{"id":187,"date":"2009-09-16T13:10:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stemflowers.wordpress.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2009-09-16T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T13:10:46","slug":"a-riot-of-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/a-riot-of-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"a riot of colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-188\" title=\"Dendrobiums, delphiniums, roses and mint\" src=\"http:\/\/stemflowers.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/dendrobiums-delphiniums-roses-and-mint.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Dendrobiums, delphiniums, roses and mint\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apart from the vows, the flowers are the most important part of my day&#8221; said my bride when I first met her.\u00a0 No pressure, then!\u00a0 This wedding was a real challenge for me because I knew how vital it was to get things right.\u00a0 Not because Emily had outrageous demands but because getting the colours and textures spot-on were fundamental to\u00a0making a\u00a0massive, creative impact.\u00a0 Oh, and the flowers needed to be individual, distinctive and un-weddingy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-190\" title=\"Bridesmaid's bouquet of Grand Prix and Milano roses with mint and bupleurum\" src=\"http:\/\/stemflowers.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/bridesmaids-bouquet-of-grand-prix-and-milano-roses-with-mint-and-bupleurum.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Bridesmaid's bouquet of Grand Prix and Milano roses with mint and bupleurum\" width=\"168\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-194\" title=\"Flower girl's bucket of dendrobium orchids, Grand Prix roses and bupleurum\" src=\"http:\/\/stemflowers.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/flower-girls-bucket-of-dendrobium-orchids-grand-prix-roses-and-bupleurum.jpg?w=255\" alt=\"Flower girl's bucket of dendrobium orchids, Grand Prix roses and bupleurum\" width=\"143\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I have to say that I absolutely adore the combination of flowers and foliage we decided upon.\u00a0 Magenta dendrobium orchids, intensly blue &#8216;Volkerfrieden&#8217; delphiniums, deep cerise &#8216;Milano&#8217; and garnet red &#8216;Grand Prix&#8217; roses literally popped out of lush green flowering mint and zinging green bupleurum.\u00a0 And the little details of red and pink satin ribbons on the bouquets, or the red pail for the flower girl, just added to the slightly quirky impact of the flowers.\u00a0 Completely gorgeous!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-198\" title=\"Colour-filled table\" src=\"http:\/\/stemflowers.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/colour-filled-table.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Colour-filled table\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-202\" title=\"An abundance of flowers for tables\" src=\"http:\/\/stemflowers.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/an-abundance-of-flowers-for-tables.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"An abundance of flowers for tables\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-200\" title=\"Abundant table vases\" src=\"http:\/\/stemflowers.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/abundant-table-vases.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Abundant table vases\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beauberry House is a very beautiful venue and a fabulous backdrop for gorgeous flowers so the absolute abundance we had really did the job of bringing colour and excitement to every room.\u00a0\u00a0A wonderfully riotous and (not so) random selection of vessels and flowers\u00a0adorned every availabe windowsill, table, mantelpiece and\u00a0loo with everything coming together in an enormous\u00a0expolsion of\u00a0foliage and blooms in\u00a0a contemporary Entrance Hall pedestal.\u00a0 The two olive trees at the main doors didn&#8217;t get away with staying as they were &#8211; red and pink ribbons were candy-striped down the trunks and complementary kalanchoe plants were crammed around the bottom of each.\u00a0 A rather exhausting day for <strong>stem flowers<\/strong>, I have to say,\u00a0but there&#8217;s nothing so good as knowing that a venue looks fantastic and that the bride and groom love what you&#8217;ve done!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-207\" title=\"Olive tree with candy stripe ribbons with red and pink kalanchoes\" src=\"http:\/\/stemflowers.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/olive-tree-with-candy-stripe-ribbons-with-red-and-pink-kalanchoes.jpg?w=199\" alt=\"Olive tree with candy stripe ribbons with red and pink kalanchoes\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Apart from the vows, the flowers are the most important part of my day&#8221; said my bride when I first met her.\u00a0 No pressure, then!\u00a0 This wedding was a real challenge for me because I knew how vital it was to get things right.\u00a0 Not because Emily had outrageous demands but because getting the colours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,15,17,25,26,32,34,38,55,60,62,64,71,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}