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.
We did the most beautiful spring wedding flowers last week, the bride chose this vibrant combination of anemone, tulips, and roses, and they turned out so amazing! The bridesmaid wore cobalt blue, and the matching ribbon just made the colours pop, just stunning.
Anemone are a great choice for spring weddings, great value and come in brilliant bright colours as well as the popular white variety with the black centre. Perfect for all the navy and royal blue bridesmaids’ dresses that are fashionable right now.
We also went with anemones for the buttonholes, and they were perfect! Added cerise ribbon for an extra pop of colour and to tie in with the theme. Love anemones! Everyone getting married in February has to have anemones now, new rule!
Love this vintage lace wedding theme from HeartLoveWeddings.com…pretty paper nosegay cones and crochet lace rosettes in the bouquets!
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.
The summer issue of Martha Stewart Weddings magazine has a beautiful feature on affordable wedding flowers. Love the images and the ideas are really practical and entirely suitable for Irish brides!
Lots of seasonal ‘wildflowers’, which is a look we always recommend, in really loose arrangments and bouquets.
Love the gypsophila garland– gyp is cheap, holds well out of water, and is available year round…would look beautiful for a winter wedding.
You can see the entire photo gallery at marthastewartweddings.com. Be sure to have a look around the site, amazing wedding inspiration there!
I came across a tutorial for this pretty garland and it spoke to my deep and abiding need to hang pretty things everywhere. It would be perfect for wedding decorations, around the door of the church or across the top table, maybe? It would be easy to make up in wedding colours, use up scraps of fabric or indulge yourself in a few metres of gorgeous quilting cottons.
It’s really easy to make–really!–and only requires some basic childlike skills, such as cutting with scissors and tying knots. Perhaps some ironing. Everything you need could be bought at Hickey’s, and if you can’t find the fusible interfacing, you could just use PVA glue, seriously. Get your bridesmaids over and ply them with wine and cakes, you’ll end up with metres of it in no time.
This tutorial is courtesy of the beautful blog Two Shades of Pink, and is in two parts, here and here.
