Showing posts with label peony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peony. Show all posts

Monday, 2 February 2015

Beautiful Blooms

When it came to picking a florist for our big day, I was extremely fussy... it was probably the one part of the wedding I was properly fussy about (sorry Tim!) but really... it's the one time in your life you get to buy yourself amazing flowers - whatever flowers you want and lots of them!

I had a VERY clear idea of what I didn't want, no red roses no gerberas no tropical colours - that's just not me, and I had one serious demand PEONIES!

We got married in August and peonies were wellll out of season but the amazing Tim of Floral Earth made it happen!

I wanted a big messy pretty variety of flowers and greenery in my bouquet, lots of different shades and textures and I gave Tim a BIG list of what I wanted and he really did such an amazing job! 

Details of flowers below each pic;



My bouquet had so many different flowers I really can't remember them all but there were; blush peonies, roses, eucalyptus, and that big crazy lookin' fella in the middle is a king protea, isn't it amazing?!



In my hair I had a gorgeous floral comb with more mixed flowers and I also wore some little golden bees!




That's another view of my bouquet (above and below), I absolutely loved it, it was so crazy and pretty!





The bridesmaid's bouquets were similar to mine with a slightly smaller selection of flowers, the colours were so perfect with their dresses weren't they?!







Our table flowers followed the same mixed texture and colour theme and were displayed in vintage gold urns, teapots and mercury glass pieces that I had been collecting for a couple of years.






I honestly couldn't have been happier with our beautiful blooms and would recommend Floral Earth to anyone!




Sunday, 31 August 2014

Our Wedding Cake

Ross's wonderful auntie Christine very kindly made our wedding cake, and it was AMAZING! She put so much time, care and effort in, it really was such a beautiful gift from a really lovely person. Thank you Crick! 





The bottom tier was lemon coconut, the middle tier was victoria sponge with raspberry jam and the top tier was carrot cake. The whole thing was buttercream, with cream cheese icing on the carrot cake. I might be biased, but isn't it just GORGEOUS?!




Christine and I made the sugar paste flowers together, over a few weeks. Sugarpaste dries hard and brittle, and will keep for years in the right conditions (it isn't really made to be eaten) and I managed to collect them all up after dinner so I can keep them in a little shadowbox to admire.



We made sugar peonies, anenomies, roses and daisies and used real eucalyptus. 

I will post a short tutorial on sugarflower making at a later date I think!


I really couldn't have asked for a more beautiful or perfect cake, it was exactly what I'd imagined but better and so special because I know it was made with love!