A bank holiday wedding

Having got waylaid over the last few months, I hope to now finish posting 2011 weddings.

This is Hailey and Keith's wedding from August bank holiday weekend. They were a fantastic couple who had great ideas about their flowers but who ultimately left it to me to fulfil their wishes.

The bridal bouquet was of a hand-tied design with lots of lovely summer flowers which included freesia, eustoma, veronica, roses, agapanthus, spray roses and lavender. These together with eucalyptus made for a very scented bouquet.

As the bridesmaids wore teal dresses it was decided to have an array of colours toning in from pinks to purples with added white.

The three bridesmaids all carried a similar bouquet to the bride but smaller in size.
The groom wore a white rose with freesia and agapanthus and eucalyptus leaves which unfortunately we didn't have time to photograph.

This is one of two buttonholes that the best man and father of the bride wore. A single rose with agapanthus florets.
The mum's each wore a corsage of a white rose and freesias with eucalyptus, tree fern and lavender foliage.
Other favoured guests were presented with a single white rose buttonhole.

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.

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.