The lovely Blossom who are based in Manchester and create beautiful wedding flowers, are offering readers of The Natural Wedding Company a free top table or ceremony table arrangement when you book your wedding flowers with them before the end of April.
Blossom has a passion for seasonal and British flowers, sourcing as many UK grown flowers as they can to use in their wedding flowers. They create beautiful floral designs that reflect their enthusiasm for colour, texture, and the best that nature has to offer.
It’s competition time girlies – and tonight it’s a wonderful competition to win a wedding posy from Ma Fleur!Ma Fleur is run by Marie-Anne, who likes to work in harmony with the changing seasons when it comes to her flowers, using locally-sourced blooms and foliage whenever she can.
Marie-Anne describes her style and designs as “enchanting and luxurious with a natural edge. Our designs are inspired by nature and the multitude of seasonal shifts that take place through the year. Using beautiful colours to create chic designs, we incorporate raw textures and elements to achieve the most enchanting results.”
Hope you’re all looking forward to the start of the weekend! If you’re on the hunt for your dream wedding flowers, there’s a great offer today from The Flower House in East Sussex.
The Natural Wedding Company readers who book their wedding flowers from The Flower House will received a complimentary bouquet delivered to them on the Valentine’s Day following their wedding, on the brides birthday and on your 1st wedding anniversary – how wonderful is that!
The Flower House has a real passion for flowers, always selecting the best blooms and foliages with interesting textures and scent. They source flowers, herbs and foliages from local growers wherever possible, and even grow some of their own. Kim and her team are all avid gardeners as well as florists, and like to work with you to bring your ideas to life.
The lovely Susanne who runs The Blue Carrot in Cornwall is offering one lucky person four free buttonholes when they book her to do your wedding flowers. All Susanne’s flowers are naturally grown, most of which she grows herself – she has a particularly beautiful style of arranging and uses unusual combinations to create natural and wild looking wedding flowers.
The Blue Carrot is a small cut flower garden on the Roseland peninsula in Cornwall, where Susanne specialises in growing unique, unusual and old-fashioned varieties of flowers and foliage. Susanne says “all of my flowers are grown with the utmost care and love and I believe this approach gives my flowers a distinct difference: deeper more vibrant colour, lasting beauty and the long forgotten fragrance of real flowers.”
The lovely Chloe from BareBlooms is offering all couples who book their wedding flowers by 1st May 2012 a replica bridal bouquet sent to you on your first wedding anniversary – how lovely is that!
Chloe uses natural, seasonal blooms for her wedding flowers, all grown in the Welsh Borders. Her loose and natural style has a wild, cottage garden meets countryside feel to it, and she can work with you to create the wedding flowers that look and smell incredible.
Apologies for the rather brief (and belated) blog post this morning – I’ve been having rabbit crisis at home with my littlest bunny not very well, so back and forth to the vets. That being said, I wanted to bring you some inspiration and I’ve chosen this picture about as a beautiful example of why you don’t need to go over-the-top decorating your reception tables.
Sometimes you see these incredibly luxurious wedding reception tables, where there are flowers simply overflowing and you can barely see the tables for all the decorations, crockery, and wedding favours. I must admit that having beautiful wooden tables, like they do above, does make decorating more simply much easier – I doubt there’s many of us who would want to leave plastic trestles uncovered.
I thought it would be nice to follow up from Rhiannon and Richard’s wild and natural Welsh wedding (it’s so beautiful – you must have a look if you haven’t seen it already) with more details of the wild looking bouquet Rhiannon carried. The bouquet in question was created by the wonderful Chloe of BareBlooms who is featured in The Natural Wedding Company directory.
I got in touch with Chloe to find out exactly what flowers she used to create Rhiannon’s bouquet, and to find out what look she had been asked to create. Chloe told me, “Rhiannon was so relaxed about her bouquet – she wanted something loose and wild and not too fussy.”
Following up from my post about using grasses in wedding arrangements and bouquets, I wanted to share some pictures of from Susanne at The Blue Carrot in Cornwall, one of the businesses listed in the flower section of the directory. She got in touch with me after the original blog post to say that she loves using grasses in her arrangements and to share a couple of pictures.
Thought you’d all like to see some on a dreary January afternoon! Any favourites?
I love these deep wine colours with the silvery green grasses and foliage, and the spray of blackberries too.
Today’s photos are some of my favourite from our wedding and I’m really excited to be sharing them with you all. After the church ceremony and ice cream outside, Nick and I left across the field on a simple pony and carriage, which took us down the country lanes for a short while just the two of us.
My mom is solely responsible for organising this – as a teacher in the village primary school she knows a lot of local people, and John who took us out in his pony and carriage is one of them.
I’ve had a love of horses and riding since before I can remember, as a little girl growing up in London I used to dream of moving to the country and having riding lessons. That finally happened when I was six, and I think for my 7th birthday I got my first lessons.
For many of the flower businesses listed on the directory who grow their own flowers, they will have just finished up a long summer wedding season. Rachel from Catkin Flowers told me she’s been non-stop since May – phew! So it’s been nice to get a chance to catch up with her and find out what she’s been up to this summer.
Catkin Flowers are based in Lincolnshire where they grow all their own seasonal flowers and foliage in their cutting garden. Rachel has been sharing with me some of the beautiful creations she’s made for weddings this summer and I thought you’d all like to have a look at them too.
Rachel has done the flowers for a lot of vintage inspired weddings, such as this one in a Papa-Kåta tipi, and this stunning trailing bouquet…
Charlie
