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.

Lauren and Darryl's relaxed and natural Cooling Castle Barn wedding

Today we feature a fresh and pretty wedding from Cooling Castle Barn using peppermint and ivory coloiurs with just a hint of pale pink.  It was pretty, natural and soft and we used roses, ranunculus, freesias, waxflower, paperwhites, hydrangeas, bouvardia, tulips, veronica and soft peppermint greens like eucalyptus, succulents etc.

Lauren and Darryl personalised their own fruit crates for the tables and also made lots of lovely bunting for us to hang.  We used a range of bottles, jars and pots for the flowers and added vintage books and other bits and bobs to finish the look. 

 

We loved the lights strung between the beams (thanks to Your Beautiful Day) as it brings the very high ceiling lower to work with lower tablecentres.  We hope you like it all.  It makes me smile and works perfectly with the lovely Spring weather today. 

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.