“Star Quality”

I first met with Olivia (one of our RealWedding Brides) way back in Autumn 2009, we had a lovely meeting (at my kitchen table) and decided on bouquets and flower types! Then the ideas changed, a few times and we met again in our office in April to finalise all the information! Olivia works as an editor for the Star newspaper and Shane for the Indo – hence the title!

We decided on a posy-style bouquet of mixed purple toned calla lilies with white crystal blush mixed throughout. The bridesmaids carried posies of bright purple “picture perfect” gerberas mixed with deep purple calla lillies and tied with navy satin to match their dresses. Olivia’s bouquet was finished with satin and lace ribbon and her “something blue” an ornate jewelled brooch belonging to her late nana.

Olivia and Shane were married in the picturesque St. Anne’s Church in Boharnabreena on 11th June 2010 and we provided 2 Traditional Pedestal Arrangements either side of the alter, using lots of the gorgeous purple gerberas and purple alium, we also created a unity arrangement into which Olivia’s unity candles were placed amongst the flowers and greenery! We dressed the pew ends with white duchess satin drapes and a posy of gerbera, bear grass and an alium. Outside, Bay trees guarded the entrance!

With thanks to Darren Purcell at Visionary Photography for the use of some of the images here.

Filed under: Church Arrangement,church decoration,pew end decoration,pink gerbera bouquet — Tags: bay trees, bohar, Boharnabreena, bridal bouquet, calla lily, real weddings, realweddings.ie, st. anne's church, visionary photography — Sinead @ 10:29 am on June 30, 2010

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Spring Tulips

On 23rd April, Collette and Gareth were married in St Anne’s Church in Boharnabreena in Tallaght, followed by a reception in the fab Dunboyne Castle.

As spring was drawing to a close, Collette decided to make the most of it and have tulips – a true Spring flower in her bouquets. Her Bridesmaids wore beautiful deep turquoise dresses and the pale pink and white tulips contrasted perfectly.

The 2 flowergirls carried simple gypsophilia pomanders – nice and light for the younger flowergirls, and they can withstand a bit of being swung around as i’ve witnessed!! We finished these with a cute butterfly detail.

In the church, we provided 2 Large Arrangements behind the Alter, an arrangement to hold the Unity Candles and pew decoration with pale pink gerberas, tulips and Ivory Tulle. Finally, 2 of our Bay Trees stood guard at the entrance.(When Lorraine was collecting the Bay Trees the next day, a pair of elderly ladies spotted her leaving the grounds with them and demanded they be returned to the Church!! Some explaining was involved on Lorraine’s part to reassure the ladies that they were, in fact, belonging to us and we weren’t stealing from the Church!!)