Lyndsay and Pete's Cooling Castle Barn wedding

We've seen a lot of couples for consultations in the past couple of weeks, and the most favourite wedding at present seems to be Lyndsay and Pete's Cooling Castle Barn wedding.  It really is providing inspiration for quite a few people so we thought we'd share it with you.  It will end up being a wedding of the month on the website, but here are a few photos in the meantime.

Firstly, I know I'm not allowed to favour one bouquet over another, but I really do love Lyndsay's bouquet...so spriggy, blowsy, soft and I love the touch of blue from the muscari.  Added to the lace was a beuatiful heirloom marcasite flower brooch.

For Lyndsay's bridesmaids, we decided to provide smaller versions on Lyndsay's bouquet without the muscari.  We added a small and pretty pin to their stems to tie in with Lyndsay.

For the three Flower Girls, we designed a pretty circlet of flowers for them using the flowers in the bouquets.  I'm sure they looked gorgeous in the them, but in the meantime we decided that they would be well modelled by our owl!

Pete wore a Maroussia rose buttonholes with muscari, chincherinchee, rosemary and eucalyptus whilst the remainder of the boys had very similar buttonholes with the rose replaced by a ranunculus.  Mums and Grans had corsages to tie in with the wedding, yet be tailored to their specific outfits.

For the ceremony, we dressed the dais at Cooling with ivory organza and added roses through the bows.  We then placed a large pedestal arrangement on a decorative tower onto the centre of the dais and a soft and pretty, long and low arrangement onto the celebrant table.  To perfectly frame Lyndsay as she walked down the aisle, we provided aisle candlesticks dressed with soft arrangements of flowers and organza bows.

For the reception, we provided a long and low arrangement on the top table, and finished the napkins with roses.  We added empty vases at each end to take the bouquets, which added to the look and feel, and kept the flowers fresher for longer...bonus!

Each of the guest tables was dressed with a tall elegant chrome candelabra with softly flickering battery operated candles.  The top of each was dressed with a full and flowing arrangement of roses, lilac, chincherinchee, trachellium, anenomes, hydrangeas, shamrock style blooms, ranunculus and guelder rose.  Ivy trailed gently down the stems.   So pretty!

The finishing touches were all carefull thought out by Lyndsay with Your Beautiful Day dressing the chairs with cameo style brooches (Pete proposed with a cameo ring, hence it was very special) and included this on all their elegant stationery and tableplan.  Shelly's Cakes then finished everything off with a gorgeous stacked cameo inspired cake.  We also provided confetti for the cones provided by Lyndsay and dressed with the very important cameos.

It was such a well planned and designed wedding and we loved it.  Thankfully so did Lyndsay and Pete who are now back down to earth after a Mexican honeymoon...how fab!

Suzy and Barry's fabulous, colourful Chilston Park wedding

Suzie and Barry planned the most beautiful wedding at Chilston Park early this Autumn.  They had decided on lemon bridesmaids' dresses and then having determined to use the Coach House at Chilston for their reception venue, they wanted to bring style, personality and "wow" to the neutral surroundings using flowers and colour.  Whilst wanting to add colour, they didn't want to use bright and clashing flowers and hence the best description we came up with was a vibrant mix of pastels!

Suzie is petite, pretty and blonde (don't groan as she's lovely with it) and chose a perfect fitted to the knee Jasmine bridal detailed gown with a low side corsage, full tulle bottom and a train.  It was so gorgeous for her figure and was bound to "wow".  Her bridesmaids were in glamorous grecian style lemon dresses with a one shoulder floral corsage.  The flower girls wore ivory with lemon sashes.  All lovely and fresh, pretty and different.

For the flowers, we decided to follow the multi-petalled look of the fabric corsages on the dresses and stick with as many soft petals as possible.  We therefore decided upon hydrangea, roses (Amnesia, Vanilla Sky, Savita), lisianthus, dahlia, guelder rose and added eremurus for height for the tables.

Hand-tied bouquets were provided for all the girls from Suzie to the flower girls and textured buttonholes provided for the boys who were resplendent in grey morning suits with an ivory cravate for Barry and lemon for the rest of the boys.  A lapel corsage was also provided for Barry's Mum.

For the ceremony in the Orangery, we provided a long and low arrangement for the celebrant table (not photographed...silly me!) using all the various flowers used elsewhere as well as eremurus.  We then framed the aisle with freestanding candlesticks with a soft domed arrangement on top and with a lemon organza bow trailing from the side.  So pretty!

For the reception, we needed to fulfil Suzie and Barry's brief for "flowers with personality" and a "wow" factor, and hence we provided very large and full multi-petalled arrangements on top of tall slim glass vases.  Each arrangement had hundreds of flowers massed at the bottom, with tall and striking eremurus comeing through the top and also in the stem of the vase.  At the base of each vases we provided a selection of small vases, each containing a single variety of flower and a single colour, making sure we covered the main colours.  We think they fit the bill rather nicely and we loved them (despite having a few nervous moments transporting and setting them up!). 

We finished the set-up in the Coach House with a long top table arrangement and then added empty vases at either end to take the bridesmaids' bouquets for freshness and extra colour during the reception.

 

We can't leave without mentioning our friends at Creative Cakes who provided Suzie and Barry's cake for the day...lovely as ever.

It was a wonderfully sunny day and I know everyone had a truly wonderful time.  Suzie and Barry set off on a fab honeymoon after the wedding and we think it couldn't have been a better start to a long and happy married life together.

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