A Daughter & A Bride

It is always such an honour to be asked by a bride to create their wedding flowers. 

Even though I have been doing my job for many years there is still no feeling quite like it - I love meeting and working with new people. Creating wonderful new arrangements full of colour and life is fantastic.

I always knew that I would do my daughters wedding and I would enlist the help of my extremely talented sister but when she got engaged and reality kicked in, although it was a great feeling - a mixture of excitement but with a large spoonful of professionalism as I knew I had to create the best work I have ever created before!

I will take you back to when Emily & Nick got engaged in November 2013. Emily thought she was being taken to Cornwall for the weekend, a childhood favourite. However, she was whisked away to Venice to eat delicious Italian food and ride gondolas in the moon light where Nick proposed on a roof top terrace after a delicious meal and champagne along the Grand Canal. 

After a month or two they found the perfect venue in Nottingham called Stubton Hall and they booked their day for May 2015. Stubton Hall is a stunning manor house set in the middle of the countryside with a huge lake and amazing views. We only needed to look at this venue and both sides of the family fell in love with it immediately. 

Emily had a very exact idea about what dress, flowers and colour theme she wanted from the word go. We set straight to work and found her the perfect wedding dress by Monique Lhuillier which came all the way from America! Her veil and accessories we purchased a little later from the magical Heritage Brides set in the grounds of Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. Emily's sister Florence was her Maid of Honour and we had her dress handmaid to a design Florence had chosen and the two other bridesmaids who are very good friends of Emily's were in floor length silk grey dresses - simply stunning!

The flowers...well the the ideas were brilliant! It was just pulling it all off! Emily wanted peonies, roses and hydrangeas as her main flowers all in white and pale pink. 

Her hand tied was made of purely pale pink and white peonies and I added a vintage broach to finish off the look.

The music room at Stubton Hall is amazing! The floor and walls are painted white and over look the stunning grounds at the back of the house. We decided to have pots of hydrangeas and lupins lining the aisle along with two huge arrangements at the top by the registrars table. These were filled with an assortment of beautiful flowers in keeping with the pale pink and white theme.

Emily and Nick's beautiful niece's and nephew played a huge part of the day by walking perfectly up the aisle. We had their dresses hand made by 'Oh Sew Vintage' and Leo their nephews outfit was made by Angie, Nick's mum. The girls also wore their Christening gifts from Emily & Nick which were Tiffany Necklaces. Here is the beautiful Poppy with her headband and pink hydrangea.

Stubton Hall allows its weddings to have sole use of the venue for the day and morning after your wedding which helps make the day so special allowing guests to freely wonder the grounds, the beautiful rooms and party into the night.

The reception was held in the orangery which is a huge room with floor to ceiling windows and an amazing organza arch above the bride and groom, we placed two huge urns at the entrance of the hall and filled it with twigs, hydrangea heads and candlelit glass bulbuls.

Emily and Nick had 90 guests and 10 tables in total. In the centre of each table was a cream candelabra each with slightly different designs. Some had the flowers spiralling up the stem while others had rings of flowers through the candles or sitting at the base. Each one was individually created.

My favourite creation of the day which myself and my sister are extremely proud of was the top table. It was purely made of hydrangea and peonies and I am sure you will agree it looks fab!

It was an amazing day and all the guests had a great time enjoying the venue, celebrations and the sunshine!

Thank you to:

Claire Lau Photography

Heritage Brides

Stubton Hall

Monique Lhuillier 

Florist on the Green

Betty & Bear Flowers

Oh Sew Vintage

Angie's Cakes

Alison Jenner Hair 

We must't forgot the incredible cake! It tasted just as good as it looks!

Anne x

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