Show Stoppers!

We recently took part in a wedding fair at the D4 Berkeley Court Hotel on 21st and 22nd May. I got to meet lots of lovely couples planning their wedding and enjoyed meeting Brendan Courtney and Jules Fallon of 1st Options Modelling, along with all the fab fellow wedding suppliers attending over the weekend. Pictured below are Suzie Mahony of Suzie Mahony Designs – fabulous handmade hats and headresses, Pamela Farrell of Farrell & Chase Stationery – gorgeous bespoke Letterpress stationery, Beverly and Sandra from Amazing Cakes (I managed to avoid stealing samples until late on Sunday afternoon!), Caroline & David Moloney of The Finishing Touch – Ireland’s first wedding planning service devoted to same sex marriages and civil ceremonies! Also pictured is a stunning dress, modeled by Irma of 1st Option, A Vera Wang gown retailing at €15,000 but available from Olivia at Discount Designers for €2,900!!! Although I have no pictures, I also met the lovely Aoife of Fifibelle shoes who specialise in shoes for larger shoe sizes!

Lorraine and I prepared for the wedding fair on the day before (Friday) as Lorraine (lucky girl) was heading off on her Summer Holiday on the 22nd, we decided to create 6 Bouquets for our stand, keeping things nice and simple, bouquets that we know brides will choose over and over again..a pomander of roses and we displayed 2 Grand Candelabra, 2 Aisle Stands and created a fab unity arrangement featuring sample personalised unity candles, now available at RosieDays. We also brought along one of our FairyLight Backdrops, now available for hire at RosieDays.

The first bouquet above is a handtied posy of double white crystal blush calla lillies with scented purple freesia, it was one of the most popular bouquets on the stand over the 2 days! The 2nd bouquet above is a handtied teardrop bouquet using avalanche roses, white bouvardia and crystal blush calla lillies, italian soft ruscus and fatsia leaves and finished with ivory organza on the stems.

The bouquets above are the ever-faithful bouquet of White Roses, simple finished with soft greenery and diamonte detail, and a slightly more quirky combination of GrandPrix Red Roses and deep purple lisianthus.

The last 2 bouquets are pictured above. On the left, my favourite of the show, a feast for the senses! Handtied bouquet of lavender, lisianthus, freesia, agapanthus and purple roses, with sage, rosemary and lavender foliage creating the most heavenly scent! Finished with deep grey satin ribbon handle. Finally, on the left, another very popular bridal bouquet, simple, elegant, timeless deep red roses, with a ruscus collar and finished with black satin and organza handle and matching bow.

Filed under: aislestands,candelabra,candelabra hire,fairylight backdrop,lisianthus,wedding fair — Tags: berkeley court, bouqeuts, discount designer, fairylight backdrop, farrell and chase, pomander, red rose bouquet, roses, scented bouquet, the finishing touch, unity arrangement, unity candles, wedding fair — Sinead @ 1:19 pm on May 30, 2010

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St. Kevin’s, Glendalough

Noreen & Corrie were married on 28th May in the scenic surroundings of Glendalough in St. Kevin’s Church. My sister and I delivered the bouquets to Noreen who was staying at the reception venue of Brooklodge and we took the “scenic” route from here to Glendalough over hills and dales in the Wicklow mountains!

With Lorraine away on holidays, I was a bit lost and was very grateful to have my sister along for company even if she was slightly terrified on the way with the hills and sharp turns!! And we met again the lovely Ian from Fireworks Video who had filmed my friend’s wedding in the same venue last year!

Noreen’s bridesmaid was to wear deep wine/red and so we selected a bouquet of the palest pink sweet avalanche and avalanche roses for Noreen and the same for her bridesmaid with added wine hypericum berries to catch the colour of the bridesmaid dress.

The bridal party all wore avalanche rose buttonholes with hypericum berry detail.

In St. Kevins, we dressed the pew ends with Ivory Tulle and a Sweet Avalanche Rose and for the Unity Candles we created an arrangement with fresh foliage including “Red Robin” to reflect the wine tones, hypericum berries and sweet avalanche roses with white freesia.

Filed under: avalanche rose,brooklodge,button holes,pew end decoration — Tags: bridal bouquet, brooklodge, Glendalough, pew ends, pink and white bouquet, St Kevin, St. Kevins Church Glendalough, unity arrangement — Sinead @ 9:34 am on

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Weddings by numbers…

1st May 2010.

2 Brides – Maeve and Fiona, 2 Grooms, Mark and Anthony, 2 Florists Lorraine and Sinead, 1 Van, 40 Grand Prix Red Roses, 120 Vendella Roses, 60 Sweet Avalanche Roses, 40 AValanche Roses, 200 stems of Hard Ruscus, 5 bunches soft ruscus, 2 flowergirl baskets, 2 Grand Candelabra, 2 unity arrangements, 2 sets of unity candles, 48 ivory tulle pew end bows, 4 Bay Trees, 4 Lanterns, 3 Pedestal Arrangements, 3 Flowergirl posies, 24 Buttonholes, 6 Corsages, 50 Diamonte Pins, 4 Paracetomol (2 for Lorraine, 2 for Sinead), 2 Plasters (for Sinead), 5 Bunches of Hypericum Berries, 2 metres of Satin Ribbon, 2 Marks and Spencer Cafe Afternoon Teas, 2 pairs of clean dry socks, 2 Church Set ups and 2 bouquet deliveries, 2 Happy Brides, 2 Church Clean ups, 1 Van Unloaded, 1 Workshop swept, 20 buckets washed and stacked, 3 Sacks of Rubbish, 2 tired florists, 2 LARGE glasses of White Wine.

Filed under: candelabra hire,church decoration,pedestal,pew end decoration,wedding flowers — Tags: avalanche rose, bouquet, flowergirl basket, grand candelabra, grand prix rose, pew end, red rose, tallaght, unity arrangement, vendella rose — Sinead @ 3:39 pm on May 17, 2010

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Sarah by the Sea…

10th April 2010, and our second Sarah of the weekend! I can tell you, things got a little confusing with a Sarah getting married on Friday 9th and a Sarah on Saturday 10th – and with 2 totally different themes! Yesterday was Sarah in Foxrock (remember the last blog entry, Lorraine had robbed the Sat Nav and was blissfully “unlost” in Foxrock!) Today though, it was the wedding of Sarah & Geoff who were married in Bayside in Sutton on a gloriously sunny day. Driving along the coast road in the van with Lorraine, spanish guitar music on, you would be forgiven for thinking that you were in sunny spain!

Sarah decided on the beautiful vintage style Leonidas Rose for her bouquet, we tied these with creamy vendella roses and finished with deep green ruscus collar. We wrapped the stems in lace with pearl detail.

The bridesmaids wore gorgeous two toned dresses and carried simple posies of vendella roses with diamonte detailing and the flowergirl carried a pomander of gypsolphilia with roses.In the church, we provided a unity arrangement, 2 Large Traditional Pedestal arrangements and pew end decoration of a lily, rose, gyp and greenery with organza tulle. Finally, a pair of Bay Trees framed the front entrance. I can’t swear we did not stop for 99′s on the way home

Filed under: pedestal,pew end decoration,rose,vintage,wedding flowers,white roses — Tags: bay trees, bayside, leonidas rose, pedestal arrangement, unity arrangement, vendella rose — Sinead @ 2:05 pm on April 20, 2010

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Lady in the Chapel..

A beautiful sunny day and a fabulous setting for AnnMarie and John’s wedding on the 16th April in LadyChapel just outside Maynooth. There is just something about LadyChapel, it’s so quaint and set in such beautiful surroundings – right in the middle of fields and country side with little traffic passing and the sounds of nature, it has almost a calming effect!

AnnMarie had fallen in love with the style of a bouquet we had provided for one of our Christmas Bride’s and picked it for her wedding. We arranged it slightly differently, using the hand tied method as apposed to a bridal holder. Her bridesmaids wore deep cerise pink dresses which were perfectly complemented by the deep pink tones in the cymbidium orchids we used in the bouquets.

The bridal bouquet was hand tied in a teardrop fashion, using avalanche roses and cymbidium orchids and the bridesmaids carried sweet avalanche roses tied in a posy with orchids. The flowergirl carried a pomander ball of gypsophilia with orchid details.

In the Church we provided a unity candle arrangement using roses and orchids, a pedestal arrangement for the rear alter, pew ends of ivory tulled with a stem of orchids on each and at the entrance, a dramatic arch framed the doorway, using lots of fresh greenery including ivy and ruscus, with some rose and orchid detail.