Faith's Wedding Flowers, Romantic Purples and Ivory, Elmers Court

The beautiful Elmers Court Hotel in Lymington all set up ready for Faith and Alex's wedding. The date - August bank holiday saturday and just look at the weather !! This was our first outside wedding ceremony and we were so happy to see Faith and Alex have the most perfect summers day. Even more so as some of Alex's family had travelled all the way from Barbados to attend and the days leading up to the big day were distinctly worrying on the weather front. Remember the black skies and all that rain- we do !

The ceremony table flowers- a trailing design of roses, purple stocks and pink gypsophila.

Alex's buttonhole of rose, pink gyp and ruscus leaves.

Faith's very romantic shower bouquet of ivory roses, delicate purple feather butterflies and purple diamante.

A modern long and narrow shape with trails of mixed grasses.

The bridesmaids' posies of roses, butterflies and pink gypsophila with ruscus and asparagus fern. Very soft , very natural and very romantic.

This gorgeous image has kindly been donated to us by Faith's photographer Jan of Essential Images in Lymington. An absolutely lovely lady and very talented with it. She works with the natural light and the results are fantastic.

The bridesmaids - image courtesy of Essential Images.

The beautiful Faith. Image - Jan of Essential Images.

Ceremony flowers - Image courtesy of Essential Images.

Image - Jan of Essential Images

The vases all set up for the wedding reception ready to take the bridesmaids' posies which doubled as low table centres. Placed on a mirror plate with tea lights and fresh rose petals.

The table centres named after the beaches of Barbados.
Image - Jan of Essential Images

The finished result - Image Kate Truepenny.

A detail shot by Kate Truepenny.

The tall tablecentres, a coordinating design of large ivory roses, purple stocks, pink gyp and trails of asparagus fern and ivy.

Image Kate Truepenny.

Image - Essential Images.

A detail shot by Kate Truepenny.

The ceremony table flowers doubled as the flowers for the top table. Little purple butterflies and tea lights surrunded by fresh rose petals completed the look.

Image Jan of Essential Images

The favours, little purple organza bags, this one for the brand new Mrs Hoyos.

Image Kate Truepenny.

Very many congraulations Faith and Alex on your marriage and thank you very much for choosing us to design and create the flowers for your day. We loved every minute.

Danielle's vintage pink & aqua wedding flowers

I have just been lucky enough to have been sent some gorgeous photos of a wedding I did in August, along with a really lovely thank you letter from our bride Danielle. I really do love it when brides write in and share some photos of their day so please do keep them coming.

Danielle was looking for a romantic vintage look in pinks and ivory with delicate butterflies and touches of Aqua inspired by an article she had seen in a magazine. Above is Danielle's wedding bouquet, a lovely mix of soft pink hydrangea, mixed ivory and pale pink roses, spray roses and a couple of butterflies all tied with an aqua satin ribbon.

Her bridesmaids carried these coordinating bouquets with more of the ivory "Avalanche" roses.

A gorgeous detail shot of the bouquet by Mark Upfield of http://www.muphotographic.com/
Thank you Mark, we absolutely love this image.

Flowergirl's wand style posy of rose, lisianthus and tree fern.

Another absolutely gorgeous shot by Mark Upfield and my personal favourite.

Tall tablecentre of mixed roses, hydrangea and tree fern topped with an aqua candle.

Little designs of aqua candles with carnations, hydrangea and tree fern for underneath the tablecentres and along the top table.

Photo Mark Upfield of MUphotographic.

Danielle had set her heart ( please do excuse the pun) on a floral wreath to be hung from the top table. Now we have to confess that the lighting at the venue was very strange and it was way beyond our photographic abilities to produce an even half way representative image of this very lovely wreath.
So thank you so much Kate Truepenny for saving our life with this one.

The top table complete with bride and groom thanks again to Mark Upfield for the image. To decorate the top table we used the bride's and bridesmaids' bouquets with the little candle arrangements in between.

Image - thank you Kate Truepenny.

A gorgeous evening shot of the table flowers by MUphotographic. Thank you Mark, this shot is really lovely.

Sam's Wedding Flowers, Lilacs & Purples

For her autumn wedding Sam chose a gorgeous blend of purples, lilacs and ivory. Very popular in 2010 and the colour trend is clearly going to continue into 2011. Luckily she also chose one of the most gorgeous autumn days for her wedding at Brasserie 68 in Fareham. Here are some of the photos we took of Sam's flowers.

The groom's buttonhole of rose, bouvardia and limonium. All flowers featured in Sam's wedding bouquet.

Sam's bouquet of roses, bouvardia, purple trachelium and lavender limonium.

Buttonholes of rose and limonium for the men.

The bridesmaids carried bouquets of avalanche roses with lilac limonium.

Bridesmaids bouquets and buttonhole for the dad boxed and ready.

The buttonholes and mum's corsage for the groom's party, all ready and waiting

The ceremony table dresed with a long and low arrangement of ivory Avalanche roses, the gorgeous dusky lilac rose, Memory Lane, freesias and limonium with mixed foliages in vintage tones. This was moved to the top table for the wedding reception.

We dressed the tables with these designs in the popular goldfish bowl type vases. The vases are filled with fresh petals, roses and freesias with central chunky candle. The freesia is an unusual double one aptly named "Honeymoon" Memory Lane rose petals decorate the base.

Many thanks Sam for choosing us to design and create your wedding flowers for you. We hope you had a fabulous day and very many congratulations on your marriage.

Karen's wedding flowers vintage pink and green

One of the very many things I love about my job is that I get to see and work in so many lovely venues. Todays perfect autumn day saw me take a little drive through Marwell zoo. Over the railway track, a left turn at the Rhinos and I arrived at the Great Hall, the location for Karen and Gavin's vintage style wedding. Below are some of the pictures I took of their flowers.

The colour scheme Karen choose was pink and green with some ivory. Pale pink roses for the men's buttonholes and a corsage for the mums of double green lisianthus complete with a little vintage style pearl and diamante butterfly.

Karen's bouquet of pink and ivory roses with pale green carnation and double lisianthus and the ever popular mini spray rose, mini eden. Her bridesmaid carried a smaller version.

For the top table, we painted flower pots ivory and created these little vintage wedding themed designs. A scattering of fresh rose petals completes the look. Flower pots are wonderful things for vintage, natural and country style flowers and they can be painted any colour of the rainbow: Great for anyone with an "interesting " colour scheme.

I often get asked if I can do thank you bouquets, yes I can, I like to theme them to the wedding so they make gorgeous momentos of the day. I am terribly bad at remembering to photograph them though so I tried to do better this time. Aqua packed, in presentation box, finished with a tie of pale green ribbon and hidden away behind the curtain ready for the moment.

Many thanks Karen for choosing us to design and create your wedding flowers for you. We loved creating these designs for you and very many congraultions on your marriage.

Botleigh Grange Wedding Fayre

Many thanks to everyone who came to see me at the Fayre on Sunday, I hope you enjoyed the show. Here are some of the designs I created for the day.

My favourite, a blend of Akito roses, freesia and double lisianthus with little sprays of diamante to catch the light. Perfect for many of todays bridal gowns, it manages to be both timeless and modern and as an added bonus, it smells gorgeous too.

A coordinating buttonhole of lisianthus and ruscus leaves.


Flowergirls posy of double white lisianthus with leaf collar. Very lightweight so good for the little ones.

Little pots of flowers are a gorgeous alternative to a traditional tablecentre and the silver pots used here with the silver candelabra create an extremely elegant look whilst still being very of the moment. The flowers are little posies of double lisianthus, not done justice in the photo.

This design uses a chunky candle with white hydrangea, green lisianthus and myrtle. Lovely for an evening receptions or anywhere where the light is low and you want to create a cosy, intimate atmosphere.

Rich autumnal bouquet of roses, Apricot, Savita and Avalanche peach with viburnum berry and foliage surround.

Posy of Avalanche peach roses with looped grass, ivy berry, berried myrtle and ruscus.

Coordinating tall table centre with ivy trails. At the fayre we added tea lights and sprays of berries to the table at the base of the design.

A detail shot of the flowers by Kate Truepenny.

Sadly, the photo does not in any way do this bouquet justice but it is a nice idea and I thought you might like to see it. The rose is a fabulous one, very velvety and a stunning deep burgandy colour. It's called black bacarra and it has been combined with individual flowers from white nerine lily.