Christmas Fairs

Yes, it really is that time of year to start planning the christmas table flowers, and all the other lovely stuff that looks and smells wonderful around the house. Here is a taster of what we have in store for this christmas...

A September Wedding

Here is a lovely vintage style bouquet, with the addition of seasonal berry - Silvie looks just stunning in her beautiful lace overlay dress. Her groom wore a lilac Memory Lane rose buttonhole that complimented the bouquet just beautifully.

what a busy few months...

Bloomingperfect have been here, there and everywhere over the last few weeks. It's been a pretty hectic wedding season, working at beautiful venues with lovely clients. This weekend saw us at Limpsfield Church and then a private house in South Godstone, and before than the Swan at West Malling (can't wait to see that dress)!  Then back to Penshurst, St Julians, West Heath, the Spa, back to Penshurst for a very big and glorious wedding, and now looking forward to a weekend off - hurray!

a few pics for you to enjoy

Weddings from September

A flowered archway to mark the entrance - filled with white hydrangea, cream roses, and scented eucalyptus foliage.










A pure white hydrangea head for the church pew ends.

 bridesmaids bouquets of cream rose with delicate white bouvardia.

My favourite ever hair flower design - so delicate and so perfectly made (by Helen!!!) - thank you!

Church columns were decorated with a beautifully scented swag of lily, rose and eucalyptus foliage.

a few pictures....just because they are so gorgeous!

a few favourites...

Here are a few of my favourites from last year. The scent of the lily of the valley was just unbeleivable, one is purely stems of lily of the valley (can you imagine the scent), the other is of scented freesia, vintage pink amnesia rose, and a few hints of the lily of the valley. I cannot decide which is my favourite...

 

and here is one of my all-time favourite pictures - just beautiful...she wasn't really cross!

that church archway...

Horsmonden Church - a summer wedding in the Kent countryside. An archway filled with the most amazing scented flowers, peony, freesia and the whitest stocks. The rain just started to come down as we got back in to the van....phew!

A summer ball of many candelabra...

20 silver candelabra - what a busy few days! all filled with pink and cream roses, hydrangea heads, spray rose, and the wonderful trailing amaranthus. All for a school ball in Tunbridge Wells - the roses were vintage pink to match the girls school uniform! Just gorgeous.

(taken outside the workshop early hours of a very hot Saturday morning)

July 4th - a vintage wedding!

Here our bride had a real task in arranging her wedding flowers..... all the way from New York City! She was one of our most delightful clients (to prove it, we exchanged around 90 emails to date, and they are still coming in which is SO lovely). She wanted a vintage theme for her wedding blessing at the wonderful Chilston Park near Lenham after having had her ceremony in the US.

Her table centrepieces were a wonderful mix of tall clear vases and beautiful vintage bird cages filled with peony, blousy roses and large hydrangea heads. She was thrilled.

The Flower Stall in July

Here is a shot of The Flower Stall where we had a fantastic range of seasonal delights! The hydrangea heads were magnificent in soft green, brightest fuscia pink dahlia's to delight any vase arrangement, and some little vintage pots we made up with sweet william and spray roses - they sell faster than we can make them up! The lavenders were amazing, and nice large pots - the old fashioned Hidcote variety - they spread like wildfire!

Blooms in June!

Here was a couple of table decorations we did for a favourite client of ours. She was having a summer evening party in a beautiful "tent" in the garden. She wanted a couple of seasonal table centrepieces to put on the table - gorgeous open red charm peony, giant poppy seed heads, and the brightest fuscia pink stocks - can you believe the colours - so vibrant, for a hot summers evening!

15th May - pure vintage...

Gorgeous selection of vintage blooms, green hydrangea, amnesia rose, and amazing viburnham snowball. The bride wore a beautiful vintage gown. And here in picture she purchased these beautiful wooden boxes - with the bride and grooms name, and the date of their wedding - how gorgeous it that!

Horsmonden Church, and then a private house in Goudhurst. The bride chose beautiful vintage pink shades using amnesia rose, palest pink sweet avalanche rose, cow parsley, scented stocks, freesia, and the most stunning peony in white. She chose a teardrop bouquet filled with vintage pinks, pale greens and fluffy viburnham snowball and cow parsley.

At the church we decorated the archway with a beautiful garland of white hydrangea heads, pale pink roses, euclpytus foliage and scented stocks and peony. This was then moved to the venue after the ceremony to be placed on the decking area for the guests to enjoy all afternoon. The table centrepieces were cream pots filled with overflowing scented seasonal flowers, including rose, stocks, cow parsley, viburnham snowball and delicate pittosporum foliage - all just so pretty and perfect!

Beautiful peonies in shades of white, pale pink and claret red, the scent is amazing. Tuba rosa, another favourite for scent. Weddings so far this month are private houses with beautiful marquees on the lawn. Silver candelabra to give height to any table with crisp white table linen, or tall silver vases, overflowing with seasonal rose, peony, herbs and trailing ivy. Vintage pink is still playing a big part in the colour palette for many brides this season, amnesia rose a real favourite for bouquets to give that vintage shade to pale green and cream blooms.

Next week we are off to the lovely Chilston Park - the bride is flying in from New York and her there is vintage pinks, creams, and pale greens. Her table centrepieces will be a mix of tall glass elegant vases overflowing with roses, peony and trailing green amaranthus, and vintage bird cages crammed with seasonal rose, peony, spray rose and lisianthus. Pictures to follow shortly.