All being well I should be on honeymoon right now on the South coast of Italy! I’ve planned a few scheduled posts to share some details of our wedding day whilst we’re away though. I promise to catch up with all comments and emails on our return.
It was over a year ago I first asked my parents if they would help with the flowers for our wedding. I know how expensive flowers have been for friends that have gotten married. I am without a clue when it comes to what flowers grow during what month and probably couldn’t name half of the ones used in our arrangements but my Mum has always been into her gardening and has quite a lot of garden space back at home.
Luckily my parents went one better than helping me decide on flowers and offered to grow the flowers for me themselves. We had already decided on the yellow colour theme by this point so my Mum immediately hunted down some wedding flower books in the library and I began to pin some ideas on Pinterest of the styles I liked.
Some of my Pinterest finds…
I wanted something small for the tables, and I loved the idea of having the flowers in little teacups. We played with this idea at first, and also at having the flowers in tiny galvanised buckets, but both worked out at added expense when we were trying to keep costs down as much as possible. In the end it was my brother who came up with the solution. One day he brought home a crate of small Schweppes bottles from work as they were very close to their sell-by date. The tiny bottles were ideal for a little touch on each table without going overboard on amount or cost.
We left the bottles soaking in some hot water for five minutes before peeling the labels easily away.
We purchased quite a lot of both brown and yellow ribbon. The brown ribbon wrapped neatly around the little table decorations and was tied in a pretty bow at the front of each. I’m hoping our photographer got some photos of the completed table decorations as I haven’t spotted any taken by our guests yet.
My Mum did a great job with the bridesmaid’s bouquets as she did with mine. My request was that a section of my bouquet could break off so that I could place it onto my Nan’s grave after the wedding.
I think it is lovely that your flowers were grown for you like that, so personal.
Gorgeous in your dress too
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Thank you!
I loved being able to see the progress of our flowers each time we went back to Norfolk. I saw my Mum’s garden develop into a sea of yellow, white and orange!
Oh they look beautiful! I think it’s such a personal touch. Really lovely. For my wedding my mum’s friend did our flowers and I loved them. I love the more ‘natural’ looking bunches than really over-done artificial style.
Yes, we were much more ‘natural’ than artificial. I really hope that the photographer took some photos of the ones on the tables, as they were beautiful. So simple but still stunning. My Mum did a fantastic job!
I think it’s so lovely that you did your own flowers, they look amazing and what a lovely thought with your boutique and sharing it on your Nans grave
It was something I had decided very early on – that I wanted a section to place on my Nan’s grave and several people commented on the day about what a lovely idea that had been.
Wow, I love that your flowers were homegrown – that makes them so special. You look just breathtaking in your gown. Congratulations!
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Thank you! My dress was the very first one I tried on!
I love that teacup idea. I think it would be perfect for an “Alice in wonderland” theme. And the fact that your parents grew your flowers, well, that really is something. Preserve Flower Utah
Oh yes, it is very Alice in Wonderland!
I love how you manage to get the most beautiful flowers for your wedding day. They are real fruits of love and care!
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