Emma and Neil's wedding at Cooling Castle Barn

You couldn't possibly meet a couple more in love and excited to get married than Emma and Neil.  They are just such a wonderful positive couple with their lovely daughter Daisy and their excitement was so infectious.  It transpired after first meeting them that Jane, one of our florists used to live close to Neil when he was young and he babysat for Jane's boys...what a coincidence!  Needless to say that Jane was keen to be involved and worked with us for the wedding.  I've "stolen" a Facebook photo to show you all my lovely couple...I'm sure they won't mind.

Emma had originally chosen a dusky pink, green and ivory theme, but decided on a slight colour change to coral and peach which made it look just that little bit different.  Her dress was a gorgeous strapless gown with detailing on the hip and we designed a long teardrop bouquet for her using Vendella, Miss Piggy and Peach Avalanche roses along with cymbidium orchids, hypericum, trachellium, ranunculus along with soft foliage.  We also added spriggy pearls and crystals to tie in the details.

For Emma's bridesmaids, we provided hand-tied bouquets of roses, ranunculus, trachellium and hypericum and for the gorgeous Daisy, we made a floral "wand" of Miss Piggy rose, feathers and sparkles...so sweet.

Neil wore an elegant cymbidium orchid to match his lovely bride along with ranunculus, trachellium and foliage.  The rest of the boys wore roses, and the Mums and Nan had corsages designed to match their outfits.  We also provided thank-you bouquets for the Mums (but forgot to photograph them)

For the ceremony, we designed a long and low arrangement to be placed on the celebrant table and then added two large martini vase arrangements at the front to frame Emma and Neil taking their vows.  We also added roses to each of the bows down the aisle to finish the room perfectly.

For the wedding breakfast, we used large martini vases filled with sisal and fairy lights for extra sparkle.  We then added full arrangements of lilies, ranunculus, trachellium, hypericum, along with trailing foliage.  We placed each on a mirror and they looked lovely and fresh against the brick of the barn.

We added a long arrangement to the top table, and finished the barn with fairy lights on each beam. 

We have to add the cake from our friends at www.creativeweddingcakes.co.uk.  Well it wouldn't be a wedding without a cake!

We absolutely loved being involved in Emma and Neil's big day.  I'm just sorry that we won't be chatting again, as it always brought a smile to my face to speak to them.  I wish them all the very very best for what I know will be a life filled with love!

Vicki and Simon's wedding party at Tudor Park Hotel

As with many couples, Vicki and Simon decided to get married in Cyprus with close friends and family and then have a celebratory party here in the UK later in the year.  Vicki asked us to design a contemporary and fresh ivory and green floral theme for the party.  She wanted some additional sparkle and obligatory butterflies!

Whilst there wasn't going to be a formal seating plan, Vicki and Simon had a number of round tables which we dressed with a central mirror on which was placed a large martini glass arrangement.  As the party was to be in the evening, we added fairy lights in the base of the martini vases and then designed arrangements of oriental lilies, shamrock blooms, roses, germinis, bridal gladioli and trachellium along with eucalyptus foliage.  We draped crystals around the edge of each arrangement and added a large butterfly.  Very striking.

We welcomed guests into the room with baytrees dressed with fairy lights and also wound organza ribbon around the stems.  (Sorry about awful photo...had a bad camera day!)

For the bar, we added a mini martini vase to set the scene and then used mirrored cubes on the low occasional tables in the bar area containing hand-tied bouquets to match the wedding flowers.

 

Finally, we provided thank-you bouquets for the Mums.

It just goes to show that you can have the best of both worlds...European gorgeous weather and a Kent reception / party.  And a chance to wear your wedding outfits twice...what's not to love!

Charlotte and Dan's wedding at Cooling Castle Barn

When we first met the lovely Charlotte, we knew her wedding flowers would be elegant and striking.  As an artist, she knew how she wanted everything to look and was very clear about her ivory floral theme with hints of fuschia pink.  We decided to keep the personal flowers to roses and "jasmine" to tie in with Charlotte's daughter Jasmine.  We then incorporated delphiniums, lilies and trachellium with eucalyptus and grasses.  Strategic "sparkle" was added where appropriate.

Charlotte's bouquet was a hand-tied bouquet of Dolce Vita roses with sprigs of crystal and sprigs of stephanotis (instead of Jasmine) added throughout.

For the bridesmaids, we provided hand-tied bouquets of large headed Maroussia roses along with stephanotis.  We added the tough of pink via a small bow at the top of the stems.  All the girls had stephanotis wired for their hair as well, and Charlotte had a couple of roses wired for her hair. 

Dan's buttonhole was a Dolce Vita rose to match Charlotte's whilst the remainder of the party wore ivory roses to match the bridesmaids. 

For the top table, we decided to use the bouquets from the bridal party in low vases (they needed to be kept in water for freshness in any event and of course matched the overall theme, therefore were perfect).  We also added a couple of extra vases for the centre of the table with hand-tied bouquets of roses and foliage to match the remainder of the flowers.

For the tablecentres, we used large martini vases and kept the arrangements largely ivory with just a few Dolce Vita roses to add the colour. 

We then dressed the wedding cake (made beautifully by Charlotte's friend) with clusters of roses and sparkles.

All in all a lovely, elegant and simple floral theme.