whilst the rest had buttonholes to match without the rose.  We also provided corsages for the Mums.

For the ceremony in the Barons Hall, we only had 30 minutes to set up after members of the public had left the building so we decided upon dressing the long side tables wth lots of trailing ivy interspersed with votives and tealights and with hydrangea florets and ranunculus heads sprinkled randomly along the full length.  We dressed the existing candelabras with lots of soft ivy as well.  We then added two large pedestal arrangements to frame Linda and Alan taking their vows and added a rosebowl (not photographed) overflowing with flowers on the present table in the hallway along with trailing ivy and ranunculus heads and hydrangea florets to finish.

For the wedding breakfast in the Sunderland Room, we provided large, full, soft and trailing arrangements on elegant candelabras for each of the guest tables.  We dressed each of the windowledges wth candelabra and foliage.  We then added two softly trailing rosebowls to the top table along with foliage and votives and added an empty vase for Linda's bouquet in the middle. We added roses to the place settings on the top table and added hydrangea florets to the cake table to finish.   It was lovely to hear the staff at Penshurst Place saying that they had never seen the room look so lovely, which they also told the bride and groom in the evening.

For the evening celebration, Linda and Alan had a marquee in the courtyard set specifically for the evening with a starlit ceiling.  We had decided that we didn't want to move the candelabra, but wanted to create a bit more of a sophisticated nightclub feeling, so we added crystal globe candelabras with candles and also added vases of flowers around the base.  It looked quite magical.

I know Linda and Alan had a wonderful time.  They were so easy to work for and I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of their day.  They also loved what we had done which is what mattered... this is what they said in a lovely email immediately after the wedding.  

Amanda

The wedding flowers were absolutely beautiful, stunning, I loved them. They dressed the venue to perfection, and the scent from them was gorgeous. We all loved our bouquets - my bridesmaids couldn't believe how beautiful they were. Ruby threw her petals, it was lovely.

Each room looked fabulous. The marquee looked like a glamorous club! Fantastic. The Penshurst staff commented that the Sunderland room had never looked so good. Everyone loved them - I don't think anyone had seen such a grand display at a wedding before!

We have brought a few of the displays home and given one to each Mum - the house is full of gorgeous flowers.

Thank you so so much. You and your team must have worked so hard, the attention to detail and creativity was amazing. You are very talented.

I have enjoyed working with you, you have been very supportive and full of fab ideas, thank you.

I will send photos when I have them!

Take care and thank you again.

Linda.