Wedding Flowers

Here are the pictures of a beautiful summer wedding we worked on from last year, featured in the latest Wedding Flowers Magazine, together with a dramatic red photo shoot.

Wedding Flowers Magazine

We are delighted to announce that Euphoric has been featured not just once, but twice in the latest issue of Wedding Flowers Magazine. The beautiful summer wedding of Julie and Dan, which took place last May and, a two page spread in the flower gallery. Do take a look and enjoy!

Fairytale Castle

The wedding of Robyn and Billy at Highclere Castle last week was a truly transatlantic affair. With the couple based in America, this week long celebration was superbly planned by one of our favourite wedding planners, Lester Gethings from No.10 Wedding Design & Management, who co-ordinated a truly spectacular event. Flowers were an extremely important element of this wedding and, it was a pleasure to work with such a vibrant colour palette of purple, red, orange and zesty lime green. As the bride said, 'I want the colours to really pop!!'
The saloon of Lord and Lady Carnarvon's home took centre stage for the wedding ceremony, where the bride and groom exchanged their vows in front of the magnificent stone fireplace, flanked with lavish urns of purple delphinium, rich red peonies, magenta 'sumatra' scented lilies and deep violet hydrangea. The bride made her entrance down the grand staircase also flanked with urn arrangements, and carried a very glamorous trailing bouquet of dark pink phalaenopsis orchids, whilst her bridesmaids, wearing full length aubergine silk gowns, carried posies of velvety 'grand prix' roses.
The drinks reception was held on the south lawn of the castle with breathtaking views across the estate. Here on the occasional tables we placed mini moss topiary trees in antique pots tied with sumptuous purple ribbon. Following champagne and canapes, the guests entered the richly decorated library for the wedding breakfast.Against a backdrop of exquisite purple table linen and shimmering crystal, tall and lavish arrangements on mirror plates adorned the centre of each table, accessorised with mercuried silver votives.The gorgeous four tiered wedding cake by Peggy Porschen which we decorated with heads of deep pink phalaenopsis orchids was pin spot to highlight the iced champagne bubbles on each tier.We would have loved to have stayed to enjoy the evening entertainment which included a jazz band, singing waiters and fireworks at midnight, but we were thoroughly exhausted and drove back down the M4 feeling weary, but confident we had another Euphoric Triumph!!!!!

Black, White and Silver Wedding

On a somewhat overcast day a couple of weeks ago, we were at the wonderfully peaceful Eastlands Estate in West Sussex for the wedding of Jason and Tina. The moody skies were a striking foil for the couples dramatic colour scheme of black, white and silver, which we created using white lilies and gladioli, glittered black willow and silver accent decoration. Tina carried a bouquet of deepest 'black' calla lilies, whilst her bridesmaids complemented her with wired posies of white oriental lilies, embellished with crystal decoration. The wedding ceremony took place on the terrace of the main house, where a pair of urns filled entirely with white gladioli framed the main entrance.For the wedding reception which took place in the newly decorated Starlight suite, tall flute vases of white lilies and glittered black willow dressed with silver butterflies graced each table. This theme also carried through to the wedding cake, which was decorated with exquisite miniature glittered butterflies.

Chelsea Gold !

We are so thrilled for our good friend Jane Brockbank, who along with Angus Thompson has won a Gold medal at The Chelsea Flower Show this year. Their beautiful garden 'Nature Ascending' is a very deserved winner and a great inspiration to us mere florists!! Victoria studied Garden Design with Jane way back in 1999 and whilst she struggled with her planting plans, Jane was always the one to watch. We are very proud of her and send her all our best wishes.

Mayfair in May

On a perfect May morning, our destination was the beautiful Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair for the wedding of Hannah and Luke. Hannah had chosen a soft vintage palette of palest pink and cream with touches of sage green for this smart town wedding. Following the ceremony, the entire wedding party strolled the short distance to Dartmouth House for the wedding reception which was held in the Long Drawing Room of this grand London mansion.A lavish urn arrangement at the top of the magnificent staircase was filled with a mass of scented early summer blooms including lilies, roses, stocks and delicate soloman's seal. This set the tone for the table decorations of alternating high and low arrangements. We returned at midnight to find the bride and groom, who were the last to leave, walking hand in hand into the distance. We think they had a good time!!

Rhapsody in Blue

Back in February we blogged about the Flowers we supplied for one of the stands at The Designer Wedding Show; The Dairy at Waddesdon Manor. We were delighted then to be asked to create the arrangements for a party last week at Waddesdon, hosted by Lord Rothschild. The Dairy originally housed Waddesdon's prize winning cows but is now the perfect venue for a party or wedding. With a terrace magically positioned next to a beautiful lake, this really is the most perfect place to get married. For last weeks party, which included a drinks reception and formal dinner, blue was the order of the day. We filled the enormous classical urn in the conservatory with hydrangeas, delphiniums, molucella, palms and ivy trails and surounded the base with it's very own garland. Window sills were dressed with cube vases filled with an assortment of blue flowers including, hydrangeas, anemones and Cornish blue bells. For a finishing touch we added storm lanterns to give atmosphere as the sun went down on what was a glorious spring day.