Looking for ideas for your wedding table flowers?  I’ve just put together a video that has a run through of some of the flower centerpieces that I have created recently.  Why not have a quick play of it, right now?

Choosing Wedding Centrepieces

Using flowers on the tables in your venue can make all the difference to your day.  It can add colour and really make the setting look like a celebration.  I often work with my brides to ensure that the colours of the flowers in the table decorations are matched with the bride’s flowers and also the bridesmaids’ dresses.

Flower Decorations for Your Venue

When you are thinking about the type of flower arrangements to choose, it is worth bearing in mind the type of venue that you have. Wedding marquees and rooms with high ceilings are particularly suited to tall arrangements, which can incorporate flowers such as calla lilies, orchids and roses.

Here’s what Yvette said about our wedding flowers recently:

“Absolutely beautiful. They made all the diference to the marquee. Many positive comments from guests. Thank you”

There are many elegant wedding venues in Warwickshire that are over 100 years old.  Traditional flowers such as roses, peonies and hydrangeas can be particularly effective in these venues. We also have a set of candelabras for hire, that work well is this type of setting.

Contemporary Wedding Decorations

If you want to throw tradition out of the window and have contemporary decorations, we’ve also had plenty of experience of creating modern centrepieces for weddings.  Just let me know and we can work together to create something that will really have the ‘wow-factor’.

This what Sharon and Nick said about their contemporary wedding flowers:

“The bouquets and the table pieces were absolutely stunning and everyone commented to this effect.”

You can contact us for a consultation to discuss your unique wedding flowers.

Calla lilies have to be one of the most popular flower choices for our brides. It’s probably not that surprising as these flowers are simply stunning and elegant.  Calla lily wedding centrepieces look fabulous in wedding venues. Because this flower is so versatile we have produced many different centrepiece designs over the years for both tall and low arrangements.

Here are just a few of our calla lily wedding centrepiece designs:

Tall Calla Lily Centrepieces

The elegance of this flower lends itself perfectly to simple but stunning tall centrepieces. You can see here (photo above left) how the calla lilies have been arranged at different heights in a tall lily vase for one of our weddings at Wroxall Abbey.

Although the calla lilies can look stunning when used on mass they also works well when combined with other flowers. In the photo above right you can see how we featured them dangling down from this tall wedding centrepiece for Rachel’s wedding at Walton Hall.

Low Calla Lily Wedding Centrepieces

Calla lilies are very supple and are perfect for twisting inside our very popular goldfish bowls. Here you can see the wonderful deep red calla lilies in one of our large bowls.

Calla lilies provide an excellent feature flower for our long and low top table arrangements. We often recommend using these arrangements on your registrar’s table if you are having a civil ceremony, this arrangement can then be easily moved to your top table for the reception.

In the photos below you can see Yasmin’s long and low arrangement that we made featuring gorgeous hot pink calla lilies. In the photo below on the left it’s on the table in Kelmarsh Hall for the ceremony and then used on the top table in the marquee for the reception (photo below on the right).

If you are thinking of having calla lily wedding centrepieces I hope that’s given you a few ideas. Calla lilies are available all the year round and come in a variety of colours including ivory white, soft pink, cerise pink, burgundy red, deep purple/red, bright yellow and burnt orange.

Here is a previous post to help you choose your calla lily bouquets.

There are so many ways to include personal touches into your wedding flowers. Here are just a few examples of things we’ve incorporated for previous brides.

A lovely couple that we worked with really enjoyed gardening and very natural ethical things. So we designed wedding flowers that gave them a very natural and wild meadow look. We achieved this by using different shades of flowers, in all sorts of shapes, sizes and textures.

Tabitha asked us to hide a robin in her bouquet, unfortunately she didn’t disclose the meaning behind this request, she just left us wondering!

Another bride asked us to incorporate an old brooch that had sentimental value onto the handle of her wedding bouquet. I’ve also seen this done on wedding cakes. Both ideas work really well.

We’ve incorporated a special flower into the overall flower theme. This is often a flower that the groom to be has given the bride on a special occasion like the proposal or first date.

In Memory of a Loved One

We have been asked on many occasions to make a flower display to go on a grave of a love one, often a grandmother or mother. They are always produced with the same blooms as the wedding flowers.

Julia (one of our recent brides) asked us to make an arrangement for her mum’s grave in all the flowers that were featured in her bouquet. You can see in this photo that we delivered it to her reception venue where she had placed a lovely card paying tribute to her mum. Also opposite the arrangement was a framed photograph of her parents on their wedding day, I thought this was a lovely touch. She then planned to take the flowers to the crematorium the following day.

We have worked with brides who have asked us to incorporate flowers that their mum or grandmother had in their wedding bouquets. This is sometimes a special gesture as that person is no longer alive and they want to remember them on this very special day.

Tossing the Bouquet

It’s so unusual for the bride to want to part with her bouquet and you try getting one of your bridesmaids to part with theirs! So on occasions we are asked to make up an inexpensive bouquet in the same wedding colours for the bride to throw.

I hope this gives you a bit of inspiration that may spark off ideas for your own personal touches.

Which Shade Of Pink Should I Choose?

Pink wedding flowers are so popular the only problem is choosing the correct shade of pink for you.

Pink wedding flowers mainly fall into three different categories; soft delicate pink, vibrant pink and ‘hot’ cerise pink. Now all you have to do is decide which one suits your colour scheme the best. Here are a few pointers from me to help you.

Soft Delicate Pink Wedding Flowers

In this photo you can see a bridal bouquet that I recently made. It features the wonderful soft pink ‘Heaven’ roses, it’s teamed with the gorgeous cream ‘Vendela’ rose and soft pink lisianthus.

This colour combination works really well against bridesmaid’s dresses in beige, coffee, soft raspberry and soft baby pink.

Other soft pink flowers include gerberas, calla lilies, stocks and peonies. Eucalyptus foliage works really well with soft pink wedding flowers because of its delicate silver grey colour.

Vibrant Pink Wedding Flowers

Here you can see a bridesmaid’s handtied posy that I made featuring the strong ‘aqua’ pink roses. It’s teamed with lilac ‘Blue Moon’ freesias, ivory ‘Akito’ roses and parvi eucalyptus leaves.

This colour combination works well against navy blue, lilac, mid and deep purple bridesmaids’ dresses.

I always advise brides to choose a lighter shade of flowers if they are going to be held infront of a deep coloured dress like purple or navy blue.

Other vibrant pink wedding flowers include, bouvardia, veronica, tulips and alstroemeria.

Cerise or ‘Hot’ Pink Wedding Flowers

We have just finished working on a wedding that was completely themed on cerise pink.

Here you can see part of the brides shower bouquet featuring beautiful hot pink ‘Milano’ roses, hot pink calla lilies teamed with ivory ‘Akito’ roses and freesias.

The table arrangements for this wedding were all made out of the fun vibrant cerise pink gerbera.

Other hot pink flowers include, gloriosa, peonies, celosia, alstroemeria, dahlias and freesias.

What shade of pink wedding flowers will you choose?

I created flowers for a lovely wedding at Kenilworth Castle this weekend. You can see a close-up picture that I took of the bridal bouquet that consists of red roses and white freesias.

I couldn’t help but wonder if the groom had had a influence on this wedding flower theme - as the colours are very appropriate for the England football team! There’s even the red rose for England included in it.

Let’s hope the wedding went better than the performance from the England team in the World Cup on Friday night!

Purple has been such a popular choice of wedding colour theme and that looks set to continue into next year. I’m now busy talking to brides planning their weddings for 2011 and purple wedding flowers are still a very popular choice.

Which Flowers To choose?

So if purple is going to be your colour theme you may want to think about having purple wedding flowers. We often use lilac, as this softer shade of purple stands out nicely against mid to dark purple bridesmaids dresses.

We have just received these stunning wedding photos from Lauren one of our April brides. I think you’ll agree that Laurens choice of colour works beautifully. I love the way the lilac and ivory freesias in her bridesmaid’s bouquets compliment the colour of the purple bridesmaids dresses and the ivory sashes (seen above).

Laurens bridal bouquet that you can see here also linked the two colours together with freesias and lisianthus in the lilac and ivory in the ‘Akito’ roses.

The Overall Look

When I discuss wedding flowers with couples I always think about how the overall look will come together in the photographs. I think you’ll agree that everything came together really well in this great photo of the main wedding party under the tree at Ansty Hall Hotel.

The ivory and purple wedding flower theme was also carried through to the wedding reception centrepieces.

Other popular choices for purple wedding flowers are veronica, anemones, deep purple lisianthus, aster, trachelium, tulips, Wanda orchids and hyacinths.

A Special Message

Here is what Lauren and Ant had to say about their wedding flowers: “Thank you so much for all of your hard work to make our wedding flowers so beautiful. They were just perfect – we loved them and we had some fantastic compliments from the guest too”.

If you would like to discuss your wedding flowers please use the contact us page to arrange a consultation or give us a call on 01926 431035.

Don’t forget to say ‘Thank You’ to all the special people that have helped with the planning of your wedding day. Traditionally thank you bouquets are given to the mother of the bride and groom during the speeches. They can also be given to the bridesmaids or other people that have helped you out with special tasks.

At Pure Botanics all of our wedding thank you bouquets are aqua packed (they all come in water) as often the recipient is staying over on the night of the wedding and will not be travelling home until the next day. The lovely thing about aqua packed bouquets is the person receiving them really doesn’t have to do anything with them, as they come all beautifully arranged.

We also have contemporary bouquet gift boxes that not only make the flowers look attractive but also make them very easy to transport home.

£30.00 bouquet featuring flowers and foliage that often coordinates with your wedding flowers.	£40.00 contemporary bouquet, here you can see we have combined flowers in hot pink and lime green included are the popular gerbera, roses and more unusual anthurium flowers.
£50.00 stunning large bouquet of seasonal flowers and foliage. In this photo the bouquet features beautiful blue delphiniums and hydrangeas complimented with ivory cymbidium orchids and roses.	£60.00 luxury bouquet featuring exotic flowers and foliage. Here you can see that we have used the stunning pink phalaenopsis orchids, calla lilies, roses, peonies and anthuriums.

One question that we frequently get asked is “How much should we spend on the thank you bouquets?” Our wedding thank you bouquets start from £30.00 and go up to £60.00 and it’s entirely up to you how much you spend on them.

If you would like them to come in a gift box as seen above, these start from £40.00.

These photos are only to be used as a guide. Please note that when ordering thank you bouquets we will be make them with seasonal flowers and foliage. They will be of an equal size and quality but not exactly the same colours or flowers as seen in the photos.

Incorporating diamantes into wedding flowers has become a really popular trend and there are several ways to achieve a really great look without going OTT.

Jewels that Catch the Light

If you want to add a bit of a twinkle to your bouquet flowers then why not think about adding diamante pins into the centre of your flowers. Featuring these pins in your bouquet gives you a beautiful delicate jewelled look. Some brides choose to have them in their bouquet and sometimes in the bridesmaids or other times we just place them in the bridal bouquet to make her bouquet look even more special.

Diamante Clusters

Diamante clusters are also another popular choice. These work particularly well in mixed bouquets, where you have several different flowers grouped together. The clusters sit really well in-between the flower heads.

You can use both of these options in all the different shapes of bouquets. Some people also decide to feature them in the buttonholes and corsages. It just depends on how much of a magpie you are! They are a really nice addition to the bridal bouquet if the wedding gown also has diamante beads on it.

Diamante Brooches

At Pure Botanics we now have a wonderful selection of diamante brooches that look stunning when placed with ribbon on the handle of the brides bouquet, so don’t forget to ask us about those. They fit in really well with the recent trend for vintage style weddings, which have been very popular this year.

You can also add diamantes to your table arrangements by adding clusters into the flowers and foliages. Another ideas is to add diamante beads to grass detailing like steelgrass and beargrass, which tend to hang down nicely when adorned with beads.

It’s amazing what a different dimension adding a detail like diamantes can add to an arrangement and you don’t have to add too much to get an effective look.

It’s so great to see peonies back at the flower markets, as they make such beautiful wedding flowers.

I frequently get asked about the availability of peonies, as they have become one of the most popular wedding flowers. Peonies are available from May until hopefully late July. The reason I say hopefully is that it all depends on the weather and what kind of summer we have. Last year I got the very last available peonies for a wedding in the first week of August and then never saw them again until now.

Above is an unusual colour of peonies called ‘Coral’ its name describes its colour perfectly. Peonies come in pale soft pink (see bride below), strong pink with a slightly red look, deep burgundy, white and of course coral.

Like stocks, hydrangeas, anemones, freesias and lisianthus, peonies have become really popular over the past two years and that’s all because a trend for ‘Vintage’ style wedding flowers.

Peony bridal bouquets look stunning when made from a mass of peonies on their own or mixed with other flowers. They can also be used in table centrepieces and in your wedding ceremony flowers such as pedestal arrangements.

When we buy peonies they are a solid tight little ball that you can’t imagine will open to be such a large delicate flower. The petals have an almost transparent tissue paper appearance and they smell heavenly.

It’s just great to be working with these wonderful seasonal wedding flowers again.

I just love the delicate soft colours of this beautiful bridal bouquet. It was a wonderful choice of flowers for Jo’s Spring wedding yesterday.

The cream ‘Vendela’ roses work so well with soft pink. The combination of freesias and lisianthus gave the whole bridal bouquet a delicate soft look that’s so popular at the moment for the brides looking for a “Vintage Wedding Theme”. Jo chose to have diamante clusters in the bouquet to tie in with the detailing on her wedding dress.

This colour theme made me feel that summer really could be on it’s way and thank goodness the sun shone for them all day yesterday. It was lovely to see the guests mingling around outside the chapel at Wroxall Abbey as I drove away.

We provided bouquets of spring flowers in cube vases decorated with crystal droplets for the table centerpieces for the wedding breakfast.

Here are more images and ideas for wedding flowers at Wroxall Abbey. If you are getting married at the Wroxall Abbey, contact us to find out how we can create your perfect wedding flowers.