Kerrie and Aaron's wedding at The Hop Farm

Kerrie and Aaron's wedding was designed to be an elegant and contemporary affair using exotic flowers such as the Previa anthurium, the purple Vanda Orchid and Picasso Calla Lily.  Kerrie and Aaron wanted it to be stylish and memorable and had themed their wedding around the purple bridesmaids dresses they had chosen. 

For Kerrie's bouquet, we designed a contemporary shower bouquet or orchids, anthuriums, calla lilies and germini along with rolls of aspdistra, sprigs of grevillia and sprigs of lily and bear grass.  We added transluscent crystals throughout to catch the light.  Against Kerrie's dress, this was going to look fabulous...a real show stopper.

For Kerrie's Maid of Honour, we designed a hand-tied bouquet of gerberas, vanda orchids, rolls of aspidistra and grevillia.  We then left out the orchids for the Senior and Junior Bridesmaids (but sized the bouquets accordingly).  Finally for the Flower Girl, it had to be a cute gerbera "wand" surrounded in purple feathers.  All bouquets were wrapped in ivory ribbon but with purple bows attached to bring in the colour.

Aaron wore a stunning orchid buttonhole to match Kerrie and the Best Men and Dads then wore calla lily buttonholes with loops of aspidistra and grasses.  The remainder of the Groom's party wore calla lily buttonholes without the aspidistra leaf.  Mums wore corsages of mini calla lilies and spray roses, and other female members of the party wore a range of corsages using either calla lilies or spray roses.  All very elegant indeed. 

Being at the Hop Farm with low beams, we decided on low table arrangements and Kerrie and Aaron chose large fishbowls for the guest tables and smaller ones to be placed on purple runners on the top table.  All very elegant.  For the large fishbowls, we used the bi-coloured Picasso Calla Lily and for the top table, we filled the mini fishbowls with the gorgeous orchid.  Each of the tables was finished with scatter crystals and we added additional Previa anthuriums to the top table to tie in with the bridal bouquet.

The cake was dressed with a structural topper to reflect the bridal bouquet shape and cascaded gently down the side.  We then finished the look with a couple of additional wired sections placed strategically.  Finally we provided thank-you bouquets for the Mums to match the flowers used elsewhere.

It was a lovely wedding, befitting a lovely couple.  Kerrie and Aaron were so easy to work with and knew just what they liked, and yet left us to the design elements.  We know they'll be very happy and wish them all the very best in the future.

Natalie and Ian's wedding at The Hop Farm

When we first met Natalie, she wasn't sure about her flowers at all.  She knew her colour scheme was going to be a striking burnt orange, and her favourite flowers were lilies...other than that she hadn't been inspired at all and was feeling a little disillusioned.  However, we were honoured to see Natalie get completely overwhelmed when she saw one particular bouquet in our portfolios and we built her flower scheme from there.

For Natalie's bouquet we used burnt orange lilies, Mango Calla lilies, High and Magic roses, trachellium, orange germini, chincherinchee and plenty of foliage.  It looked so striking and textured, and yet was symmetrical which was important for Natalie.  As the flowers were so striking, we finished the stems really simply with ivory ribbon and a bow, with a single crystal pin...we didn't want to compete with the absolutely stunning hairpiece Natalie had chosen, which was so beautiful and sparkly.

For her bridesmaid, we reversed the colour scheme and provided a smaller textured bouquet mainly in ivory with touches of burnt orange and finished the same way as Natalie's bouquet.

The buttonholes were all Mango Calla Lilies, with Ian's having a High and Magic rose added at the front.  Corsages were kept ivory but with ribbon added to tone with individual outfits.

Thanks to the horrendous weather we've been having, Natalie and Ian couldn't get married outside, but I think you'll agree that the chairs, bows and the lilies we added down the aisle made it lovely inside for the wedding.  We also added fishbowls with grasses and Princess Irene tulips twisted around inside.

For the top table, we added a fishbowl at either end with tulips and grasses and then added a few roses around the Mr and Mrs sign Natalie and Ian had provided.  We sprinkled rose petals along the cloth and added calla lilies to each of the place settings to finish the colour scheme.

For the guest tables, Natalie had provided hurricane lamps and mirrors and we added tulips and grasses to match the top table along with rose petals on the tables.  It all looked lovely and bright and very contemporary.

We hope Natalie and Ian had a lovely day despite the weather...I suspect Natalie's sunny personality and her gorgeous smile will have made up for any dip in the weather and I hope everything was just as they would have dreamed of on their special day.