Country Garden - Bickley Manor Hotel

I was looking forward to creating the flowers for Sarah and Alex's wedding for some time. The main theme of the wedding was for a garden style setting using a wide variety of flowers and foliages. The colour scheme was kept to white and green and the flowers included white hydrangea, ornithogalum, lisianthus, brassica, shamrock blooms, snowberries, hypericum berries, poppy seed heads, alchemilla mollis, eucalyptus, mint, sage and rosemary.

Sarah carried a hand tied bouquet of white hydrangea, ornithogalum, white lisianthus, lime green hypericum berries, poppy seed heads, mint, sage, rosemary and eucalyptus. The bridesmaids carried hand tied bouquets of white hydrangea, lime green hypericum berries, white lisianthus and eucalyptus.

Alex's buttonhole was of two poppy seed heads, white hydrangea and rosemary. The guest buttonholes were white lisianthus with rosemary while the corsages and wrist corsages were of white lisianthus, lime hypericum berries and rosemary.

For the tables I created country garden arrangements in terracotta pots which I sprayed ivory and then scratched to create a rustic look. These were filled with large arrangements of white hydrangea, lime green shamrock blooms, white lisianthus, ornithogalum, brassica, berried ivy, snowberries, lime green hypericum berries, poppy seed heads, eucalyptus, alchemilla molis, rosemary, sage, mint and verigated ivy and were finished off with a pillar candle. These were placed on a mirror plate with a sprinkling of crystals.

Sarah had provided a wicker garland to go along the length of the head table and this was decorated with lime green hypericum berries and alchemila mollis. At either end of the head table I placed a large terracotta pot filled with brassica, eucalyptus, berried ivy. On the wall behind the head table I provided two hearts which were bound with moss and ivy with Sarah and Alex's initials hanging inside.

The cake table was dressed with white organza and green organza bows and finished with green butterflies provided by Sarah.

The chairs were dressed with white chair covers and apple green sashes.

I loved this wedding, such a fresh, clean look with a great selection of flowers and a wonderful bride and groom.

Walking in a Winter Wonderland!

Sunday 31st October saw the wedding of Sarah and Scott at Sundridge Park Manor. Rather than go with a Halloween theme Sarah chose a winter wonderland setting. The colour scheme was white and silver with just a hint of lilac. Sarah and her mum had collected lots of silver ribbons and silver artificial flowers and twigs to help bring in the colour scheme and I incorporated these in the flowers.

Sarah chose a hand tied bouquet of ivory 'Akito' roses, lilac 'Pacific Blue' roses, rosemary, berried ivy and verigated ivy. It really looked amazing and the photos below don't do it justice. The bridesmaid bouquets were of ivory 'Akito' roses bound with silver ribbon.




For the tablecentres, Sarah chose white lilies and white twigs with bear grass threaded with pearls.



The fireplace was decorated with an arrangement incorporating the ribbons and artificial silver flowers provided by Sarah along with 'Akito' roses, Oriental lilies, Singapore orchids and trailing ivy.


For the head table/ceremony room I incorporated the ribbons and crystal twigs that Sarah had supplied along with white oriental lilies, 'Akito' roses and Singapore Orchids.




The same flowers and embelishments were also arranged in the table display outside the ceremony room.



I also provided a Wishing Tree for guests to write messages to the Bride and Groom. This was decorated with white tags with silver ribbon to tie in with the colour scheme. The staircase was simply dressed with white organza and finished off with large bows at the bottom.