A perfect early summer wedding - Rebecca and Ben at The Old Kent Barn

      

 
When I first met Rebecca, I knew I wanted to work with her, and little did I know that I would get to work with her not just once, but three times.  No, she didn't have three weddings but even before her big day I worked with Rebecca on photoshoots as she is a super talented and successful photographer (www.mywildrose.co.uk).  I love working with her as she is so relaxed, so professional and her photos are stunning...she leaves the flowers to me and manages to make every shot look amazing.  She also keeps getting onto the front covers of magazines (quite rightly) so we manage to get our flowers seen by more lovely people.  So you may think it would be easy working with her for her big day...not so!  I don't think I have ever been more nervous!  Knowing that this was Rebecca and Ben's own very special day, rather than just a photoshoot made it all the more important to get it right.

You may be forgiven for thinking that this is just another styled photoshoot as Rebecca and Ben are stunning and the whole day looks like a dream but it really was their special day and the photos show what a relaxed and happy event it was.  Rebecca couldn't photograph her own wedding, so she entrusted this to Holly from Belle and Beau Photography (www.belleandbeaublog.com).  And what a job she did!  Most of the photos in this blog are provided courtesy of Belle and Beau and we want to thank them for sharing them with us.

Rebecca and Ben are very natural individuals who like the outdoors and wanted to make their wedding feel very green, soft and natural with vintage styling provided largely by using items from their lovely home e.g. the mirror table plan normally has pride of place in their home.  The colours for the day were blush, nude, palest pink, champagne and mink.  All with liberal doses of lovely greenery.  The brief was for a natural, rustic and not neat set of flowers, all being hand-tied with string.

As well as all the personal flowers shown above, or the church we provided pew ends in jars filled with flowers to match the rest of the wedding, and for the reception we draped lots of soft and gorgeous foliage around glamorous candelabra and then placed small vases of flowers at the base.  Smaller vases for the bouquets and additional ones filled with flowers were added along the top table.  Additional styling was provided for the napkins, the tableplan, the entrance tables and the cake.  I could go on about the flowers used and why we placed everything where we did, but I just think the fabulous photos tell such an amazing story.  A bit of a fave wedding for me, especially when looked at on such a miserable winters' day.  

We hope you enjoyed this fab wedding...I know Rebecca and Ben had a fab day and said they were "blown away" by the flowers which were "stunning" and they couldn't have been happier.  Music to my ears...perhaps I'll be less nervous next time!

Lea and Dean's pretty Cooling Castle Barn wedding

We’re on a roll now with blogs after a bit of an absence! so today we are sharing with you Lea and Dean’s soft and pretty Cooling Castle Barn wedding.  Lea and Dean wanted a vintage feel to their wedding day and collected and used all their own vintage china for the place settings (not photographed I’m afraid as I left too early).  Cream, ivory, dusky and pale pink were the order of the day and we used soft and blowsy roses, hydrangeas, astrantia, bouvardia, freesias and lisianthus to create a textured and romantic feel.

Lea changed her mind about the original dress she had chosen and her second choice was absolutely gorgeous.  Lea chose an ivory gown with a full open lace back, narrow straps and a low v-front with the lace from the back brought around under the bust line and around the waist.  Gorgeous!

Lea’s bouquet was a hand-tied soft bouquet using all the flowers and colours we’d chosen and was designed to be textured but not spriggy.  All the flowers for the day were designed to be soft and pretty yet neat and relatively compact. 

Dean wore an Amnesia rose buttonhole to complement Lea’s bouquet and the remainder of the groom’s party wore Vendella roses as a contrast.  The Mums had soft and delicate corsages to match their outfits and also had thank-you bouquets provided to match the wedding theme.

For the ceremony, we provided a silver rosebowl arrangement on a central pedestal on the dais.  We then framed Lea and Dean for their vows with two large candelabra arrangements (minus the candles) placed each side of the entrance onto the dais.  We then finished the look with a vintage silver tea set filled with flowers on one corner of the celebrant table and a vintage china tea set on the other corner.  A final hydrangea with a lace bow at the bottom of the stairs completed the picture.

For the wedding reception, we decided on a mix of high and low tablecentres and placed tall silver candelabras on the four corner tables to frame the room.  We added large, domed arrangements to the top of the candelabras.  Lea and Dean decided against candles so we used the candelabras as elegant stands for the flowers in effect.  The remaining tables all had low silver rosebowls filled with flowers in a style to complement the other tables. 

For the top table, we continued with the vintage tea party idea and hence used different elements of  vintage china and silver teasets all filled with flowers.  We also added florets of hydrangea in between to finish off the overall look.

It was a super pretty, delicate and refined wedding which matches the lovely understated style of Lea and Dean and their families. We know they had a wonderful day and all the meticulous planning paid off with a wedding day to remember for all who attended.