Siobhan and Shane's striking Bradboune House Wedding

Siobhan and Shane married in Addington Church last month and followed with their reception at Baradbourne House afterwards.  Siobhan knew how she wanted her day to look from the beginning and wanted a striking more contemporary feel matching a Cadbury's purple colour scheme.  Whilst we changed a few tiny detailed along the way, everything on the day was pretty much as Siobhan had envisaged from the start.

Siobhan had chosen a beautiful slimline gown with a long train and a fabulous lace overlay giving a bardot style neckine.  With her hair swept up, Siobhan looked amazing alongside the handsome Shane.  To show off Siobhan's dress and figure, we designed a slimline shower bouquet of calla lilies and orchids along with silver grass, a few leaves and some spriggy crystals, with the handle finished in lace.  For Siobhan's bridesmaids we provided white hydrangea bouquets interspersed with crystals and finished the stems in lace.

For the Groom's party, we provided a vanda orchid and calla lily buttonhole for Shane and calla lily buttonholes for the rest of the boys.  We designed corsages for ladies, with Roberta (Siobhan's Mum) having a smaller handbag corsage to complement her lapel corsage.  We also provided striking thank-you bouquets to surprise selected ladies on the day.

At Bradbourne House, the weather wasn't conducive to spending much time out of doors unfortunately, but Siobhan and Shane wanted to welcome their guests to the reception in style, so we dressed the front portico pillars with a mixed garland interespersed with hydrangeas, orchids and calla lilies.  We also dressed the mantelpiece in the entrance hall with vases filled with hydrangeas and two mini crystal globe candleholders to match the tablecentres.  We added a spray of matching flowers to the card box as well, and provided some vanda orchids for the tiered cheeses cake (which we couldn't photograph as it needed to be brought out much later in the day and orchids don't like fridges!).

For the wedding breakfast, each of the guest tables was dressed with a tall crystal globe candleholder on a circular mirror on the gorgeous new damask tablecloths.  Each of the candleholders was then surrounded by pumpkin vases full of striking purple hydrangeas....simple, yet so effective.  We then added smaller pumpkin vases filled with purple hydrangeas along the front of the top table along with empty vases for the bridesmaids' bouquets.  In between, we added colour to the cloth with orchids and hydrangea florets. 

We hope that Siobhan, Shane and all family and friends had a fabulous day and we hope you enjoy our photos.

Hannah and Bruce's pretty and romantic Bradbourne House wedding

 With the first signs of spring in the air, I decided to look back at some of our lovely outdoor weddings from last year and realised I hadn't shared with you the lovely wedding of Hannah and Bruce.  They married in June, so were able to make use of the very beautiful but very seasonal peonies.  To that we added hydrangeas, lisianthus, freesias, sweet peas, veronica, trachellium, bouvardia, gypsophilia, chincherinchee, guelder rose and more.  It was soft, romantic, and pretty with a natural, slightly vintage vibe.

For the bouquets, we used a selection of all the flowers, with an emphasis on ivory with just a hint of blush pink.  Hannah's bouquet included peonies and was larger in size than the bridesmaids and all were wrapped in lace ribbon.  We also added an heirloom cameo brooch to Hannah's bouquet.  She looked simply fabulous...what more can we say...so glamorous!  Bruce looked pretty good too!

For the groom's party, we used lisianthus, chincherinchee, veronica and foliage for Bruce's buttonhole and then scaled them down from there.  Mums' corsages were designed to tie in with their chosen outfits.

We dressed the aisle chairs with gypsophilia for the ceremony in the Secret Garden and added garlands around the pillars with clusters of gypsophilia added at intervals.  We also added flowers to the trees at the entrance to the main house.

For the reception, we decided we would mix taller arrangements with lower and had tall cream candelabras for the corner tables with very soft and natural floral arrangements on top.  We then finished these tables with a few smaller vases of flowers at the base.

For the remainder of the tables, we used mismatched birdcages fully dressed with flowers and surrounded with other vases and containers of flowers.

For the top table, we used smaller birdcages at each end, and then added a selection of vases, jugs, marmalade jars and mini birdcages all along the length all filled with flowers to match the wedding.

We also added a few vases and a birdcage to the mantelpiece in the entrance hall to pull everything together.

It really did all look so pretty and light in Bradbourne House and we know they all had an amazing day...so now we have a little bit of sun again, we can start looking forward to other lovely days like this.