Romantic Winter Wedding

Just before Christmas saw me up at Hengrave Hall in the Suffolk countryside www.hengravehall.co.uk for the wedding of Natalie and James. We embraced the fact that it was less than two weeks before Christmas using lots of frosted pine cones, silvered and glittered flowers and foliage and generous handfuls of artificial snow.  Natalie had exquisitely planned and thought of everything: with crackers on every plate, stockings hanging on the backs of chairs for the little ones and sequinned runners adorned the top table. As darkness falls early this time of year I supplied over 70 mercuried glass votive holders for the tealights on the tables and Natalie had brought in numerous silver lanterns to fill the halls and passageways with light, each filled with chunky candles, frosted cones and of course: snow!

Inside on the window sills....more roses, gyp and fern

 just inside the entrance, cones, snow and fresh confetti with votives filled with roses

The  stunning flint chapel at the venue was dressed with a  delightful frothy arch made with silver glittered gypsopehlia ( a much maligned flower in my opinion) with a cluster of roses to the top and enhanced only with fronds of delicate frosted asparagus ferns

Arch made with fern and gypsophelia with silver glitter and roses to the centre which can be seen better in the close up below:

Inside the tables were dressed with tall and low table pieces. The low centres were large silver chalice bowls filled with roses, gyp, silvered foliages, cones and amaryllis in whites and soft pink. The tall table centres had soft trails of asparagus ferns and small votives arranged at the base with spray roses and gypsohelia. Every table had at least six silver glass tealights to give a soft and intimate glow to the proceedings.

Votives filled with little flowers at the base of the tall arrangements

Amaryllis, roses and gypsophelia with silver









Gypsophelia bunches tied to the bride and grooms chairs

the fisherman's cottage: A Little French Shop

Lovely blog about a lovely shop. Recently bought a pair of old french doors (8 feet tall!) which will be my new wardrobe doors..sometime soon I hope. If in Norwich very worthwhile a visit, it is beautiful.
http://thefishermanscottage.blogspot.com/2011/04/little-french-shop.html