When I met Lucinda and her Mum Penny for the first time, Lucinda was just going off to live in Singapore (it wasn't something I said honestly!) so the planning process for her wedding was always going to be slightly different. However, with the powers of the internet, email and having a very organised Penny on hand, it all went very smoothly indeed. Lucinda knew straight away that she wanted a very soft and natural style for her wedding and a very English mix of flowers. Colours were dusky pink, ivory with just a hint of blue and we chose a selection of hydrangeas, roses, spray roses, waxflowers, gypsophilia, gentiana, lisianthus, freesias, astrantia, bouvardia, astilbe, cornflower and sweet pea with scented foliages such as flowering mint, rosemary and eucalyptus. Just like an English Country garden.
Whilst designs of tablecentres and floral requirements for the church changed a little along the way, Lucinda chose her bouquets right at the beginning of the process. She opted for natural hand-tied bouquets with her bouquet having touches of the blue (cornflower and forget-me-not) included, and her bridesmaids just having the pink and ivory. They were such a pretty collection and set the scene perfectly. Having seen Lucinda with her bridesmaids on the wedding morning, I know the photos will look gorgeous!
The boys were wearing tradtional tails and hence instead of more rustic buttonholes, Richard decided upon elegant and simple ivory rose buttonholes for himself and all the boys (including four Best Men!). Mum's had delicate lapel corsages to tie in.
For the very pretty and very friendly Sissinghurst Church, we were given free rein by Penny to dress it fully for the wedding, and hence started at the lych gate to welcome guests (and to amuse Japanese tourists as I balanced on a ladder!) then added a large pedestal arrangement inside the former doorway. We then added little glass "lanterns" wrapped with hessian filled with flowers down the aisle. We dressed the pulpit with an arrangement to match, and added two garden style arrangements to the shelves either side of the altar. We also added an arrangement to the font at the head of the aisle. Finally we added simple arrangements to the windowledges to finish off the overall look. So pretty and so appropriate for the church and its surroundings.
We were then off the Hole Park Gardens to dress the marquee. What a fabulous setting for the reception, and for a canape and drinks reception the following day. The gardens are exquisite and I loved the idea of different parts of the garden being used at different points of the day...I also loved the swing from the tree by the marquee, but didn't let myself down by trying it out on the day! I've added a few photos I snapped on the day to show you how lovely it is.
For the tables in the marquee, Lucinda chose central mirrors with an enamel jug on each (with a slightly larger one used for the top table) and with jam jars wrapped in hessian added around the edge along with votives and tealights. We also provided some additional jars and flowers for the gift table (not photographed as not ready when we left) and a jar by the cake provided by the lovely girls at Creative Cakes. Maria (and her beautiful daughter) even helped us carry boxes across the lawn that morning...and it's normally her that persuades others to carry things for her!! It was a real help as it was a bit of a walk across as the owner understandably didn't want tyre marks on his lovely lawn.
We thought it was a perfect choice of flowers to go with the venues, and just shows how we can finalise details and create a full floral theme across the internet! The newlyweds emailed from honeymoon (that's what I call dedication) to say the following....
Hi Amanda,
Thank you so much for our beautiful flowers. They looked
absolutely fantastic. Everyone was commenting on them. We would love to see the
photo's you took. You can send them to this email address.
The photographer took some amazing photo's. Once I have
the full set I'll send you some photo's of the flowers.
We are just on honeymoon at the moment but we will
complete the questionnaire when we get back.
Thanks again
Mrs Green!
We can't wait to see some of the photos (especially the bridal party).
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