Jena and Mark's wedding at St.Francis Church followed by Oakwood House, Maidstone

 

 

Jena and Mark came to us having seen our flowers both on the website and at a family wedding.  They are such a laid-back lovely couple and were planning a fresh, pretty and contemporary wedding.  Jena's Mum has just got involved in helping with the flowers at their church, and was therefore going to dress the church on the day, which we know she will have done brilliantly. 

Jena had chosen pale yellow / lemon dresses for her bridesmaids and hence wanted to use lemon and ivory as her very fresh and up to date colour scheme.

For Jena's bouquet we used the lovely Vanilla Sky rose along with Maroussia with simple yet effective loops of bear grass and additional sparkles. 

For the adult bridesmaids, we decided to use the Maroussia roses on their own as a contrast against the dresses, and we finished the stems with a small bow in the colour of their dresses.  For the Flower Girl, a little Vanilla Sky "wand" was provided surrounded in sparkles and bear grass.

For Mark, we wanted to match Jena's bouquet and hence provided a double buttonhole using both the Vanilla Sky and Maroussia roses with bear grass.  For the rest of the boys, an ivory rose buttonholes was used, and then corsages for Mums and Nan were provided.  Additionally two thank-you bouquets were provided for the Mums.

At Oakwood House, Jena and Mark wanted to keep the look and feel very fresh and contemporary so we decided upon mirrored cubes for each of the tables with a mix of lemon and ivory flowers including roses, gerberas, celosia, freesias and bridal gladioli.  To make sure that they were easy to give away as gifts, each arrangement was actually a hand-tied bouquet in it's own hidden aqua pack...this allows us to hire out the vases and yet still have something substantial to give away after the big day.

For the top table, we decided to provide smaller mirrored cubes with slightly more lemon colouring on the top table.  We then provided empty vases at either end so that the bridesmaids had somewhere to put their bouquets and keep them fresh.  We also added roses to Jena and Mark's place settings.

Finally, we dressed the three tier cake for Jena and Mark with alternating roses between each tier.

We loved the chair bows at Oakwood House, and the side tie used on the top table.  They were provided by the lovely Leanne and her team from Pretty Bows and we think they were a perfect match. 

We know that Jena and Mark had a wonderful wedding day and that it was just the first in a few consecutive days of celebrations.  We loved working with them and meeting some of the wonderful family.  We wish them all the very very best in their married life together.

Cooling Castle Barn Open Day

 

Wow...what a day yesterday at Cooling Castle Barn!!!  Literally thousands of people came to the Open Day and it was packed!  We were a florist down at the last minute due to sickness, so many apologies to all those people we couldn't get around to talking to, including those who kept coming back hoping we were free.  Also thanks to the really patient ones for waiting for us...we tried our best to get to as many of you as possible, and LOVED hearing all the ideas, discussing all the weddings being planned even into 2015.  We look forward to seeing lots of you again.

We had decided to go with a bold colour scheme of blue, pink, lemon and green...we had provided flowers earlier in the year in this palette and loved it, so went with it again.  For the softer, more vintage side we kept the colours more muted, and then made everything brighter and bolder for the more contemporary side.

Starting with the vintage inspired flowers, we included bouquets for bride, bridesmaid and flower girl.  We also designed a candelabra tablecentre, a mixed silver vase tablecentre, a Wishing Tree, a tableplan designed on a mannequin, a birdcage postbox and a tiered basket of confetti cones.

 

 

 

 

For the slightly more contemporary side, we designed a glamorous tablecentre using crystal candle holders and orchids, an exotic martini vase arrangementa and a full and fabulous floral ball for the tables.  For the bridal party we designed a crash wired orchid bouquet for a bride with a matching overarm bouquet for a bridesmaid, an overarm anthurium and calla lily bouquet, a hand-tied rose and brooch bouquet, a multi-coloured exotic bridal bouquet, a rose wand and two floral handbags (one for a bride and one for a bridesmaid / flower girl). 

 

Finally, we dressed four of the beams in the main barn, two with a looser style faux blossom garland entwined with fairy lights and two with hanging hearts.  One of the hearts was designed to match the softer more vintage side of our display, and the other was slightly more contemporary using anthuriums and with added fairy lights.

 

 

Our lovely friends at Creative Cakes provided favours for our tablesetting, and made heart cookies following our blue and lemon scheme, each piped with our names.  These were placed in front of each napkin making them ideal joint favours and placenames.  They taste yummy too.  We forgot to photograph them in place (well it was really busy) so we've taken a shot today to show you how lovely they are.

Thanks again to everyone who helped us, said lovely things to us, and who generally came to chat yesterday.  See you again soon.