The Old Parsonage and Gee's Restaurant Wedding

Thank you to Louisa and Mark for sending us these gorgeous photos from their wedding at The Old Parsonage, Oxford in September.
http://www.oldparsonage-hotel.co.uk/

Louisa carried a loose country styled Hand Tied bouquet which perfectly complimented her stunning dress.











The reception was held at one of our favourite Oxford restaurants Gees which is a fabulous Victorian conservatory and our next door neighbour on the Banbury Road in Oxford.
http://www.gees-restaurant.co.uk/















To reflect the contemporary feel of the venue within the historical setting we used Victorian bottles with sprigs of country flowers on the tables.


















Photos provided by the Bride and Groom.

Outdoor Wedding at Ardington House

Ardington House nr Wantage has been a extremely popular venue for our brides and grooms this year.

The lovely temple on the island is licensed for civil ceremonies which allows you to get married outside whilst keeping within English law which states that licensed wedding venues must be under the roof of a permanent structure.

Charlotte and John's wedding took place at Ardington House in August and they were very lucky with the weather allowing them to get married on the island.

Thank you once again to Susie and Harley of Barker Evans Photography for these fabulous photos.

http://www.barkerevansweddings.com/

http://www.ardingtonhouse.com/

All Images Copyright BarkerEvans Photography

Abingdon event

We are supporting the Action Against Breast Cancer Splash of pink day day in our Abingdon Branch on Saturday 10th October.
We will be holding a Mad Hatters splash of pink tea party and hope to raise lots of money for this fabulous Abingdon based charity.
Join us from 9am to 4pm on Saturday and see http://www.aabc.org.uk/ for more details of events in Abingdon on the day.

(The best dressed shop competition is hotting up)

Nether Winchendon House Wedding

As promised in a previous post here are some fabulous pictures from Sarah and Robs wedding on the 1st August. Two years ago we provided wedding flowers for Sarah's sister's wedding and were delighted that Sarah chose us as the florist for her special day. Sarah carried a handtied bridal bouquet of Blue Curiosa Roses, Pink Peonies, lisianthus and fresh lavender, mint, and rosemary.

The wedding ceremony took place at Upper Winchendon Church which was filled with pots of lavender (which set the theme for the wedding) followed by a reception at Nether Winchendon House. http://www.netherwinchendonhouse.com/



The Bridesmaids bouquets were stunning country handtieds of Blue Curiosa Roses, Lavender, Mint, Rosemary, Lisianthus and Wax Flower.



A big big thank you to the Fabulous Susie and Harley of Barker Evans Photography for these amazing images.

http://www.barkerevansweddings.com/



All Photos Copyright Barker Evans Photography 2009

Wedding Flowers Abingdon

We have received a delightful thank you card from Suzy and Nick today for the bridal flowers we provided for their wedding in Abingdon on the 22nd August.

Thank you card

Dear Matthew

Many Thanks for the care and attention you put into my wedding flowers. The Lisianthus bouquet was stunning, handtied with lace, the button holes were perfect and my hair buds the exact colour I wanted.

Your stunning creations helped me feel like a princess for a day.

Kind regards

Suzy and Nick

A big thank you to Beder Photography for these gorgeous photos

http://www.bederphotography.com/

All images copyright bederphotography

Le Manoir Wedding

A big thank you to Nigel Harper Photography http://www.nigelharper.com/ for sending us these fabulous photos from Barbara and Johns wedding at Le Manoir in August.


Barbara carried a Carmen rose bridal bouquet with a modern twig and feather trail to compliment her Vivian Westwood dress.


We often provide wedding flowers at Le Manoir and it was fun to create such a modern look in such a stylish setting. The mantle design consisted of groupings of flowers in antique glass bottles and for the table designs we used glass mirror cubes with roses and Gloriosa Lillies attached to steel grass towers.


We would like to thank Barbara and John for choosing us to provide the floristry for their special day and we were delighted to receive a call from them on the way to their honeymoon destination to say how much they enjoyed their wedding day and the Fabulous Flowers.



All Photography Copyright Nigel Harper 2009

http://www.nigelharper.com/


http://www.manoir.com/

Oxford University Trinity College Wedding

We were delighted to receive a thank you card from Liz and Mark for the wedding flowers we provided on the 4th of July which took place at Trinity College Oxford. Liz carried a handtied bouquet of white peonies, avalanche roses and freesias which perfectly complimented her dress.



Thank you Card

Dear Matthew and Fabulous Flowers

Just a quick note to say thank-you for creating such beautiful flower designs for our wedding on July 4th, 2009. We also really appreciated all your efforts to fit in with Trinity's schedule, making the day run smoothly.

Kind regards, Mark and Liz Pinkham

The photography for the day was by Mario Mage who has kindly supplied these stunning images. We particularly love the guys with the table decorations.

http://www.immage.co.uk/

All Photography Copyright Immage

The Fabulous Flowers Team have been busy with summer weddings and events this month so watch this space for lots of new posts coming soon.

Saturday 1st August saw us at Nether Winchendon House, which is a unique strawberry hill gothic medieval manor house set in 7 acres of interesting gardens. The reception was held in a stylish marquee with a Lavender theme, including wall-hung lavender wreaths and stylish punch bowls of Hydrangea, lilac roses, stunning scented stocks rosemary and lavender. We transformed the delightful country church of upper Winchendon into a picture of province with numerous butterfly lavenders in terracotta pots and lots of hurricane lanterns
It was so nice to be invited to design the wedding flowers for Sarah after designing her sisters wedding flowers we 2 years ago.

. http://www.netherwinchendonhouse.com/

In contrast we also created amazing flowers for Ann Marie at Laines Barn. The wedding had a contemporary feel with lots of mood lighting, shocking pink and Cadbury purple. For drama we designed tall arrangements of Singapore orchids, purple lisianthus, purple hydrangea and white roses for the English groom and blue thistles for the Scottish bride. We filled the glass vases with pink gel and single fairy lights, which provided a modern style in a rustic setting. On delivering the bouquets to the bride’s room we received instant feedback with a round of applause from the bridal party. On Sunday we received the most amazing feedback from both brides with Ann Marie and her Mum Stating that the flowers were the most stunning flowers they had ever seen and a call from Sarah saying how wonderful the flowers were.

http://www.lainsbarn.co.uk/

Pink and White Wedding Flowers at Kingston Bagpuize House

A big Fabulous Congratulations to Hannah and Andy whose wedding took place at Blewbury Church followed by a reception at Kingston Bagpuize House.

Kingston Bagpuize House is the family home of Virginia Grant and her children Elizabeth and Alexander and provides a magnificent setting for weddings and events.

All photos kindly provided by Barker Evans Photography.

www.kingstonbagpuizehouse.btinternet.co.uk/pages/civilceremonies.html

www.barkerevans.com

Fabulous Flower School

We have just announced dates for our popular floristry evening courses in Oxford. These courses are suitable for all levels from complete novices to the experienced flower arranger. Places get booked up very quickly so if you are interested in joining us please call our Oxford branch on 01865 511811 for more detail or mail us at flowerschool@fabulousflowers.biz

Evening Flower School – The art of flower arranging
Tuesday evenings 6.30pm till 8.30pm starting 8th September 2009
A six week evening course which includes all flowers and materials. The flower school is suitable for all levels of flower arranger from beginner to advanced. The course syllabus covers care and conditioning of plant material, hand tied bouquets, arrangements, and lots of modern floristry techniques. Tea and coffee will be served throughout the evening.
Places are limited to 8 per session to ensure you receive our full attention. If you would like to attend please book early as places get filled very quickly.
Cost £240

Evening Flower School – Wedding Floristry
A four week intensive evening course which includes all flowers and materials. The course is suitable for anyone wanting to learn or improve their wedding floristry skills from beginner to advanced. The course syllabus covers care and conditioning of plant material, bridesmaids bouquets, buttonholes and corsages, brides wired bouquet, pedestal and table decoration Places are limited to 8 per session to ensure you receive our full attention.
If you would like to attend please book early as places get filled very quickly.
cost £200

Highclere Castle Part Two

Courtesy of Barker Evans Photography and Sarah Haywood Weddings we have received some more stunning images from Sophie and Craig's wedding which the Fabulous Flowers Team provided the wedding flowers for at Highclere Castle for a late May Bank holiday weekend wedding.

The classic green and white flower scheme fitted the magnificent setting of Highclere Castle perfectly with the use of lots of English country flowers including Stocks, Peonies, Delphiniums, and Roses which provided the most amazing scent.

All photos are copyright Barker Evans Photography

http://www.barkerevans.com/

http://www.sarahhaywood.co.uk/

Enysham Hall Wedding Photos

The Fabulous Flowers wedding and event florist team have had another busy weekend starting on Friday when we supplied event flowers for two school presentation ceremony's a school ball and charity ball for the British Army. On Saturday we created wedding flowers for two weddings both in Oxford University Colleges. The first wedding ceremony was held in the Holywell Music Room followed by a reception in Wadham Colleges Fellows garden and the second wedding being at Trinity College Oxford.

These stunning photos are from Lucy and Matthew's Wedding at Eynsham Hall Courtesy of Stuart Randall Photography.
http://www.randallweddings.co.uk/