Emma and Dan's stylish navy blue and ivory Cooling Castle Barn wedding

 

 
When we met with Emma and Dan, it was very clear that their wedding had to be stylish and elegant.  Their timeless colour scheme was navy blue and ivory and Emma liked a soft and pretty, realtively neat style.  They married in Bexley with a reception at Cooling Castle Barn last November and whilst people tend to assume that dark blue flowers are difficult to source, they are in fact relatively easy at that time of year thanks to eryngium thistle and viburnum tinue.  We teamed these beauties with roses, spray roses, tulips, ranunculus and oriental lilies for a very striking wedding.

Emma is very petite and slim and hence her shower bouquet had to be designed with that in mind, so that the bouquet didn't wear her!  We kept to a slimline profile and used just roses, spray roses, ranunculus, eryngium and viburnum, with very light foliage.  The handle was wrapped in ivory satin ribbon with a neat navy bow at the top.

For Emma's bridesmaids, we used the same flowers, but combined them into hand-tied bouquets which were also wrapped to match the bridal bouquet.

For Dan, we chose a striking rose buttonhole with viburnum tinus berries and eryngium to match Emma's bouquet and then used spray roses for the rest of the boys.  Mums' corsages followed the floral theme of the wedding but with detailing added to match their chosen outfits.

For the top table at Cooling, we designed a central cascading arrangement using all the flowers used elsewhere and then added some empty vases to take the bridesmaids' bouquets along with votives, tealights and lots of lovely sparkly clear and blue crystals to add colour to the front of the table.  We also added roses and ranunculus to the place settings to finish it all off.

For the guest tables, we provided central mirror plates and large martini glass vases filled with fairy lights and navy blue sisal.  Into these we placed arrangements designed to match the rest of the wedding.  We thought they looked really striking and pretty and so did Emma and Dan...here's what they said when they spotted their flowers on our Facebook page... 

These are our flowers!! Beautiful and smelt amazing!!! Thank you so, so much for all your hard work and brilliant passion from the moment we met you two years ago. We couldn't have got better flowers! xx