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Pick your own local and seasonal wedding flowers

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Blooming Green another of the lovely businesses listed on the directory, is offering their stressed out brides the chance to escape wedding preparations and to come and pick their own flowers!  What a fantastic idea!

Jen of Blooming Green tells me it was really popular in 2010 and has been a great way to for couples to have beautiful, seasonal and locally grown wedding flowers on a budget.

You can visit their website www.bloominggreenflowers.co.uk or email theshed@bloominggreenflowers.co.uk for more information.

Blooming Green is located in Kent, so if you’re looking for local, seasonal flowers a little closer to you then check out the ‘Flowers’ section on the directory for a full list of companies around the UK.

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Vintage inspired bouquets and buttonholes

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Having discovered that Charlie Ryrie has posted some great images of the vintage inspired bouquet and buttonholes she made for me on her blog, I thought I should share them with you.  A new camera is on my Christmas wish list!

This is the beautiful bouquet – a gorgeous mixture of pinks, peaches and purples in a wide variety of flowers.  At The Vintage Wedding Fair so many people commented on how they loved the natural look of this bouquet, how it was like you’d scooped up a bunch of flowers from a meadow.

Charlie has an incredible way of bringing together a wide variety of flowers in one bouquet that looks so natural.

This is just one of the buttonholes Charlie made for my stand at the fair – and possibly my favourite.  I love the colours and the use of the seed heads.

Every buttonhole was unique, a different collection of a flowers, foliage and seed heads – people really loved the individuality of the buttonholes, rather than the traditional single rose worn by everyone.

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Winter berry buttonholes for a cosy Christmas wedding

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Recently I have seen so many beautiful ideas for buttonholes that I have been inspired to design my own for this month’s *creative project*.  Sometime soon I will pull all the images together and showcase them on the blog as they are well worth sharing.

I have created my buttonholes for a cosy Christmas wedding, choosing some of the vibrant red berries that there are in the hedgerows at the moment combined with dark glossy greens.

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On Sunday I could be found stuck in hedgerows on the country lanes of Surrey searching for a selection of berries that I could use in this month’s project – with Mr Rigg sat in the car reading the newspaper wondering what on earth I was up to.

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