Rachael and John's romantic and pretty Chilston Park wedding

On the warmest day of the year so far, Rachel and John married in the Coach House at Chilston Park Hotel.  We met Rachael via one of her bridesmaids, Carly when we provided her wedding flowers at Rowhill Grange last year.  Rachael knew she wanted a very soft and pretty floral theme and we chose a mix of very English flowers (hydrangeas, peonies, sweet peas, roses, freesias, astilbe and astrantia with eucalyptus parvifolia) in shades of dusky and pale pinks with ivory.

For Rachael's bouquet, we designed a very spriggy and textured bouquet using a range of all the flowers apart from the hydrangeas.  We wrapped the stems with lace ribbon to work with Rachael's gorgeous gown.  For Rachael's four lovely bridesmaids, we provided smaller bouquets being similar in style to Rachael's but slightly less detailed.  Once again we wrapped them in lace.

For the boys, we designed rose buttonholes with additional astrantia heads and soft foliage, with John having an Amnesia rose and the rest of the boys having Vendella roses.  We also provided lapel corsages for the Mums and Nan.

For the ceremony in the Coach House, the chairs had been beautifully dressed with alternating lace and fabric bows by Perfect Touches and we very simply added pink hydrangea heads to a selection of the aisle chairs to frame Rachael and John taking their vows.  We also added a soft and lightly trailing arrangement to the celebrant table.

For the wedding breakfast, Rachael and John chose tall chrome candelabras for the guest tables but decided that they didn't need candles and would like to use them as a tall base for a soft, full and trailing arrangement of flowers on the top.  We used all the flowers used elsewhere along with a few trails of ivy and amaranthus.  They really filled the room and worked so well with the chair covers, bows, napkin ties (all  provided by Perfect Touches ) and the lovely favours.  It was lovely to hear the comments from the bridesmaids, Mums and the bride herself when they first saw the room...I think the words they used was that it took their breath away, which was so nice.  We hope it had the same impact on others.

For the top table, we used a low and not too trailing arrangement in the centre of the table and then added vintage vases at either end for the bridesmaids' bouquets.  In between we used varying sized hydrangea florets to give additional colour to the table.  We also added roses to the beautifully folded envelope style napkins as a finishing touch.

Other finishing touches were clusters of hydrangea florets added to the mini cake tower and we provided flowers for Rachael's individual vases which we added to each of the stalls in the Coach house (not photographed).

It was so lovely being involved in Rachael and John's wedding and knowing that other previous brides and their families had a chance to see a different style of our flowers.  We know that this wedding has already inspired other brides and we hope you like it too.