Wedding at Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh

This couple were married at Norton House, a popular wedding venue on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The bride carried a hand-tied bouquet of vendela roses and the bridesmaids and flower girls carried bouquets of pink and ivory roses. I made pedestal arrangements at the venue whilst an event company were dressing the chairs and putting up curtains. The room definitely had the wow factor.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

 

Mauve and cream Scottish wedding bouquet, buttonhole and corsages

This was a small wedding order for a couple who were getting married at the Registry Office on George IV Bridge, then having a meal at The Hotel Du Vin with close family. The bride wanted mauve, cream rose, thistle and silvery eucalyptus. Pride of Scotland tartan ribbon was wrapped along the stems of the bouquet.

The Bonham, Edinburgh, and the registry office, George IV Bridge.

"Just a quick line to say thank you so much for the beautiful wedding flowers you brought!! An amazing bouquet! Everything was even more beautiful than I had imagined! It was lovely meeting you and you made our special day even more special with all the little details you put in everything!!" 

This couple were so enamoured with Edinburgh that they decided that it was the ideal location for their wedding. They travelled from Germany and even found a German photographer with links to Scotland to shoot the wedding (Mareike Murray  http://www.mareikemurray.com). 

I'm so thankful to receive professional photographs; it's so nice to see the couple in their wedding outfits - I adore Monika's dress! Monika had a clear idea of the flower choice and style of bouquet she was after. She kept a Pinterest Board of arrangements she liked. It was a pleasure to make the bouquets, buttonholes, corsages and table centres for their special day.

 

 

  

Geoge Lammie Photography, Natural Wedding Photography

 George Lammie sent these lovely photographs of a wedding I did at Seton Collegiate Church. He is an expert in natural wedding photography, check out his website at: /http://www.georgelammie.com/
  

Wedding at The Rivers Suite, Craiglockhart (part of Napier University)

I married at Craighouse back in 2009. It was a lovely wedding venue that used to be part of Napier University. Craighouse is currently being developed into flats and now Napier University promote the Rivers Suite on their Craiglockhart campus for weddings. It was the first time I'd worked at this wedding venue. I was impressed by the space, especially the room where people dined and partied. It was light, airy and had a pretty turquoise chapel at the back of the room. The sound system also appeared to be top class - the waiting staff were blasting out music whilst the room was being set-up!

The bride chose a really pretty combination of flowers - pale pinks, ivories and fluffy gypsophila. She had 5 bridesmaids and planned on using some of their bouquets on the top table as table decorations (hence the empty fish bowls). 

I used sweet avalanche, vendela, akito and (spray) snowflake roses, with gypsophila in the bouquets. 

I used the above roses along with willeke albert lilies, eryngium and eucalyptus in the top table / ceremony arrangement. 

The simple but really effective candelabra designs combined variegated ivy with avalanche roses.

 Bride's bouquet above

 Bridesmaid's bouquet

Wedding at the Registry Office on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh.

"You can't imagine the number of people who commented on how beautiful the flowers were - and still are in their homes, as the table centres (bar the one you had prepared for the registry, that we kept) all went away with various guests who are saying how much they are enjoying them.

We too loved the combination of colours and flower varieties, we were so delighted with all your work, from advising on suitability for the prosthetic socket through to delivering to no less than 3 locations! And when we look at the back of the buttonholes, and see that every single ivy leaf is wired and each stem so carefully covered in thin green tape, we wonder if we actually paid you enough? There was even the pretty cake top arrangement, making the cake the nicest I have ever seen.

A huge thank you from us both for your tremendous advice and work, your contribution to the wedding was simply stunning."

Due to a sudden strep infection, which resulted in a quadruple amputation, the couple were forced to delay their wedding by two years. In only two years the bride learnt to walk with prosthetics, drive a car, write with beautiful handwriting... They are such a lovely couple and it was a real pleasure to make arrangements for their wedding. 

It was important for the bouquet to be light for comfort. It was attached to the prosthetic socket with ribbon and the bouquet was constructed mostly by the hand-tied method with a few wired items, including hydrangea leaves.