Beautifully Created Summer Wedding Flowers Essex

Summer is the most popular time of the year for a wedding, with warm, sunny weather and long balmy summer evenings lending themselves naturally to the overall perfect wedding day. During the summer months flowers are also plentiful in variety, colours and fragrance giving every bride more choice in floral design.  At Tolly’s we create wedding flowers for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Hertfordshire weddings, turning your ideas into beautiful, creative floral displays and bridal bouquets that are personal and bespoke for your wedding day.

Whether you need summer wedding flowers for an Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire or Suffolk wedding, we design with artistic flair and create imaginative displays for the church, wedding cars, button holes, corsages, bridal bouquets, reception flowers and accessories such as table centrepieces, wedding cake arrangements and gift bouquets. We take care to ensure that everything ties in together to create something which is beautiful, striking and most importantly reflect the bride and groom’s vision.

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At Tolly’s we help you to choose the style and colour scheme and make sure that this theme is followed throughout all of your wedding arrangements. It’s our distinctive creative flair and our attention to detail that brings everything together on the day, making it special and memorable to you and your guests.

With such a wide variety of flowers to choose from during summer, it can be helpful to think about the overall atmosphere you want for your wedding, and then choose flowers to create that feeling. Here are just a few of the most popular design options you could go for:

Roses – Traditional and Elegant – Roses being so loved and symbolic of love, work really well all year round, but in the summer months roses really do come into their own. In spring you will see roses in bud, but in the summer months they are in full splendour being larger and in full bloom and they are available in every colour. By simply choosing one colour for your arrangements you can create a formal and understated display. For a more relaxed atmosphere, go for mixed colours in an informal arrangement, as in this marquee pole decoration.


Bright – The Vibrancy of Summer - By utilising a combination of colours you create a less informal display that bursts with life and vibrancy that reflects the fun of the summer months and creates a thoroughly celebratory atmosphere. Depending on what colour combinations are used you can be understated by restricting the colour scheme to two or three colours or you can go bold with a full on profusion with a mix of colours and flower types  as in  the simple hand held bouquet shown below. Here the vibrant orange creates a cheerful, summery feel, while the white flowers keep the design tied in to the bride's dress.



Or you can choose two or three colours like bright pink and green set against a black vase. An arrangement like the one below is bold, feminine and contemporary in style.



Rustic – Perfect for a County English Garden Wedding

If you are having a country or village hall wedding you can go for a more rustic looking arrangement using locally sourced wild flowers. This look is extremely relaxed and informal but still colourful using more muted and natural tones. Most summer wild flowers like sunflowers, cornflowers, musk thistles, seasonal county garden and field grown flowers can be used to create something truly lovely, natural and almost vintage in style.

Wild and English country garden flowers look most at home when set against natural backdrops of wood, terracotta and glass vases or pots. Tin buckets also add a more contemporary look to the natural and soft colours of wild flowers. In the ceremony display below mixed colours and loose arrangements go perfectly with the weathered wood of the pavilion.



Sophisticated – A More Contemporary Setting – Flowers can be used in the most simplest and minimalist way and can create something very powerful and impactful just by the way they are placed. A simple way is to use just one flower of your choice to create something sophisticated and contemporary.

With the season come new styles, colours and imaginative and creative designs that when pulled together add that special finishing touch to your wedding day. Sometimes it can be left to the flowers themselves to convey the season, we just help you to realise your vision for your day in bloom.

In the ceremony design below, a single full flower rose combined with a fashionable grey chair tie-back creates a highly sophisticated and stylish effect.



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To help you create the perfect summer wedding flowers contact us today on 01638 668805 or through our contact page to arrange your free wedding consultation.

Specialist Wedding Flowers Hertfordshire

Tolly's Flowers are specialists in wedding flowers for Hertfordshire, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk weddings and are here to make sure your wedding will be a memorable and beautiful day.

The Importance of Choosing a Wedding Flowers Specialist

Did you know that apart from the dress and the cost of the reception itself, flowers are what most couples choose to spend most on for their weddings? Often more than the ring or the honeymoon!

That's because most couples who come to us to help design their wedding flowers fully understand what a big impact a really good floral display can make to the atmosphere of a wedding and that it can enhance not just the day itself but also your family's memories into the future, as your choice of wedding flowers will often appear in formal and informal photographs and videos of the big day.

So when it comes to planning your Essex, Suffolk or Hertfordshire wedding, flowers are best placed in the hands of experienced specialists – because you only get one chance to make your wedding day perfect.

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Tolly's Flowers – Wedding Flower Specialists

At Tolly's we can truly call ourselves wedding flower specialists. When you come to Tolly's for wedding flowers Hertfordshire, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire couples get a whole lot more than just beautiful flowers – you get a complete design service with all our 20 years of experience and creativity at your disposal. Here are just some of the reasons Tolly's should be your favoured choice for wedding flowers in Hertfordshire and surrounding counties.

Design Experience

Tolly’s have many years of experience designing for a wide range of wedding types, large and small, traditional and contemporary. This means we can cater for any type of wedding and are able to incorporate any style or colour scheme you may have in mind. While each wedding is unique, our experience means we simply know how to put together any possible style or theme you could possibly want.

Creativity

We do more than simply produce the arrangements you specify (although of course we can do that if you have something very specific in mind). We add value by using our creativity to come up with a design from scratch. Just give us a budget to work to and any preferences you do have (e.g. colour scheme or favourite flowers) and leave the rest to us. This service is a huge time saver for couples with a wedding to plan, especially if the wedding date is quite close.

And as part of our creative design service, we will also suggest innovative ways of using flowers in ways you may not have thought of. While most people will think of a bridal bouquet, buttonholes for groom and ushers and table decorations, weddings can make use of flowers in a myriad of different ways, from church, to car to reception venue. How about embellishing a wedding dress with fresh flowers? Or as part of a cake decoration? With Tolly's you can let us come up with the ideas and simply choose the ones you like.

Personal Attention

We only cater one wedding per day so our team are totally focussed on you on the day that really matters. We don’t just deliver the flowers to the venue and then leave; we stay on hand to ensure displays are arranged correctly and, if required, to move them from the ceremony venue, to the car and on to the reception venue and rearrange as needed. It's one less item of logistics for you to think about on the day.

Attention to Detail

We understand that your floral displays need to do more than just look good on the day – often they will feature prominently in the photographs you take of the event. So we pay enormous attention to not just an individual display, but the overall effect and atmosphere it creates in a room.

Budget Sensitive

All weddings, even lavish ones, need to work within a budget, and we are very mindful of how important this is to couples. We’ll always aim to work within your budget creatively, and have a range of ways of re-using flowers to maximise the impact you can achieve for your money.

With all this specialist expertise, you might expect that using Tolly's to design your wedding flowers might be an expensive option. But it is completely free to arrange a wedding consultation and find out just how much creativity we can offer within your budget. Just call us on 01638 668805 to book a free consultation.

Based in Newmarket just off the A14 we are conveniently located to provide wedding flowers for Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Suffolk wedding venues.

Winter Wedding Flowers Essex

Winter may not seem like a promising time of year for a wedding florally speaking, but Tolly's can help to design winter wedding flowers for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Hertfordshire winter weddings that will enchant and cheer whatever the weather may be doing outside.

Winter weddings can be just as glamorous and romantic as summer weddings, and your choice of flowers plays an especially important part in creating a beautiful winter wedding. However, many couples can initially feel confused about what sort of design direction to take, or may even be worried that the design options are too limited at this time of year. Here we consider some of the design options available at this time of year and show that when it comes to designing winter wedding flowers, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk couples can look forward to colour schemes and designs that are just as innovative and exciting as at any other time of the year.

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Winter Wedding Flower Design Options

When designing a winter wedding, there are probably two major routes to take: either try to create a winter-free zone, or embrace the season completely.

For a winter-free-zone this simply means choosing bright, spring or summer flowers in any colour combinations you choose. With modern day travel it is possible to have just about any type or colour of flowers you like, all year round. This is a popular choice for couples who have a particular colour scheme in mind that really only summer colours will complement, such as bright pink, orange, purple or blue, or who especially love particular summer flowers such as roses and freesias.

But if you choose to embrace the season instead, your choices are still extensive. Embracing the season means using colour schemes and other elements that are strongly associated with winter. Here are just a few design ideas along these lines:

Warming – One of the most popular and effective design options is to go for in winter is a rich, warm colour scheme. This is a great way to banish the cold while also reflecting the season. Warming colours tend to be strong but not too light or bright, such as deep reds, oranges and yellows offset with dark green. Deep red snowberries can be used to embellish arrangements or can even be used by themselves to make an entire bouquet; while deep pink or purple thistle flowers are a great choice for an early winter / late autumn wedding. Add further warmth with light, either directly with candles or indirectly with shiny surfaces such as mirrors, fabrics and ribbon.

White or Cream – These suggest snow and ice, as well as instantly working with any cream or white wedding dress, making this a look that is popular all year round. This type of scheme will appeal to any couples who like a "less is more" approach to design, and results in an extremely sophisticated look. As well as traditional cream or white roses, carnations and so forth, you can make the design feel more seasonal with touches such as white snowberries. White is ideal if you want a really wintry feel, while cream creates a softer look.

Silver or Gold – Adding silver or gold to a cream or white theme is a way to add sparkle and warmth to your design but without moving too far away from a winter colour scheme. Silver and gold can be added in many different ways from silver, gold or even diamante ribbon, beads and crystals. Other natural items sprayed gold or silver can also create a sense of luxury while still referring to what's going on outside, for instance pine cones, acorns or nuts.

Christmas – A red and green colour scheme makes both a dramatic and warming display, while also fully embracing the season. Dark green foliage combined with red flowers or ribbons creates a dramatic display which can be kept natural or embellished with silver or gold. Many couples like the symbolism of using evergreen foliage as part of their design, as well as appreciating the rich, luxurious effect it can create. For more sparkle and glamour, use large glass vases with baubles and lights either on table tops or for room decorations.

Spring Around the Corner – Winter doesn't last forever and so a wedding in late January or February may like to reflect the fact that Spring is only a few weeks away. Here white and cream still work well, but perhaps with lighter green foliage or pale green flowers to represent new shoots. Another option is to choose flowers which are predominantly white but have a hint of colour coming through, such as a pale pink or pale orange. Pale pink snowberries are also a great seasonal choice for those who really want a lighter colour colour scheme. This is a popular option for those who want a winter feel to their wedding but also want to bring in a colour other than cream or white.

Keeping Winter Wedding Flowers Within Budget

At Tolly's we understand that budgetary considerations are extremely important when it comes to planning a wedding, so we prefer not to gloss over the economic realities.

Couples will already be aware that the cost of flowers increases during the winter months, for obvious reasons (fewer flowers are available locally and more are imported) and often worry that this means that their winter wedding flower budget will be inflated as a result.

However, there are many ways that we can use our design expertise to keep within your desired budget while still having a truly stunning display. Here are just a few tricks of the trade that we use when designing winter wedding flowers for Essex, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Norfolk weddings.

Foliage – Using evergreen foliage makes a stunning backdrop for a smaller number of expertly placed blooms. White or cream flowers create a delicate and sophisticated look, or use reds, oranges or even purple for a more warming and dramatic look.

Candles – There's nothing more wintry, or more cheering, than candles as part of a floral display, and are especially suited to table top decorations.

Glassware – Glass catches and reflects the light and when placed close to or part of a floral arrangement can create an impression of there being more flowers.

Mirrors – Placing flowers on top of a mirror, as part of a table top decoration for instance, instantly doubles the visual impact of your floral decorations.

Ribbons – Carefully arranged ribbons add colour and glamour to any floral display and can be used to maximise the impact of a few carefully chosen flowers. A smaller bridal bouquet can appear much larger and more impressive with some trailing ribbons; while a few table top flowers can be interwoven with ribbons to create something innovate and beautiful.

Height over Volume – Using fewer flowers doesn't have to mean a low level display. Individual orchids can stand up to 2 feet high and look both delicate and impressive as a table centrepiece.

Lights – using electric fairy or Christmas lights add instant warmth and cheer to any display. Use white lights for a wintry feel, or coloured lights to inject colour or to complement a colour scheme.

Table Linen – White table linen works for either a winter colour scheme or to offset spring or summer colours. Using coloured napkins and chair tie-backs are a way to introduce warmer or stronger colours into a design even if the flower selection is more muted.

To see examples of how we combine these elements to create stunning wedding flowers for Essex, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Norfolk weddings, please view our photo gallery

Based in Suffolk, Tolly's Flowers provide wedding flowers for Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Suffolk wedding venues.

Ideas for Autumn Wedding Flowers Cambridge

If you are taking your vows in the autumn, Tolly’s florists design and create magnificent wedding flowers for venues in the Cambridge region and can create stunning seasonal arrangements for country houses, idyllic barns, churches, historic buildings, chapels and modern interiors.

Some couples choose wedding flowers for their Cambridge venue to reflect the season of their nuptials and want their interior transformed with a colourful array of oranges, yellows, greens, browns and reds.

Whether you are getting married in the autumn or at another time of the year, Tolly’s florists will guide you through the various options and work their magic to create breathtaking wedding flowers for your Cambridge venue that set the scene for your special day.

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Read on for our top ideas for your autumn wedding!

Wedding Flowers Cambridge - Displays for an Autumn Wedding

Autumn it is a wonderful time of year to get married as it is the time when leaves turn and fall creating a blanket of colour. If you are choosing wedding flowers for a Cambridge wedding, there are some astounding venues all over the region from pretty retreats overlooking the river to grand country houses.

If you are taking your wedding vows in September, October or November, you may want to take inspiration from nature and choose autumn colours or seasonal flowers. Here we shall look at five ideas for wedding flowers in Cambridge, this autumn.

Colours

When choosing flowers for your autumn wedding, consider the meanings of the colours when making your choice. Here's our at a glance guide to help you pick the right colours for you.

Orange denotes happiness, delight, desire and enthusiasm. Red is the colour of love and passion. Yellow means bliss and happiness. Brown is a stable, grounded colour. Green represents good luck and gold means health and wealth.

Seasonal Flowers

If you are having an autumn wedding, it may be that you will want to opt for flowers in season such as geraniums, sunflowers, roses, gerbera, gladioli, orchids, snapdragons or dahlias.

Gerberas and orchids are a great choice as they represent beauty; gladioli means strength of character; snapdragons represent desire; sunflowers mean purity of thought and roses, which are a traditional choice, represent love.

Flowers of the Month

For another take on flowers and their meanings, if you like symbolism, you can also choose flowers that represent your birth month or the month your nuptials.

Morning Glory, for instance, is a September flower; Calendula is a flower for October; and Chrysanthemum are associated with November and mean faithfulness. You may want to choose flowers in your bouquet or arrangements that represent the birth months of you and your partner.

Autumn Displays

If you are choosing flower displays for an autumn wedding, whether you want contemporary or traditional arrangements, there are all sorts of pretty touches we can provide to create out of the ordinary displays.

One idea is to use berries in the bouquets or table arrangements. Berries, such as Hypericum, are available year round and come in a vast range of colours including green, cream orange and brown.

For a rustic feel to your autumn wedding, you may want to use twigs or even pine cones in your table arrangements.

If you are looking for a more subtle effect and want a bouquet of white flowers, a ribbon in an autumn colour adds an elegant touch to your hand tie and still creates a seasonal feel.

About Tolly's Flowers

Tolly’s have been creating fabulous wedding flowers in Cambridge and further afield for nearly 20 years and can provide a complete arrangement service for your special day. Just talk through your ideas with us and we will create memorable arrangements that you, your partner and guests will love!

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Wedding Flowers Cambridge: Selecting Flowers and Colours for Your Wedding Reception

As the countdown begins to your special day, you’ll want to add to the glamour of the occasion by choosing breathtaking wedding flowers for your Cambridge ceremony and reception.

Once you have found the perfect setting for your nuptials and reception, stunning wedding flowers will enhance the beauty of your venue and create just the right atmosphere.

Using an eye for detail and artistic flare, Tolly’s have designed and created beautiful wedding flowers for some of Cambridge’s top venues. And with more than 20 years experience in creating fabulous displays for weddings, corporate clients and royal clients, you know you are in the best possible hands.

Whether you’re having a small, intimate ceremony, or grand red-carpet style celebration, you’ll want eye-catching wedding flowers for your Cambridge venue. From dramatic and traditional pedestal displays, to simple, exotic table arrangements, we create displays that will astound your guests and add to the magic of the occasion.

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Wedding Flowers Cambridge: Some of the Most Popular Blooms

Whether you are choosing wedding flowers for a modern Cambridge venue, or a stately home setting, there are some flowers that always prove popular.

Roses are top of the list for wedding flowers and are a firm favourite with brides and grooms as they signify love and romance. They are a great choice for brides opting for a traditional, fairy tale wedding.

Another fashionable option for wedding flowers, Cambridge, are calla lilies, which signify grace and charm. A simple orchid in a clear glass vase is also great contemporary choice and means love and beauty. In addition, conventional lilies are also admired in both bouquet and arrangements and are an ideal selection for a wedding as they symbolise truth and honour.

If you want blue flowers, hydrangeas can be found all year round and mean understanding. Delphiniums are another good choice if you want the colour blue in your arrangements and add drama to displays because of their height. They signify lightness or swiftness and are a good selection for a country theme.

Tulips inject sunshine to a spring wedding – and they also signify undying love! And, for bouquets or arrangements packed full of fragrance, freesias are widely available in spring and summer.

Wedding Flowers Cambridge: How to Create Different Looks with Colour

In addition to your choice of flower, one of the things you will need to settle for your wedding flowers in Cambridge, is what colours to go for in your arrangements.

White means innocence and purity so it is always a popular choice for bouquets, reception and wedding ceremony flowers. To add to the romance of your special day, candles in your table arrangements will enhance the atmosphere of the occasion.

With white flowers your imagination is the limit! They look striking on lavish traditional pedestal arrangements or wrapped around pillars with stunning trails of ivy. If you want a more individual and contemporary style wedding, you can opt for a minimalist look to your table arrangements with spheres of white flowers on clear Perspex stands so your arrangements take on a sculptural effect.

If you want to bring colour and brilliance to your reception flowers, bold, exotic flowers in orange or yellows will brighten any venue. You don’t have to have large, impressive displays to create a vibrant look. A simple orchid in a clear vase is just as striking and is a great choice for a tropical themed wedding, either to reflect the bride or groom’s country of origin, or the honeymoon destination.

Blue, purple or lilac flowers are a good choice for a country themed wedding or to create a regal or majestic look. You can combine them with other colours, such as white, for a more muted effect or even yellow for the more daring.

And, if you can’t find your favourite flower in blue, anything is possible as you can even dye white flowers in the colour of your choice!

We hope this gives you some food for thought for your wedding flowers Cambridge. Read on to find out more about the different looks and designs we can create to make your dreams come true on your special day!

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Wedding Reception Flowers - Ideas from Tolly’s Flowers

Your choice of wedding flowers is one of the most important decisions to make when creating the perfect wedding venue. Wedding flowers enhance the magic and romance of your chosen setting, adding colour and beauty to your tables and creating stunning focal points for your guests to admire.

Tolly’s Flowers produce amazing wedding flowers for couples getting married in the South East of England as well as further afield. In every job that we undertake, we create grand floral displays for your wedding venue as well as everything else for your special day including bouquets, button holes, corsages and flowers for your church or civil ceremony. We are known for our high quality of work and the ability to create the maximum impact - whatever your budget.

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Choosing Flowers for Your Wedding

Here at Tolly’s Flowers we know that with so many designs, colours and types of flower to choose from, selecting wedding flowers can be a daunting task. We will guide you through this process, to ensure the end result delights both you and all of your guests. Here we look at some of the things to consider when choosing wedding reception flowers.

Colour Schemes

One of the first things to think about when choosing wedding flowers is your colour scheme. Flowers are generally chosen to tie in with a theme, so that they match other elements such as bridesmaids dresses, the groom's tie and other decorations at your venue.

Often a bride will have a colour in mind that she just must have for her wedding! Her personal favourite, or perhaps a colour she has always imagined whilst visualising her perfect wedding. Other bride's may consider the meanings of different colours to add symbolism to their flower choice.

For example:

• A traditional choice of colour for wedding floral arrangements and bouquets is white. It is the symbol of purity, peace and innocence and looks elegant in all types of decorations and posies. Yellow is bright, sunny colour and is said to bring hope, optimism and happiness on your big day.
• If you want luck on your side, green is the colour for this as it represents good fortune and harmony.
• If you are looking for flowers that symbolise stability, blue is the colour to bring security and honesty to the lives of the happy couple.
• Pink is a feminine choice which indicates gentle passion and new beginnings, although bright pink symbolises fun and friendship, light pink has a softer, calmer quality.
• Red represents passion and is the colour traditionally chosen for roses on Valentine’s Day.
• Pale violet is serene and spiritual.

Flower Types and Their Meanings

Flowers, like colours also have different meanings. So if you want your bouquet or reception flowers to take on a symbolic significance, choose flowers that signify the qualities you desire.

• Tulips bring elegance and beauty to a spring wedding and red ones are said to symbolise love.
• Roses are a very traditional choice for wedding flowers and the different colour options take on different meanings: red roses symbolise passion and white ones represent love and beauty.
• Daisies indicate loyalty and innocence, so they are a good choice to have in a wedding bouquet, as are bluebells which signify eternal love.
• Lemon blossoms mean fidelity in love and so do violets and veronica.
• Freesias are another popular flower as they have tiny blooms that give off a wonderful fragrance. They come in a range of colours and symbolise trust.
• If a large family appeals to you, you might think about including orchids which in Chinese symbolism mean “many young children”. This type of flower also indicates love and beauty.

Whatever flowers you choose for your wedding day, also think about incorporating ivy in to some of the displays as this is the symbol of love, affection and faithfulness. And if you are looking for the perfect flowers for your honeymoon suite, orange ones are great for this as they signify joy and desire.

Styles of Table Decoration

The first flowers to consider when planning your wedding reception are your table decorations. These are a must, whatever your budget to create a wow-factor in the room.

There are many different types and styles of table decoration that will beautifully accessorise your venue.

Here at Tolly’s Flowers we produce everything from traditional table top decorations using pretty seasonal flowers, to dramatic contemporary centre-pieces, which can incorporate items such as candles, mirrors or glass vases. Choose from tall or low level arrangements or a combination of the two - for a cost effective yet striking effect.

Other Reception Flowers

As well as adding flowers to tables, wedding flowers can be used to add colour to almost any part of your reception venue. For example they can be used to decorate pillars, or add a wonderful romantic touch to a doorway or archway that the couple will walk under after making their vows.

Large pedestal displays in the hallway of your wedding venue will set the scene as guests arrive. You can also use flowers to embellish window sills, fire place surrounds and the backs of chairs or add a stunning finish to a simple wedding cake design.

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Choosing Wedding Flowers – Part 2

Your wedding flowers are a vital part of your big day and long after your celebration, your wedding photographs will keep the memory of their beauty alive. Taking time and trouble over deciding on the perfect wedding flowers is important and an investment well worth making.

For a coordinated, perfect finish to your wedding you need to choose a wedding florist who specialises in creating beautiful wedding flowers, such as Tollys Flowers in Suffolk. Based in Newmarket we are the convenient choice for brides in Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Ely, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Essex and Hertfordshire.

We will create and co-ordinate all the flowers to complete your wedding day giving it a look and feel that is totally personal to the happy couple. You and your guests will be left with long-lasting memories and stunning photographs of a special day.

Last month we gave you tips and advice on choosing wedding flowers for your bridal bouquet, bridesmaid's flowers and flowers for buttonholes or corsages. Here we provide information on choosing wedding flowers for your church or ceremony venue, reception venue and your wedding cars.

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Church or Ceremony Flowers

Adding flowers to your wedding venue is a wonderful way to introduce your guests to the colours and style of the wedding before the bride arrives. They set a visual scene and provide a talking point for guests to speculate on what the bride and bridesmaids' dresses might be like.

In the case of a church wedding, always discuss with the vicar what areas of the church you are allowed to decorate. Areas in the church to consider adding flowers are the entrance, pew ends, aisles, pulpit, font, archways and lych-gate.

Flowers will create your individual mark on the wedding ceremony venue, making it truly your own. Tolly’s Flowers can design everything from large, dramatic pedestal displays to simple flowers and bows on pew ends and everything in between. Depending on the style and size of your wedding, we will advise you on how you can create the biggest wow-factor for the budget you have available. We will also help you get the most for your money, by ensuring that your flowers double up as much as possible. For example, pew ends can be transported to your reception venue, to become your top table arrangement.

Reception Flowers

Flowers have a long history of being used for decoration at weddings and continuing the theme of flowers at your reception will link in with your church/venue flowers and bouquets.

Flowers will add a focal point at your reception entrance and where the wedding party lines up to greet the guests. Garlands over archways are popular along with striking pedestal displays.

You’ll also need flower displays for table centre pieces and the top table flower arrangements. Here again we will aim to save you money where we can, whilst still creating a dramatic effect. For example we can reduce the cost of your table centre pieces by creating half as tall displays and half much lower. The overall effect is still stunning, but you spend less money.

The wedding cake can be enhanced for photographs by adding flowers to give it that special finishing touch. This can be a simple arrangement at the cakes base, flowers or greenery trailed around the cake stand or a specific design inter linked with the overall look of the cake.

Something else to remember is that it is the custom to give both the mother of the bride and groom a bouquet of flowers at the reception, usually during the speeches.

Whether you are having an intimate family wedding or a grand reception with hundreds of guests, the right floral decoration at the wedding breakfast and evening party, will lend that added special touch to your day.

Wedding Cars

When you are driven from the ceremony to the reception you want to travel in style and no wedding car is complete without a floral decoration. A low spray of flowers across the back parcel shelf can be very effective, especially in photographs. Flowers on the bonnet, the door handles and interwoven with ribbons are also striking and unique. Here you can tie the colour theme of your flowers and dresses in with the style of car, although white or cream flowers will always look stunning especially on vintage models.

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