Spring wedding flowers

Spring wedding flowers

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Today we are looking at spring weddings. This is an excellent time of year to be married with lots of gorgeous spring flowers around. 

For budgets, I would say be careful of higher prices around St Valentines Day (14th Feb) and Mothering Sunday (11th March 2018, 31st March 2019, 22nd March 2020).

To the flowers; These gorgeous daffodil bouquets for your bridesmaids will make for a bright and cheerful wedding. If yellow is your colour, or accent (these would look fab with navy dresses). Just make sure the stems are fully wrapped so as the sap doesn't stain any dresses.

For the bride, a traditional shower shaped bouquet with lots of narcissus, small daffodils and roses. This was a highly scented bouquet and smelt divine.

In spring we can also get the beautiful cyclamen as a cut flower. Again these make excellent small posies for your maids. Coming in a range of colours from white, pink, purple and reds. Another highly scented bouquet.

Classic spring white and green (Greenery is colour of the year), this is a lovely fresh colour scheme with gorgeous germini, freesia, viburnum, bupleurum and foliage

and the maids posy too.

For something more vibrant, blue hydrangea, cappuccino roses and pink tulips

Another hand tie design of roses, double tulips, hyacinths, and foliage.

Or how about anemone? An all anemone bouquet brings lovely jewel colours together, or stick with one shade. These come in reds, purple, deep pink, blue, and white.

A blue colour scheme needn't miss out. The beautiful blue muscari are delicate and highly scented and make cute posies for your ladies.

The wonderful lily of the valley. This is available all year round now but beware, it is pricey for such a small flower. It is best (and cheapest) in it's natural season.

A beautiful all white/ivory bouquet. Filled with roses, spray roses, eustoma, ranunculus, and freesia with added sparkle to catch those early rays of sunshine.

Tulips!! What's not to love? These all tulip bouquets are so simple yet so pretty. Tulips come in a vast colour range, size of head and single, double and parrot varieties, there is bound to be something for your colour scheme.

Bridesmaid bouquet

Brides bouquet of single tulips

Brides bouquet of double tulips with a lovely silver collar.

Pink tulips

On to the men;

Buttonholes, should we feel, mirror the bridal bouquet. The groom and best man traditionally had a double flower from the bridal bouquet, but anything goes today.

A daffodil buttonhole wil certainly brighten up a dark suit.

For the groom a design of mixed narcissus

Page boy? How about two tiny sol d'or flower heads and fern

Tulips make great buttonholes, double or single

or teamed with another flower.

For the ladies don't forget we can create traditional lapel corsages, wrist corsages or a bespoke design  for their hand bag.

To decorate your ceremony we can create archways. This one is filled with a mix of narcissus and cuscus foliage, the scent just filled the room. 

For the guest tables we can provide these lovely nest designs, perfect for spring, filed with daffodils,

a mix of seasonal flowers, maybe in vibrant colours

or a more neutral theme.

Love fish bowls for your guest tables? These were filed with yellow stones and floating daisy heads

Wanting tulips? A tulip display in your colours with fern and ginista make a perfect spring display your guests can take home with them.

And don't forget the top table, mirror your guest table flowers in a larger display for you.

Are you getting wed in the spring time? We have many ideas and can source any spring flower. We are also working closely with British growers and this should work fantastic as we are a nation of lovers of spring blooms and Lincolnshire are where many grow. 

Get in touch today to start planning your springtime wedding flowers

Sandra x

Marquee weddings

Marquee weddings

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Today we are going to start to look at the different types of venues for your wedding breakfast. There are many styles from country house, castle, hotel, barn, marquee, village hall as examples. Today we are focusing on marquees - whether a permanent marquee at your venue or a temporary one you have had erected in a field or garden. The insides and styles are again very varied today with traditional styles or tipi like designs many of these designs will work with any.

Most marquees will have areas of high ceilings and are a cavan to fill. Tall centrepieces work well, drawing your eye up and through the marquee, adding WOW factor once you are inside.

These tall conical vases filled simply with pink lily and tall twisted willow are an excellent use of space and colour, lifting the black tables and matching the bows and runners.

We teamed these with low cube designs for the outer tables, where the ceiling is much lower and in the quiet area on the coffee tables. Keeping the same flowers/foliage lets the theme run but different designs add interest to your tables.

Add a pop of colour in a low design to a dark table will work too. The contrast adds the interest and shows up through the marquee

Natural and country style designs always work well in marquees as their very nature means the setting is usually pretty green. How about these gorgeous wooden bases with log upright for hanging the table numbers on filled with jars of a mixed selection of flowers? Add in a candle or two for later on in the evening.

The best way to fill the large ceiling space is to hang decorations. Hoops, ladders and rails are all popular but we love these hanging birdcages. They were hung over half of the guest tables and looked amazing

An easier way to have tall designs is our large 70 cm martini vases filled with summer gorgeousness. These certainly look the part and the WOW when you walked in was amazing!

Teamed with low fish bowls for the other half of tables and for the top table keeps the colour running through the whole marquee.

Want to keep to a white and cream theme? Add tall lily vases oaf oriental lilies and steel grass. This creates a classic look and the scent was divine.

Start as you mean to go on...add WOW to your doorway... A gorgeous archway filled with lots of country foliage, roses and gyp.

Keeping the country theme - small zinc watering cans filled with summer sunflowers, gyp, foliage and twigs. Stand on wood slices and add in small tea light lanterns.

If the marquee has space out side, create a buzz for your guests with signage  and a peak into what's in store for the reception. Large watering cans filled with sunflowers and country yellow flowers surrounded by logs and lanterns.

Add another design to the entrance to the marquee to lead the way

and don't forget the entrance/exit to the marquee. If a fine day many people will be milling in and out, keep it simple but effective.

More tall designs of our martini vases

and a top table set up to mirror the flowers already installed in the permanent marquee.

Don't want the traditional long and low design? Is there lots of room between top table and the guest tables? If so these garlands are a great addition, adding colour and interest to what otherwise would be a plain space but keeping the table free for the meal ahead.

Tall candlesticks are an alternative to vases, The balls can be made as large (or small) as required.

Are you having a marquee reception? If so get in touch to see how we could work our magic with your style and colours. We have many more photos of other set ups in marquees to show you, book a consultation today and let the flower journey begin

Sandra x