Jane and Mark's pretty and rustic styled Cooling Castle Barn wedding

Jane and Mark married last month at Cooling Castle Barn and chose a lovely summery set of colours and flowers for their very natural and soft wedding.  They wanted to add in a rustic element, and hence we used burlap / hessian along with bark and wood wherever possible. Jane's bridesmaids were all wearing different coloured dresses (one lemon, one pink, one lilac, one blue and one green) and hence we used this palette to choose the appropriate flowers.

Jane's dress was spectacular and needed very little additional dressing, so we designed a lovely "just-picked" style of bouquet using roses, peonies, veronica, forget-me-nots, eryngium and santini along with eucalyptus and rosemary.  We tied the stems very simple with an open hessian and left the ends straight instead of bowed to keep it simple.  We also provided some large headed roses wired to work for Jane's hair.

For her bridesmaids, Jane chose all ivory and  green rustic styled bouquets to contrast against their dresses and we varied the sizes according to the age of the girls.  They really did look lovely and I can't wait to see them against the varying coloured dresses.

For the boys, we used a pale pink rose for Mark with forget-me-nots and then varied the other buttonholes from just the pale pink to ivory and designed a "mini-me" buttonhole for George the little page boy using spray roses.  Mums' corsages were designed to tie in with their outfits.

Jane and Mark married in the Fathom Barn and we dressed it with a large heart on the front wall dressed with flowers, which was subsequently moved to dress the plough behind the top table.  Additionally we added some vases of flowers on the celebrant table for the signing of the register and added hessian bows and peonies to the newel posts and bottom of the stairs.

For the wedding breakfast in the Tithe Barn, we dressed the top table with a full selection of hessian and bark wrapped jars and containers all filled with flowers to match the wedding.  We added empty vases for the bridesmaids' bouquets to add additional dressing and keep them fresh!  To finish off we addedthe stunning and highly scented O'Hara roses to the place settings.

 

We then dressed the guest tables with a tall lily vase wrapped in an ivy garland interspersed with hessian ties.  We added full and soft tops to the vases incorporating all the colours and flowers used elsewhere.

Finally Jane asked us to fully dress her rustic cake with flowers and hessian which was placed on a barrel in the corner of the room.

It was a lovely day and we thought the rustic additions in the form of hessian and burlap worked really well in the barn.  We hope they had an amazing day too.