Nadine and Linton's wedding at Cowden Church and Salomons, Tunbridge Wells

When we met Nadine, she was particularly taken by our floral handbags and fell in love with the idea of providing one for each of her bridesmaids.  However, as time progressed and she finalised more of the details of the wedding, she decided that she wanted to follow a very soft, romantic and yet fresh theme in shades of green and ivory.  She also loves English style blooms, and hence we decided upon a mix of hydrangeas, roses (Vendella, Majolika and Green Tea), lisianthus, chincherinchee, bupleurum and eucalyptus.  We kept arrangements soft and hand-tied and think the overall look complemented the setting and the lovely Nadine and Linton perfectly.  It looked so fresh and crisp and yet incorporated all the softness and romance of the day.

For Nadine's bouquet, we wanted a very textured feel and yet wanted the flowers to be able to show themselves off.  Despite using quite a range of flowers within her bouquet, we think they worked beautifully together and provided a lovely bouquet to complement her gorgeous wedding gown, which was a cream duchesse satin with a full ruched skirt.   Pearls were her chosen accessory, hence the dressing on the stem of the bouquet.  As Nadine knew she wouldn't want to part with her bouquet, we provided a smaller throw bouquet for her to use later in the day (which she still didn't want to part with when the time came!)

Nadine's bridesmaids were wearing very soft floaty dresses in celadon green with an ivory overlay, leaving them very pale green overall in colour.  Nadine's sister's dress was more ivory in colour and hence we added a little more green into the bouquet in the form of Greentrick.  We didn't want to use the Green Tea rose again as we had reserved this for Nadine and Linton.  The other bridesmaids had more ivory bouquets to contrast against their dresses.

Linton's buttonhole was the best of both worlds as we designed a double Vendella and Green Tea rose buttonhole with eucalyptus and a touch a bupleurum.  The rest of the grooms party wore Vendella rose buttonholes and the Mums had delicate corsages of Majolika roses, freesias, bupleurum and eucalyptus.

Tables were simple glass vases with a full and soft hand-tied bouquet of roses, hydrangeas, chincherinchee, bupleurum and eucalyptus, all designed to be taken away at the end of the day.  For the top table, we added roses to the napkins with Green Tea added to Nadine and Linton and Vendella for the rest of the guests.

Finally, thank-you bouquets were provided (only one photographed), to tie in with the theme of the day.

It was a great pleasure working with the lovely Nadine and her family and chatting to them all at various points of the planning.  Despite the slightly drizzly weather, we know that it will have been a perfect day for Nadine and Linton....even with the pyjamas in the morning, the hair and make-up were perfect! And now, thanks to Nadine sending me some initial photos across, you can all see how lovely she looked and how well the colours and style worked with the bridal party.....thanks to Nadine and Linton for the photos and the lovely comments as well!

Hannah and Tim's wedding at Hadlow Church and after at Salomons

Hannah and Tim's wedding was to be an elegant and stylish wedding with deep purple and ivory as the main colour scheme, which always looks gorgeous but when we had the opportunity to incorporate stunning seasonal deep purple sweet peas, it was always going to be lovely.  It's also always lovely for us to work close to our home and hence providing pedestal flowers for our lovely Hadlow Church was really nice.

The flower choice other than sweet peas including Alliums, Picasso Calla Lilies, Vendella roses, bi-coloured Lisianthus along with eucalyptus and grasses.  A very striking mix of flowers, with plenty of seasonal elements.

Hannah wanted a hand-tied bouquet to compliment her dress.  We used a mix of roses, calla lilies, and sweet peas with foliage and although we are obvioulsy biased, we thought it looked lovely.  Bridesmaids carried rose and sweet pea bouquets and the younger flower girls carried simple "wands" of calla lilies and sweet peas.  Buttonholes and corsages toned and were very elegant.  Mini calla lilies were added to the ladies' corsages, which looked lovely.

Both Hannah and Tim wanted the flowers to be striking, but not too over the top for their wedding.  This held true for tablecentres and venue flowers as well and whilst wanting to dress the large theatre at Salomons appropriately, we didn't want to "overdo" it.  We used tall lily vases for guest tables, and mini ones for the top table and added a single Vendella rose to the stems for guest tables for a touch of floral interest once seated, and then added full, yet not too large top level arrangements on each.  Each sat on a simple mirror and was sprinkled with purple based crystals just to finish,

We heard the bells in Hadlow, but didn't have a chance to get a photo of Hannah and her bridal party, so are itching to see what we think will be stunning photos of a lovely wedding.

Kathia and James' wedding at Salomons

One of our weddings yesterday was for the very beautiful Kathia and lovely James. From the first time we met the couple, we knew that they were perfectly suited and that their wedding would be a wonderful day. Kathia is stunningly pretty (although very unaware of it) and is so gentle and calming to be around....planning her wedding flowers was great fun and whilst Kathia had a clear idea of the look she wanted, she was very easy to please.

Kathia and James were planning a very pretty rose centred wedding in shades of pale pink with a touch of burgundy to tie in with her bridesmaids' dresses. She wanted her bouquet to be textured and not too uniform in shape, and whilst we heavily featured roses, we introduced a burgundy calla lily to bring in the accent colour. For the bridesmaids, we used just pale pink and ivory roses and introduced different sized heads to give the additional texture.

For the most important part of the day (the ceremony), we designed simple candlesticks to frame Kathia and James taking their vows and used the tops of two of the table centres on perspex bases for the celebrant table, giving a different look and yet allowing the flowers to be used in a number of different ways.

For the tables, Kathia and James chose circular tables for everyone including themselves, and we decided to distinguish the top table by adding in a few extra flowers into the arrangement, and adding spray rose heads onto the mirror and through the napkins. The Sweet Avalanche rose floating halfway up the vase gave guests something to look at when they had been seated for the wedding breakfast whilst letting them talk freely across the tables.