Aisle flowers are a great way to draw the eye down the space to the front where you are getting married! They can be a good way to carry your colour themes (if you have theme) through the space too and many people like to re-use them after the ceremony to decorate other areas of the wedding venue, whether that’s on tables as part of a table centrepiece or elsewhere to brighten up cake tables, card tables or even the bar. It’s worth checking with your venue who will be responsible for doing this, you/your guests or them.

The most popular choice for aisle flowers is jars of flowers. These can be hung off the side of chairs with streamer ribbons if you have chairs with a little “nobble” on the side to hang them on. Alternatively you can hang them from shepherd’s crooks if you’re getting married outside or just place them on the ground. It’s worth thinking about how wide your aisle is, and if you’re wearing a dress how wide that will be too.

Lots of people like to collect their own jars or bottles and then I fill them with seasonal flowers in their colour scheme. This means they can be given away as gifts after the wedding or (if they are glass) recycled.

If you are getting married outdoors consider how windy it might be or how uneven the ground is, if that is the case, choose a chunkier mason jar rather than a delicate bottle as they are likely to blow over.

Alternatives to jars include a runner of loose greenery down each side of the aisle, bunches of greenery tied onto chairs or boxes of meadow style flowers.

You can have flowers/foliage on every row or alternate every other row if that helps keep costs down. If your venue has a heated floor and your aisle flowers are placed directly on the floor be aware they might open more quickly than the flowers in other designs due to the heat.

Floral arches are one of the most popular designs for weddings. Either you can rent one of my arches or you can provide your own. This can be a great project if you’re crafty or have a relative/friend who is, and it means you won’t need to pay for me to come back to take down the arch the following day. After the wedding you can use the arch in your garden to grow climbing plants like clematis, roses or honeysuckle up.

A floral arch is a great way of setting the scene and framing the shots of your ceremony. You can either have it foliage only, a mix of flowers and foliage, or we can incorporate fabric, ribbon backdrops or even macrame into the design. You can either opt for full coverage or for a more minimal look you can go for one or two placements or focal areas.

Arches are generally quite heavy and not all designs are moveable so if you’d like this piece to be moved and used elsewhere in your wedding (like behind the top table) it’s worth mentioning this when you book so we can suggest more portable wedding arch options. Also make sure you have organised in advance who is going to move the arch.

All of our arch designs are foam free and avoid single use plastic.

Our current arch options for rental are: birch pole arch, circular wooden arch, traditional metal curved arch.

Blank canvas venues like barns, warehouses or marquees are often great for creating floral installations. Whether this is to compliment an original feature of a space like a feeding trough at a barn or to create interest, they can make a great impact and will carry colour through the space more effectively than very small designs.

Hanging planks, flower clouds, hanging hoops, greenery bunting or branchy installations are all popular and for the most part will require access early on the day of the wedding or the day before. Most installations of fresh flowers will not last longer than a day as heat rises and tends to affect these pieces the longer they are left up so they usually need to be installed on the day of the wedding.

You will need to check that your venue are happy for us to rig up an installation and if they have any restrictions on what we can use to hang things on. You will also need to check if they take these installations down or whether you need to get our team to come back the following day to take these down .

Meadow boxes are like a small portable meadow in a box! We usually make them in long thin troughs or boxes like a window box but you can also make them in square crates and use them as table decorations.

They can be placed on their own, in pairs raised up to be a pedestal alternative or in a circle to create a magical space for the couple at the ceremony.

Like other crate designs they are really easy to move so can be repurposed in other areas after the ceremony.

Wooden crates are a great way to dress a blank canvas space like a barn, warehouse or rustic country venue.

You can fill them with flowers and stack them up to work as an alternative to a pedestal arrangement as a full size crate filled with flowers makes quite an impact.

Alternatively create little stacks of them with loose foliage, candles and jam jars of flowers in other areas to add interest. This is a good way of adding in other elements like photo frames, candles, guestbooks etc.

You can use crates to prop up signage or add a little colour to a photo booth area. We have lots of crates you can rent or you can provide your own and they are really easy to move to you can re-purpose them after the ceremony for extra flower decor at the reception.

One of the options for decorating your ceremony space is to have two large vases of flowers either side of the top of the aisle to frame the ceremony spot. These are sometimes called pedestal flowers or urn arrangements. These can then be moved to other areas of your venue after the ceremony. All of our pedestal arrangements are foam free.

If you are getting married in a church check if they already have flowers (and what colour they will be) as there is usually a church flower group that does the flowers there. You will need to arrange access for us to deliver the flowers to the church. Some couples like to gift the pedestal arrangements to the church after the ceremony, others take them to their reception venue.

Unless you have large vases and pedestal stands (some venues have stands you can use) you will need to rent them from me or a prop hire company and either return them after the wedding or get me to come back to collect them. We have two styles of pedestal stand, classic and metal.

Pedestal arrangements are pretty big so we don’t advise trying to move them yourself between venues (they won’t fit in a car) and they are a bit too big to be gifted to parents after the wedding instead of thank you bouquets.

Alternatives to pedestal arrangements could be milk churns of flowers, or two meadow boxes on stands, hay bales or crates. These are great for a more rustic, relaxed or outdoorsy wedding.

If you are having a top table this may be a different shape or size from your guest tables. It will be another area of focus for your photographer during the speeches so it is a good idea to have some flowers here.

Some popular options are a runner or garland of foliage along the front or centre of the table. Garlands are thicker and more luxurious, all the materials are bound together in a long “sausage” of greenery - think of the thickness of a feather boa but made of greenery.

For a more economical option you might consider a runner, this is a lighter, airier look where greenery is placed loosely on the tables. If you are having sharing platters these can be placed on top of a runner but not on top of a garland.

Other options for the top table would include a runner of greenery with bottles or bud vases dotted along the front of the table, perhaps mixed in with candles.

A more traditional option is a “long and low”. This is a long low arrangement of flowers placed in front of the couple usually 2-3ft long. Our long and lows are foam free and made in moss.

You could also consider having troughs or boxes of meadow style flowers running along in front of the top table from the ground up to make more of a statement piece.

Table centres are the decorative elements you put on your guest tables. It’s worth considering the shape of your table (circular, banquet style, square), if people will be sat on all sides of the table, and what else will need space on the table such as sharing platters, wine, glassware etc.

One of the most popular choices for table flowers is a mixture of bottles, jars and bud vases with seasonal flowers in your colours. These vases can be rented from us or collected by you. For round tables we recommend 3-5 bud vases, for trestle tables 3-4. These can be mixed in with real or artificial candles collected by you.

Other options for trestle tables are runners or garlands of greenery (see top table page for details on the difference between these).

Some other designs could include rose bowls, wedgewood vases, candelabra, raised designs on gold stands or meadow boxes.

Some people also like to put a sprig of greenery or a single flower on each guest’s napkin.

Fresh flowers can be added to your wedding cake in place of a topper (or as well as a topper!). It is popular to have a small buttonhole sized arrangement on each tier - perhaps alternating sides. We wire and tape all our cake flowers and use cake picks so no raw or exposed stems will be inserted directly into the cake. We can leave these pre-made arrangements for your cake maker to add to the cake or we can put them on the cake if you prefer.

Some people also like to have greenery to place loosely around the cake, cake stand or cake table.

If you have room, the cake table is a good place to put a vase of water for bridal or bridesmaids’ bouquets. This adds decoration and colour to this area but also keeps the flowers happy!

Bridal bouquets are a key piece in weddings and feature in a lot of your wedding photos. When we design your wedding bouquet it is useful to know what you’ll be wearing and your height so we can make something to suit.

Our most popular request is for a loose, natural wild flower style bouquet but some people do request a waterfall style bouquet. You can choose to add on flowing silk or streamer ribbons if you like which can look nice in outdoor photos.

We will work with your colour scheme using seasonally available flowers, if possible all locally grown, and will deliver your flowers in water, but it’s a good idea to have a vase of water handy at the venue for you to put your flowers into after the photos have been taken.

We don’t do mock ups of bouquets or exact ingredients lists as it very much depends what materials are looking at their best in the cutting garden at the time of your wedding. We know that some people feel anxious not knowing exactly how their bouquet will look but you can look at our Instagram feed to find what sort of flowers we were using last year at the same time as your wedding and that will help give you an idea. The surprise of seeing your flowers on the day is part of the magic!

Bridesmaid bouquets tend to be smaller versions of the bridal bouquets but using similar ingredients.

Buttonholes are traditionally worn by the groom, their best man and groomsmen and the fathers of the couple. Our buttonholes come with two pins to attach them to the left lapel of your jacket. We can do this for you on the morning of the wedding if you’re struggling.

Our buttonholes are a relaxed style, not too big and tend to be a mixture of herbs and greenery like eucalyptus and rosemary with some flowers to match in with other elements of the wedding like a bridal bouquet if there is one. They can be bound with either twine (for a rustic look) or ribbon to match in with your suit, kilt or tie. They are not wired like traditional buttonholes. Popular focal flowers include thistle, succulents, poppy seed heads or billy buttons.

If you’d like something a bit different we can do a floral pocket square, which slots into your top pocket.

We can make buttonholes for children with magnets instead of pins but would not recommend buttonholes for children under 5.

It’s popular to incorporate flowers in your hair but this doesn’t have to mean a full flower crown (although we love those too!). You can have a full crown, a half crown (just covering the back of your head), a floral comb or a mix of small individually wired flowers that your hair stylist can weave into the hair style.

If you are involving kids at your wedding sometimes it’s nice to include them in the flower options. We do not recommend giving flowers to children under 2 years old for safety measures and all children should be supervised if they are wearing or carrying flowers.

For page boys and young groomsmen we offer buttonholes on magnets rather than with pins.

For flower girls people sometimes opt for miniature posies of flowers, flower wands or flower hoops. These can be done in fresh, dried or artificial flowers.

Flower girls might also like flower crowns or a few small flowers woven into their hair (see more hair flower options here).

If you would like dried flower confetti we recommend Shropshire Petals.

We love dogs at weddings! Over the years we’ve provided flowers for a variety of furry friends at weddings (dogs, alpacas you name it!). We always suggest the animal has a “minder” to make sure it doesn’t eat the flowers for safety reasons.

If you think your pooch would like some flowers we can fit them to their collar or harness or we can design something to go up a non retractable lead. We’ll need you to send us pictures of the harness/collar with your dog in it and out of it and some measurements so we can work out how big to make the design and how best to attach it.

Dried wedding flowers can be the perfect choice if you want to keep your wedding flowers for longer after the wedding. They are also great if you are going to be travelling before or after your wedding, for example if you’re eloping and won’t be able to pick up and transport fresh flowers on the morning of your wedding from our studio. Dried flowers are also a great option if you want to use more sustainable flowers for your wedding in the winter months when locally grown flowers are not available. All of our dried flowers are grown in the UK and dried naturally without chemicals to strip or alter their colour. We do not use painted or dried flowers to keep things as environmentally friendly as possible

Most weddings have 2 or 3 different signs; a “Welcome” sign, a “schedule” and a “table plan”. Often these are designed and printed with flowers and decorative illustrations already on them but sometimes you might like to add a little greenery or a touch of floral magic to bring everything together.

If your sign is on an easel or blackboard or if you are making a sign out of a wooden pallet we can add loose greenery, a garland or a small spray of flowers and foliage to a corner, bottom or top. Where the flower or foliage are placed depends on what we can attach them to and we may need to use clips, tape or pins to achieve this so it’s best not to use a stand or frame that’s a family heirloom!

All our designs are foam free in line with our sustainability goals and usually the flowers or foliage will be added to the signage on the day and in situ so we can see how best to place the design elements in the space provided. You can also use arrangements of crates and flowers to create an alternative staging for your signage, have a look at our crates section for inspiration.