Purple Princess

I love these little posies we made for bridesmaids wearing the popular 'Cadbury' purple coloured dresses.

The bouquets include amnesia & pacific blue roses, thistle, veronica, lisianthus and eucalyptus. Beautiful !

An American Wedding in Rural Derbyshire

One of our recent weddings was at the beautiful Shottle Hall , in my home county of rural Derbyshire.

It was quite a special wedding as the bride and groom are based in Seattle, in the big US of A and most of the planning and correspondence was done via email. I only actually met the bride once in the early stages of the preparations, so it was lovely to see our ideas come together.

The colourscheme was chocolate and teal and with the coordination of Sarah from Tillyboo Events , an amazing job was done with the planning so that the leadup all went to smoothly, and the wedding all coordinated together beautifully.

So onto the flowers !...

First task was an 18ft garland which surrounded the feature window as the backdrop for the civil ceremony. Early on in the planning we decided to opt for warmer shades to compliment the chocolate colourscheme, so chose gorgeous vendella and hypnose roses teamed with scented eucalyptus, which had the bluey shade to it to complete the teal colouring in the wedding.

We had to close the shutters whilst putting the garland up as the sun was so bright and we wouldnt have been able to take a photograph (one of the few sunny days we had in feb), but when they were open, the garland and gorgeous tall windows provided the perfect backdrop onto a beautiful countryside view.

The chairs looked gorgeous in the double wraps of teal and chocolate organza, and to finish the look off we supplied tiny chairbacks of white rannuculus, birch and eucalyptus.

For the reception flowers, the bride and groom wanted low arrangements so not to obstruct the eyeline of their guests so we opted for glass bowls filled with their coordinating flowers, with entwined birch inside the bowls.

And finally for the top table, a coordinating central arrangement with rannuculus clusters at the ends of the swags...

The rooms looked really lovely and the bride was very happy with everything. She spent alot of the morning with us, taking photos of the setup for her own memories, so hopefully we will get a few copies to update this post again at some point.

Pretty In Pink

Recently myself and the lovely Sarah from Tillyboo Events made a mockup table for one of our upcoming brides. As you can see, this bride wants the works, pink, crystals, butterflies, wow!

Here table centrepiece is a martini vase filled with glass diamond shaped crystals, beautiful pink stocks (my favourite flower, i absolutely adore the scent of them!), pink rannuculus , tulips and roses. This is going to be coordinated with matching table runner and chairbacks.

And for the finishing touch, i plan to make tiny pink corsages of pink rannuculus to go on each chair back. A lovely suprise for each guest!

Avalanche Roses

There is something really beautiful about avalanche roses, arranged just simply on their own.

They are a lovely large headed rose, cream with a tiny bit of green on the outer petals.

A wedding we did last year focused on this gorgeous roses, and yesterday i received these lovely images of the bouquets we did.

Photography is by Katie Bailey Photography 01332 231840 http://www.katiebailey.co.uk/ who kindly sent me the images

Valentines Range

We have been working hard since christmas, planning our valentines day range. True to our heart we wanted to give you that special Blossom Tree vintage feel, but at the same time we know times have been hard and value for money together with quality product is so key, especially this year.

So we hope you like this years range we have put together. We have sourced fabulous long stemmed freedom roses, which is a magnificent rose at a very reasonable price , together with some fantastic wraps and containers.

If the traditional red rose is not your thing, then why not have a look at our gorgeous seasonal spring flowers, featured under spring on the website www.theblossomtree.co.uk

Happy Valentines Day ! xxx

Come into our world....

Its early spring, christmas just gone, valentines day almost here, which means lots of men (& women) will have been or about to be, down on bended knee ready to whisper THOSE immortal words , ' Will you marry me?'
This time of year the wedding industry is gearing themselves up ready to showcase their talents at wedding fayres & shows, to all of those about to embark on the journey of wedding planning.
Wedding fayres i admit can be abit daunting at first but they really are the perfect opportunity to see venues dressed for the big day and to discuss ideas with potential suppliers.
For us as a florist, wedding fayres are great as we can be creative, show new designs, 'test the water' with new colour combinations and generally are able to get a feel for the year ahead.

If you would like to come along and see our work and discuss any of your wedding ideas, we shall be exhibiting at ......

7th February Ramada Newton Park Hotel, Newton Solney
7th Donington Manor Hotel, Castle Donington
21st February The Priest House on The River, Castle Donington
24th February The Pavillion , Branston Golf Club, Branston

Most run from 12-4pm, with the exception of Branston Golf Club, which is 6-9pm.

Hope to see you there! x

Teresa & Dominic's Winter Wedding

This is one of my favourite weddings to date, the perfect winter wedding, complete with a dusting of snow and bright blue skies.
Teresa's wintery theme was around the colourscheme of white, silver and navy, which we decided to complement with these white frill edged tulips. They almost look like snowflakes . The foliage of silver brunia , kochia and eucalyptus picked out the silver in her colourscheme and gave a wintery collar to the bridal bouquet.

The buttonholes and corsages were coordinated to match.....

We used seasonal flowers and foliages in the large arrangements, including beautiful white amaryllis.

And for a real wintery feel, the table centrepieces were made of twinkley silver birch stems with white phalenopsis orchid heads attached. We filled the vases with clear gel to look like ice and floating pearls with looked like tiny snowballs in the ice. The marquee would of looked spectacular when it started to get dark and by candlelight.