Hello out there, its been a bit busy here so I'm just a bit behind with my blog posts, I'm sorry. But this one is worth the wait, I promise. This weeks wedding was amazing, I loved it and loved doing it!
Just look at these smiles!
Just look at these smiles!
The bride, Rosie, is my friend's eldest daughter so I really wanted the day to be perfect. I always want the day to be perfect, but somehow knowing Rosie made it even more so and I was praying for good weather and good things. Rosie wanted a medieval styled wedding day, something classy and elegant yet simple. She chose the white rose of Yorkshire with ivy and greenery for her flowers. The venue was Oakwell Hall at Birstall, just outside Leeds, and the gorgeous old barn buildings were perfect for her theme.
My first job was to count flowers. Rosie wanted an old fashioned trailing bouquet for herself, plus 4 grown up bridesmaids and 3 small bridesmaids. Oh and a small rose and green head band for herself. Plus 18 single rose buttonholes.
Then there were 11 lots of long thin table flowers for the tresel tables, extra flowers for decorating the cake table and the table plan frame. And a bit of something for my lovely old mangle, which was just going to stand there and look pretty. I worked it out to 2500 roses, loads and loads of ivy and lots of other greenery. These were ordered a month before the date.
Then there were 11 lots of long thin table flowers for the tresel tables, extra flowers for decorating the cake table and the table plan frame. And a bit of something for my lovely old mangle, which was just going to stand there and look pretty. I worked it out to 2500 roses, loads and loads of ivy and lots of other greenery. These were ordered a month before the date.
This is what they look like when they come, well, not quite, they come wrapped in cellophane in bunches of 10. I unwrap them, cut the stems, feed them and take the lower leaves off and then stand them in buckets of water so they can rest a it after their journey. All the roses need their thorns removing too, we can't have a drop of blood from a thorn on the wedding dress! Many of these roses would have travelled from Africa so by the time they get to me they need a rest before I can work on them. I order them well in advance and usually collect them on a Wednesday for a Saturday wedding, this gives them time to open up a bit and be at their prettiest on the big day.
These looked perfect, nice hard heads with no droopy bits!
So, on the day!
It looked amazing!
The long thin tresel tables were perfect for this sort of design.
Strings of battery fairy lights just gave that bit of something extra and looked amazing for the night 'do'!
The wedding ceremony itself took place in the far end of the barn and extra flowers decorated the Regisrar's table
The chairs were a bit boring, as you can see above before we dressed them, but white covers and gold sashes with a lace overlay transformed them.
Chair covers are really boring but can transform the look of a venue so quickly.
Rosie looked amazing! So beautiful but also glowing, she looked so happy!
The bridesmaids all wore dark green and carried simple had tied posies of roses.
The bride arriving with her dad
The big bridesmaids leading the little ones
The bride and groom looking fab
Inside we had a few extra bits of deco, just to make the walk in a bit pretty.
This lovely old mangle always makes people smile.
Standing next to the cake table with my lovely post box and another jar of roses, Rosie and Ady's wedding cake was spectacular!
A naked cake.
It was gorgeous and Rosie's grand mother had made the cake topper years before so a really lovely touch on the day.
My antique frame and vintage easel was used for the table plan and this was also given the flower treatment with some roses and ivy.
But actually nothing about my decorations or flowers is what made this day.
What made this day was the people.
These two were made for each other and this was a real celebration.
The cake was ace, the car was amazing and my flowers, well, I was a bit pleased with them too.
But this wedding was ace for other reasons.
The bride's dad in his purple top hat
The kids
The bigger kids
and something even really great pictures cant capture, the absolute happiness and atmosphere in that room.
This was a magical wedding and it was an absolute honour to have been a part of it!
Congratulations Rosie and Ady xxxx
PS Thank you to Rosie and Ady for the use of some of their pictures, some are mine but some are not, so thanks very much xx
The kids
The bigger kids
and something even really great pictures cant capture, the absolute happiness and atmosphere in that room.
This was a magical wedding and it was an absolute honour to have been a part of it!
Congratulations Rosie and Ady xxxx
PS Thank you to Rosie and Ady for the use of some of their pictures, some are mine but some are not, so thanks very much xx
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