These are sample designs which we have just put together for one of our beautiful brides, whose wedding is taking place at the end of July. Silver candelabras and rose bowls overflowing with white avalanche roses, hydrangea, spray roses, astilbe, wax flowers and snapdragons. The tables will be finished with white linen, perfectly scribed table and place names, small hurricane clear glass lamps and twinkling mottled silver tea light candles. I am hugely looking forward to putting everything into place, it is promising to be one very special setting!
We were recently in Castle Combe at the beautiful Manor House for the wedding of one of our brides. She and her groom, along with their guests, braved the somewhat chilly weather, having their ceremony outside in the beautiful small pavilion, overlooking the quintessential village and bubbling brook!
We created flowers for stone urns, chair backs and drape tie backs using plenty of hydrangea and roses, for a soft and pretty look.
We were thrilled to be asked a few days ago to work alongside one of the most fabulous, worthy and dedicated charities, Oxfam, by contributing flowers to their Wedding Auction, which has just opened and finishes in one week, on Wednesday 9th May.
Supported by the inspiring LoveMyDress wedding blog and the gorgeous peeps at Brides magazine, and working alongside a whole bunch of fabulous contemporaries such as By Appointment Only, Hayford & Rhodes, Sassi Holford, Jenny Packham, Ian Stuart and Errol Douglas, we will be supplying one lucky bidder their bridal flowers (including a hand tied bridal bouquet, up to two hand tied bridesmaids’ bouquets and up to five buttonholes) all made from the most beautiful seasonal flowers.
A little about the incredible work Oxfam do, summarised from LoveMyDress - all monies raised via this special auction will go to Oxfam Unwrapped’s emergency work in poor countries around the world.
in 2011, Oxfam reached 532,000 people as they moved their focus from emergency response to reconstruction. Currently in West Africa there are 13 million people are at risk of serious food shortages across the Sahel region. Oxfam aims to reach 1 million of them.
The money raised through the Oxfam Weddings Auction could be used to reach these people….
All graphics by Alexis Cuddyre, OMG I’m Getting Married! created for LoveMyDress blog.
I rather love this washed image of pink roses and white freesias in a stone urn, a table design we created recently for a wedding.
The tables were draped with white linen tablecloths; white linen napkins were finished with luxurious pink velvet ribbon and crystal glass tea lights, twinkling, surrounded the flowers.
All very beautiful and romantic!
The stone urns are available to hire with your flower designs.
It is not often we are asked to design flowers with a purple theme, so we were thrilled to be asked to create a bridal bouquet and table centre – using purple as the key colour – for the latest edition of Wedding Flowers magazine.
We opted for a no fuss design, using just four different flower varieties, in the most fabulous purple tones. The bridal bouquet, of Delta River freesias, was inspired by a recent bride who adored the simplicity and scent of freesias – the dominant flower chosen for her bridal flowers (we will be featuring images of her flowers later this month).
For the table centres, we designed an elegant grouping, using clear glass bulb vases; each with a hand tied posie of one single flower - including anemones, vanda orchids, lisianthus and freesias.
As a whole scheme and to finish the table designs, we suggest using soft grey linen tablecloths, deep grey linen napkins, each tied with velvet or grosgrain ribbon and finished with a single flower, and an abundance of mottled silver votives (with flickering long burning tea lights), for the most romantic, chic setting for your wedding or event.
Flowers for a client’s recent event at Claridges. Candelabras sitting in our cool room just before they left Pheasants Hatch, decorated simply and elegantly with pittisporum foliage, and small pewter vases with tulips, hyacinths and ranunculus.
In the May/June issue of Conde Nast Brides magazine, along with London florist Achillea, we were asked to provide flowers for a photoshoot where five of the Brides’ team restyled a £700 strapless wedding dress.
Our flowers were used by the lovely Sam Rogers’ (Brides Website Editor) to finish her beautiful look (top left image). Vote for your favourite look on the Brides’ website.
We were delighted to be asked to design the flowers for Lancôme’s press day, held last week in designer Jenny Packham’s boutique, in the heart of Mayfair.
Lancôme have teamed up with Jenny Packham to create their new gift with purchase bag, launching exclusively into Harvey Nichols from May and nationwide from 8th June. The design is inspired by the decadent 1930’s and a vintage purse. The iconic Lancôme flowers have been re-interpreted and designed by de Gournay who also created the wallpapers in all of Jenny’s boutiques.
Full review from Elle’s Beauty Writer, Suzanne Scott – http://www.elleuk.com/beauty/beauty-notes-daily/jenny-packham-for-lancome
We recently created these sample designs for a bride, for her wedding later this year. They are so beautifully different and I just love the mixture of white, ivory and bright yellows, with the hint of silver in the compact design.
Large classic flower designs for a wedding this weekend at The Walled Gardens at Cowdray, using eucalyptus, large fully open white roses, white antirrhinums and beautiful white delphiniums.
