Earlier this month we provided the flowers for Abbie and Ed's wedding in the very pretty village of Godmersham. They married in the church and then moved just up the road to a marquee on the lawns of the beautiful Godmersham House. We met Abbie through a word of mouth recommendation, and once again were so lucky to be working with such a lovely couple. Abbie wanted eveerything to be fairly natural and relaxed but pretty. She also wanted to incorporate her favourite White Company candles on the tables.
The colour palette for the wedding was ivory, pale pink, lilac and grey / blue and we were blessed with fabulous peonies, O'Hara roses, La Belle roses, sweet peas, astilbe, waxflower, bouvardia, lisianthus, gypsophilia, freesias, veronica, rosemary, flowering mint and other gorgeous bluey grey foliages. We were like children in a sweet shop surrounded by such prettiness!
Abbie's bouquet was a soft and textured hand-tied bouquet which smelt unbelievable! Her bridesmaids also had textured hand-tied bouquets but we omitted the peonies and swopped O'Hara for La Belle roses. The two Flower Girls were lucky enough to have gypsophilia crowns which I'm sure looked gorgeous on them, but are very difficult to photograph without a sweet Flower Girl! Hence my challenge is to find creative ways to photograph them!
The boys had lovely textured buttonholes to tie in with the bouquets, with Ed's being particularly lovely with the O'Hara rose.
At the lovely spacious marquee, we dressed each table with a central pitcher filled with flowers and added lace wrapped jars and other pots around the outside along with Abbie and Ed's scented candles, fluted votives and tealights. We were just supposed to be adding single flowers to the vases, but I'm sure they won't have minded us going a little further and adding more! We then finished the whole look by adding sprigs of gypsophilia to all the napkin ties.
We filled the length of the top table with a selection of vases, jars and pots filled with flowers, all wrapped in some way in lace. We also added votives and scented candles to tie in with the rest of the tables. It really did look and smell amazing!
Additional finishing touches included dressing Abbie and Ed's lovingly painted stepladder with jars of flowers to complement the "LOVE" letters. We also added random jars to the cocktail bar (and were amazed to see absolute replicas of our two cats being the inspiration for the cocktails!) and we also dressed the scrummy looking chocolate cake.
Abbie and Ed's wedding day was lovely in every way, and everyone we met from the caterers, waitresses, fabulous candy cart girls to the actual marquee providers were great to work with. It was a fab day for us and we were only setting up, so I can only imagine how much fun Abbie and Ed will have had on their special day!
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