A micro wedding in 2020!
This was my second wedding of 2020 and to be honest I wasn’t expecting it. The couple were supposed to be getting married in July, they were supposed to be having lots of colourful English garden blooms, they were supposed to surrounded by lots of friends and family.
They had originally decided to postpone to July 2021 but then they had a change of heart, they just wanted to be married, they didn’t want to wait any longer, they decided to do the legal bit now and then have a mega party when its possible. I completely understood, my own wedding was arranged and organised in 5 weeks, sometimes you just want to live for the here and now!
The flowers that she had wanted in July were completely perfect. Lots of English grown, seasonal blooms, Foxgloves, Peonies, Roses, Delphiniums, Snapdragons, Scabious, all in a colourful mix to look like a naturally growing English country garden. She still wanted this fresh vibrant colour scheme in December but I knew that it would be difficult to achieve. We discussed by email what else she could have that had a wild garden feel and in the end settled on a much more simple affair of something similar to White Anemones, Burgundy Roses and Eucalyptus with fillers and other foliages.
Trouble was that I knew deep down that this wasn’t what she wanted. So I phoned her to talk it through. She sounded fine but just a bit flat when we were talking about the flowers. Now, I want my couples to be happy with what I do for them. I want my brides to be in love with their bouquets. I want them to look back on photos in years to come and say, yes, that is me, that is my style, that is what I wanted.
So, I suggested the idea of colourful dried flowers and sent her a photo. She suddenly relaxed and I could hear the excitement in her voice again. This is my job, to find flowers and styles that you really want, not what you think you should have.
Social distancing was still in place between families not in the same bubble so, the tables became a big square in the middle of the room with an empty space in the middle. The obvious place to concentrate the flowers was here. Where everyone could see them. I knew from our talks that she quite liked the idea of rainbow flowers so this is how I arranged them in an ombre effect with one colour merging into the next.
