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Charlie
Following on from the recent post on creating your own floral headband – aren’t these ones stunning! The flowers at this laid-back wedding in Somerset are so fun and colourful, and what’s best is that they were grown and arranged by Charlie (of The Real Cut Flower Garden) who did our wedding flowers, and is also one of the lovely businesses listed on the directory.
I love the flower wreath around the cake, what a lovely and simple way to make your wedding cake look utterly gorgeous. Charlie’s stunning heart shaped flower garland makes a beautiful focal point for anyone planning an outdoor wedding ceremony.
You can see all the photos from this wedding here.
Charlie
Please note: my Reader Survey 2011 is now closed.
I’m doing a bit of a reader survey, to help shape what I do with the website and blog in the future. So if:
- you’ve used The Natural Wedding Company website and directory
- would be happy to spend about 10 minutes filling in a survey to share your thoughts and ideas
- and would like to win one of the two lovely prizes mentioned in the heading
Here’s what to do…
Send me an email to charlie@thenaturalweddingcompany.co.uk with the subject line ‘Survey’ and I will reply with a link. I’ve thought about adding the link to the website and blog, but I’m really keen to get feedback from people who’ve used the directory, not just the blog.
The prizes
As a bit of an incentive and a ‘thank you’ I’ve decided to buy two gifts as prizes from businesses listed in the directory. I’ve picked these particular businesses to celebrate those businesses who were part of my wedding.
Someone will win a bunch of seasonal flowers from The Real Cut Flower Garden, grown by Charlie Ryrie in her flowerfield in Hereford – the same place where my wedding flowers came from.
This is an example of the sort of bunch of flowers you could win
Charlie
I impressed even myself this morning when I spotted flowers by The Real Cut Flower Garden on a wedding blog without knowing who’d done them. The Real Cut Flower Garden is one of the businesses listed on the directory, and I’ve known Charlie Ryrie who runs it for a number of years now. She has a distinct style and provides beautiful English-grown flowers for weddings.
On scrolling through this Vintage British Wedding I saw these photos of the wedding flowers and couldn’t help but think “they must by Charlie Ryrie’s flowers!” My thoughts were confirmed at the bottom in the list of suppliers – I love all my businesses and it’s so lovely to see them and their lovely work on big wedding blogs.
Charlie
Utterly gorgeous handmade winter wreaths from The Real Cut Flower Garden. I am certainly considering forgoing the traditional Christmas wreath in place of one of these.
Would also make a divine decoration at a winter wedding – perhaps on the entrance to the church or hall where you’re getting married, or just to decorate part of your venue.
Charlie
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.
Charlie
Over the weekend Mr Rigg and I went to Hereford for a friend’s wedding. So last week before we headed off, I got in contact with Charlie Ryrie – the fantastic woman behind The Real Cut Flower Garden to see if we could pay her a visit. We were both lucky enough to be welcomed into her beautiful home and given a tour of her flower field.
It is always so nice to meet the people and businesses who I list on my directory, and to see first hand the wonderful work they are doing. Charlie’s flower field was full of hot summery shades of red, yellow, orange, and purple – stunning sunflowers, purple verbena bobbing in the wind, and the last of the sweetpeas.
She has mentioned our visit on her blog and said some truly lovely things about my business, which is so encouraging and uplifting to hear when you’re always sat at home alone on your laptop beavering away. We even discussed what flowers she grows in May for our own wedding – watch this space!
Dreaming of a May wedding
Charlie
Charlie
I am and back from a delivering a week long conference and ready to start my year afresh. The last couple of months have been riddled with illness and long working days. With the anticipated arrival of spring I want to start my year again, so hopefully I can draw a line under the past months and look forward to a good year and towards my own wedding.
Speaking of which, in the spirit of new beginnings I had to post the lovely picture above as inspiration for my own wedding – just looking at all that frothy cow parsley! I am planning for a May wedding in 2011 to make the most of the cow parsley filled lanes and hedgerows of my family home in the Cotswolds. Here’s to dreaming of a beautiful May wedding!