Jade & Will's vintage wedding!

The minute I met Jade I knew I couldn't wait to help her with her day! Jade had so many beautiful ideas and was concerned about every little detail...my dream client! She & Will married at their local church in the gorgeous village of Cranford St John and followed with a marquee reception in the grounds of her family home. Everything about their day went perfectly and it was so obvious that they enjoyed every minute of it! It was also another chance to work with some of my favourite suppliers...beautiful stationary by Dottie Creations and the most incredible cakes and desserts by Katie at Couture Cakes. Thanks to Steve Rideout for these gorgeous images...visit his blog and see the full wedding!

Doesn't she look stunning?!

Katie's cakes are a work of art...

I used these gorgeous protea and vintage tone roses to accent the cake display...perfect!

What a gorgeous day...thanks so much Jade & Will for letting me be part of your day! I wish you all the happiness in the world for your future together!

Let's go Wild!

Save the Date Magazine have asked me to do a fortnightly blog for them, looking at floral trends and upcoming wedding styles so I thought I'd share these here with you too!

2013 is definitely going to be an exciting year for floral trends. I have noticed in my own brides a huge trend towards wanting to re-create a natural, garden like style with more relaxed and informal arrangements of mixed blooms with lots of unusual flowers and foliage.

As Sarah Ryhanen over at Saipua flowers says...

“emphasis will be placed on using seasonal flowers and foliage to build loose and wild compositions that evoke the feeling of an overgrown late summer garden”

So many more brides are taking a more eco-friendly approach to their flowers using more natural, organic textures such as twigs, branches and mosses, richer seasonal colours and mis-matched wooden, ceramic and galvanised vintage and rustic containers.

 These spring arrangements of tulips, ranunculus, peonies, astrantia and craspedia look beautiful with trailing honeysuckle and cherry blossom straight from my garden!

I love this style as it allows blooms to be expressed in their own natural shape and style.

Country garden roses are perfect in this bouquet as each rose is so unique in shape and size...

The vintage theme is still extremely popular but I think we’ll see lots more bolder floral patterns, layers of lace and deeper, stronger colours like purple, magenta and burgundy.

In these arrangements I used gorgeous autumnal hydrangeas, sedum, amaranthus and astrantia with lovely rambling clematis and fuchsia and mixed foliage...

What do you think of this growing trend? Go wild or keep it traditional?!