Fabulous Floral Head Pieces By Florrie & Eve

The tradition for brides wearing flowers in their hair, dating back to Ancient Greece and possibly beyond, is back in full force and Florrie & Eve are striving to keep this tradition alive.  Flowers in your hair evokes a magical and hippie chic vibe that I just love. 

With fresh flower headpieces lasting just for one day Florrie & Eve decided to create perpetual pieces that would last a lifetime.

Each piece is created by designers Nadia and Penelope, and is unique to you. These beautiful and realistic creations are handmade to order using silk flowers and traditional floristry techniques.

"Many of my brides wear a fresh floral hair piece created just a few hours before the wedding ceremony, and while these provide the ultimate finishing touch to the brides attire there is no way of knowing what the piece will be like until it arrives that morning. The designs created at Florrie & Eve mean each bride can try her accessories a head of the big day, ensuring that the hair and gown can be styled to her exact wishes. Our perpetual pieces benefit from the flexibility of floristry techniques that allow the pieces to be manipulated to fit and their look ensured on the big day and beyond."  Nadia Di Tullio, Florrie & Eve.

For further information and prices, visit Florie & Eve.

Vera Wang's New Bridal Bouquets

I don't know about you guys but the news of Vera Wang reaching into flowers was like music to my ears. I am a huge fan of her designs and was intrigued to say the least... who better to get an insight into the trends for the season to come.

Floral trends this season have a strong focus on pale and pastel colours, with vintage designs and country garden inspired arrangements already marked as favourites.

Soft and creamy colour palettes are enhanced by large open flowers that have a quintessential country garden feel.

The other ‘it’ colour on trend is purple, ranging from the softer lavenders and lilacs right through to the deeper, richer violets and indigos.

The style of the bridal bouquets seems to be one of two extremes, the more relaxed 'just picked' country garden feel versus a more structured, modern design.

 

Dusky pinks are definitely also 'big' this season and I think this colour promises to stay around.

I was also very excited to see a very similar Calla Lilly Wedding bouquet featured amongst her designs that I had for my own Wedding!!

Full details of The Vera Wang Wedding Collection by Interflora can be found on the Interflora website along with details of the Interflora florists accredited to provide this nationwide service. Prices for the designs start at £64.99 for a bridal bouquet.

Colour Pop Your Bouquet

If you are looking for something a bit different, and a step away from the classic bridal bouquet, why not make a statement by choosing a bright 'colour pop' bouquet. Not only will it stand out amazingly against the white of your Wedding Dress but it is a great way to incorporate other colours of the day into your outfit.

Then use the colours from your bouquet throughout your entire Wedding theme to really wow your guests... think invitations, bridesmaid dresses, reception decor, wedding cake, favours... you can have such fun with this theme.

A Relaxed Yet Formal, Spectacular Jewish Wedding

If you had happened upon Rachel on the morning of her wedding, you may well have thought she was simply getting ready to go for afternoon tea, or perhaps the theatre. The morning ran smoothly and I have found this is a precursor to how the day will run, it did not disappoint. Relaxed yet formal and intimate yet replete with friends, family and distant relations and more. Rachel & Saul's tireless diligence paid off and the day ran smoothly and without so much as a hair out of place. A pleasure to photograph and a pleasure to have attended.

Once the hustle and bustle died down, the format of a Jewish wedding, to those who have not been to one, is a spectacular event, with numerous ceremonies throughout the day, each with its own meaning, steeped in history and tradition. We learnt an awful lot on this day, getting to experience a wedding from a different culture to the ones I had been shooting and the ones I grew up with - from the signing of the Ketubah, a marriage contract, to the bridal canopy, a Chuppah, under which the couple are married to symbolise the new home built by the couple as they become husband and wife - it was a wonderful day.

Weddings can be hectic affairs. Bridesmaids and mothers busy themselves perfecting the details so to please the bride and can get caught up in the whirlwind of the day and forget to simply enjoy the affair. Rachel & Saul's wedding was a happy event with smiles everywhere and a genuine sense of happiness pervading the entire day. Everything ran so smoothly that it was a dream to photograph and didn't feel like work at all.

Huge thanks goes to the fantastic photographer Tom Davies for providing these wonderful photographs. For more of Tom's work see: www.tomdaviesphotography.co.uk

A Very Natural, Stunning Real Wedding

Welcome to the Wedding of Chloe and James, who got married in an absolutely perfect country setting in the village where Chloe grew up. They chose a true country theme, mixing lots of greens, creams, whites and dusky pink tones in order to create an absolute masterpiece.  I will leave Chloe to tell you the tale of her amazing Wedding Day...

The most memorable part of the day was having all of our most favourite people in one place. It was very overwhelming, especially as some had come from so far away. Lots of James’ family are based in Hong Kong.

I absolutely hated Wedding dress shopping! I went to so many places and because I had no idea what kind of dress I wanted I found it totally impossible to decide.  I fell for a dress in every place I went to! It was my mum who finally gave me the best advice which made me make a decision, she told me I had to decide how I wanted to feel on the day and what would feel most ‘me’.  I decided on a designer called Emma Hunt, based in Wimbledon, she works from home and has a very small collection.  I loved the fact that she starts making the dress only 6 weeks before the wedding so you’re closer to having your wedding body!  A lot of designers that we saw would have started making the dress in January and that scared the life out of me. Emma was so calming and helpful and I ended up totally re-modelling the original dress I’d chosen and incorporated three of her dresses into one – she wasn’t the least bit miffed about this (as I know some designers would be). She just kept saying we would 100% end up with my perfect dress, whatever it took – which we did!  My husband to be wore a very traditional morning suit but incorporated a special Thomas Pink tie with rabbits on as we have house bunnies at home.  Very weirdly my brother chose the same tie (luckily in a different colour) to wear in tribute to us.

My bridesmaids wore Dessy. We were so lucky as both my bridesmaids moved abroad pretty soon after we were engaged so we only had one weekend in December to find their dresses. I was envisaging a nightmare but we found them in the first shop we went to.  We really wanted them to be comfortable so were totally ready for them to choose different styles as there’s nothing worse than seeing an uncomfortable bridesmaids pulling her dress up/down but they both loved the same dress and both looked gorgeous in them.

We decided to opt for a cheese Wedding cake! We all love cheese and I had been told by so many couples that their cake had gone to waste after their Wedding.  I had also fallen in love with a pudding that I wanted our caterer to serve so there wasn’t the option of having cake for dessert.  I sadly didn’t have any but I heard it was amazing, there were a lot of compliments in the thank you letters!

We decided to have 'country style flowers' to go with our typical country wedding, all cream, white, green and dusky pinks.  I wanted everything to be very relaxed and understated so we had flowers in Bon Maman jam jars (covered in lace) on the tables.

James’ brother is a professional photographer (John Alexander Photography) so who we should use was a very easy choice. We were more than thrilled with the photographs. John's style is very relaxed and for someone who absolutely hates having their photo taken I barely knew he was there which was heaven!

I was very lucky and my parents did a lot towards the planning of the Wedding which was great.  We luckily all had the same vision for how we wanted the day to be, a relaxed, happy and most of all fun day... which thankfully it was!   I loved the food tastings, HATED doing the guest list as it was so hard whittling down our numbers. Our initial list (including parents friends) was around 220 people so it was really hard getting it down to around 180.  I’d always wanted a smaller Wedding of around 120 people but quickly realised this wasn’t going to happen.  The whole Wedding planning process took around 9 months and we had all the major things like church, band, caterers etc booked early so could relax for a while before the final countdown.

We had the BEST band called Mode Showband, we’d highly highly recommend them. They were literally incredible and the dance floor was always full which i think is always a great sign. We also had a really fun videographer called Daisy Jenks who was brilliant and did quite a different style of wedding vid, have a look.... http://vimeo.com/44750038.  We knew we’d have John’s amazing pics so we wanted something a little more fun and it was great that the guests had something to do during the 'Champagne bit' which can sometimes drag on! We have had so many compliments about the video and I’m still watching it a lot as a reminder, it makes me want to do the whole day again! A very close friend of ours also sang our first dance (Mr Jones) which was amazing and really special, especially for me.

Chloe's Three Top Tips:

1.  Force yourself to eat on the day, I was so nervous/excited so didn’t remember to eat but wish I had later on as champagne went slightly to my head!
2. Take some time out with your new hubby to ‘take it all in’ – it all whizzes by so quickly and before you know it however many months of planning are all over!
3. Ask as many friends as possible to take extra photographs, although you’ll probably have a professional photographer some of our funniest photographs are ones that friends took.  I’m really appreciative that people made the effort to take and send us extra photos.

Suppliers:
Dress -  Emma Hunt in Wimbledon / Veil -  Emma Hunt / Shoes -  Jimmy Choo / Flowers -  Rachel Jones / Make-up – Gemma Aldou / Bridesmaid Dresses - Dessy / Cake -  Carte Blanche (our caterers) / Photographer – John Alexander