Ivory and purple bridal flowers

 Emma's colour scheme was ivory and purple. The best purple flower is eustoma and so this is where we started with the flowers. Emma decided on a hand-tied design and loved a similar design I had made previously with all roses and foliage. We kept on the same design with ivory roses, purple eustoma and gyp with a little tree fern and salal as a collar.

 The stems were bound with foliage with thin ivory ribbon pinned around to add to the design.

 The two adult bridesmaids carried a similar style bouquet but with just the roses and gyp to stand out agains.

 The younger bridesmaid carried a smaller version of the brides.

 The flower girl carried a silver heart wand with a couple of purple eustoma and a sprig of gyp.

The groom wore a buttonhole of an ivory rose, gyp and eustoma buds.

The rest of the bridal party wore single ivory rose buttonholes.

Black baccara and Gletzer roses

Nicola's bridal bouquet.

As Nicola and her future husband lived away all correspondence was done through her future Mother-In-Law. I was given a photo of a bouquet Nicola had found on the Internet and asked to create this in her colours of burgundy and cream.

Black baccara roses were chosen as burgundy with gletzer roses as a pale cream to compliment the gyp and tree fern.
The stems were wrapped in ivory satin ribbon.
We also provided buttonholes for the bridal party.

We understand the bride was highly delighted with her flowers and received this card a few days after the event.

Purple, lilac and ivory wedding flowers

Sue's wedding from May.

The colour scheme was purples, lilacs and ivory. Sue chose a hand-tied design with a silver aluminium wire collar with added beads. The flowers were Ivory roses, Eryngium, purple freesia and eustoma and gyp. The stems were bound with lilac satin ribbon.
The grooms-men each wore a single ivory rose with eryngium.
The ladies each had a single ivory rose with freesia, eryngium and gyp corsage.
The reception was held at Jocastas and we supplied the top table design. It was a traditional long and low with purple eustoma, freesia, eryngium, ivory roses and gyp with assorted foliage.

Ivory and pale pink roses

Mary's wedding from 14th May.

Mary decided to carry a hand-tie design of roses, gyp and foliage. We used ivory and very pale pink roses to add some warmth. The tree fern and gyp softened the design with salal leaves forming a collar. The stems are covered in foliage and finished off with a thin satin ribbon wound decoratively around.
The five bridesmaids all carried a similar but smaller design to compliment their brown dresses and silver accessories.
The Mother of the bride wore a corsage of ivory roses, spray roses, gyp and tree fern.
The grooms-men all wore a single ivory rose buttonhole.

Lincoln County Assembly Rooms

These table centres at The Lincoln County Assembly Rooms were for a 'do' back in November.

We were asked to create table rings in any flower but the colour must be neutral. We chose whites and cream germini, hydrangea, stallion chysants and gyp.

There were 2 of the larger ones for the main top table and 10 of the smaller ones for the guest tables.

Set up at The Lincoln County Assembly Rooms with their oil lamps.

The finished set up.

Argos

Now Argos have been revamped and have a gorgeous jewellery counter we have been invited to display flowers once again.

A hand tied arrangement of white alstroemeria and gyp with lush dark green foliage are displayed in a glass bowl with green midelino sticks and glass nuggets.

Andrew J Musson Tailor

We were asked to design a low table arrangement for in the marquee at the Lincolnshire Show for Andrew J Musson Tailors.

Red gerberas and roses surrounded by a cloud of gyp with curled aspidistra leaves displayed in a glass cube.
For the shop display we thought we would try something different. A martini vase with anthuriums in pink, white and green, aspidistra leaves and lime green midelino sticks.

Argos

The weekends arrangement for Argos.

As we are told that gypsophila is back on trend I decided to use it on mass.

A silver zinc bucket with lots of gyp forms the base for a swirl of silver aluminium wire. Through this a single white anastasia chrysant with a few strands of curved beargrass pinned to the centre of the flower.

Mayors Ceremony

May is the annual time for a new Mayor in Lincoln.

We have been providing the Civic party with flowers for this event for a number of years.

This year one of the ladies involved particularly likes carnations and straight on from the Colombian evening with all their fabulous colours we chose these gorgeous white and purple flecked variety. We are usually asked to use a colour scheme of white and cream, council colours, but this year we could add some colour.

The posies that are presented to the 2 ladies in the Mayors party at The Guildhall.
We used the carnations, white roses, gyp and foliage tied together with a complementary lilac bow.
The table centres are on 'oasis' rings with the white and purple carnations, cordyline foliage, gyp and white sisal. To add a little bit of height to the design green midelino sticks were added in hoops around the edge.

There were 14 table rings and 2 long and low for the top table.
The top table designs had the same flowers in as the rings with some extra foliage.
One of the table rings in situ at The Lincoln County Assembly Rooms. The oil lamp is provided by the venue.

Unfortunately when we arrived to deliver these the tables were just being set up and so this is the only photo we were able to get.

Ivory rose wedding

Nikki's wedding from Saturday.

This was a church wedding and fortunately for the bride and groom it was being held on the open weekend for churches in their area and as such would be decorated with flowers anyway. So all left for me to arrange was the bridal flowers and buttonholes.
Nikki brought in a picture of a bouquet she wanted me to re-create. We chose the gorgeous Maroussia rose as it is large headed and scented. These together with gyp, tree fern and salal tips create a stunning classic bouquet. The stems are entirely bound together with an aspidistra leaf and thin ivory satin ribbon was then wound around this to add detail and interest to the handle.
Her bridesmaid had a similar design but with less roses to make it smaller.
The groom wore a maroussia rose buttonhole with gyp, salal and tree fern.
The men wore a single maroussia rose buttonhole with tree fern and the ladies had similar but with a sprig of gyp.

Thank you bouquets were provided for the reception speeches.

County Assembly Rooms

For a ladies evening at the Lincoln County Assembly Rooms we were asked to provide table centres that were round and could stand the lamps they use in the centre. We were given the colour scheme of white and green but the flowers we used was left up to us.

We used foam rings so the lamps could stand easily in the centre. For the foliage we used pistachio, leather leaf and cuppress and flowers of akito roses, astilbe, freesias, gypsophila and hydrangeas.

After a last minute adjustment to table numbers we provided 15 arrangements.