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A ‘how to’ guide to making frozen flower ice bowls with seasonal British blooms

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I don’t know about where you are, but it’s flipping freezing here! With these frosty days in mind, I wanted to share with you these beautiful ice bowl creations made by Anne-Marie at Forage For (she also grows flowers in her Suffolk garden for weddings so do check her out if you’re getting hitched in that part of the country).

Anne-Marie has been making these wonderful frozen ice bowls using her seasonal British flowers to decorate them. I love this idea and it’s so simple to create (just scroll down for the instructions) and could be made at any time through the year. Whether you made them for your wedding or for a party, I’m sure they would cause a bit of a stir!

Can’t you just imagine these as focal points on a dessert table filled with ice cream or a larger version could even keep your drinks cool. Anne-Marie filled this yellow chrysanthemum ice bowl with lemon sorbet to show you how they can be used.

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Laura and Charlie’s relaxed and natural wedding with heavenly country garden flowers and handmade details

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Natural wedding with heavenly country garden flowers

It’s with great pleasure that I get to bring you another real wedding from a couple who planned a beautiful, handmade and natural wedding. Bride Laura used a number of TNWC businesses to help her create the wedding that her and groom Charlie dreamed of, and they were even inspired by my own handmade wedding invitations.

I know you are just going to love this wedding and I’m sure you’ll find inspiration for your own day here. So stop what you’re doing, make yourself a cup of tea and settle down to read all about Laura and Charlie’s beautiful day (and if you like specific details you’ll find links to all the suppliers at the bottom of the post)…

Laura and Charlie got married on a very rainy Saturday in July at Silchester House in Berkshire. “We wanted the wedding to be fairly informal and very relaxed. Charlie and I are very casual so it would have felt a bit false to go for something overly traditional. We tried to make the day feel like ‘us’ wherever possible.”

“We also avoided having a specific colour scheme as we wanted everything to be as organic and natural as possible. I think this approach made planning the wedding a bit more work – we ended up DIYing lots of the elements when we couldn’t find any alternatives that we liked – but seeing everything come together just as we wanted made it worthwhile.”

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An autumn visit to The Real Cut Flower Garden and a beautiful seasonal bouquet

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I feel like I’ve known Charlie Ryrie who runs The Real Cut Flower Garden for almost as long as I’ve run The Natural Wedding Company, and that’s quite a few years now. Undoubtedly one of my favourite parts of running this business is the people I get to meet and talk to, and the friends I make – both couples planning their wedding and the lovely people behind the businesses I work with.

The best treat is getting to meet up with these wonderful people and spend a little bit of time getting to know them, and in the case of businesses, seeing behind-the-scenes and how they work. These are fabulous, real, small businesses, and it’s partly why I’ve started my new blog series A Day in the Life.

Last week I was on the road for a couple of days and it was in deepest Herefordshire that I had elevenses with the lovely Charlie Ryrie. It’s not the first time I’ve visited Charlie, the first time was back in 2010, then I went to see her about our wedding flowers, and finally I’ve been back again. We had a catch up over a cup of tea before wandering around her flower field in the drizzle.

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A Day in the Life … The Garden Gate Flower Company: heavenly Cornish meadow bouquets amidst the mud and farm life

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I don’t know about you, but when I was planning our wedding I really liked to meet the people behind the business and to get to know them and how they run their company. Don’t you find there are so many gigantic corporations keen to sell us things we don’t really need, whether it be for our wedding or just everyday life. For me I find it a breath of fresh air to meet small businesses who are creating quality products and services.

I’m always curious to find out who they are, why they run their business, how it came about and what it entails – whether it be creating a stunning wedding cake, growing flowers for a wedding, running a unique and personal wedding venue, or handmaking those beautiful details. In a world so dominated by the internet, I want to help you get to know some of the businesses who feature on The Natural Wedding Company directory.

So I’m going to try out a new series on the blog, a kind of ‘day in the life’ where you can find out more about some of the companies on The Natural Wedding Company directory and how they grow, make, and run their businesses. If you have any feedback on this idea (i.e. is it any good?) then please let me know in a comment below, your thoughts really help direct what I bring you on the blog.

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An autumn offer on wedding flowers from Jay Archer Floral Design

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It’s time for a fantastic offer from one of our TNWC businesses – the lovely Jay from Jay Archer Floral Design is offering my readers a 10% discount on wedding flowers for November 2012 weddings booked before Friday 20th September 2012.

Jay Archer Floral Design create beautiful wedding floristry using seasonal blooms, and rare and native species with quirky textures and old fashioned scents. Jay likes to reflect the British seasons, using varying herbs, fruit, vegetables, wild and unusual flowers to provide a different and unique take on floral design.

So if you’re getting married in November 2012 then don’t miss this wonderful offer – to get your 10% discount simply quote Autumn Love when you get in touch with Jay before Friday 20th September 2012. For more details and to enquire about wedding flowers, contact Jay at jay@jayarcherfloraldesign.com or by phone on 07519 818 223.

Charlie

An end of summer bridal bouquet inspired by the approaching change in season

Charlie

I love the colours in this end of summer bouquet from one of our new TNWC businesses, The Garden Gate Flower Company. This bunch of gorgeous flowers was picked from their cutting garden in Cornwall yesterday and they dropped me an email to share it with me – and I thought it only right to share it with you all too.

Rebecca from The Garden Gate Flower Company told me, “Inspired by the slight change in the air and the browning of the leaves, this bouquet will still keep any bride happy with its cheerful red sunflowers and the second flush of yellow roses! It just goes to show an autumn wedding can still be a lovely time to get married….only problem is I’d never through this bouquet over my shoulder!” I don’t think I would either!

Charlie

Book a place on the Blooming Green wedding flowers course in Kent

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For all of us who want to get ‘stuck in’ with our wedding days, we really are spoilt with fantastic opportunities to learn how to do a multitude of things, from making vintage inspired bridal headpieces to learning how to put together a bouquet. And even if we decide in the end not to use the skills, they are wonderful fun.

Blooming Green, one of the florists from TNWC directory, is running a course especially for brides wanting to learn how to do some of their wedding flowers. The course is taking place on Sunday 13th May 2012 at their farm in Kent. You’ll get to learn how to make a hand-tied bouquet, buttonhole and a stunning, yet simple, table centre, using fresh flowers from their plot.

Run by cousins Jen and Bek, the Blooming Green wedding flowers course is perfect for brides-to-be who have chosen to arrange their own cut flowers for their wedding. Also included is a delicious lunch using local produce, prepared by Chef Nicci Gurr, who trained with the Roux Brothers.

Charlie

In support of seasonal British wedding flowers – my feature for Unique Bride Magazine

Charlie

I love seasonal, British flowers. I want to take my love for seasonal, British grown flowers and share it with you all. This week sees the launch of a fabulous new wedding magazine called Unique Bride Magazine (if you haven’t already seen me shouting about it on Facebook and Twitter). I was lucky enough to be invited to write an article for the launch issue and my copy arrived in today’s post.

I chose for my article to reflect my love of seasonal, British grown wedding flowers and to showcase to brides-to-be the beautiful options that are out there if you look just a little further afield. Rather than rambling on about why I love seasonal, British flowers I’ll let you read my article and be inspired (Issue 1 of Unique Bride Magazine goes on sale in WHSmith from tomorrow 26th April) by some of what the seasons have to offer.

Charlie

Win a homegrown seasonal and organic bridal bouquet and buttonholes from Green & Gorgeous

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Green & Gorgeous are running a competition for one lucky bride to win her bridal bouquet and buttonholes when you book their ‘buckets and bouquets’ service. The ‘buckets and bouquet’ service enables you to have all the fun of arranging your wedding flowers with family and friends, whilst still having gorgeous, seasonal blooms to work with. I did exactly this for my own wedding, so the chance to win your bridal bouquet and buttonholes on top of this is fabulous!

Charlie

Five free buttonholes when you book your wedding flowers with Foxgloves and Roses

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Foxgloves and Roses are offering readers of The Natural Wedding Company five free buttonholes for all weddings booked in 2012. Nicola, who runs Foxgloves and Roses, uses seasonal flowers from English growers, her own homegrown flowers from her old-fashioned cutting garden, and wild things from nearby fields and hedgerows.

Nicola has had a passion for flowers since she was a little girl, picking wild flowers on the way home from school. Now she is inspired by the natural countryside around her home in Oxfordshire, creating flower arrangements that reflect the seasons.

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