Chiddingstone Castle's Spring Wedding Open Day

 

Our stand and the beautiful mantelpiece

It was a wonderful day yesterday at Chiddingstone Castle for their wedding open day...loads of lovely high quality suppliers, a truly gorgeous venue and setting, yummy food and drink to taste and lots of unexpected sunshine....what's not to love.  

One of the previous inhabitants watches us carefully!

This year we dressed the Great Hall, including the top table for Urban Pantry, the small round table for Idyllic Days and also helped Idyllic Days with the flowers for their lovely vintage tea party props.  Great Hall flower domination!  We chose soft, scented and springlike as our theme and took a few photos (but forgot the candelabra and all the flowers for Idyllic Days...oops!).  We know the lovely Sophie at Violet and Green photography took some photos, so maybe more to follow soon!

The top table for Urban Pantry

We added flowers at intervals to the top table to give everyone something lovely to look at!

Smaller boxy arrangements interspersed with vintage silver teasets

Enjoy!

Our tableplan stepladder plus a couple of tablecentres

The detail of our tableplan stepladder

A tall rustic, fresh spring tablecentre with an elegant crystal globe tablecentre

Our bouquets with our boasting board!

Scented roses, hydrangeas, bouvardia and brooches for this lace wrapped bouquet

Lilac, scented roses, blossom and succulents for this bouquet

For the wilder bride..roses, lilac and guelder rose in this hessian wrapped bouquet

Chiddingstone Castle Wedding Fair

  

The sun shone, the bubbly flowed (for the guests only), the Creperie van did a roaring trade, the London to Brighton Classic Car Rally all rolled up and Kalm Kitchen's canapes (including gorgeous looking Eton Messes) were enjoyed by all.  What a fabulous day.  You'd think I was describing a wedding, but it was in fact Chiddingstone Castle's wedding fair.  It really was a lovely. warm and friendly day with lots of great exhibitors and lovely guests too.  Some customers just visiting the castle for the day must have been a bit bemused, but they seemed to enjoy it too.

We were asked to dress the White Rose room in the castle as we are one of their preferred suppliers, so I go the chance to spread out, dress occasional tables, the mantelpiece, the fireplace, as well as providing vintage suitcases, a mannequin tableplan and some bouquets and tablecentres.  Everything was very soft, pretty and appropriate for a quintessentially English venue....hope you like it.

Thanks to everyone for making it a great day.

Kent Showground Wedding Experience

 

It was a lovely day for a wedding fair yesterday and we were pleased we'd chosen some vibrant colours to match the weather.  As promised to people we met yesterday, here are the photos from the stand.  Thanks to all the lovely comments and we look forward to seeing many of you again soon.

On the one side, our more glamorous Great Gatsby inspired arrangements and bouquets.

An elegant urn

A crystal candleholder with floral detail at the base

Vases of flowers under the crystal candleholder

Vase detail 1

Vase detail 2

Vase detail 3

An elegant silver rosebowl overflowing with flowers

A fabulous hand-tied bouquet with brooches

A beautifully textured  bridal bouquet

A wand or a handbag for a Flower Girl



A very popular soft spring bouquet for a bride with trailing lace detail
 

A shower bouquet to match the theme

A more unusual protea, craspedia and succulent bouquet within a wire frame
 

And on the other, the more vibrant "all the fun of the fair" colours of a vintage wedding.

Vibrant and textured bridal bouquet edged with paper windmills

A smaller bouquet edged with paper windmills for a bridesmaid

Soft and scented bouquet with added buttons

Matching floral button wand for a Flower Girl

Sherbet shades in a hand-tied bouquet

Soft and textured pomander for a bridesmaid

A stack of vintage suitcases used as a postbox

Afternoon tea in an elegant silver service

Wishing tree complete with vintage labels and floral detailing

Floral detail on the wishing tree

More gorgeous flowers on the wishing tree

A lower level centrepiece with a lower height candelabra

A full on tall candelabra with trailing lace and battery candles

Everyone has a favourite...wonder which one was yours!

The glamorous Great Gatsby side

Vintage detailing with brighter flowers