Claire and Steve's beautiful Boughton Malherbe and Chilston Park Hotel wedding

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I can't belive it's taken me so long to blog this gorgeous wedding which will undoubtedly be a featured wedding of the month on the website in due course.  With the grim weather outside, I thought it only fair to everyone to see the fabulous warm sunshine that Claire and Steve experienced on their special day.

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As you can see from the photos, Claire is stunning and petite (not that she seems to know it), but the photos tell the truth!  And hence, we needed flowers that worked with her, rather than overpowered her.  Claire and Steve were very clear that they wanted a soft, pretty yet natural and unfussy floral theme in shades of cream, pale peach, blush pink to go with platinum dresses and with a ballet shoe as the inspiration for colour.  Scent was also important and wethus decided upon a mix of roses including David Austin roses, La Belle, Maroussia, Vendella and Savita along with sweet peas, bouvardia, astrantia, eryngium, freesias, trachellium, chincherinchee, eucalyptus, sage and flowering mint.  All fabulous colours to match the scheme and they smelt divine.

Claire chose the most beautiful gown as you can see from the photos and we decided upon a textured hand-tied bouquet with a crochetted lace trim made by her Grandmother and with an heirloom pin to finish.

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For the five elder bridesmaids we provided smaller versions of Claire's bouquet and wrapped the stems to the bottom in an open lace ribbon.  Each of the Flower Girls had a smaller posy to match (with handy wrist strap) and also had a lovely natural circlet to wear in their hair.  How cute do they look!

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Steve wore a large headed Maroussia rose with soft foliage, and the boys wore La Belle roses.  Grandad had his own eryngium thistle added.  Corsages were also provided to tone with the ladies' outfits.

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At Boughton Malherbe church we provided soft trailing pew end arrangements to frame the aisle.

At Chilston Park, Claire and Steve decided upon the pretty Culpeppers restaurant for their reception which was dressed with a mismatched selection of chrome and glass vintage vases and containers filled with hydrangeas, roses, sweet peas, lisianthus, bouvardia, freesias, astrantia, ammi and other lovely seasonal flowers and foliage.  The colours worked perfectly.  We added roses to napkins for the top table too. 

The photos provided by Lorna Elizabeth photography are just lovely...if it's possible to have glamorous laid-back shots, I think this is how I'd describe them...just gorgeous.  I'm not going to include all Lorna's or our shots as I want to save some for the featured wedding of the month in the not too distant future but I hope you are inspired by some of these in the meantime.

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We loved being part of Claire and Steve's day, loved meeting their family and friends, and know they had a perfect day.  I know Claire's Mum was looking forward to the flowers too as she hadn't had much choice for her wedding day, and hence I hope we made a few dreams come true.

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Collette and Jason's vintage themed wedding at Little Silver

 

Prior to talking to Collette about her own wedding, we've chatted wedding plans and ideas with her for her friends Ruth and Emma, who we have worked with for their weddings.  Collette was heavily involved in Ruth's wedding and hence we knew we worked well together.  We were therefore thrilled when she asked us to be involved in her own wedding to Jason.  Collette knew she wanted dusky pinks, apricots through to coral colours along with ivory and wanted the flowers to be soft, English and with a vintage feel.

 

Collette was always going to be a truly stunning bride, and the dress she chose was gorgeous especially after she altered it to make it more fitted to show off her fab figure.  Can't wait to see some photos as we know she's going to look amazing.  For her bouquet we decided on a very natural, soft and spriggy bouquet that wasn't too large given her petite figure.  We included a variety of roses, astrantia, veronica, trachellium, astilbe, chincherinche and eucalyptus parvifolia.  We wrapped the stems in a crocheted vintage lace doily studded with pearls and crystals with additional trailing buttons added. 

For Bethany, Collette and Jason's daughter, we provided a smaller posy to resemble Collette's bouquet but all in ivory, wrapped in ribbon and once again finished with trailing button detail.

For Collette's three bridesmaids (Ruth, Emma and Leanne), we provided a variety of flowers wired to add to their hair.

Jason wore a lovely buttonhole of Savita rose, astilbe, veronica and eucalyptus parvifolia whilst the rest of the boys wore large ivory roses with astilbe and eucalyptus parvifolia.  We provided a smaller buttonhole for the Page Boy, Leo as well as a gift box finished with lace and filled with petals to scatter down the aisle.  Mums had corsages provided to match their outfits with a lapel corsage for Jason's Mum and a wrist corsage for Collette's Mum.

For the wedding reception tables, Collette was keen to see a vintage theme, but with a little bit of a difference.  We decided that instead of using a random selection of vintage vases, birdcages etc on each table, we would theme each table with similar items.  We therefore provided appropriate accessories for each of the following tables....Love Birds, Lashings of Jam, Have Your Cake and Eat It, One Lump or Two, Shall I Pour, Anyone for Coffee and Jugs A Plenty!  Fantastic!

For the top table (the one and only "The Very Best of Vintage") we provided clusters of different items dressed with flowers.  We also added rosebuds and pearls to all the tables to finish them.

We loved working with Collette again, and loved all her finishing touches (tableplan, sweet table, post box etc).  We know they had a fab day and the weather held up despite the threat of rain.  We wish both Collette, Jason and Bethany, and her lovely bridesmaids and family all the very best for the future.  We're just sorry we won't be working with them again for future weddings.