Sarah's Bouquets and buttonholes

Here are some more photos of Sarahs flowers in the bouquets there was Black Baccara and Nadia roses with birch twigs and rosemary, with a collar of trailing ivy, and the twiggy tree is a birch which I sprayed with Oasis flat white spray and added raffia bows and ivy, whilst I was preparing for this wedding it was the week between Christmas and New Year, and Great Expectations was on the tele which inspired me. Florist Zita Elze created the very gothic flowers for the programme and there was alot of gloomyness with white cobwebs, so this convinced me to spray the twigs white to make them stand out against the dark of the church (we were hoping it would have snowed and the twigs would have stood out as dark against it!), 

Winter and christmas 2011

Hello winters been very busy with several wreath classes taking place in Shap and gt Asby despite having cold/flu/ v bad back I really enjoyed these classes and what lovely wreaths were produced too! On top of that I've had the usual Christmas wreaths and day out at Crosby ravensworth seasonal market that I always enjoy! To finish the year of I had the lovely new years wedding of Carl and Sarah at kirkoswald ( what a lovely church with an amazing walk to it!) here's a few photos of the bouquets and I'll add some more when I've worked out how to move them about on the computer!

July part 2!

Later that week I had a wedding Sarah and Lukes, Ive done flowers for Hannah, Sarahs cousin and see her parents Pat and David who are The Granary Studio photographers at wedddings which weve both done, so they were over the moon that one of their daughters was getting married! The wedding was a mixture of cultures as Sarah was marrying Luke whose family are Jamican the majority of the flowers were and English Vintage theme using mainly roses namely Memeory Lane and Faith, with the bride having a all white bouquet of roses, sweet peas and astrantia. In the church I added a selection of carribean leaves and flowers alomg with bold liillies to reflect the Jamican side, some of these later went to Rheghed for the evening party!

A very busy July -part one!!

July is nearly over and its been a really busy month not suprising really as its one of the most popular months for wedding (its when me and Lee got married!), the month started with Caroline and Steves wedding at Knipe Hall with a white and green colour theme, and very natural bunches of spray roses, lizzy, green cars, limnium and green bell in Caroline lace decorated vases, in the barn where they married there was two large hearts and candlelabras , Caroline pictures were better than mine so have a look at my facebook page for better ones!

After a very sucessfull wedding there was no time for a break as the following week I had a funeral and a wedding, the funeral included a unusual request for a watering can which I've never made before luckily The Flower Bank had a base in stock, my next challenge was what to cover it with as I didnt want to cover it with the usual sprayed silver xthans so I decided to use lots of garden materials including moss, Albert and Marions allotment poppy heads, green xthans and blue thistles, here is a picture of the result

more pics from Hannah and Toms

Here are a few more pictures from the church and at Ormathwaite Hall

pedestal in the church with robena lillies, mollucella, stocks, solomons seal, beech, ladys mantle, silver willow

hearts and lanterns in church windows

Hannahs parents Mick and June the night before the wedding

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Hannah and Toms wedding





Last week I had the beautifull wedding flowers of Hannah and Toms wedding, they live in Temple Sowerby and got married at the church, which myself and June (Hannahs mam) decorated  in mainly green and hot pink, I used 'Robena' lillys which luckily did manage to open in time along with Bells of Ireland, larkspur, shamrock chrysanths and masses of lovely garden greenary from Ormathwaite Hall ( where the reception was held, which is owned by Hannahs parents and used as self catering accomadation ), this took most of thursday, then a little bit on saturday morning adding ivy to the wicker hearts on the pew ends whilst listerning to the pianist warming up-lovely! then was onto bouquets and table arrangements the bouquets were mainly different shades of pink , and the tables were tall glass vases filled with pink wire and gerberas on top with there were arragements of hot pink and pale pink gerberas, beech leaves and ladys mantle.