Showing posts with label burlap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burlap. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 June 2012

A Midsummer Night's Dream


Sometimes the most beautiful things come in small packages, this weeks wedding was an excellent example of this. Just twenty very special people were invited to join Susie and Chris at their intimate wedding on Midsummer's Eve. The date provided the perfect theme; the bride looked breathtaking in an ethereal sage green dress, the groom very dapper in a green tweed shooting jacket, voluminous jewel coloured flowers and a table setting fit for feast.  There were lots of little details which really added a personal touch, I loved their 'Save the Date' which was a packet of forget-me-not seeds with a note attached asking guests to grow the flowers and use as confetti. On the day before the wedding we made individual intials for each place setting using florists wire and Rosemary from the garden. The cheese course took the form of an old Rigaud barn door mounted on two wine barrels and dressed with fruit, succulents, flowers and the brides very own homemade chilli jam driven all the way from the north of England, simply put it was a Midsummer Night's Dream.


Gorgeous graphics and ingenious 'save the date'



Susie's bouquet of peony, rose, delphinium, astibille and nigella


Buttonhole with succulent, lavender, rose and rosemary


Buttonhole with succulent, lavender, rosemary and lisianthus


Buttonhole with the vintage books used as props on the table setting


Initials made from wire and rosemary


Outside dining


Table set with hessian runners, flowers, fruit, trailing ivy and vines


The Midsummer inspired tablescape


The cheese door, dressed with succulents, flowers, fruit and home-made chilli jam

Succulents are the new must have wedding accessory according to Justin Alexander


Susie's home-made chilli jam, the perfect accompaniment


Brown kraft paper was used to label the French cheeses



Sunday, 26 February 2012

Branching out

Hello 2012! What a year it is shaping up to be; 17 beautiful brides here at Chateau Rigaud, 1 lovely bride a couple of hours down the road and 1 back in Bonnie Scotland at the end of the year to top it all off. And it's not just flowers; new year = new job, drum roll please for my new role as 'Wedding Stylist!' This will encompass all elements of the look of everyones Big Day here at the Chateau and I'm really looking forward to it being a bit of a design geek (Mr E calls it 'control freak') I just like things to look perfect and if that means moving that chandelier 2 inches lower then so be it. Anyway I digress, to kick off my new role I have been sourcing and making some new items to build up an Aladdin's cave of props. Today was a trip to Rauzan to the Antique/flea/junk market where I picked up 2 vintage suitcases which will be perfect to fill with pashminas for guests to help themselves to on cooler evenings. I've also been spending many an evening cutting and sewing bunting for the barn and over the front gate. I've chosen hessian or burlap as the first material to use which I think will contrast really well in texture with the new lighting feature over the dance floor which is being created from balloons, wallpaper paste and lace doilies inspired by The Dos Family up there in Sweden.

Vintage suitcases from the flea market at Rauzan



Sewing in the sunshine



DIY lampshade in progress