Inspiration with Zita Elze

Spent a fantastic day with inspirational florists from Zita Elze on Friday, from the wispy skirt made from Stipa grasses to the delicate table pieces using lovely mosses, fir and berries. Cant wait to order some of the new flowers I saw there.

A Penshurst Wedding

A decoration off the lantern at Penshurst Church, scented with heavenly tuberose, oriental lilies, large roses and stocks. A perfect October day with morning mist clearing to bright sunshine.

The bride chose an informal mix in classic white. I used eucharis lilies, snowberry, tuberose, majolica roses with mimosa and rosemary.

Pomanders & Circlets

Lovely little rose and lavender pomanders for some seriously cute flowergirls, here they are hanging ready to go, havent got the pictures from the day - yet.

Used my favourite spray rose - majolica

The circlets were inspired by Kate Moss's wedding, very informal and with ribbon twined around. I love this effect

Floral Topiary Delights

my little topiary

I'd been longing for the opportunity to make one of these delightful topiary trees and this is just the right time of year for it, actually kicking myself I didnt do it a month ago when I would have added tiny cute green acorns - still, the hypericum, crab apples, spanish moss et al works a treat, I would have loved to keep this (and make more) for the hall table, kitchen dresser, you get the idea. This one went to Vanity Fair Beauty for their reception desk.

Frivolous and Flirty

Ok, am a bit late with this one, the venue was the fabulous Preston Court in Canterbury. Enjoy the glorious photography by Emma Case and it was my pleasure to work with Tiffany of Grant Riley Weddings

Bridal bouquet of roses, peonies, scabious, astilbe with sweetpeas and sage.

 Yes! a fairground ride at Preston Court

 Fab shoes, petticoat and the pink cadillac. Wedding was organised by the lovely Tiffany Grant-Riley.

Interior shot of the barn showing one of the two stunning organs at the end.

 The bridesmaids, no holding back here, I took the pale colours out of the bridal bouquet and we added zingy orange roses and zinnias in hot pink and orange. Hurray for zinnias, a much underrated summer flower.

The organ provided the backdrop for the ceremony. Simply stunning and even this was plan B as unfortunately it was a showery day. Had it been sunny Sarah and Ben would have been married on a tiny island under a gazebo with their guests looking on from the edge.


You gotta admit - a pretty darn gorgeous day

So excited to get photos

Very Vintage

After a brief break for a bit of sun it was back to work down in the beautiful Kent countryside at Stelling Minnis near Canterbury.
The venue, a lovely marquee and a selection of vases from The Crockery Cupboard. Lovely colours here of muted blue, lavender and pinks.

Lovely spray rose Milka Sensation with mint and rosemary, hydrangea, astrantia, Pacific Blue and Faith roses, snowberry and one of my favourites: anenomes

Retro wedding at PowderMills Hotel Battle

Wow, another favourite and a pleasure to work on this wedding between Madeline & Paul. It all began with seeing the fabulous retro almost carnival style invitation which set the scene. Madeline was making fabulous table runners with lace, peach, taupe, sage and cream ribbon in stripes and needed flowers to suit. I was sent several images of bouquets she liked and the common element was the clash of colour - although fairly muted - and the interesting textures. Very daring and I think it worked beautifully. These are my pictures, taken on phone, so I am sure the 'real' ones will look even better.

Madelines bouquet was made using Osiana peach roses, scented of course, with Jana spray roses, scabious seed pods and the more rusty coloured Hypnose rose, Vendela provided the cream element with another spray rose and texture from the scabious and silver brunia

 A better look at part of the table centres, using hydrangea base, an apricot lisi (looks very pink in this picture! and hypnose rose

 The table centres waiting to go, very retro

 I supplied fresh confetti, made with hydrangea, rose and lisianthus petals

 Madeline supplied some material and lace from her dress to wrap the bouquet which was edged with senecio

 Old teapots and cups near the confetti create a lovely image

 I used small galvanised buckets as chair ends which was tied with the ribbon that matched the table runners. These were delicate and ethereal using spray roses and gyspophelia - just too cute!

This shows the fabulous retro table and place names perfectly and the lovely runners that Madeline made. The room at Powdermills is very light and white hence I decided to use some strong colour in the tables. Peachy perfect.

Up a ladder again

Yes, up that ladder again to decorate the top of the door at Frant Church. This was tricky as I wasnt allowed to put any nails in, but there was a small ledge about twelve foot up in the air!
The bride had chosen a palette of purples, lavender, cool pinks with some blue. I added some white lilies to warm it up abit and used Pacific Blue and Sweet Avalanche roses, with purple stocks, blue scabious, green amaranthus and dill. The foliage was Beech and Ruscus although it was mainly flower.




The bride carried a bouquet using a base of palest pink hydrangea with pacific blue roses and lisianthus in lavender and deeper purple to compliment her bridesmaids aubergine dresses.

And after a day of pretty heavy rain the day before all was well and the sun shone.

Daisy, daisy give me your answer do....

Pitch the most glamourous marquee in a stunning spot over
looking the Ashdown Forest with spectacular views, add fabulous attention to detail from the handmade lamps in the centre of the tables to the lace table cloths and personalised place settings and you have Rebecca and Matts glorious wedding. I was asked to add flowers with a 'just gathered' look and Rebecca has a penchant for daisies. The colours were just so fresh from the delicate fountain grass to the blue of the scabious, creamy majolica roses, astrantia and yellow craspedia.

 I hope they wont mind me sharing these pictures with you, I cant wait to see the professional shots. I was so looking forward to this event. My meetings with Rebecca always included a glass of wine and it was a pleasure working with a bride who was clearly on the same wavelength as me. She said afterwards ' thank you for making it exactly as I wanted without me even having to actually tell you!'

 The marquee was supplied by the Arabian Tent Company and I have to say it had to be seen to be believed. Just stunning with two chillout zones filled with day beds, ottomans and coffee tables and rugs all with the gorgeous screen printing on.

None of the table centres matched, Rebecca supplied assorted vases that she sourced at car boot sales, three per table. This one has fresh green hydrangea limelight, with daisies, craspedia  - fab and very underused I feel - with fountain grass and ever so pretty Majolica roses. Aren't the lace overlays on the table cloths fab? and so nice to have sage tablecloths instead of white

 One of the chillout areas in the marquee...

Twinkle twinkle

Candles galore at The George in Rye on Saturday. Used the lovely Rose Avalanche Sorbet and a delicious spray Rose called splash sensation. So perfectly gorgeous. Exhausted from carrying all the buckets up those stairs though. Now time to think about Zoes wedding this week at Preston Court:all peachy and pale blue to match those stunning organs

Bold and bright

A change from the usual last week was an Indian wedding, a bright and bold affair in a gorgeous marquee with accents of gold. The exterior was decorated with wonderfully bright garlands of carnations...and finally the sun shone, a gorgeous day down in Kent

Very Gypsophelia

Two more lovely events...shame about the weather. Preston Court the venue on Friday for Sarah and Bens wedding working with Grant Riley weddings. Lovely random and bright look to the flowers. Saturday at The Great Barn in Rolvenden, a beautiful barn, quite natural and un restored. Decorated with jugs of flowers, lots of panicum grass, peonies and lovely gypsophelia. There was a lovely four foot wreath of gyp to sit on the back wall of the barn - had to be large and two smaller ones, although still 2 feet across for each door, garlands were added on bannisters with milk churns to the side.

Parma Violet

Two beautiful weekend weddings over, am exhausted again. Monday-itis definately exists for me. Both were totally different, one a minimalist oriental theme and the other very Kent Wedding. The venue for this was the lovely Preston Court and (even though I say so myself) the bouquet was one of my all time favourites. Used a lovely new spray rose to compliment the Pacific Blue roses, fresh lavender and sage, lavender lisianthus, truly scrumptious. Will get a picture up asap. Now heading off to school sports day - but it's drizzling and I am dragging my feet....will have two little faces eagerly waiting to see if I can see them so must go!

Floral Arch at Speldhurst

An early start to create an arch on the beautiful lychgate at Speldhurst. We had many people stop to admire it coming together and the bride and groom were thrilled - me too