Gloucestershire Wedding Florist - Lisa & David's Barnsley House Wedding 12th December 2015

Winter weddings have a certain magic about them. Maybe it's because the days are so much shorter, or the weather so unpredictable, or because there's a general feeling of festiveness in the air. Whatever the reason, Lisa and Davids' wedding at Barnsley House in Gloucestershire definitely had that something special about it.

If Barnsley wasn't a stunning boutique hotel you'd want to live there, so it's easy to see why Lisa and David chose it for their reception. Following a candlelit ceremony in Barnsley church, guests walked through the starkly beautiful garden to a marquee filled with candlelight, flowers and hanging foliage chandeliers.

The floral design for the wedding drew its inspiration from the beautiful suite of stationery that Lisa and David had chosen, featuring blowsy overblown roses. Lisa's naturalistic bouquet combined Memory Lane and Amnesia roses, ranunculus, astrantia, scabious pods, viburnum berries and silver grey brunia.

For the wedding ceremony, posies of pure white hydrangeas with long trails of ivy lined the aisle of Barnsley church. The reception was held in a marquee behind Barnsley House, where long banquet tables were dressed with flowers in mismatched vessels and mercury glass candlesticks, while overhead floated a pair of foliage chandeliers filled with larch branches, trailing ivy and asparagus fern, standing out boldly against the backdrop of the marquee.

Sam Gibson captured the look and feel of the wedding perfectly. This is what I mean about that certain magical quality of a Winter wedding. You'd never know that the weather was terrible and blowing a gale, but it all came together for a wonderful celebration

The most perfect Christmas tree and the most perfect venue. Beautiful Barnsley House.

Venue: Barnsley House

Photogrpahy: Sam Gibson

London Wedding Florist - Matt & Hugh's Vibrant Autumn Wedding

As a wedding supplier it is always a privilege to be part of a couples special day. Coming a month before my own wedding, Matt and Hughs' wonderfully vibrant celebration was an absolute joy to be involved with, and a floral feast for the senses.

Matt and Hughs' excitement and enthusiasm about their wedding flowers was evident from my first meeting with them. They chose Dartmouth House (which is one of my favourites) for their ceremony and reception venue, and together we created a design scheme based on an amazing colour palette of blue, red and orange. They also chose Jamie Bott as their photographer who captured so many stunning details of this beautiful day.

Dartmouth House has an amazing staircase, which just cries out to be decorated with flowers! To greet guests as they made their way up to the ceremony I filled a large classical urn with vibrant late summer flowers. Among my floral friends it has become something of a standing joke that I cannot make small urn arrangements.....it's true, I can't!

To create a focal point for then ceremony in the Churchill Room, I dressed the mantel with a vibrant garden style arrangement of Devon hydrangeas, English dahlias, Chinese lanterns, and late summer foliages. To complement this, a cute little pair of matching urns with the same flowers dressed the registrar's table.

For the reception in the Long Drawing Room, my suggestion to Matt and Hugh was to have a mix of high and low arrangements for the tables to create interest across the room. Luscious flower heavy designs of hydrangeas, dahlias, roses, spray roses, sedum and asclepius topped tall champagne flute vases and filled low glass comport dishes.

One question I get asked time after time is "how do you pin a buttonhole onto a jacket"? I think it's easiest if you pin it BEFORE you put your jacket on. If you do it this way you can be sure of securing it properly, and positioning it perfectly. I like to use a couple of pins for added security!