Beautiful images by photographer Lisa O’Dwyer of the Tipperary wedding of Bo and Talbot we did a couple of weeks ago (you saw her bouquets and buttonholes in our last post)…just stunning! It’s really hard to get good photos of church flowers and she captured them perfectly, love all the detail. Thanks to Bo and Lisa for sharing the photos!
See more photos at Lisa’s blog!
We’ve been really busy with weddings the last few weeks, working hard to post photos of all the designs we’ve come up with lately! Just love how these really vintage-y, petite little bouquets came out, with matching buttonholes featuring feathery limonium and astrantia. The bouquets feature ranunculus, anemone, and roses and are a great late spring/early summer combination. This style would work just as well with summer flowers, lavender would be great in these!
More new photos in our wedding flower gallery!
Busy with weddings over the weekend, including this beautiful garden themed wedding. The bridal bouquet featured Sweet Avalanche roses and white anemones set against a selection of early summer flowers. Sweet little ‘bunchy’ buttonholes of Cool Water roses with anemone and waxflower, and bridesmaids to match.
The reception took place at the Grain Store at Ballymaloe, where we filled the tables with vases of garden style flowers, including large enamel jugs on the window and top table. It looked stunning and smelled amazing!
See more images from the weekend at our wedding flower gallery, click the link on the left!
I’ve been pinning loads of gorgeous spring flower bouquets lately, here are some beautiful specimens to inspire you!
1. Petite bouquet of sweet peas in shades of pink with a pop of colour from orange roses, as seen on The Brides Cafe.
2. Jug of tulips, roses, hyacinths, and almond blossom from decor8.com.
3. Tied bunch of tulips and hyacinths in vintage tones from oncewed.com.
Another recent bridal bouquet using Cool Water roses…love this rose, the perfect shade of purpley-pink to go with all the navy and midnight blue bridesmaids’ dresses that are popular right now. Combined with all of our favourite summer flowers–phlox, stock, chamomile, viburnum–it has become a bit of a signature bouquet for us!
We did a beautiful wedding a couple of weeks ago, in the Bayview Hotel in Ballycotton, Co. Cork. The bride loved our vintage style ‘collection’ table centres, but wanted to use china, crystal, and silver vases, along with some of our little collaged jars. I suggested that we line the tables with a selection of antique linens and doilies that we have here in the shop, to complement the pretty, ‘granny’s dining room’ feel.
The Bayview has a lovely atmosphere, very intimate with low ceilings and lots of antiques decorating the room, and is perfect for vintage style weddings. We were all delighted with how they came out, we used the pew ends from the ceremony in a large vase along with cuttings in the smaller containers and fallen petals on the table. I would recommend collecting or hiring vintage china cruets and sugar bowls in the future, to complete the look, but it was a gorgeous effect altogether, with the sun filtering into the room which overlooked Ballycotton Bay, a really stunning reception venue, can’t recommend it enough!
Contact the Bayview Hotel in Ballycotton, Co. Cork, on 021-464-6746 or visit their website at bayviewhotel.com. For china hire, contact Pearl and Godiva on 086-783-8298 or visit pearlandgodiva.com.
