Better wedding photos.

After a busy week, with weddings and gift orders and fairs, today is a down day.
I am sorting out my desk and doing some admin - sparked by needing to actually get my accounts in order before it all spirals out of control and leaves me sobbing over a mess of receipt filled shoe boxes in January.
Not my favourite job.  I just make piles and piles of paper and then get fed up with it all and make a cup of coffee.
On a brighter note, Jane Robertson has just popped round with a CD of photos taken of the wedding flowers on Saturday - they are just as gorgeous as I thought they would be and I thought that I would share a couple.
The church is a lovely old building with a beautiful arched front door.  This is a heart wreath of box and rosemary which I hung the front door of the church - the top is decorated with hellebores and scented narcissi.
I love heart wreaths, you think that they might turn out twee but they never seem to - I make ones with dogwood and willow in the winter with berries and paperwhites at the top and I've made up one with sweetpeas as well for a wedding in a tiny castle chapel.
And here is a much better photo of the bride's bouquet - taken by a proper photographer - not by my trying to hold it steady and press the shutter at the same time.
I find angelique -the peony tulip in the bouquet - quite difficult to grow, the blooms are a bit capricious and have a tendency to bloom small, they don't grow well in the tunnel as they are prone to rot.
But when I look at flowers like this they are obviously worth it.  Stunning.
Back to the accounts . . .but then the sun has just come out . . .another day?

Comments

[Diana]

Beautiful flowers Jane....and I can identify with the accounts, that'll be me in January, unless I break the habit of a lifetime! Sunny here too....enjoy it! Diana x

[GillianFlowers]

Jane
I love the heart wreath. Did you make the frame or did you buy it already shaped?
I've tried to grow Angelique this year but very few of them are really double - never mind - they still are a pretty colour.
Gillian

[snapdragon]

The heart is on a copper wire ring - like the ones you get to make Christmas mossed wreaths, just heart shaped rather than circular - that makes it very easy to wire on the foliage or twigs and it keeps its shape. The flowers at the top are into a wee dumpling like bit of oasis in a plastic cage that I just wire on.
I can't think of another tulip that is as variable as Angelique -
J
x

[Brenda Kula]

Gorgeous flowers! What a way to earn a living, watching everyone's happy moment in time.
Brenda

[Nonnie]

The flowers are beautiful. I love the bouquet. Just gorgeous. The colour of those roses is stunning.

[Pipany]

Beautiful jane as ever; actually I thought your photos of the bouwuet were great! Popped over to Caroline's blog after reading about your course and it was lovely to catch up on what she has been doing. You two are truly an inspirational team xx

[Ellie Perry]

A wonderful surprise was left outside my back door yesterday......a bouquet of stunning flowers - they embodied the essence of a beautiful Spring day - the serrated edge tulips are just opening and really are a sight to behold.

[snapdragon]

Thanks for the lovely feedback Ellie - all the trial bouquets seem to have arrived safely and on time - now I just need to fix up the website and make sure we have enough flowers and it will be ready to roll,
J
x

[Pippa Long]

I love the heart wreath, my favourite shape. You really have a golden touch with flowers.

[Tricia]

The heart is beautiful. If you are ever doing a course in London or even near to it I would love to come to it.

[Clover Yard]

Gasp! how beautiful are those tulips, and the heart is just stunning. My back door looks exactly like that, I might just have to attempt one of those. How inspirational your posts are Jane. I look forward to ordering one of your lovely bouquets.
Carolx