On a very autumnal looking day, I thought I'd share with you the lovely wedding of Kirsten and Andrew. We were providing the wedding flowers for Andrew's brother earlier this year at Leeds Castle, so Kirsten and Andrew came along to see what I could do for them. They had chosen chocolate brown for bridesmaids' dresses so wanted some lovely vibrant colours to work alongside them. With Kirsten hailing from Australia, we also decided to bring in some exotic accents with the use of protea, banksia and anigozanthus (kangaroo paw).
Kirsten's bouquet was a lovely hand-tied and very textured combination of roses, protea, calla lilies, berries, dahlia, orchids and greentrick with the very Australian eucalyptus foliage added. We wrapped the stems in ivory to match her dress, but added a chocolate brown bow at the top to bring in the bridesmaids' dress colour.
We then scaled down the bridal bouquet for Kirsten's bridesmaids, using the same flowers but omitting the orchids and banksia. We also wrapped them to match the bridal bouquet.
For the boys, we decided that Andrew needed to have an exotic cymbidium orchid buttonhole with a splash of additional colour added via the greentrick. We then used roses, berries and greentrick for the rest of the grooms' party.
To frame the aisle for the wedding ceremony, we simply added proteas to the chair bows that were already in place. In a relatively small room, this was incredibly effective and provided all the dressing that was needed.
For the reception, we decided to use a range of different vases and containers for the top table, interspersed with some empty vases tied with chocolate ribbon to take the bouquets. We used flowers to match the wedding for all the vases and added orchid heads and votives with tealights in between.
For the guest tables, we decided on hurricane lamps containing church candles, surrounded with grouped and more contemporary arrangements of flowers that looked very striking indeed...grouping the flowers instead of distributing them equally helped them show off their beauty better and give a different look to the tables.
We hope that Kirsten and Andrew had an amazing day and have a fabulous globetrotting life together!
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