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.

Nikki and Paul's contemporary purple and ivory wedding at Rowhill Grange

 
Nikki and Paul's story dates back to schooldays...with a long gap in the meantime and a chance meeting up North.  Fast forward a while, include a lovely baby and we provided the flowers for their lovely wedding at Rowhill Grange last August (I know...it takes me a while to catch up).  Nikki and her family are wonderful people and a joy to work with and I was so pleased to design their flowers.  Nikki knew that she wanted a purple and ivory theme and she liked a more contemporary look, so we used orchids, anthuriums, calla lilies, lisianthus and roses and added striking purple hydrangeas into the tablecentres.

Nikki chose a shower bouquet in a more contemporary style, which additional crystal sprigs for that touch of sparkle.  We added rolled leaves into the bouquet to give further definition as well.

For her bridesmaid, we designed a hand-tied bouquet of calla lilies, roses and lisianthus along with grevillia and grasses.  As she was wearing purple, we used more ivory than purple to allow it to stand out.  We then made a smaller version of this for Nikki's junior bridesmaid.  For her Flower Girl, we used a single calla lily surrounded by freesias and lisianthus.  As she was wearing an ivory dress, we used more purple to contrast.

For the boys, we used the stunning Vanda orchid with spray roses for Paul, so that he matched Nikki's bouquet, then used roses with lisianthus for the rest of the boys.  We then provided pretty corsages of dendrobrium orchids and spray roses with detailing added to match the Mums' outfits.  For the remainder of the guests, we provided pretty purple and ivory lisianthus buttonholes with simple foliage.

For the ceremony in the Clockhouse, we designed a contemporary full arrangement for the celebrant table using all the flowers used elsewhere. 

For the reception, we dressed the top table with a striking contemporary styled arrangement using all the flowers used elsewhere.  We then added hydrangea florets to the front of the cloth to give extra colour and added purple vanda orchids to the napkins as a finishing touch.

For the guest tables, we placed tall lily vases filled with purple water on central mirrors and added full arrangements of flowers to match all others at the top of the vase.  To finish the look, we sprinkled purple hydrangea florets and clear crystals on the mirrors. A final finishing touch was the cake topper which we designed to match the other flowers.

We know that Nikki and Paul, and all the family, had a fabulous day and it was so well deserved.  I'm so happy for them both and wish them a very long and happy life together.