{"id":792,"date":"2014-10-20T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=792"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:29:54","slug":"a-sunny-and-joyful-wedding-for-melanie-and-ruairidh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/a-sunny-and-joyful-wedding-for-melanie-and-ruairidh\/","title":{"rendered":"A sunny and joyful wedding for Melanie and Ruairidh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dan<\/a><\/p>\n

When I first met Mel I was really struck by how joyful and relaxed\u00a0she was\u00a0in her approach to\u00a0planning her wedding. \u00a0To describe the kind of day she was hoping for, she used words like ‘relaxed’ and ‘happy’ and talked about wanting a welcoming party feel. \u00a0She also wanted the rooms at Belair House<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to feel really summery and fresh with lots of whites and greens while “not looking too weddingish”.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Dan<\/a><\/p>\n

I suggested many\u00a0different\u00a0white and pale green flowers so that there would be a real feeling of abundance. \u00a0We went with several varieties of hydrangeas, roses and spray roses, freesia, astrantia, alstromeria and eustoma with delicate, daisy-like feverfew and lacy ammi majus. \u00a0And then I went bonkers with all the lovely seasonal foliage on offer at GB Foliage at the market as well as fragrant mint and rosemary.<\/p>\n

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\"Hydrangeas\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mel’s bouquet was made up of David Austin\u00a0“Patience” roses,\u00a0freesias, hydrangea florets, astrantia, ammi and mint with the stems bound simply with garden twine. \u00a0The buttonholes, in honour of\u00a0Ruairidh’s nationality (the men looked very dashing in their kilts), were made of white eryngium thistles. \u00a0And the little flower girls carried posies of ‘Akito’ roses and wore Alice-bands decorated with tiny spray roses and freesias. \u00a0All really pretty and delicate and\u00a0sunny!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Dan<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mel decided she wanted the flowers for the tables\u00a0displayed in lots of different glass vessels rather than in anything too formal. \u00a0So each table had what I call “a random collection of vases and flowers” placed in the centre. \u00a0Of course, just like perfecting so called nude make-up, making things look random is actually quite hard work!<\/p>\n

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The results were gorgeous and I think you can see from all the fabulous photographs by the lovely Dan Biggins<\/a><\/strong>,<\/span> Mel and Ruairidh’s wedding was a really relaxed and happy day, just as they’d hoped for.<\/p>\n

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\"Belair<\/a><\/p>\n

You can see many more of Dan’s photos and my flowers on the super-cool <\/span>A Touch of Modern<\/span> <\/a><\/strong>wedding blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first met Mel I was really struck by how joyful and relaxed\u00a0she was\u00a0in her approach to\u00a0planning her wedding. \u00a0To describe the kind of day she was hoping for, she used words like ‘relaxed’ and ‘happy’ and talked about wanting a welcoming party feel. \u00a0She also wanted the rooms at Belair House\u00a0to feel really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,83,75,17,21,76,84,34,37,44,51,55,57,62,63,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stemflowers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}