Do It Youself (DIY)Wedding Flowers

Brides are definitely becoming more adventurous…

There has been a move towards brides wanting to do their own weddings flowers. Sometimes all of it, and sometimes just some of it…..

DIY Wedding Flowers can look perfect with a little practice.

There are many reasons for doing wedding flowers yourself. Two main ones are that the bride simply wants too because she's dreamed about her perfect wedding since being a little girl, and secondly it's simply a case of budget. Some brides to be we meet are very nervous of not getting it right – our advice is always enlist the help of a friend, a nice bottle of wine and have a go…..as they say practice makes perfect.

Our tips for giving it a go…….

1. If you are not completely confident on sorting all the flowers out, maybe ask your florist to handle the bouquets and buttonholes and then take on the venue flower arrangements yourself.
2. Enlist on a course for wedding flowers. It will build your confidence and is well worth it. Field Gate is holding one on the 19^th October. Do join us.
3. Enlist the help of friends and family. Most of us have a friend or family member who has an eye for this sort of thing and is known to be creative. (this person can be annoying to those not creative….)
4. Sign up to Pinterest and start pinning to your heart’s content on all the themes you love. We always ask our brides for this as it gives us a favour of what they love and the type of look they are trying to achieve. Add pictures of the dress too – this is very useful.
5. Vintage weddings and garden parties are better for DIY. Letting your florist do the arrangements is definitely easier if your wedding is a strictly formal affair. If you want complicated, striking or tall arrangements then you really should enlist the help of a local florist.

We have just delivered flowers to a lovely garden party wedding in Leicestershire – the photos are truly stunning. Her Mother must have been a trained florist and definitely had the eye for putting flowers together.

Must go. The sun is shining and jobs to do. September always a buzy month for planning the next season. We are extending our patches next year to include more perennials and roses – watch this space. 

Field Gate Flowers are a re-known wedding florist covering Milton Keynes, Olney, Northampton and surrounding villages.

What flowers are in our bouquets this week...

What a weekend... sun, wind, sun, more wind & then finally rain. But the flowers are growing well. The first of the sweet peas went into our bouquets this weekend, mainly in bud so they will open during the next few days, they smell amazing, old fashioned colours and strong in scent that you can smell them in the next room.

Other flowers that are now coming into flower this week are cosmos, ammi majus, lavender and salvias. The calendula are now really busy plants and just coming into bud... hopefully some will be just right for next weeks bouquets adding a new colour into the mix... lovely bright and fresh orange!

Field Gate Flowers is a Milton Keynes Florist based just outside Newport Pagnell. Free Flower delivery to Milton Keynes, Olney, Newport Pagnell and surrounding villages. Wedding Flowers for Milton Keynes and villages a speciality...

Wedding flowers

Quite often “brides to be” ask me what’s in vogue as far as flowers are concerned. My answers are always the same….

What do you love? What flowers do you hate? How do you imagine your special day to look? Overall what would be your ideal feel and look?

And if you want to buy British Cut Flowers– what’s in season….

 

It’s nice to look at what is in fashion as far as weddings go –if nothing more but to have an excuse to buy all those lovely magazines. With the advent of Pinterest, I recommend that you start your own mood boards the moment the engagement is over……any excuse to start planning your special day.

So for 2013/4 there seems to be a plethora of themes about. Vintage is still popular but now has a 1920’s  influence. Traditional garden parties are still really popular for those Summer relaxed weddings and there is always room for the timeless elegant and classical. And if you feel wacky – check out Vera Wang’s monochrome collection.

1920’s - The TV dramas such as Downton Abbey have stirred a revival in the 1920’s look in wedding dresses. The Great Gatsby has helped fuel this too. Dresses are beautiful, elegant and usually involve a little fishtail/trumpet look and plenty of lace. Flowers need to be elegant for this look and not over done – simple is the answer. Light pastel shades are very much in – pale roses, extreme Alstromeria and beautiful wispy foliage such as asparagus fern.

 

Garden Party - Imagine bunting, long trestle wooden tables and children running around laughing and chasing each other. Here you have the perfect country garden party. Our choice of flowers in this instance are really relaxed – tables could be adorned with various types of jars and bottles – all beautifully but casually brimming with cottage flowers such as daisys, lupins, roses, sweet peas and delphiniums.

Depending on the time of year and the colour theme, not to mention the style of dress, the brides bouquet can be as simple as a main colour – such as purple and cream. Purple opens up the world of British flowers and includes phlox, lupins, iris, delphiniums, anemones. In the Autumn lovely dark shades of red can add a dramatic twist.

Elegant and Classical - There is no shortage of beautiful elegant wedding dresses –truly stunning. There has been a shift to dresses with cleaner lines and sharper silhouettes for the 2014 season.

We would recommend keeping it chic and sophisticated by choosing white and green blooms for your day. Hand tied bouquets could include Hellebores or perhaps a combination of Avalanche cream roses, ranunculus and foliage of dill and fennel. Tablecentres could include cream freesias, ranunculus and choisya.  Adding herbs complete any arrangement – the smell of rosemary is truly devine. A favourite of mine is gyphsophila – beautiful and simple when mixed with one colour.

Above all – more is less. Flowers need to be elegant and complete the theme.

Ideally in 20 years you want to look back……and remember those beautiful flowers you had on your wedding day. Please don’t hesitate to ask our advice on themes, colours and seasonal flowers.

Field Gate Flowers is a Milton Keynes Florist based just outside Newport Pagnell.
Free Flower delivery to Milton Keynes, Olney, Newport Pagnell and surrounding villages.
Wedding Flowers for Milton Keynes and villages a speciality...