Rustic spring wild flower wedding at Cairns Farms Estate
It was such a pleasure doing Claire and Paul’s wedding flowers for their early Spring wedding at Cairns Farm Estate as I had previously done the flowers for Claire’s sister’s wedding so got to catch up with her on the day! I love doing flowers for friends and family of my previous couples, it feels like a real privilege to be asked back to do flowers for someone they know.
New trend for wedding colours
Claire and Paul chose a beautiful colour palette of oranges, peaches and rust tones (not just for autumn you know!) contrasting with soft blues and whites. This colour scheme is becoming more popular and works for summer weddings too. For more blue, orange and white examples check out this September wedding at Ardgowan House and this June wedding at Roseberry Steadings.
Sustainable wedding flowers
These colours worked really well with the flowers that were seasonally available and with the warm tones of the venue’s wooden interior. Due to the time of year there weren’t Scottish grown flowers available but we did manage to use Irish foliage and lots of UK grown flowers from England grown in glasshouses heated with biofuel and just topped up with a few imported things like roses and thistle which are not grown in the UK all year round.
The bouquets
For Claire’s gorgeous bridal bouquet we created a relaxed front facing arrangement using lots of spring and winter favourites such as anemones, tulips, paperwhite narcissus and ranunculus alongside snapdragon, delphinium, roses, wax flower and thistle. The bluey tones of the Irish grown eucalyptus perfectly complemented the colour theme.
For the couple’s bridesmaids we created beautiful small posies inspired by the bridal bouquet but smaller and a super cute fresh flower wand for the flower girl, these really popped against their constrasting rust coloured dresses and suit.
The buttonholes
The groom, groomsmen and dads wore rustic buttonholes of eucalyptus, dried crocosmia, thistle, wax flower and ranunculus bound with a chocolatey brown ribbon to match in with the autumnal colours of the other wedding flowers and the bridesmaids’ outfits.
Decorating the venue
The couple were married in the ceremony room where we lined the aisle with vintage stoneweare bottles to tie in with the earthy tones of the venue and wedding colour scheme, and filled these with delicate wild flower style arrangements. These could then be moved post-ceremony onto the tables for the wedding reception which were also decorated with foliage. It is a great way to simply decorate the space and draw the eye and the colour theme down the aisle. Bud vases or bottles are a great option if you want to move decorations from one area to another at your wedding and can be placed on tables for the reception where they could easily fit in between sharing platters.
For more spring or winter wedding flower inspiration have a look at our wedding gallery or you can look at our flower ideas page to see how to include different flower arrangements in your wedding. If you’d like to talk about your wedding flowers get in touch.
All images by Matthew Smith Photography
Venue Cairns Farm Estate