A last minute wedding

Back in August I received a phone call on a Wednesday for wedding flowers on the Friday, could I help? As the shop had a good variety of flowers and the groom who was ordering them left colours to me, I said yes. The only colours he gave me were the dresses, the bride was wearing red and bridesmaids pink.

This was the brides hand-tied bouquet.

A selection of white and ivory flowers including lilies, germinis, hydrangea and roses with mixed foliage.
The three bridesmaids bouquets were of white hydrangea and roses and pink germini and spray roses.
Also requested were 4 table arrangements for display at the reception which was being held at their home. For these I used glass cubes in two designs.

One a longer, lower design using white hydrangea and freesia with pink alstroemeria and lilies.
The other a taller arrangement with white freesia and lilies with pink roses and gerberas.
There were also a handful of rose buttonholes.

A last minute wedding can sometimes work, as on this occasion, but it does depend on what is in stock and how flexible you are on what you have. My advice is always the more notice you can give the better choice you will have.

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.

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.

Kelham Hall

This is Kelham Hall all set up for the reception. The top table display will be added after the ceremony. The posies consisted of ivory germinis, pink larkspur, pink hydrangeas and small amounts of mixed foliage. The top table had sweet avalanche and maroussia roses aswell.

This is the Music room where the civil ceremony took place. The pedestals had ivory stocks, delphiniums, gerberas, sweet avalanche roses and pink hydrangeas.

These are the top table/registrars table and guest table posies. The look we wanted to achieve was of a vintage English garden without taking away from the gorgeous setting of the venue.

The bottom image is Laura's bridal hand-tie consisting of sweet avalanche roses, noisette verdi roses and white eustoma. The other hand-tie is her bridesmaids of sweet avalanche and maroussia roses. Both had completely ribboned stems with a bow to finish.