A beautiful natural wedding in Provence, France

This year is looking like another busy year.  Having had lots of enquiries and bookings towards the end of last year it's looking super busy.  I am took January to sort out the workshop as it had a little bit of battering towards the end of last year.  I had great fun making wreaths for the festive period and table decorations.  I love being able to drive around and spot the wreaths in the local area.  It is definitely a pleasure to be a part of families traditions at Christmas. 

I worked on the most wonderful wedding in Milstead, Nr Sittingbourne in December.  They were so lucky on the day with the weather as the week leading up it was -3 and raining/snowing alot.  But on the day it was a beautiful sunny winters day.  More to come on that really soon.

But for now I wanted to show you some gorgeous images by Aneta Mak taken in the region of Provence at the wedding of John and Laura.  The bride wanted the flowers to be natural and clean looking so we stuck to Green and White and I think you can agree it was gorgeous.

 

Peonies, black eyed chincherinchee, viburnum and garden roses.

 

 

The happy couple.

 

The Bridesmaids bouquets were smaller versions of the Bridal flowers

 Simple table designs

 

At the end of the day the bouquets ended up in this gorgeous champagne cooler, beautifully captured!

A Beautiful Wedding at Preston Court

Earlier this summer I was to do the flowers for a wonderful couple, Chloe and Matt.  They wanted a very natural English country garden theme to work with their venue Preston Court .  Preston Court is a beautiful natural English Venue just outside Canterbury in Kent.  They have the added advantage of a having a beautiful Church a few minutes walk away from the barn where the receptions are held.  They also have a gorgeous Victorian Carousel that you can hire for the reception.

The flowers needed to look almost like we had picked it straight from the garden.  With the help of some beautiful huge headed garden roses and some gorgeous seasonal flowers sourced from the UK I think we made it look gorgeous.

Bridal bouquet of Avalanche roses with a salal collar.  Groom with a simple Avalanche buttonhole and foliage.

The bridesmaids all had bouquets of Gypsophilia

 

 Simple designs in enamel jugs using china grass, veronica, garden roses, sweetpeas, bears dicks (!), stocks, nigella, hydreangeas, gypsophilia, spray roses, corn, poppy heads and scabious heads.  Around each jug there were a selection of single stem vases with a couple of stems of flowers.  (Crystal cut vases, Jugs and tea light holders from Idyllic Days)

Pom Poms decorated the barn which also has two of the most beautiful organ's.

 

 Congratulations Matt and Chloe!

 

Beautiful photography by James Pike Photography 



Thank you!

It is always such a pleasure and a privilege to do someones flowers, especially their wedding.  Following a wonderful wedding at Chiddingstone Castle a few weeks ago where I not only worked on their flowers but also as their stylist for the day through Idyllic Days  (photo's to follow). I received this e-mail.  It made my day!

"Dean and I wanted to send a note to say thank you, thank you, thank you! I don’t really know where to start and feel a little emotional writing this. You were just amazing I cannot thank you enough and everybody should have some fairy dust sprinkled on their wedding day, from Tiggy Johnson at Idyllic Days!

From the bouquets, buttonholes, styling, flowers, vintage china, simply everything was out of this world, I wanted a country theme and the wedding to look beautiful and you captured exactly what I had been dreaming of.

The Orangery looked stunning, the wedding breakfast amazing, the flowers were perfect. Dean and I and all our friends and families had the most special day and everything seemed to fall into place but most of this was down to you you took away all the pain and made it all happen.

We have had so many compliments from all the guests on how the venue looked so special and this was thanks to you and all your hard work on the run up to the day and on the day itself."

Beautiful Chiddingstone Castle

(image by Emma Duggan)

I am so excited to let you know that I have been selected as a preferred supplier for Chiddingstone Castle.  It is one of the most romantic and beautiful venues I have worked with and along with the castle staff and their caterers Kalm Kitchen they produce the most wonderful organised and relaxed day for the bride and groom. 

(image by Laura Dodsworth)

 

Chiddingstone Castle will be exhibiting at the Glow Wedding Fair at Bluewater, Kent 21st September until 23rd September.  I am currently putting together some beautiful designs for their stand.  So if you are going please pop over and say hello.    

An English Australian Wedding in Manly

 

Kate and Nick's wedding in Australia

 

 

 

So earlier this year in April I had the most amazing opportunity to go to Australia and be the florist for Kate (English) and Nick's (Australian) wedding.  This wedding was a true mix of Ozzy/English.  The Flowers Kate wanted were vintage coloured roses, hydrangea's and silver foliage.  The wedding took places at the most amazing church in Sydney, that was absolutely huge! Then the guests all made their way back to Manly Golf Club which had truly incredible views.  

The flower market in Sydney was an experience.  I am surprised I came out alive; there were so many forklifts driving about at 100miles an hour.  They looked like lemmings!  I had initially ordered some roses to be collected at the flower market but when we arrived they were not up to scratch so I went off in search of others.  To my amazement there was one bunch of David Austin roses, 10 little stems, just waiting to be used.  It made my brides day as she wanted to have truly English roses.  So with that we bought Sweet Avalanche, Amnesia, Silver Cinneraria and some beautiful green hydrangea's. 

The bridesmaids bouquets were made from Avalanche, Sweet Avalanche and Akito roses, wrapped with ivory ribbon and crystal pins.

Each table at the Golf Club had a Vintage Cake Stand stacked with gorgeous cup cakes and a simple rose arrangement on the top.

For the top table we decorated it with ivory rose petals and a beautiful crystal vases using Roses, Lissianthus, Spray Roses and Silver Cinneraria

 

 

The Bridal party even managed to have some photo's on the beach in Manly. 

 

 

Huge congratulations to Kate and Nick and thank you for a wonderful experience.

 

With special thanks to LB Photography for the beautiful photographs





A beautiful wedding at The House Meadow

So as promised here are some beautiful images for The House Meadows first wedding.  It was a brilliant wedding to be a part of.  Not only were Lucy and Jono the most lovely couple who had thought of every single detail of their wedding and reception, but The House Meadow had work tirelessly to make sure that their first wedding was a beautiful affair.  And that it was.  The food was produced by Nicci from  Home Gurr'own, it included pimms in Jam Jars with all the trimmings and beautiful baskets of homemade bread with homemade chutneys to welcome the guests when they sat down. 

 

One of my very favourite summer time tipples!

Lucy and Jono had taken a lot of time to work out exactly what they wanted for their wedding and also the feel of their wedding.  It paid off as I truly believe this was one of my favourite weddings!

As the ceremony and the wedding were being held at The House Meadow they wanted the flowers to be as natural as possible.  They had a blessing under the large Oak tree in the field and all their guest sat on hay bails with lace overlays.  I dressed the end of the 'pews' with milk churns and beautiful delphiniums and peonies. The rest of the flowers followed suit looking like they had been picked from the garden or meadows around the venue.  Lucy had given me some links to some photographers blogs and the wedding blogs to give me an idea of her style.

The Bride with her Bouquet

Bridesmaids bouquets

a mixture of grasses, peonies, plum tinged chrysanthemums, bear dicks, clematis and spray roses

The beautiful bride with her bridesmaids

In the wonderful tee pee we decorated the long tables with paired kilner jars and a few stems of peonies, fountain grass, eryngium, spray roses, grasses, and plum tinged chrysanthemums;

The amazing Tee pee, and the oh so lucky blue sky as it had rained tirelessly the week before!

And finally for the guests at the end of the night (for tired toes and shivering shoulders) a pair of flip plops and a pashmina!

So to Lucy and Jono CONGRATULATIONS and thank you for letting me be a part of your day!

Images courtesy of www.annamariestepney.co.uk © Annamarie Stepney Photography 2012 apart from the teepee , pimms and pashmin/flip flop photo.

So many lovely weddings coming up!

It's a busy time of year in my garden.  I'm not really referring to the flowers growing although my Dahlia bed is finally taking off and makes me very excited.  I am referring to the amount of weddings I have coming up. 

I am so lucky this year to be working at some truly gorgeous venues.  Up an coming soon is  Preston Court which is a beautiful rural venue just outside Canterbury.  It even has it's own working Carousel.  Chiddingston Castle which if you have not visited is a must.  The views are amazing and they have the most amazing display of Egyptian artifacts.  One of my gorgeous brides is getting married in the Orangery at Chiddingstone Castle and I am very excited about the designs that we have talked about.  Here is an idea of our inspiration;

I have already had the pleasure of working at The House Meadow and Clare is organising an open day there soon.  More to come!  The venue is so beautiful and really gives a bride and groom the ability to design their own wedding as they would want it.  Here is a few photo's from the last wedding I worked on at;

Beautiful bridal bouquet to look like it was picked from the garden, peonies, clematis, scabious heads, bears dicks (yes really!), spray roses, grasses, plum tinged chrysanthemums.

Apple boxes full of pashmina's and flip flops for tired toes and shivering shoulders

A gorgeous cake made by the Grooms mother with a simple cake topper.

We are so lucky in this country to have so many lovely venues to get married and celebrate your wedding day. 

Today I am off to Scotts Furniture Mart in Margate to get a few bits.  I say few but I am sure I will end up with lots of bits as I never end up going and coming home without a car full!