Colourful spring fairytale wedding at Rowallan Castle
Chanelle and Lloyds’s romantic fairytale wedding at Rowallan Castle was filled with gorgeous colourful springs wild flowers perfect for capturing the beauty of spring. With an eye-catching colour pallette of blue, white and pinks with pops of brighter tones to create contrast this was a really fun wedding to flower up.
Seasonal spring wedding flowers
Spring is such a joyous hopeful time as the days get longer and finally the flowers start blooming after winter making it the perfect time for a wedding celebration. Channelle and Lloyd planned their gorgeous wild flower wedding from afar and travelled to the beauiuful Rowallan castle to say their “I dos” in April. The castle was filled with beautiful spring light and we decorated the ceremony room with striking natural style urn arrangements on plinths either side of the grand fireplace. This as a great way to frame the ceremony space and a really flexible option as the flower arrangements could easily be moved and reused later at the wedding reception. We used lots of spring favourites like flowering current, blossom, anemones, tulips and and hellebbore alongside some UK grown delphinium for a striking pop of blue colour.
Creating impact with flowers
We moved these arrangements through to either side of the top table for the wedding reception where they really popped against the dark curtains in the ballroom at Rowallan. Channelle had colour co-ordinated her taper candles with the flowers so the space was filled with touches of pink, and blue which looked great against the white table linen. We dotted little bud vases filled with seasonal spring flowers grown in Scotland along the guest tables and top table in between the candles. This was a really effective way of creating impact without taking up too much space as the tables were fairly narrow so bigger arrangements would have blocked guests’ view and taken up too much space on the table. We also added little arrangements of matching flowers to each tier of their beautiful wedding cake to add an extra floral touch.
Buttonholes and bouquets
For the groom and groomsmen we continued the theme of blues with cute thistle buttonholes with a pop of brighter blue in the form of a stem of grape hyacinth tucked in the back of the buttonhole. We bound the buttonholes with twine for a rustic look
For the bride and her bridesmaids we made stunning spring posies in a relaxed wild flower style using lots of seasonal spring flowers grown locally. In the bridal bouquet we included anemone, bluebell, hyacinth, delphinium, anemone, ranunculus and tulip all grown in the UK. The bride specially requested sweet peas as they were a personal favourite so these were imported alongside cornflower. We also made an extra cute flower wand version of the bouquet for the bride’s flower girl so she could match the other bridesmaids.
Colourful weddings aren’t just for blank canvas venues
Sometimes people think that if you are getting married in a formal or traditional venue you can’t have a colourful “wild flower” feel wedding but these pictures really show how the fun colours and of the seasonal spring flowers really hold their own I the grand setting of Rowallan’s ballroom and ceremony space.
If you’ve been inspired by Channelle and Lloyd’s colourful spring wedding and want to organise your own get in touch or have a look at some of our other spring wedding flowers for ideas and inspiration. Or take a look at a summer wedding we did at Rowallan here. If you’d like to talk about your wedding flowers get in touch.
All images by The Gibsons
Venue Rowallan Castle