Michelle and Rob's beautiful yet rustic wedding at Cooling Castle Barn

I was just searching the blog earlier for a wedding to show to another prospective bride and knew that she'd love Michelle and Rob's style (as did I) so I was amazed that I hadn't actually blogged this little beauty!  So despite being months late, here is their wedding in all it's glory!  It was a truly beautiful collection of pale green and ivory and included stocks, bouvardia, astrantia, guelder rose, waxflower, trachellium, gypsophilia, veronica, trachellium, chincherinchee, penesetum, freesias, daisies, amaranthus, rosemary, eucalyptus and more....pretty, fragrant and very English.

Michelle chose a natural, spriggy and textured bouquet in a very "just picked " style for herself and then all white gypsophilia bouquets for her bridesmaids.  Each was tied with hessian with a small lace bow over the top.

The boys buttonholes were equally soft using greentrick, waxflower, chincherinchee, daisies and rosemary for Rob, then omitting the daisies for the Best Man and then scaling them down to gypsophilia and rosemary for the rest of the boys, and just daisies for Flynn, the Page Boy.  Mums' corsages also took on a natural feel and it all worked so well together.

The ceremony barn looked so so pretty for Michelle's entry...we lined her route with pitchers of flowers to match all the wedding flowers, interspersed with hanging jars of gypsophilia.  We added hessian bows to the dais and the stairs.  For the celebrant table we added a rustic arrangement in a piece of driftwood and a jar of gypsophilia wrapped in hessian. 

For the top table, we provided a range of jars and earthenware containers, some with hessian attached and all filled with gorgeous soft flowers to match the wedding.  We added some small blocks of wood to give additional texture and height and left a couple of empty jars for the bridal bouquets.  We also dressed the plough behind the top table with a faux blossom garland and fairy lights.

We then provided a pitcher full of flowers placed on woodblocks for each of the guest tables, each surrounded by a few additional jars of flowers.  We dressed the beams with fairy lights to finish the look.

I loved every minute of this wedding from planning, through preparation to set-up and seeing the photos afterwards.  I know I'm a sucker for green and white flowers (I had them at my wedding) but I think you'll agree that they are stunning in their simplicity.  I'm a little embarrassed (but also very proud of the team) to include the following note that Michelle emailed over to me the day after her wedding....it brought tears to our eyes...

Hi Amanda. 

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 

The flowers and floral displays were absolutely stunningly breathtaking. Incredible. Amazing. I honestly can't find the right adjective. Its like you were in my head as its what I imagined our day to look like but so so much more. 

From the moment I saw your portfolio and displays, I knew you had to be our florist. First and foremost, thank you for putting us at complete ease. In your beautiful home, not just professional but fun, You speak with such passion, joy and confidence that it wasn't hard to put every faith in you. You took your time to get to know us and really reflect exactly who we are and created a beautiful, romantic and simply elegant feel to our day. You took a small idea and made our big day. Thank you so much. We had no end of compliments and I think you're fabulous. 

I'm a very happy and very lucky girl.  

I will always recommend you to any bride to be. They'd be mad not to have you. 

Thanks so much x all the very best x

Mich x

Enjoy! 

Lee and John's Silver Wedding Anniversary party at Brandshatch Place Hotel

Having been married 25 years, it definitely seems time for a wonderful party and that's exactly what Lee and John arranged for over 100 guests.  They decided to book the whole of Brandshatch Place for their party, and hence we had the opportunity of dressing various rooms and areas with flowers.

Lee had chosen a fabulous grecian style white dress with diamate trim and hence we wanted to keep the flowers simple yet striking.  Lee loves green and white together and hence we went for a strong zesty lime green in the form of Anastasia Blooms, Supergreen roses, Cymbidium orchids along with hydrangeas.  We then added Maroussia roses, large headed white hydrangeas and chincherinchee for the white / ivory.  We then added touches of silver ting ting and birch through all the arrangements to match the reason for the party.

For the main terrace room, we added large mirrored cubes to mirrors for the tables and scattered table confetti sparingly around the edge.  We then provided a hand-tied arrangement of flowers with a little height in the centre for each of the cubes. We provided these in hidden water packs to ensure they could be given to guests at the end of the evening to take home.  We then finished the radiator cabinets with green hydrangea florets in between votives containing tealights.

 
We provided a lower arrangement for the bar, once again in a large cube, then dressed various tables in the lounge with smaller cubes containing low arrangements of roses, foliage and  silver accents surrounded by tealights in votives.  A further larger arrangement was placed on a side table, and on the reception desk to ensure all areas tied together. 

For the buffet table, we provided taller front facing arrangements in green, ivory and silver in taller half mirrored cylinders (which I forgot to photograph...duh!)

We then dressed the outside tables with votives containing green roses, and hung long arrangements on the end of the staircase in the courtyard with silver organza twisted up the handrails to the top, which we finished with a silver bow and an Anastasia bloom through the centre.

To greet guests at the main entrance, we provided a foliage garland up the steps, looped up with a silver bow and a Supergreen rose through the top.  The top and bottom of the handrails were dressed with large silver organza bows through which we pulled a large headed green hydrangea. 

Finally, Lee and John had a two tier cake designed for them, which we dressed with fresh flowers to match all the others, and finished the table with some "25" scatter confetti.

We believe it was a wonderful night / morning (!) and that everyone had a fabulous time which is just what you want after 25 years of marriage.  Lee and John showed everyone exactly how a party should be thrown and we were delighted to have been involved.