St Peter-at-Gowts

St Peter-at-Gowts church was the venue for Zoey's wedding on Saturday. We were asked to use flowers to match her colours, blue and white, and to use roses on the pew ends, but other than that it was up to us.

For the pedestal we used some gorgeous blue delphiniums and agapanthus and white carnations, alstoemeria, chrysants and gyp with various foliage.
The aisle was dressed to halfway as this was a smallish wedding compared to the size of the church.
An individual pew end. A simple yet very effective way of dressing the pews. 3 White Avalanche roses with bear grass tied together with a white organza bow, attached to the pew with royal blue ribbon.
The porchway had a modern pedestal design of tall blue delphinium, agapanthus, white carnations and button chrysants. Aspidistra leaves and fatsia leaves with green sisal finish off the design. All arranged on one of our new tall vases.
The door way to the church already looked very pretty with tubs of summer bedding plants but to add some height we added 2 of our baytrees either side of the door.
All these items were transferred to the Pyewipe for the reception.

White and Royal Blue Wedding

The second of the weekends weddings.

Zoey's mother-in-law (to be) has been a customer of ours for many years, and as she was getting married at St Peter-at-Gowts church, next to us, she naturally came to us for her wedding flowers.

The colour scheme was white and royal blue.

Zoey wanted a traditional brides bouquet but not too large, so we settled on a teardrop style. It is mainly white Akito roses and dark blue agapanthus. Royal blue hex pins add a slight sparkle when the light catches them.
Her two maids carried hand-tie posies of matching flowers to complement their dresses, both have royal blue ribbon around the stems pinned to hold with white pearl headed pins.
The two flower girls held a heart shaped silver wand with a single white akito rose, foliage and dark blue ribbon trails.
All members of the bridal party wore a single white rose buttonhole, with the exception of the Mother of the bride who wore a white corsage. (Unfortunately it was missed in the photos)

Washingborough Hall

Shelley's minimalist theme continued in the venue arrangements. Originally going to make these herself it was decided that on reflection it would be easier and less stressful for me to do them. On receiving a quote Shelley was surprised to find there wasn't much difference in the price. I must point out all the glassware was hired.

Fish bowls with 3 calla lilies and bear grass with a few glass rocks in the base were the table centres.
For the registrars table an unusual piece was chosen. A large wine goblet with white akito roses, lilies,blue agapanthus and royal blue feathers. Bear grass loops tie in with the fish bowls.
On the registrars table at Washingborough Hall.

The reception room with 4 tables and the top table.
The top table also had a fish bowl.
One of the guest tables.
We hire out our bay trees dressed in your wedding colours. As it was such a lovely sunny day we positioned them on the steps to greet the bride on her arrival.
The glorious gardens at Washingbough Hall.

A gorgeous venue throughout with friendly owners and staff.

This is probably our most popular venue this year. Watch out for more photos coming soon.

White and Royal Blue Wedding

After a busy start to the week, more about that later, I have now time to add photos of Shelley's wedding from Saturday.

A minimalist do, with no fuss was the order of the day.

Shelley's bouquet was white crystal blush calla lilies with bear grass foliage in the modern hand-tie style. Bound together with ivory satin ribbon with pearl pins.

The buttonholes were white Akito roses with foliage, with the ladies having an added sprig of gyp.
The two bridesmaids wore a wrist corsage of a single white akito rose, gyp, freesia buds and royal blue feathers. All attached to a white pearl wrist band.