Modern Romance - Cooling Castle

On Monday 8th August I provided flowers for Elisha and James' wedding at Cooling Castle. Elisha carried a shower bouquet of pale pink Heaven roses, pink 'Miranda' David Austin roses, white lisianthus, white Oriental lilies and foliage. The Bridesmaids carried heart shaped bouquets of ivory roses. Wrist corsages of David Austin 'Patience' roses were also provided for the Bridesmaids and female guests. Unfortunately I do not have photos of the bouquets or corsages but hope to be able to blog photos of them soon.

Elisha decided to go with large arrangements standing over a metre in height. The colour scheme was pale pink with turquoise accents. We decided to go with pink and white flowers in the arrangements and use coloured turquoise water in the vases in tie in the colour scheme.


A combination of pale pink hydrangeas, ivory gerbera, pale pink gerbera, white Oriental lilies, asparagus meyer and hard ruscus were used to create the large full arrangements. These were placed on a 80cm fluted vase and placed on a mirror plate with tea lights.



I provided chair covers for the wedding with both turquoise and pale pink organza sashes. The head table was dressed with pale pink organza swags with turquoise bows and finished with fairy lights.


The beams in the barn were dressed with fairy lights and heart shaped arrangements of pale pink carnations.





Elisha and James' amazing cake was dressed with pink roses supplied by the baker.

In the ceremony room I provided a long low arrangement of pale pink hydrangea, white Oriental lilies, ivory gerbera, pale pink gerbera and pink Heaven roses. This was later moved to the head table.

Two of the table centres were placed in the ceremony room and were moved into the barn after the ceremony.

Shocking Pink!

Another of my favourite weddings also took place in May. Kelly's colour scheme was shocking pink with pale pink accents. She wanted a hand tied bouquet of shocking pink roses with contrasting Singapore orchids in between, finished off with diamante pins.



I chose to use Purple Power roses which have the most amazing scent along with cerise pink Singapore orchids heads which were wired and placed between the roses. A diamante pin was placed in the centre of each rose.




The bridesmaids carried bouquets of cream gerbera with folded aspidistra leaves at the base and were bound with shocking pink ribbon.

In the reception room the pillars were dressed with fairy lights and the table arrangements were placed on martini vases which were filled with shocking pink gel. Kelly chose modern arrangements of shocking pink 'Serena' gerberas along with pale pink 'Heaven' roses, folded aspidistra leaves, hard ruscus and bear grass. The vases were placed on a round mirror and baby goldfish bowls were placed around the mirror filled with shocking pink gel and a single 'Serena' gerbera. (Chair covers not provided by us).


The head table was dressed with an arrangement of 'Serena' gerberas, 'Heaven' roses, 'Kimsey' germini and Singapore orchids. Baby goldfish bowls containing shocking pink gel and a single 'Serena' gerbera were placed along the table with cerise silk rose petals sprinkled inbetween.