Kellie was very clear about the style she wanted in Cooling Castle Barn, and had seen pictures of similar styled arrangements. This usually makes us very nervous as we worry we may not match the picture in a bride's head. But we needn't have worried as Kellie and her family (including Mum's lovely lovely dog Bella) were all lovely. Whilst Kellie was so nervous on the morning of the wedding, and worried more about walking down the aisle rather than any of the other details, but we know she had a great day.
Kellie and John wanted a glamorous and striking look for their wedding day all in greens and ivories and featuring calla and oriental lilies. As the accent colour was gold, we added subtle touches of the gold via foliage sprayed gold and with touches of glitter. Very subtle and very lovely...just like the happy couple.
Kellie's bouquet was a quite unusual graduated hand-tied bouquet featuring calla lilies, spray roses, ornithogalum arabicum, freesias and with foliage. It was edged with a collar of pittosporum and finished with ivory organza and two rows of diamante pins top and bottom.
For Emma, we tried to replicate the feel of the bridal bouquet, but using smaller calla lilies and using less diamantes to finish.
Buttonholes were elegant calla lilies with John's having a touch of rose and freesia added to match Kellie's bouquet. Corsages were also provided for the Mums along with thank-you bouquets which we took to the venue.
For the top table, we designed a long and low arrangement using all the lilies, roses, spray roses, freesias, delphiniums, trachellium, chincherinchee along with foliage, some sprayed light gold. It really looked the part and filled the end of the room perfectly. We also added calla lilies and chincherinchee to the place settings for extra impact.
For the guest tables, Kellie and John wanted tall martini vases which we filled with sisal and fairy lights and then added full, soft and tapered arrangement on the top with additional height provided by elegant white delphiniums. This really filled the large space that Cooling has and we liked the additional height for the impact it gave.
The final finishing touch was the cake from our friends at Creative Cakes. We work together a lot at the moment, so it's nice to feature some of the cakes they provide...this one looked yummy.
Kellie and John are such a lovely couple and we know they had a fabulous day at Cooling. Hopefully this blog post gives them a little reminder of their big day. We wish them all the very best for the future.
