St Helen's Brant Broughton

Johanna and Rich were married on 17 Th September 2011 at St Helen's Church Brant Broughton.

A family friend arranged the bridal flowers and I was asked to provide the church and reception flowers.

We arrived early morning to set up the church, in between sun and showers. While the sun shone the church was flooded with light.

The theme of the day was lilies. A lovely variety that has a cream stripe in the centre of every petal.

The pews have all been taken out and replaced with chairs. Johanna had asked for 10 rows to be alternately dressed with lilies and roses and cream ribbon.
We had made sure that most of the lilies were open, so the church was filled with scent.
The chair bows.
Instead of two pedestals at the Altar the couple decided it would make a change to decorate the Rood screen. This was designed using open lilies and seasonal hops to add to the fragrance.

A pedestal also adorned the Altar. This consisted of lilies, roses, gladioli, and carnations all in white and creams.
Another pedestal was positioned by the entrance.
Each of the back four windowsills were also treated to a display of lilies and hops.


The lovely St Helen's all dressed and awaiting the bride and groom.
The entrance porch wasn't left out and had its own display of lilies.
The gate posts each had a posy of lilies and alstroemeria adorning the top.

The gateway, ready to greet the bride.

Harmston Church

Hailey and Keith were married at All Saints church Harmston. A lovely church with many opportunities to have flower displays.

This is one of the six displays inside the church. A mixture of flowers to tie in with the bridal flowers, eustoma, roses, lavender, veronica and hydrangea. All the arrangements also included candles.
These two displays were an alternative to pedestals and worked really well in the space provided.

One of the window sill arrangements with added agapanthus.
The view from the front of the aisle looking back.
Hailey wanted each pew end to be decorated, so with this in mind we alternated with flowers and organza bows. The flowers were again a mixture of the bridal bouquets with eucalyptus and lavender adding a lovely aroma for the guests and wedding party.

The aisle in its full glory.
This archway was just crying out to be decorated. We were asked not to overfill with flowers but to design something pretty. This is a mainly foliage garland with large headed avalanche roses. The two bay-trees either side seem to extend the archway further.

This is the view you have as you approach and enter the church yard. Stunning.

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.

St Peter at Gowts Church

St Peter-at-Gowts Church.

A wonderful church to decorate with plenty of room to display pedestals. Only drawback is they have to be large otherwise you won't see them at the altar from the back.

They consisted mainly of pink gerberas, with pink broom, carnations and misumata branches.

We displayed one pedestal in the porchway for impact when guests arrived and one at the front of the church on the grooms side.

As the budget was getting tight it was agreed that the two front and two back pews had a simple arrangement of 3 pink gerberas and wax flower and the rest had bows alternating down the aisle.

A debate had gone on as to whether we and the bride would be allowed to have flowers in church as it was still in Lent, but the Vicar on this occassion agreed as long as they were moved immediately afterwards. All arrangements were moved down to The Pride of Lincoln for the reception.