Who needs the Gym when......

Who needs the gym when your a florist? We certainly didn't this weekend, we drove down to a gorgeous barn near Tisbury to decorate for a wedding reception. The weather was certainly VERY mixed, between horrendous downpours & bright sunshine we hung garlands high up in the ceiling of the barn.

The bridal bouquet was vintage to the core, from trailing jasmine to the lavender picked from the Mother of the Brides house. The blowzy peonies helped make it a stunner.

No fear of heights.....

As you can see it was all very natural in style, we created loose garlands of ivy, trailing jasmine and eucalyptus with explosions of flowers. Which included hydrangea, peonies, roses and lisianthus. I felt the style really suited the barn, it was a very rustic look that was needed and thus we created it!!

Outside the barn there was a beautiful courtyard, where drinks were going to be served and seating was arranged. We decorated the pillars with these garlands and had great fun making them, they were so unstructured it was fabulous and the suited the barn so beautifully.

I think sometimes as florists we work in a very structured way, when in fact nature is so unstructured and free.

Will be attempting more free style floristry in the future me thinks......

Our differences are what make us fabulous....

My future home....

I know I have said before, but one thing I love about my job is how no one wedding is the same. Couples might have read the same wedding magazine or seen the same blog as another but how they interpret those ideas is unique and completely their own. Below is the stunning Court Essington which is on the outskirts of Bath. Its a privately owned house that can be rented for weddings!

This place boasts a swimming pool, tennis court and the best thing of all chauffeur service!! Know where I want to stay when I'm next in town.

The couple had a marquee in the garden which overlooked the expansive lawns. We arrived to set up the flowers with the sounds of Michael Buble wafting through the gardens....

If only every set up of a wedding could be that chilled!

We shouldn't have favourites! But....

The Brides bouquet had our favourite rose of the weekend.
Illusion roses are just gorgeous, if your wanting a country garden style bouquet, these are perfect! Added in with the ever luxurious majolika spray roses and surprisingly scented Queen Anne's lace! (the stuff that looks like cow parsley but is MUCH nicer)

A triumph of the floral kind....

Top table flowers

 This weekend has been a floral triumph. I won't tell you how many weddings we did.....safe to say they were all fabulous! Brides were gorgeous, flowers were stunning and safely delivered, the weather held (just) and we were a happy team of florists.


These are photos from one of the weddings. I love delphinium (tall blue flowers) the colour of them is just sensational and really stands out in the reception flowers. They work well in high-ceiling rooms and are certainly noticed in churches!!

For this wedding the Bride had three small cubes along the top table and to get the midnight blue colour in to the smaller arrangements had large beads wired in. This can be a very affective idea if your struggling to match your colour palette to flower choice

Pedestal arrangement for the church

The reception for this wedding was held at the fabulous Bowood house. There reception room is lovely and spacious and the tall delphinium worked well. Sometimes you can forget to encourage Brides to think about the overall affect of what flowers will look like.
So if your wanting statement flowers, think height and colour!!

Reception tables

A Rose by any other name

Jo Caldwell and Rich Vipond

There once were two brides called Jo
Who both loved  roses and so
With quite different styles

They walked up their isles
With beautiful flowers on show

Joanna Millers bouquets

So my floral lovelies now the pain has passed from reading my amazing poetry I thought you might like to read a couple of rather great emails we had this week.

"Laura, Fantastic service and flowers, glad I left it to you for choice"

"Just to say the flowers for Jo,s wedding on Friday were just perfect.  She is in America but I am sure she will blog on her return.
Thanks again she said 'the room is exactly as I imagined." 

So until the next poetic installment (can't you all wait?!!) .........

More beautiful spring weddings

So wedding fever is on . Lets hope this wet Wednesday that the sun shines again this weekend for our  two upcoming brides.
Just a few photos to share some floral loveliness.

The first is a photo taken by photographer Matt at clearly bespoke, his photos of Louise and James Comleys wedding were just great.

Jane Wettons bouquet including aqua roses, echinops, orchids and hydrangea

The next two are of Emily Duggan and Jane Wettons two wedding last Saturday. Both equally lovely, but it's amazing how different the styles. 

Emily's classic rose and orchid shower bouquet

Also this weekend we are donating a display to the Limpley Stoke Church flower festival so I can't wait to take photos and see what other displays the ladies do. Ok signing off ,have a good one
Laura x

Praise indeed

So I'm finally having a go at this blogging thing . I was really pleased this week to recieve these messages from our customers, so much in fact I couldn't keep it to myself.

This came in today from a customer

 "My Aunt Belinda was thrilled with the flowers you delivered today. Believe me, that is an accolade!

Thank you"

And this came in last week from a grooms mum

"Just a quick thank you for the flowers for John and Olivia’s wedding on Saturday.   The hanging balls looked magnificent and the surprise was kept despite questions about the rope hanging down.   All looked great so thank you so much. will be quick to recommend you if anyone enquires about wedding flowers!"

Ready, steady ...

I thought I'd also show you a great photo of one of our bouquets "in action," at the wedding of Kylie and Jon. I don't generally recommend throwing our flowers away too early but in this intance I think it can be forgiven!



'Til Next Time
Laura xx

Weekend's that last forever

Was it me or did that four day weekend go awfully fast?
Though WHAT a weekend! And WHAT a dress....

I loved all the build up to the great event, the excitement was amazing! I was toasting the Duchess of Cambridge with a glass of Pimms before she had even got to the great door of the Abbey though most the males in the room were toasting the younger sister....

This week has mainly been pouring over my celebratory copy of Hello magazine and eyeing up the outfits worn by various royals and wishing I could be as elegant as Zara Philips!

My main conclusion from all the jollities was how proud we should be of our country, what with Sarah Burton creating that dress, Philip Treacy and his incredible selection of hats. It certainly felt good to be British on Friday!

Apart from all that drama we worked hard over the weekend and you can see some of the results. A beautiful wedding in a marquee and another at wick farm. Wishing you all a fabulous rest of the week and roll on for another weekend!!