Charlotte House Hotel

 Charlotte House Hotel, possibly my most asked for venue. It is a typical hotel venue with everything on hand. You can get get ready, get married, have a lovely reception, dance the night away and crawl to bed all without setting foot outside should our weather not behave on the day.

The ceremony room (above), you can get married in the orangery too, is neat and light with enough room to have a pedestal or two behind the registrars table. The bay trees are popular outside the entrance.

 The orangery is the main area for your reception and again is so light with the glass wall. There is plenty of space for your guests tables and traditional long table.

 The chairs are unusual though, large leather chairs which don't need any covers to hide under.

 All sorts of flower displays work in this venue from birdcages and fishbowls to tall lily vases and candelabras. Match them to your theme/style and you can be sure they will look great in this room.

If you are getting married at Charlotte House Hotel and would like to discuss your flower requirements please get in touch with me direct.

The Old Palace

 The Old Palace. Another venue with loads of character. It is tucked away behind the Cathedral but is getting popular especially as has now expanded into a hotel. Unfortunately you are unable to get married here but it is a fabulous location for your reception. There are many rooms on several floors and a fabulous terrace and garden for summer days.
The views from the main function room are superb with the Cathedral on one side and a view over the south of the city from the other.

 I have dressed the tables in many ways, here we have the small candelabras from a wedding back in April last year. I am more than happy to discuss your wedding flowers if you are having your reception here, please contact me directly.

 This was a wedding from September with a new addition of a large mirror over the grand fireplace.

 The top of the stairs is a lovely place to add a flower display.

The entrance to the function room is a great place to put your table plan with an added pedestal.

Gainsborough Old Hall

 Today's venue is possibly my favourite one, Gainsborough Old hall. It is so quirky with loads of history behind it. It is a Grade 1 listed building owned by English heritage and dates from around 1460 and visited by both King Richard III and Henry IIIV.
There are four rooms in which you can hold your wedding ceremony with The Upper Great Chamber (80) shown above. There is also The West range (85), The Stewards room (55) and The Great Hall (150). For your reception you can choose The West range or Great Hall.

Wedding ceremonies have only recently been introduced and the hall will be open exclusively on the last two Saturdays of the month from May - September for 2013/14 for this purpose.

For more information please get in touch with Amanda, wedding planner, at The Hall. enquiries@gainsboroughweddings.co.uk

I am a preferred supplier here and can provide all your flower requirements.

Elsham Hall

 Sorry for no post yesterday, for some reason I couldn't load any photos!
Back on track today and I thought I would share with you some of the lovely venues I get to work with. This is The barn at Elsham Hall. A stunning venue with even better grounds and with a lovely team headed by Elaine of Bride Beautiful you will be very well looked after.
The above image is of the ceremony space. The chair covers, drapes and archway are provided by Elaine. The pedestals are provided by me.

 This is Elaine's archway with a garland of fresh flowers provided by me with a registrars table display.

 Once the ceremony is over the team turn around the barn and set up for the reception. This one was a Cath Kidston inspired theme. Again all chair covers and drapes are provided by Elaine at Bride Beautiful.

 The ceremony display will be transferred to the top table.

 A pedestal design in The barn's urns.

There are plenty of opportunities to display flower designs as well as on the guest table there are radiator covers.

For further information please go to Bride Beautiful web page
To connect to Elsham's Facebook page click here
If you are thinking of booking you might want to take advantage of this offer:

"Elsham Hall January Sale!!!

We are currently offering £500 discount on all weddings booked with full deposit paid before the 31st January 2013.( Select Dates ) 

To book an appointment to come and view the venue please email: Kate at bridebeautiful@ymail.com

Happy New Year!"

I hope these images inspire you. Another venue tomorrow x 

Favourite photos

 There we are: All back to normal and all thinking where did Christmas go! To cheer us all up I have posted three photos. The first, above, one of my favourite bouquets of last year. Now I loved making each and every bouquet but you always get one or two that are extra yummy. This was a summer wedding bursting with seasonal flowers. The lovely Emma had virtually left the varieties up to me and was more concerned with the overall feel of the flowers. Just picked delicate garden flowers mostly white/ivory with a hint of pink.

 My favourite rose of the year: Sweetness. A fabulous two toned rose mainly ivory but with reddy/pink outer petals. A hardy rose that lasts well in designs.

The lovely giant bee at Eden. One of my personal highlights of the year. We were in Cornwall on holiday and a deal was set. I would go for a day at Eden while my lovely partner went kite surfing. A full day just wandering around the gardens and domes getting loads of ideas for my garden. More about that in another post.

Best wishes
x

Wishing you a happy new year

Happy New Year to one and all. I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and a great time if you ventured out last night.
We took some of our dogs for a walk on Lincoln South Common this afternoon, view above, to clear our heads. Not so much from alcohol but to focus on the year ahead with all that may come our way. 2013 is already looking like a tremendously busy year with more weddings booked at this stage than ever before. I'm sure now the holidays have finished more lovely couples will be getting focused to the planning of their big day. If you are one of these and would like to discuss your flowers with me, please do so as soon as you can as some dates are now fully booked.
I hope to blog more this year and to update my web and facebook page as often as possible, so do follow/like these if you can.
I am also currently assessing which wedding fayres to attend and as soon as I book any they will be on the web page.
The newsletter will also be better organised and will be sent out at a set time each month, with an update or two in between. If you are not signed up you can do so on the right column of both this blog and my web page.
As always if you have an questions in regards to your flowers, please get in touch and I will help where I can.

I wish you all a happy and healthy new year and remember a wedding is one day, whereas a marriage is for life.

Best wishes

Sandra xx

Gainsborough Old Hall Wedding Fayre

Way back at the beginning of September I attended The Gainsborough Old Hall's wedding fayre. I am a preferred supplier here and it is always a privilege to arrange flowers in such a stunning venue.

My large, 70cm, martini vase. As it was autumn I kept to seasonal colours. I love these they add plenty of height to the guest tables yet allow people to see each other and allows conversation across the table.

A silver candlestick design with a difference. Suitable for either end of the top table or a buffet table or on a bar. Again seasonal colours and flowers with poppy heads, roses, ivy, holly, hydrangea and eustoma.

A modern trailing bouquet. A mix of avalanche, sweet avalanche, hydrangea and phalaenopsis orchids. The flowers sat on a nest of Ivy and pink aluminium wire.

A fish bowl of floating phalaenopsis orchids with pink aluminium wire and crushed ice in the base.