Natalie and Dan had such a fun looking wedding. They tied the knot right on Brighton seafront at the Brighton Music Hall and by the looks of their faces in the photos they had a fabulous time! Flowers were a vibrant mix of summer flowers, a lot of which were grown here in Sussex. We used garden roses, dahlias, zinnias, hot pink cosmos, cornflowers, calendula, crocosmia, verbena, bupleurum, clematis and a lovely seasonal mix of foliage. I loved that Nat wore here flower crown ALL DAY!
Being a Sussex wedding florist is a lovely job as there are so many gorgeous wedding venues to work at! Stephanie and Robert’s wedding took place at Glynde Place near Lewes which is the most beautiful venue. What a colourful joyful celebration! The flowers they chose were completely my style – colourful, natural and seasonal. Being a June wedding we could make use of the short peony season and used a variety of different ones including, Hawaiian Coral, Coral Charm, Bowl of Beauty and Kansas, which are all totally gorgeous. The colour palette was mustard yellows, oranges, peaches, corals and loads of greenery which is pretty much my favourite colour scheme so I had a great time on this one!
The above beautiful photos are by Sarah London Photography who is based just up the road from me in Hove, East Sussex.
Below are some of my own photos taken whilst creating the flowers.
Flowers were beautifully scented with stocks, sweetpeas, garden roses, pinks and peonies.
This wedding was an absolute dream to work on! We had colourful flowers, a Hawaiian tiki theme and some seriously stylish outfits. Hannah and Chris were married at the end of July at Pangdean Barn, which is always a pleasure to work at. The sun was shining and they tied the knot outside in Pangdean’s beautiful gardens (I always enjoy setting up in the gardens, so many gorgeous flowers!)
Hannah had personally collected A LOT of tiki mugs which we put colourful seasonal blooms in to decorate the venue. We had 3 different sized mugs per table and a big display on the ledge behind the top table in the barn. The flowers we used were dahlias, miss piggy roses, yellow freesia, cerise pink garden roses, orange asclepias, september daisies, bupleurum, asparagus fern, sandersonia, cosmos and helenium to create a lovely loose and natural bouquets and arrangements.
I love being a wedding florist in Brighton, it is such a creative place and you get to meet some really arty people with some great design ideas for their wedding day! It’s really fun working with different ideas and making them come to life.
All pictures by the fabulous Sara Reeve Photography. I’m always so pleased to be working on weddings with Sara, her photos are amazing!
I absolutely loved working on this wedding, so many amazing scented flowers to work with! May is a great time of year to get married as it crosses over spring and summer so you get the best of both worlds, you can have tulips and ranunculus but also sweet peas and peonies. We used clematis, stocks, lisianthus, sweet peas, ranunculus, peonies, David Austin roses, ‘moody blue’ roses, spray roses, fountain grass and some gorgeous Irish grown foliage.
Suzanne and Peter chose to tie the knot at one of my favourite local Brighton venues, Pangdean Old Barn. It is always such a pleasure to work there and it has such a beautiful garden where you can have an outdoor ceremony (unpredictable British weather permitting!) I decorated the outdoor area but sadly the weather didn’t cooperate so we moved the aisle flowers indoors and turned into hanging indoor vases instead. Not your Average I Do had decorated the barn with lovely lanterns too which really tied the colour scheme together nicely.
The colours chosen worked really well with the sage green colour scheme at Pangdean – as you can see in the picture above, matching foliage and door paint!
Lemeece and Jon tied the knot just last week (on my birthday!) and chose the most gorgeous rich jewel toned colour palette, perfect for this time of year. Rich magentas and berry shades were paired with burnt oranges and bright fresh greenery. The extra treat was almost all the flowers were locally grown in Sussex ❤️
Below is a picture of the Sussex Flower Farm where I got a lot of these flowers from, it’s a lovely way to spend your time choosing exactly which blooms you want to have in your designs. I chose dahlia, hot pink cosmos, geranium foliage (which smells amazing!) agastache (which also smells amazing!!), fennel, antirrhinum, calendula and strawflowers. There are also some Dutch flowers in this bouquet too, hydrangea, roses, eucalyptus parvifolia and pittasporum
For more flower inspiration you can browse through my blog posts by colour and season, thanks for stopping by.
Georgia and Jim’s Mexican fiesta inspired wedding was so much fun to work on! They chose the fabulously stylish Fabrica as their venue with their ceremony at Brighton Town Hall. I love a Brighton wedding, nice and local and always super stylish!
This wedding was bursting with bright colours (which if you know me you’ll know is right up my street!) and the venue was decorated with Mexican blankets, succulents, colourful moon cacti and even dinosaurs in glass vases! It was a real treat for the eyes and a proper colourful Brighton wedding.
Spring weddings are a favourite of mine, I love the flowers that are available and the huge variety of colours which come with the season. Tulips and ranunculus are particularly special to me and luckily for me Georgia was really happy to go seasonal and embrace the Spring flowers! We used pinks, reds and oranges in the bridal bouquet with some bold green tropical style foliages which all tied in fabulously with Georgia’s orange nails and red lipstick. What a stunning bride!
Lisa Devlin worked her magic and captured the most amazing photos, you can see more pictures of this gorgeous couple over on Devlin Photos
Those flowers with the pink bag and red lipstick! Beautiful Georgia looking glam on her doorstep in Hove.
Congratulations to Georgia and Jim! Such a lovely couple and a real pleasure to work with.
Great news guys – colour is here and if you’re a full blown colour enthusiast such as I you will find this pretty exciting. Last year’s wedding season saw a rise in people opting to have stronger notes in their flower colour palettes, a splash of cerise pink to brighten up the overall look or some yellow to add zing. Colourful wedding flowers are a great way to really brighten up a ceremony or reception room. Uplifting zesty, citrus colours have become very popular along with peaches and corals being a 2016 favourite.
Photo – flemingphoto.co.uk
Before I was fully immersed in the wedding world it hadn’t crossed my mind that there would be such a thing as wedding fashion trends, I thought people got married and simply chose colours that reflected them or which worked well with the venue or season. But nowadays there are so many visual references, particularly Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook where we are surrounded by fabulous pictures of these amazing events it is hard not to be unknowingly sucked into following the trends. I am happy when the trend is for bold and bright, it is always really fun to work with punchy colour schemes.
We’ve been seeing a rise in relaxed and more personal weddings in the last couple of years and 2016 saw many festival and fiesta style celebrations taking place. Personally I have seen a reduction in the pale rustic jam jar style wedding an a rise in the brighter bolder Mexican fiesta style. Small jars and vases are still popular though, having clusters of smaller arrangements rather than one large one on each table remains a popular reception decor choice.
January is one of the busiest times of year for wedding planning with many newly engaged couples getting excited and starting to plan their big day. I’d advise getting started with a Pinterest board, pin away with any images you are inspired by – even if you aren’t sure on the style or colour scheme you are going for. Over time you will start to see a pattern emerge and it seems to come together in terms of a theme, or if you can’t see the theme then I often can – and that is where your florist will help you out!
I love all the weddings I do as each and every one is individually special. It is lovely the way that flowers can add extra personality to an event and everyone’s personalities are a different. So when a wedding like Ruth and Greg’s comes along it is extra exciting as their style choice was right up my street! I don’t need to be asked twice to go for it with tropical style colours and flowers! I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of this wedding, from choosing which bright and fabulous blooms to fill the tropical fruit tins to setting up on a beautiful summers day with retro 90’s dance tunes blasting out of the sound system whilst they tested it all out (it was definitely working!)
Here’s a few pictures for you to enjoy from their day to help you remember the beautiful Summer which seems like so long ago now it’s raining and Autumnal!
I used a mix of bright flowers with a Tropical feel to them including one of my favourites, Sandersonia (the Chinese lantern style flower) which I don’t get to work with very often. There’s asclepsia, dendrobium orchid, zinnias, asparagus fern, antirrhinum, germini and hot pink carnations in these cool tins.
I love the simple stylish bridesmaids dresses paired with their colourful wrist corsages.
The Anchor Inn (near Lewes) is such a beautiful venue, I love how you can go boating on your wedding day!
What a lovely couple. Congratulations Ruth and Greg!
