Tamara and Tom's soft and pretty Cooling Castle Barn wedding

 It might have been January but it didn't mean wintery flowers for Tamara and Tom's wedding.  They chose soft and pretty blooms in pastel pinks, blues and ivory.  We used lots of seasonal paperwhites, ranunculus, muscari, forget me nots etc along with roses, hypericum, gypsophillia, hydrangea bouvardia and vibernum tinus.

For Tamara's bouquet we used a soft mix of the flowers and colours in a textured and pretty hand-tied bouquet.  Tamara wore a lovely fitted lace gown with cap sleeves and as she had some offcuts of lace from the dress, we were able to wrap her bouquet stems to match.

For her bridesmaids, we chose simple but effective and extremely popular white gypsophilia bouquets wrapped in lace to contrast against their black gowns.  We also provide pink roses to be wired into their hair.

For the boys we wanted to use the lovely Sweet Avalanche roses but we also want to create some of the texture that was evident in Tamara's bouquet.  We therefore added muscari and ranunculus to Tom's bouquet to provide a splash of all the colours, and added the white gypsophilia of the bridesmaids' bouquets to the remainder of the buttonholes.  Corsages were provided for the Mums  along with pretty hand-tied thank-you bouquets featuring the gorgeous Apple Blossom Amaryllis.

For the ceremony, we hung a willow heart dressed with flowers to match the wedding on the wall and then added enamel pitchers full of flowers for the celebrant table for the signing of the register.  To frame the aisle, we alternated hanging vases of gypsophilia with floor level pitchers of flowers to create a really pretty entrance for Tamara.  We continued the gyposphilia theme up the staircase by tying bunches at intervals with lace ribbon.

For the reception, Tamara and Tom wanted a different, yet complementary look for their tables and so chose tall martini vases filled with clear gel pearls.  We then added full, yet not trailing arrangements of all the wedding flowers including the gorgeous seasonal amaryllis to the tops.

For the top table, we used mini martini vase arrangements along the top to tie in with the guest tables and added little lanterns with tealights in between for that romantic candlelit look during the meal.  Tamara and Tom love candlelight, so we added tall hurricane lanterns to the floor in front of the top table to finish the look.   We also decided it would be nice to add something to the napkins, hence roses and gypsophilia were used to complete the top table dressing.

Tamara and Tom had chosen the lovely chiavari chairs instead of the normal chairs which worked so well with their styling.  We thus provided all the fairy lights for beams and up to the DJ box for them on the day to finish the look.  Tamara emailed us on her way to her honeymoon destination to say that it had been the best day of her life and was just perfect...just what we kept our fingers crossed she'd say!  Hope you all love it too.