Nichola and Gary's rustic, woodland styled wedding at Frasers Barn

Given the growing trend for woodland and extremely natural weddings, we thought we would include a wedding from Spring last year on the blog today.  Nichola and Gary married at Frasers Barn in Egerton and wanted an extremely natural, woodland style of wedding featuring browns, greens and ivory with a tiny hint of pink.  We chose pinecones, moss, succulents, willow, penesetum, dendrobricum orchids, astrantia, wheat, waxflower, hypericum and mixed foliages along with bark, wood, terracotta and other lovely items designed to fit into the theme.

For the bridal bouquet, we used pinecones and succulents on their own with senecio foliage and wrapped the stems with hessian.  Nichola asked us to add a special locket to the stem to finish. 

For the bridesmaid, we provided a pinecone bouquet wrapped in hessian and with a special Tree of Life locket provided by Nichola. 

The Flower Girl carried a wire and moss basket dressed with pinecones and filled with leaves to scatter down the aisle, and the Page Boy carried a ring "nest" which we designed to match the theme and have the rings attached.

Given the style of the bouquets, we followed this theme with buttonholes and corsages for the Groom's party.  We used slightly different combinations for different members of the group, with it all designed to work together with the theme.

For the ceremony, we provided rustic baskets / wood sections dressed with flowers for the celebrant table.  We then dressed the table plan birdcage that Nichola and Gary had provided with a trailing cluster of flowers to match the overall theme.  We also provided a very rustic crate lined with hessian for their cards and some arrangements to dress their gift tables.

Nichola and Gary had decided upon afternoon tea for their wedding, and had chosen a horseshoe layout for their tables.  We therefore dressed down the middle of the tables with various jars wrapped in bark or hessian, low pieces of bark, wood slices etc and added random leaves, moss and orchid heads where appropriate. 

We then provided a succulent plant for each of the guests as a combined favour and place name.  Not only was it a lovely long lasting gift to take away, but it really added to the look on the tables. 

For the centre section of the tables, where Nichola and Gary were seated, we provided a long piece of bark which we dressed with flowers to match the wedding.  We finished the overall dressing with our large woodblock cake stand and as we had a few succulent plants leftover, we added a couple in terracotta pots to frame the cake.

We loved creating this wedding and being given free rein to design the most appropriate flowers and arrangements.  It really worked with the natural surroundings of Frasers Barn and with Nicola and Gary's style.  It should give you all some ideas of how to bring that natural and earthy feel to your special day and we hope you like it.