Category Archives: Flowers

Flowers, wreaths and corsages..

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Sally

When it came to what I’d be car­ry­ing as I walked down the aisle, I’ve had the same idea for wed­ding flow­ers since I was a lit­tle girl. I grew up in the coun­try, lit­er­ally in the mid­dle of nowhere, and spent my child­hood play­ing in the sur­round­ing fields and pick­ing flow­ers; and, when plan­ning the wed­ding, knew I wanted some­thing fun, loose and young..

My first idea was a loose hand-tied bou­quet of colour­ful wild flow­ers, totally in fit­ting with the ‘just picked’ feel:

Colour­ful Wild­flower Bouquet

Later I thought of sim­ple white Gyp­sophila (Baby’s Breath), which looked won­der­fully bohemian:  Read more…

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The Future of Vintage: Get the Look!

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Claire

So you’ve seen The Future of Vin­tage, and it’s bright! Like it? Then here’s the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog’s guide to get­ting the look! All images are by the won­der­ful Jonny Draper.

Get the Look: bright new Future of Vintage (1)

The Future of Vin­tage: Dec­o­rate a neu­tral venue like Styal Lodge­with pretty, bright colours

Dec­o­rate your wed­ding venue in brights, but keep sight of the pret­ti­ness of vin­tage: use paper lanterns in a few bright shades, and add splashes of colour with chair cover sashes and table dec­o­ra­tions. Fairy lights always look fab­u­lous (espe­cially as day turns into evening).  Read more…

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Retro milk bottles, too many vases and creepy clay mementoes

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Sally

I’d been keep­ing a secret from my husband-to-be.. It’s not ter­ri­ble but it’s become a lit­tle out of hand. I think I’ve become a lit­tle over exu­ber­ant (pos­si­bly har­bour­ing a slight addic­tion) to buy­ing vases. I’ve been envis­ag­ing this sort of look for the recep­tion tables:

Cour­tesy of Rock­n­Roll­Bride  Read more…

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Dried hydrangea and getting experimental!

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Sally

This is just a short post because of an acci­den­tal dis­cov­ery! I’ve been in the back gar­den spray paint­ing the inside of jars with a cream paint to cre­ate a ‘milky’ effect (when they’re done there’ll be a post on this!), and for no real rea­son decided to be exper­i­men­tal, and sprayed the hydrangea plant next to me, which had dried out and started shed­ding its whole, ball-like flower heads.  Read more…

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Unique and totally stunning wedding cakes

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Claire

Diva Cakes and Red Floral unique wedding cake 3

Wed­ding cakes with added “Wow!” — I love see­ing cre­ative ideas for wed­dings and this is an absolute beauty. If you’re hav­ing any kind of wed­ding cake, make it a show­stop­per like these…

Diva Cakes and Red Floral unique wedding cake 2

Lisa from Diva Cakes got in touch fol­low­ing my arti­cles about The Wed­ding Show at Tat­ton Park in January.

Lisa has done a lot of work with Mat from Red Flo­ral — who you may remem­ber was the star of the show! — and won­dered if I would like to see some of the cakes she’d designed with Mat.

Would I?!!!  Read more…

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Green Earth Flowers and Timeless Bride

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Claire

This morn­ing I set out on my lit­tle scooter for an adven­ture: to meet two Cheshire wed­ding sup­pli­ers I’d heard rave reviews about and fea­tured on the blog although we’d never met in person.

Green Earth Flowers: creative and beautiful wedding flowers in Cheshire, near Manchester

Green Earth Flow­ers: cre­ative and beau­ti­ful wed­ding flow­ers in Cheshire, near Manchester

Laura from Green Earth Flow­ers and Michelle from Time­less Bride have built their wed­ding busi­nesses around their per­son­al­i­ties — both are pas­sion­ate about their work and led by eth­i­cal prin­ci­ples: I learned a lot about being wel­com­ing, hon­est and inspir­ing, from both of these ladies this morn­ing.  Read more…

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Tatton highlight: red floral architecture

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Claire
The star of The Show: Hanging beneath the centrepiece were little glass globes with twists of pearl strands, heart embellishments and cream baubles

The star of The Show: Hang­ing beneath the cen­tre­piece were lit­tle glass globes with twists of pearl strands, heart embell­ish­ments and cream baubles

The Wed­ding Show at Tat­ton is known for hav­ing the north west’s top wed­ding experts as exhibitors. Noth­ing should have sur­prised me, and there were many exquis­ite stands which caught my atten­tion straight away. But none were quite like Red Flo­ral Archi­tec­ture, which com­pletely cap­tured my imag­i­na­tion — I could have stayed admir­ing the stand for hours!  Read more…

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Pink peony wedding inspiration

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Claire

Any­one want a lit­tle pink, a bit more pink and then some fluffy? Cos I’ve got some for you today!

More to the point, are any brides out there look­ing for inspi­ra­tion on a pink wed­ding theme, flow­ers for a July wed­ding or really out­ra­geously girly wed­ding ideas? Look no fur­ther, ladies! (Guys, get a bucket or go watch some foot­ball. This isn’t for you.)

Pink peony inspi­ra­tion board

Pink peony wedding inspiration board

All pho­tos from www.SimonHudspeth.co.uk

I LOVED these pink peonies I found on wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Simon Hudspeth’s blog at the week­end. They’re from Kirstin and Tom’s gor­geous Lake Dis­trict wed­ding in July.  Read more…

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Green Earth Flowers at Sandhole Oak Barn

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Claire

It’s flower time! Real wed­ding flow­ers by Green Earth Flow­ers of Cheshire

Orchids and teacupsAnother visual spec­ta­cle today, with a lit­tle more detail from Katie and James’s wed­ding at Sand­hole Oak Barn which I fea­tured a few days ago. Chris Han­ley was the pho­tog­ra­pher — a reg­u­lar favourite on Eng­lish Wed­ding — and he sang the praises of Laura from Green Earth Flowers.

White hydrangea bouquet

Green Earth Flow­ers are based in Poyn­ton, Cheshire. They pride them­selves on their bespoke approach to wed­ding flower design, and every wed­ding is designed around the unique require­ments of the bride and groom.

White orchid bridal bouquet  Read more…

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Wedding ideas: black and white

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Claire

Once again inspired by Sunday’s Irish wed­ding sent in by Green­lees Pho­tog­ra­phy, and with thanks yet again to bride Jo’s fan­tas­tic sense of fun — this wed­ding blog post pays homage to Guin­ness. Yes. Well, why not?!

bride drinking guinnessSo to hon­our the vel­vety black and white imagery Guin­ness have used for years, I’ve found the best black and white wed­ding ideas on the web. (OK, it’s ten­u­ous — but the ideas are gor­geous, so stick with me!)

Black and white wed­ding invi­ta­tions by Chartula

Black and white wedding invitation by Chartula

www.Chartula.co.uk  Read more…

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