West Horsley Place
In the renovated barn at West Horsley Place we created textural tablescape designs down the long dining tables using a mix of clear glass vases and bottles, with ice blue and ginger tapered candles. We used lots of tendrils, seedheads and fruits to add interest on the tables…
For the bride’s bouquet, a mixture of soft and pretty ‘Cornelia’ roses with pale blue and yellow scabious flowers, creamy Nandina spires and hydrangea.
St Mary’s is a beautiful old church in West Horsley, Surrey - with foundations dating back to 1030! We decorated the dark wooden rood screen with a ramble of roses, mixed perennials, branches and clematis.
In the renovated barn at West Horsley Place we created textural tablescape designs down the long dining tables using a mix of clear glass vases and bottles, with ice blue and ginger tapered candles.
We used lots of tendrils, seedheads and fruits to add interest on the tables - wild clematis and ‘cup-and-saucer’ vines, sweet pea pods, alliums and ripening blackberries.
Holland Park Orangery
Formerly used as a ‘garden ballroom’, the tall windows and white walls of the Orangery in Holland Park provide a brilliant backdrop for flower dressing. We decorated the space with tall, wiry branches and trailing vines to bring the outside in.
Formerly used as a ‘garden ballroom’, the tall windows and white walls of the Orangery provide a brilliant backdrop for flower dressing. We decorated the space with tall, wiry branches and trailing vines to bring the outside in.
At the base of the bronze ‘Wrestlers of Herculaneum’ we constructed two billowing installations of perennial plants and grasses, framing the couple as their vows were made.
For the aisle flowers, small groupings of delicate stems at the base of the chairs - above a combination of lilac-blue field scabious, pale delphiniums and poppy heads.
After the ceremony long tables were brought into the room and laid for lunch - we decorated them with a stream of glass vases filled with fragrant honeysuckle, roses, nepeta and camomile.
Spring at Somerset House
For this wedding at Spring restaurant in Somerset House we decorated the tables with a mix of our own design ceramics and small glass bottles. Footed bowls were filled with blowsy summer flowers in all shades of pink from pale blush to deep cerise.
For this wedding at Spring restaurant in Somerset House we decorated the tables with a mix of our own design ceramics and small glass bottles.
On the central bar we placed a dramatic tumbling arrangement of roses and clarkia blossoms, with towering spires of Veronicastrum and giant scabiosa.
All the ingredients were grown by us in Hampshire - scented garden roses, honeysuckle tendrils, wood sage, chocolate mint, sweetpeas and tiny alpine strawberries.
On the tables, footed bowls were filled with blowsy summer flowers in all shades of pink from pale blush to deep cerise.
Battersea Arts Centre
At this magical moment of the year as winter meets spring, we conjured the atmosphere of a rambling Italianate garden on an early spring day, using ceramic and terracotta props, fresh flowering bulbs, spindly branches of delicate blossom, dried grasses and seedpods from the winter garden.
At this magical moment of the year as winter meets spring, we conjured the atmosphere of a rambling Italianate garden on an early spring day, using ceramic and terracotta props, fresh flowering bulbs, spindly branches of delicate blossom, dried grasses and seedpods from the winter garden.
The bride’s bouquet included delicate white Anemone coronaria ‘The Bride’, tulips, Fritillaria meleagris ‘Alba’, golden dried hydrangea and delicate steams of Pittosporum and Potentilla foliage.
Vessels of mixed heights and shapes ran the length of the tables at Battersea Arts Centre with intricate, gestural designs of anemones, fritillaries and scented tulips in stoneware bottles and ceramic vases.
A large bowl of flowers and foliage for the escort card table - including the first Fritillaria raddeana from the garden. We used a colour palette of cool white, pops of golden yellow and green, with small touches of soft peach and honey hues for added warmth.
Savile Club, Mayfair
We used long tendrils of wild ivy to dress the staircase, with dried and fresh flowers in a palette of white, cream and mocha.
We used long tendrils of wild ivy to dress the staircase, with dried and fresh flowers in a palette of white, cream and mocha.
Pruning the rambling roses this week at the farm gave us some delicate little branches to use and helped to add extra movement to the luxurious table centrepieces.
The ceremony urns were filled with branches of lodgepole pine, rambling rose briars and ice white amaryllis.
We also dressed the window sills above the staircase. All our designs are foam-free - these were constructed in resin troughs with chicken wire.
Bouquets for brides
SPRING MEETS SUMMER | A moment in time that sings of hope - the first sweet peas blooming as the tulips come to an end. This allows for the creation of effortlessly feminine and romantic bouquets; blowsy petals, ruffles, tendrils and all.
SPRING MEETS SUMMER | A moment in time that sings of hope - the first sweet peas blooming as the tulips come to an end. This allows for the creation of effortlessly feminine and romantic bouquets; blowsy petals, ruffles, tendrils and all.
MASSED | Sometimes simple is best - a combination of three ingredients really allows each to stand out - pale intricate Omphalodes linifolia, impossibly fluffy Pennisetum villosum and opium poppy heads make for a textural summer bouquet.
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME | There is a subtle dark to light gradation in this bouquet, but really all the attention is taken by the honey-centred ‘Julia’s Rose’ in the middle. Around the edges are sprinkled sprigs of scented calamint and hydrangea.
CHOCOLATE & LEMONADE | This bouquet doesn’t contain any ‘focal’ flowers, more a mass of ‘small faces’ - from pom pom dahlias to China asters and lots of pretty cosmos - ‘Apricot Lemonade’ and 'Chocolate’.