could have looked like a football strip….

…..but the ‘Challenge Blue’ hydrangeas, Maroussia roses and variegated hosta leaves made me think of the sky.  And the sun did indeed shine down on this wedding from its brilliant blue firmament with white clouds floating about.  Lovely.

flowers, camera, action!

 

I spent this morning dressing Beauberry House with flowers in preparation for a Wedding TV filming session.  Guess what – I love doing things like that!  The house is going to be featured in a guide to fabulous wedding venues.  I think there’s some kind of competitive edge to it in that one venue will ultimately be crowned as the best place to get married in any particular region.  My gorgeous ‘Ruby Red’ and ‘Tyler’ gerberas looked suitably lush in the restaurant where I had a bit of fun with funky pink wire too.  Just as I was leaving, wonderful Oleia (she who runs that place so brilliantly) told me that the BBC were also pitching up this afternoon to film a programme for BBC3!  Could stem flowers have a future on the box….?

some things really make me feel happy

It’s lovely to get letters or phonecalls from people who are over the moon with our flowers.  It’s even lovelier when it’s from someone you wouldn’t necessarily expect to make contact.  One call came from a guest at Vanessa and Will’s gorgeous ceremony at Templeton House in Richmond.  She simply phoned to say how wonderful she thought the flowers were (and how lovely we were too!).  She wasn’t interested in passing on new work or anything like that.  She wasn’t a possible client.  She just wanted to say that she’d been there and the flowers were wonderful.  That made me feel rather good, I have to say.

And then the colour-fest that was Rebecca and Mark’s wedding at Beauberry House on Easter Saturday resulted in the most lovely card from Bec’s mum.  I was so touched that she had taken the time to write independently of her lovely girl and that she felt that “the colours were amazing”, that “everyone commented on how lovely the rooms at Beauberry looked” and that it had all helped make the day “happy and memorable”.  One quite chuffed stemgirl.