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...