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.

Lisianthus wedding

Here we have Gemma's wedding flowers from July. Her colour theme was purple and white and she loved lisianthus. Her bouquet was a mix of purple, white with purple edging and white lisianthus. Also included was some fountain grass and a collar of salal leaves. The stems were bound with purple ribbon attached with small pearl headed pins.The three bridesmaids were wearing purple and each carried a similar bouquet but with the white and white with purple edge lisianthus.
The little flower girl carried a silver wand with white and white/purple lisianthus with fountain grass and a salal leaf.
All the men's buttonholes were white/purple lisianthus with asparagus fern.
The ladies wore a white lisianthus corsage with fountain grass, asparagus fern and gyp.
The reception was held at The White Hart (Lincoln). (2nd time for us this weekend) Unfortunately the tables were not ready for us on delivery, so we couldn't get any photos.

The table centres Gemma chose were a small fishbowl with 3 purple edged carnations sitting on glass 'ice' with bear grass swirls. She had decided to make her own centrepieces but on us giving a quote she realised it was better to leave it to us.
We also provided all the flowers for the church ladies so everything matched.

Just so you know:

Lisianthus and Eustoma are the same flower, some call it one, some the other.

St Helen's Church at Saxby

Joanne and Graham were married at St Helen's at Saxby. A lovely, unusual church built as a parish church and mausoleum.The two alcoves, one either side of the main door, were decorated with a fishbowl.
The windowsills were also decorated with a fishbowl each. These contained a delphinium, eustoma, sweetpeas, eryngium, freesia, roses, eucalyptus and bear grass. They were designed as a tall tied arrangement. These were also doubling up as table centres for the reception at The White Hart hotel, so although height was required I couldn't fill them out too much otherwise guests would be unable to see each other.
As the couple had 8 tables and only 6 were needed in church, (4 windows, 2 alcoves) we used the other two bowls either side the Altar area.

The Altar arrangement, which was doubling up as the top table arrangement.

Country style wedding

The wedding flowers of Joanne and Graham from July.

This was a country style wedding in ivory and shades of purple.

Joanne's bouquet was a hand-tied design which trailed at the front. The flowers agreed on were purple eustoma, freesia, September and Gletzer roses with various foliage.
Two of the bridesmaids carried a similar hand-tied bouquet but in a posy shape.
The third bridesmaid wore a matching wrist corsage of a Gletzer rose with purple eustoma and sweet peas on an ivory pearl wristband.
For the hair I provide two combs of eustoma, September and rolled rose petals with fountain grass. Also for the bride a handful of individually wired September flowers for the hairdresser to add to the hairstyle.
The groom's buttonhole was a single Gletzer rose with purple eustoma flowers and buds and asparagus fern and eucalyptus leaves.
The grooms-men wore a single rose buttonhole with asparagus fern.
The ladies wore an ivory corsage of eustoma and rolled rose petals with asparagus fern, fountain grass and eucalyptus leaves.

Hemswell Court

Rachel's wedding reception was held at Hemswell Court. The colour scheme of yellow and purple was to be carried through with us providing purple calla lilies in fish bowls. Nothing else was to be added on the brides request.We used five 'Schwarzwalder' Calla lilies per bowl and stood them on mirrors provided by the venue. We can hire them out if necessary.
The tables were laid using pale yellow cloths and yellow napkins.
The top table here is a large oval table and therefore can stand a larger display. Unfortunately this is the best photo I have as the tables were still being set up. It consisted of yellow roses, germini, carnations, alstroemeria and purple eustoma, trachelium and stocks.
There were twelve tables in all and this is only half the room as the rest was still being dressed by the chair cover ladies.

We also provided two thank you hand-ties for the Mums, in matching colours.

Purple and Yellow wedding flowers.

Rachel came to us following a recommendation from her friend who we had previously created wedding flowers for.

Her colour scheme was an unusual wedding combination of yellow and purple and she wanted this to continue through all the flowers.

The brides hand-tie consisted of yellow roses, germini, purple eustoma, trachelium, september and statice, all stems bound up with purple ribbon and pinned with yellow pins.
The two bridesmaids carried a smaller version of the brides bouquet to compliment their purple gowns and yellow shoes.
The two flower girls carried a silver heart shaped wand with a single yellow germini and purple eustoma flowers with a purple bow.
The grooms buttonhole was a single yellow rose and eustoma flowers with buds.
The Mother of the Bride and Groom wore matching purple corsages. A purple calla lily with eustoma flowers and buds, trachelium and september flowers.
The groom's men each wore a single yellow rose buttonhole.

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.

White and Purple wedding

Time to catch up with what's been happening this year.

Our first wedding of the year back in the second week of January.

The bride wore purple and wanted a mixed country style bouquet of whites and purple/lilac. White Akito roses, lilac freesia and purple eustoma with eucalyptus and tree fern were chosen. The stems were bound with purple ribbon and pinned. (The vase is used for transportation.)
The 4 buttonholes were akito roses with tree fern with an extra couple of freesia flowers for the groom.

Purple and White Wedding

These are Catherine's wedding flowers from Saturday. The top picture is the brides shower bouquet consisting of Akito roses, purple eustoma, lilac eustoma and lilac diamantes. There were 4 bridesmaids and all had hand-ties of white, purple and lilac eustoma with lilac diamantes.

The top table arrangement was all eustoma of the different colours used and the table centres were white and purple eustoma with bear grass in square lily vases. These are shown in situ at The Bentley Hotel.