Happy 6th December...

A quick festive share today. We designed this festoon light star for beautiful Fawsley Hall. It was a real success lighting up the courtyard into the evening. We have since been back to instal the same lighting effect but these photos are just fabulous! 

If you would like a quote for lighting give us a call for a chat or pop your details down on the contact form.

We made the Polaroid Guestbook board for guests to pin up their pics. Chloe didn't want a  photo booth, she wanted the whole day to be her booth, I loved this idea and it has been proving very popular with weddings since. 

Links to the items hired by Chloe & Ben: 100cm shaded silver candelabra, silver punch bowl, single leg shaded candleholder, mercury votives, polaroid guestbook, bespoke chalk boards, silver easel, whisky barrel table, ornate footed silver cake stand, sweet jars, furniture, decorative silver plate charger, arch with pillars, Oak welcome board or why not get in touch for a chat about your day.

Photography credit Tara Florence and beautiful floral arrangements by Homeland Florists

After a very busy season where we disappeared into a glorious (often chaotic) world of weddings, we would like to share some of the fabulous imagery and inspiring ideas from 2017. We often feel like polar bears, hiding away in the summer buried under the weight of weddings and then we pop our heads up as winter approaches and remind you all we're still here. Promise to improve our social networking in 2018!

Lets get things going with an advent calendar of weddings, eye candy for each festive day. Somewhere in the middle of my advent I have some exciting news to share with you all...I'll save that for later.  

​Kickstarting with the Pipewell Hall relaunch Open Day back in June. Photographed by the hugely talented and very lovely Sarah Vivienne and flowers by Tracey Spokes Flowers for all your stories. 

We were delighted to be involved with the Pipewell Hall relaunch earlier this year, this is a beautiful venue well deserving of a visit from would be brides looking for a touch of class and elegant grandeur. The team at Pipewell Hall are super friendly and the house and gardens beautifully maintained. 

Our huge 5 foot light up LOVE letters set the scene around the dance floor 

We bucked the trend with the decor proving that Tepees don't have to be all about jam jars and lace and brought a bit of posh to this canvas venue. The result was glamorous with a touch of whimsy. On the tables our showstopper tall glass footed vases fabulously dressed by Tracey Flowers for all your Stories, with touches of mercury and silver and vintage ridged glass candlesticks. We added soft grey dinner candles to complement the favours and table stationary. Macaron favours by Maison Des Macarons, and if you haven't tasted Kimm's macarons yet you simply must! Stationary by Kerry at Gracie Brown Bespoke Stationary. Have a look at Kerry's Facebook page, a very talented lady!

Gorgeous ruffle chair hoods by Lola Rose Venue Dressing

Bringing the garden inside is something Tracey from Flowers for all your Stories is really very good at! 

Glass candlesticks, mercury pilalr candle holders, mercury votives, silver decorative plate chargers, silver and pearl place card holder, silver and pearl table number holders, small cylinders and pearl napkin brooches.

Make an entrance flanked with our whisky barrels & adorned with a large floral arrangement and chalk board welcome board. 

It was very difficult to choose the images from this photoshoot they were all fabulous. A huge thank you to Sarah Vivienne who is as lovely to work with as she is professional. The beautiful Tepee was supplied by Sami Tipi.

Get in touch with each supplier by clicking on the links. Contact Pipewell Hall for a viewing of their beautiful privately owned estate Phone: 01536 760563 Email: info@pipewellhall.com

Its been a while since our last blog, half way through the year and with weddings in full swing its always a challenge for us to keep up with the social network. But I wanted to share with you some pictures from Hothorpe Hall & The Woodlands Open day two weeks ago. One of our absolute favourite venues we were asked to dress the blessing area. We used our coir aisle and some rustic accessories like the lanterns hanging in the trees and rustic hurricane lanterns raised on tree stumps to line the aisle and large foliage urn arrangements either side of the blessing table (arrangement by Julia Dilworth Florals). With one of our vintage bikes and a whisky barrel table with monogrammed backdrop offering drinks served from pretty drinks dispensers to add the finishing touch. And of course plenty of signage and chalk board art. The blessing area piqued a lot of interest from the visitors that day particularly with the news that Hothorpe Hall have applied for a license to perform legal ceremonies in this fabulous secluded woodland! Hothorpe are hoping to be able to offer licensed outdoor ceremonies by next Spring so watch this space for more news.

Thank you to all the couples who came over for a chat and as promised below are some pictures from the day x

Sticking with the vintage I wanted to share with you some lovely images from last seasons weddings featuring our vintage bikes. The demand for our lovely bikes is still strong so we added a new bike to the collection last year, a very pretty pastel green single bike. 

​Our bikes go on a bit of a journey...

The diary is filling up for this season so its looking like the bikes are set to go on another fun journey! If you would like to hire any of our bikes please get in touch. The bikes are extremely popular so try to get in touch as early as possible. 

Happy New Year! Its been a lovely break, I feel like I have been on a perfectly restful cruise in my own living room! Those of you who know me well will understand what I'm saying. I'm still enjoying a quiet time but the enquiries are starting to roll in so I've shaken off my snooze and its back to work. Once I hit the wedding season I often find the 'oh so important' social networking, blogging and tweeting hard to keep up with so I thought I would write a series of blogs featuring some of last years beautiful weddings and our expanding stock.

I'm going to kick start things with the vintage crockery hire. Proving that the elegance of vintage is here to stay last year we delivered well over 700 trios, approximately 200 cake stands and I've lost count of the teaspoons! And the diary is looking like 2017 will keep us on our toes washing all those delicate pieces again...

Kate and Simon's very pretty marquee wedding above was held in the grounds of their parents splendid home, the best type of wedding. Kate, referred to me by Lindsey & Gwen from Compton & Kennedy's  Emporium (two fabulous ladies who make everything delicious!) was a real pleasure to correspond with. Sometimes you just know you are going to like someone long before you meet them. Captured beautifully by Lindsey Arber Photography, this fabulous wedding resulted in us having an innordinate number of very pretty vintage sandwich platters!

Kate's florist used our pressed glass cake stands for these fabulous centrepieces. A simple elegant and hugely cost effective centrepiece, From Me To You florist.

Other items hired to complete this elegant afternoon tea setup were the vintage suitcases, we printed pretty luggage tags for Kates table plan, oodles of pretty homemade bunting, drinks dispensers with matching jam jars cocktail glasses and coordinated monogrammed straws...All in all it was the perfect afternoon tea party!

And a quintesential Garden Party! It was lovely to work alongside two extremely talented ladies Kimm of Maisons Des Macarons and Victoria of Victorias Cake Company. When you need to place your trust in someone for your special day I can't stress enough that recommendation is key ... and I highly recommend both of these suppliers. Victorias cake artistry is second to none and Kimm's macarons are to die for! We styled the afternoon tea party on a perfect sunny day for a regular client. The brief was pretty, pretty, pretty! I made the chalk board to stand behind the cake table and used our pretty french louis furniture, crokery and glassware.. With pom poms in the trees, the samovar polished and ready to go and the sweet smell of Victorias cakes in the air we were definitely bringing on the pretty! 

​Some more lovely pics of the vintage crockery hire and vintage themed decoration 

Of course no one does a tea party like children! Above set of photographs taken by Firetree Photography. Visit our crockery hire page for more info.

It's been a while since our last blog but yesterdays wedding at the stunning venue Kelham Hall in the beautiful Trent Valley, is definitely worth a mention. I was approached last October by two impressive ladies, Sanah (bride) & Ruksana (mother of the bride) with the brief to create an elegant and stylish wedding on a very large scale. This was a segregation wedding with gentlemen on one side and ladies on the other side but the challenge was to make a statement of the separation providing a curtain of flowers and candle light. Enrolling the help of Julia Dilworth for floral arrangements and More Weddings (aka More Productions) for the structures and draping and decoration by Nerissa Eve we worked together to create a glamorous aisle.. A lovely quote from the mother of the bride after the wedding summed up my experience, 'We were lucky to have a really strong team on our wedding'.

More Productions provided the structure to support Julias fabulous floral arrangement. Using our glass ball tea light holders suspended from the arrangement and 19cm cylinder bud vases and tealight holders lined on the table. 306 glass vessels went into making this luxurious aisle finished off with More Weddings 7ft blossom trees and white carpet. We tied the aisle off with an organza bow, the bride simply had to be the first person to tread this particular path. 

Julia used an abundance of orchid, gypsophila, blossom and foliage in this 36ft arrangement with large 60cm cylinder vases completing our curtain of flowers. Twinkling candle light from over 600 glass vases made the room feel magical!

With such a dramatic aisle the flowers on the tables were kept simple. We used a mix of 40cm, 30cm & 20cm glass cylinder vases with a variation of twigs, and assorted flowers submerged in the water topped with a 3" floating candle, the table littered with various glass tea light holders. The challenge on the day was lighting all the candles. Another member of the team deserves a mention. Can I thank the catering staff from Shaziana for helping us with the final task of lighting over 600 candles! I think it was the collaborative team effort that really impressed me with this wedding and I look forward to working with each of these suppliers again in the future. 

We hired our pretty french louis furniture for a sweet table, topped with our 80cm glass fluted vase. We hand painted the chalk board signs and filled the drawers with flowers. 

We designed the menu cards, place settings table numbers and large table plan using pretty florals. 

A little bit about the favours. The family used these insanely cute mason jars filled with Holly water imported from The Zamzam Well, Mecca and we finished it off with a tag quoting from the Quran 'And He created you in pairs'. Please follow this link and read the history behind The Zamzam Well, its a beautiful heart warming story

Hand painted welcome boards placed by the roadside and outside the main entrance to welcome the guests. 

I am already missing my conversations with this family and I hope this will be one of those where we stay in touch after the wedding.

With 630 glass vases used for this wedding all that remains now is the washing up!!

All items mentioned available to hire, including design of signage and table stationary  please contact us for more info.
Thanks to More Weddings, JuliasFlowers and lovely to meet the very professional team from Shaziana catering. Photography by Georgina McGrath.

I want to shared with you a fabulous Woodland themed wedding we had the pleasure of styling earlier in the season. Vicki and Ben approached me last year with their ideas for the perfect afternoon tea in the woods inspired theme. Vicki didn't want a wedding full of Ivory and White, rather she wanted a real pop of colour and fun. The wedding was held in Hothorpe Hall's new venue The Woodlands. For those of you planning a rustic wedding you must take a look at this venue. Nestled amongst the trees The Woodlands offers the perfect backdrop for the rustic wedding, with wooden chalets for your guests, a fabulous outdoor blessing area and a bespoke treehouse for Bride & Groom complete with all the luxuries (unlike any treehouse you have ever seen!). 

Drawing inspiration from nature we constructed a log alter in the blessing area of The Woodlands with an abundance of gold wrapped candles, conical vases and different height logs. Some 35 logs, 80 vases, tea light holders and candles went into creating the log alter but it was worth it. We borrowed the table centrepieces to add colour to the backdrop, pretty vintage pressed glass cake stands with gorgeous popping colourful arrangements by Flowers By Philippa, Philippa finished off the alter with a pretty stage of rose petals for the bride and groom to stand on. It didn't end there, we lined the aisle with lanterns, hung colourful parasols from the trees and surrounded the area with huge latex 1 meter balloons. 

A whisky barrel table piled high with Vintage china for the guests to enjoy following the ceremony completed the afternoon tea in the woods. Further more Philippa dressed a very pretty bridge with a colourful array of Calla lilies and roses. An abundance of shepherd hooks throughout the Woodland with pretty flower filled jam jars completed the look ...and then it rained!

I have loved Vicki and Ben's enthusiasm for their wedding throughout the planning and on the day they both remained totally unruffled when the heavens decided to open. I applaud Vicki for sticking to her guns and she did go on to enjoy a beautiful Woodland wedding, the odd umbrella did not deter her and they both smiled throughout the day.  

Inside the Mulberry dining room the rustic theme continued with elegant charm. We designed lots of lovely chalk boards and made apple place settings to tie the look together. Vicki and Ben very much enjoyed being involved with the planning of their day and I love the pretty little hessian bag favours. The Mulberry dining room is a beautiful reception room with large glass windows overlooking the woodland area. 

A stunning opulent wedding at a beautiful venue. We used our 80cm glass footed vases with our 100cm silver candelabras to create height. In a very large room like this its always a good idea to go for tall centrepieces that take the eye up. These were dressed with floral balls of hydrangeas and roses by the very talented florist Julia Dilworth. To compliment the centrepieces we used our mercury candle holders in a variety of heights and mercury votives. A lovely touch on the head table was the vintage silver coffee pot set used as a vase with pretty rose flower heads. The look was pulled together by the touches of black and white and the giant Love letters. The sun was shinning and the Orangery at Kilworth House looked set for a very elegant party!