Hemswell Court wedding reception

 Lauren's wedding reception was held at the lovely Hemswell Court. A very popular venue with great space both inside and out for those all important photographs.
The top table here is a large oval table and needs a good sized display to fill the space. Lauren decided to go with a traditional long and low design in the same flowers as her bouquet and foliage to match the pedestals.

 Ivory roses, wax flower with purple September, freesias and eustoma.

 Each guest table had a tall lily vase which Lauren hired from me with a simple cluster of white September flower and purple eustoma and bear grass.

  

 Although Hemswell court already has many artificial designs around the venue we decided to balance out the cake table display with a fresh traditional pedestal display.

 The Primrose room at Hemswell court all ready for the arrival of the newly married couple.

 I love it when you arrive at a venue to set up and you meet one of your supplier friends. A) It is a pleasure to have a quick chat and B) You know your couples will not be dissapointed
This is another stunning cake provided by the talented Daren of No.82 cakes.

St Mary's Minster Stow

 Lauren's wedding service was at the gorgeous St Mary's at Stow. Dating back to at least 975 it is believed to have originated as the Mother church of Lincoln Cathedral. Well worth a visit if you are in the area.
As a Minster it is rather larger than your average local church but fortunately the main wedding service and guests are in one area.
We decided that two pedestals at the ceremony steps would be ideal and would break up the distance to the altar.

 The pedestals were mainly the same flowers as the bridal bouquets with purple eustoma and September flower with Ivory roses, germini, astilbe, wax flower with cream chrysants.

 The pew ends were a mix of flowers and bows with the flowers being three ivory germini, wax flower and tree fern.

 Each pew end is slightly different as they are so old

 and some have had to be replaced.

Purple pew end bow

 The view up to the altar from the ceremony steps

St Mary's Minster Stow

 The full length of the aisle

 The back view from the ceremony steps

I also provided bay trees for the entrance doorway

Purple and white bridal flowers

 A lovely purple and ivory wedding with gorgeous summer flowers.
The brides bouquet consisted of purple freesia, September flower and eustoma and ivory germini, roses, astilbe and wax flower with tree fern.

 Designed in a hand tied with purple satin ribbon around the stems.

 Laura's bridesmaids carried a similar style bouquet with ivory satin ribbon around the stems.

All the buttonholes were delivered with the bridal flowers, to be handed out by the father of the bride. The groomsmen each wore a single ivory rose with fern.

The groom wore a collection of flowers from the brides bouquet in the two colours

 while the ladies wore a corsage all in ivory, roses, astilbe and wax flower with fern.

Purple Calla Lily wedding

 Elaine's wedding flower was the Calla Lily. Her colours purple and Ivory. These gorgeous Vermeer Calla's with the purple throats and ivory edging and outside were perfect. To add in some colour she chose Schwartzwalder Callas. The bouquet style is an overarm spray with aspidistra leaves and bear grass with added gold pearls.

 Her maids carried a smaller bouquet in a matching style with just Schwartzwalder Callas, aspidistra leaves and bear grass.

 All stems were bound with ivory ribbon.

 The ladies buttonholes were a calla as the main flower with cream spray roses and chrysant flower and loops of foliage.

The groom wore a Vermeer Calla with wax flower and foliage loops with purple wire bound around the stems. The other men wore a purple calla with different sprigs of flowers to match their ties.