Gerbera wedding bouquets

This was a fabulous wedding from last December. The bride wanted to embrace the seasonal colours and loves gerberas, so we combined the two.

The bridal bouquet was a lovely mix of red gerbera, roses and hypericum berries with variegated ditto foliage through and round the flowers.

There is a choice with gerbera, dark or pale centres and these red ones with black centres are certainly striking with the contrast.

Gerbera are our second favourite flower asked for, many florists won't use them, but to me they work really well for bouquets and are a lovely showy flower whatever the colour.

The bouquet stems were wrapped in a lace type ribbon and held with red pearl headed pins.

The single bridesmaid in contrast carried a white bouquet of the same flowers, gerbera, roses and berries but slightly smaller in size.

This was a simple wedding party, no buttonholes just the two bouquets and then beautiful table arrangements for the reception, which is tomorrows post.

If you love gerbera and would like to include them in any part of your wedding designs, do get in touch as we love working with them and have many ideas to inspire you.

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Some examples are here and here

Sandra x

Tracey and Ian's autumn inspired wedding

 Now back to real weddings. This is Tracey and Ian's wedding from back in October last year. An autumn inspired wedding using the season and colours to an advantage.
Tracey's bouquet was a teardrop design incorporating asiatic lilies, mango calla lilies, hypericum berries and ivory roses.

 The bridesmaids all carried an overarm bouquet of mango calla lilies with ostrich feathers and bear grass. The stems were wrapped in satin ribbon to match their dresses.

 The ladies corsages were a single ivory rose with freesia florets and hypericum berries with lily grass loops and soft ruscus.

 The men's buttonholes are a single mango calla lily with lily grass loops and bear grass.

The buttonholes are delivered pinned to a separate board for ease of handing out.

The flower girl carried a silver heart wand with a single ivory rose.   

                                                

The reception will be here tomorrow.

Winter bouquets

Today I take a look at some winter bouquets. Now I haven't done many weddings that were particularly wintry so I have chosen designs I think would work well.
Above: A hand-tie of ivory roses with bear grass threaded with pearls, surrounded with salal foliage and tied with an ivory bow.

 Another rose hand-tie this time with red and ivory roses and red hypericum berries. Tree fern softens the look through the flowers and salal leaves make a collar.

This would be lovely as either a brides or as a bridesmaids bouquet. Ivory roses with red hypericum berries with bupleurum and salal foliage.

Ivory roses with fantastic fluffy white feathers makes for a simple but effective bouquet.

An all snow white gerbera bouquet would work with a winter garden theme. The red ribbon adding a touch of colour.

A Cornish Wedding

Back in October Sue and Daren got married in Cornwall. I spent most of the week surrounded by flowers, in their garage. Here are some of the official photos to prove it was well worth it.
The happy couple, outside St Gluvias Church. The bouquet looked stunning against the scarlet dress, with a few red roses placed off centre, and red lipped cymbidium orchids adding just a touch of colour.
One of the bridesmaids posies. Gold and white roses, veronica, and assorted foliage.

The brides hand-tied shower bouquet of cymbidium orchids, red roses, white lilies, hypericum, stephanotis, skimmia and an assortment of foliages.

The stephanotis and lilies gave the most luxurious scent.

Reception Flowers

Sue and Daren's wedding reception was at a Haven holiday park in Perranporth. This was chosen for many reasons but mainly so family and friends travelling down could stay on the park and all be together for the celebrations. The reception was held in the Surf Rider club.
The large top table design was a traditional long and low in reds, golds, whites and greens. Flowers included germini, lilies, cymbidium orchids, roses, hydangea, hypericum, amaranthus and various ferns and foliage.
The reception in full flow.

The finished set up. It was decided to place all the high conical vases on the back tables and bowls on the front.

The chair covers were provided by a local company and finished with bows by the bride and friends.

The pew ends from church were utilised on the rail around the bar area.

The 3 pedestals from church were brought to the reception and 2 placed either side of the top table and one near the entrance to the club.

One of the conical vases. These had lilies, roses, gerberas, amaranthus, hypericum and various foliages and palms.

The table set up again created by the bride and friends.

Another conial vase.

View of the tables from the bar area.

The top table design. Unfortunately when setting up minimal light was on. Hopefully when I receive some of the photos from the professional photographer they will be better lit.

The bowl arrangements.

The bowl arrangements had roses, hydrangeas, cymbidium orchids, hypericum, skimmia and various foliage including fountain grass and green trachelium.

Conical vases.

St Gluvias Church, Penryn

St Gluvias church was the setting for Sue and Daren's blessing. A gorgeous church with alot of light made a welcome sight on Friday when I arrived with the pedestals and vases. I was busy finishing off the arrangements while the wedding rehersal went ahead. Sue had decided on two pedestals at the front of the aisle, one at the back facing the doorway and 2 large vase arrangements which were to be positioned near the door. However after talking to the vicar it was decided to place these on two small tables at the back of the church. The pew ends were made and hung in position Saturday just before the service.

A simple pew end of a single white rose, fountain grass, skimmia, hypericum berries and galax leaves.

The pedestals included white oriental lilies, cream roses, germinis, eustoma and stallion chrysants with red gerberas and plenty of foliage.

The flowers behind were created by the church ladies and greatly added to the floral display.

I also added to the porch 4 bowls from the reception and two baytrees, one either side the entrance. Unfortunately I never got around to taking photos as I became involved with pinning on everyones buttonhole.

Red white and gold wedding

Flowers from the wedding of Sue and Daren. Unfortunately I was so busy with the flowers I never got round to taking any photos of the ladies holding the flowers. I have been promised some though, so keep looking.

Sue's bridesmaids, of which there were four, wore gorgeous full length gold dresses, so we decided to keep the flowers neutral. I used white roses, stephanotis and veronica, gold roses, and various foliage. They were all hand tied posies with gold ribbon wrapped around the stems.


Sue's bouquet was a trailing hand tied posy but in red and white to tone in with the dress. In this I used red roses, hypericum berries, skimmia with white cymbidium orchids, lilies, roses, veronica and stephanotis. various foliage was used including fountain grass, asparagus fern and bear grass.