Natural Elopement Wedding flowers for an Intimate Photoshoot

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    Natural Elopement Wedding flowers for an intimate Devon wedding

     

    Summer bridal bouquet

     

    Natural elopement wedding flowers

    Natural elopement wedding flowers for an intimate Devon Wedding, this was a dream to be involved with; aimed to create a wild and romantic feeling. It was a great time to be creative, and work with other local wedding industry suppliers in the South West too. This one was quite an adventure too! Set on Burgh Island; just imagine the fun of getting everything and everybody to a tiny Island just off the South Devon coast… it’s a very special location, and we’re lucky to be so nearby.

    Burgh Island and it’s famous mermaid pool

    Flowers grown on our Devon Flower Farm

    The brief for this Devon wedding was boho elopement, and the flowers I choose (all grown here on our Devon flower farm of course), needed to be airy yet romantic- natural wedding flowers with a hint of wildnes. The main focal point was a meadow circle, for a ceremony on the cliff top. I wanted it to look like it was growing there, in an undone and wild way- fulfilling the natural wedding flower look that was wanted. It needed to be a focal point, and unashamedly beautiful.

    Natural elopement wedding flowers, ceremony set up

     

    Summer Seasonal Flowers

    Seasonal flowers included; the always useful Ammi (looks like cow parsley but has a much better vase life, and slightly bigger flowers, I try and grow it all season long). Roses- anyone who know me knows I have a slight obsession here in our flower garden- growing over 200 bushes, but oh my goodness. They like our soil and they are completely breath stopping- beautiful, scented, the colours, I can’t even begin… they get used in our Devon wedding flowers alot.

    Foxgloves- one of my stalwart bi-annuals. THE COLOURS- blush and peach, perfect, romantic wedding flowers. Their structure, the way bees adore them and vibrate when inside each bell. I find them fascinating, and picked everything we had to use in this shoot.

    Foxgloves, ammi, roses and eucalptus meadow scene

    There was also masses and masses of eucalyptus- we grow ALOT on our Devon flower farm. It has a wonderful scent, and a gorgeous muted grey/ green, that mixes so well with flowers. As we grow our own, we’re able to pick massive sweeping branches too- perfect to create wild wedding flower installations.

    Other shout outs go to blousy peonies (sigh, such a short flowering season but their fleeting nature makes them all the more special and sought after). Again they like our soil, and we grow lots of varieties. And this we also used a lot of flowering cress- it has an amazing texture and vase life, and just elevated everything else. Not showy but very much essential to creating the natural wedding flower -y- ness that we wanted.

    Because we grow the majority of flowers we use in our wedding floristry ourselves, in our flower garden, (and if not sourcing from other local flower farms too), we have the opportunity of the unusual! We can pick whatever’s looking best at that time, and sometimes it’s surprising what flowers together at the same time… In this case it was an anemone that had decided to flower extraordinarily late, but was just so, so beautiful. I made sure it got pride of place in the wild and natural bridal bouquet. This bridal bouquet was mainly made up with roses (I did say how much I liked them right?..) and the scent was amazing.

    Bridal bouquet made up of masses of scented roses.

     

     

    It was a great day, with a great team, creating natural wedding flowers in a truly stunning location. If you’d like to get in touch about about natural wedding flowers- find our wedding enquiry form here. And for more inspiration about sesonal flowers- browse our flower galleries here (divided into seasons).

    Team Credits:

    Team
    Cake: Edible Essence
    Flowers: Holly-Bee Flowers
    Hair Stylist: Brigitte Fisher – Wedding Hair Devon
    Make Up Artist: Emma Roberts – Make-up artist
    Model: Matt @ Mosaic Model & Creative Production Management
    Model: Lucy Cole
    Photographer / Creative Director: Emma Barrow Photography
    Photographer’s Assistant: Doble Photography
    Props: Keeping It Vintage Wedding & Event Hire
    Stationery: Knots & Kisses Wedding Stationery & Styling
    Stylist: Knots & Kisses Wedding Stationery & Styling
    Videographer: Daniel Grindrod
    Venue:Burgh Island Hotel
    Wardrobe: AW Bridal / The Wedding Company, Plympton / The Grooms Room

     

     

    Bridal Bouquets and Seasonal Flowers: 5 reasons why they’re the perfect pairing

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    Bridal Bouquets and Seasonal Flowers: 5 reasons why they’re the perfect pairing

     

    Hello from Devon, the temperature has dropped at last, and there’s been rain as well, so we have happy plants. As wedding enquiries start coming in once more, I thought I’d write a little something on one of my favourite thing to create; Bridal Bouquets. And the reasons why using seasonal ingredients heightens designs and helps create something really special.

    I adore making them; it just feels like a quiet moment, and the process is something I find really reflective.  They’re also an important focal point, but I try to forget about any pressure! Anyway… seasonal flowers, bridal bouquets and  why it’s a wonderful combination:

    Natural flowers

    Now it’ll come as no surprise at how passionate I am about this, but just to say it again: Natural Flowers is where it’s at. Seasonal, local blooms are truly wonderful. Flowers grown in their natural habitat, picked to order; the beauty and freshness shines through. Grown happily, and simply, working with the seasons and climate. No air miles, no chemicals, no unnatural growing conditions… We grow and source all our flowers here in the South West, working with the seasons, evolving each year, which means we’re providing you with the freshest blooms possible.

    Natural Bridal Bouquet

     

    Uniqueness

    It also means your flowers are completely unique! Wonky stems (we’re a fan), texture, colour varieties, no two flowers are ever the same- and I love this. On our Devon flower farm we grow select flowers, not on a mass scale, each year choosing, reviewing and planning new varieties and combinations. It’s part of the whole creative process.

    Unique flowers grown in Devon

     

    Sustainable

    Again this is a big, big passion for us! We look after our land and so the land looks after us (by producing beautiful blooms). Year on year this will continue- feeding the land, and growing more beautiful things. Everything is picked to order, we make our own compost, there’s a life cycle on our flower farm. It all links back.

    Bridal bouquet full of home grown flowers

    Beautiful

    Have I mentioned this yet (sorry,  I know I’m biased), but I just think the beauty shines out, and the scent, so many senses come to life from fresh flowers. Scent isn’t something that travels well, so a lot of imported flowers have this trait bred out of them, due to needing to able to survive transporting across the world. But not if you use local flowers…

    Naturally beautiful bridal bouquet

     

    Bespoke

    Everything is created around your day. Small or big, every item is made for you. This means we’re flexible, and helpful (hopefully). Creating and growing seasonal flowers here in South Devon ,because we believe in the process and want to share it with you, and help make your day unique, beautiful and full of flowers.

     

    I hope that’s explained some of our thought process behind why we work the way we do; hand in hand with sustainability and beautiful flowers. Growing flowers in Devon, and creating wild and wonderful wedding blooms. If you want to send us an enquiry go to our wedding enquiries form. And if you’d like some seasonal inspiration we have flower galleries covering all the seasons (or ask us!) to start to give an idea of what flowers are around and when.

     

     

    Busy and Happy

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    Busy & Happy

    I’ve had a busy month or so since I last wrote, the garden has come on leaps and bounds, and is currently having a well deserved drink (read: it’s raining heavily!) I’ve had the pleasure of doing flowers for some beautiful weddings, I’ve started doing local bouquets again, and given demonstrations at local gardening clubs too. And I even met my flower hero- Sarah Winward. This was at a dream-like afternoon workshop in Yorkshire with the ever-so lovely Fiona form Firenza Floral Design, and the ladies from Holme flowers (the workshop was held at their incredible Farm near Thirsk). So it’s been busy, but oh so satisfying as well. Ooh and the roses are just starting to flower too so there’s that to look forward to…

    Jess’s beautiful wedding boquet

    Emma’s wild and colourful bridal bouquet

    Holme Flowers’ apple orchard

    Sarah Winward’s gorgeous demo urn

    Firanza Floral Design’s beutiful demo urn

    My turn at a ‘large urn’. Looking forward to seeing professional pictures from Holly at Belle and Beau, rather than my hurried snaps!

    Spring 2017

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    Spring 2017

    It’s a beautiful day here in Devon, and things are starting to bloom, which makes me very happy! We have incredible anemones,  the ranunculus are just starting to flower, and lots of narcissi, muscari, tulips and fritillaries are just round the corner. I’ll get back into posting more often soon, now I’ll have flowers to photograph again. In the meantime, here are some of the early flowers from the past few weeks…

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