For S & C last Saturday and their wonderful families ☀️
Wow what a difference a week makes - September can be so fickle. Glorious sunshine for this lovely couple, and breathtaking views from the marquee looking over the Dorset countryside. As the sun had been out we were able to use much more summery flowers (the cosmos, sweet peas and zinnia had largely been ruined by the rain the previous weekend for those weddings). We had sumptuous baskets and urns in the church, hops and DIY flowers in the marquee and bouquets and flowers crowns for the bridal party. Congratulations to you all 🤍💚🌸
R A I N ☔
It's been a difficult week weather-wise and I have such sympathy for my couples this week, I don't imagine that 3 days of endless downpour was in their perfect plans. However, as I heard recently 'a wet knot is harder to undo' which rather a sweet thought about rain on one's wedding day.
The garden is bashed, the flowers are soggy, I have been soaked to the knickers at least 3 times in as many days. September can be a month of such contrasts - searing heat (this weekend last year) or torrential rain like now.
Nevertheless I'm pretty sure the weather won't get in the way of the party spirit that is underway across Dorset right now.
This is Faith's bouquet outside the beautiful church of Folke that we flowered up 🌿🌸...
Congratulations to C and B who are marrying this afternoon at @threetunsevents with a palette of delicate flowers in soft femine colours. It all looks absolutely glorious on this sunny August day and I am so happy for them all.
In C's bouquet - garden roses, dahlias, cosmos, snapdragons, didiscus, scabious, delphinium, sweetpeas and more!
Big shout to Rebekah and her marvellous team who have been working so hard to get it all perfect for them.
S U M M E R P A S T E L S
Ah these colours 😍
Beautiful summer pastels for S and S at the amazing @warmwell.house today. Celebrating in this glorious weather ☀️
Including the first cut of the dahlias. This is a triumph as anyone who looked around the farm in May will know what a great time the slugs and snails were having in the dahlia beds...it was looking baaaad and I wondered if I would have any dahlias at all this year. Fortunately they have bounced back and looking great now which is a huge relief 💚
Also ginormous delphiniums which are having a moment right now, and insanely gorgeous roses from @rosacheney, as well as all sorts of other garden treasure.
Congratulations, you lovely couple. I hope you're having the best day today 🤍
So lovely to welcome the brilliant team at @4couturestudio to the farm for a summer centrepiece workshop. I have run a Christmas wreath making workshop for the team a few times, but yesterday was the first time they have been to the farm and cut fresh flowers to use!
And what amazing arrangements they made 💕💥. It's always so interesting to see what people pick when they are let loose with scissors and bucket in hand... We had everything from controlled pure white centrepieces (not even any foliage) to huge meadow explosions with a bit of pretty much everything.
It was a brilliant morning full of laughter, cake, much adoration of Juno the #goldenretriever and lots of flowers!
Thanks 4 Couture team! 🤍💚🧡💙💜💛🩵🩶🩷
I don't feel like there's time to breathe at this time of year, let alone post on social media. So here's a quick summary of what we've been up over the last week or so.... Mainly a lot of flowers, trees, cutting, making, setting up, running workshops....💚🌸🌿💐and not much sleeping (or desk work...sorry to everyone who is waiting for something from me...it will come, I promise).
C O M B I N E D W O R K S H O P S 🌸🎨
What a great day!! ☀️☀️ I teamed up with the brilliant @charlieclapp_artist and the lovely ladies who came today picked their own flowers this morning for a June centerpiece and this afternoon got to work doing watercolour studies of their flowers. What amazing talent they showed and what a great group of people to spend time with. 🌿
It was the first time I have run a combined workshop but it worked brilliantly so there will be more!
I N P R O G R E S S ...
It's the first incredibly busy weekend of the wedding season here. We spent yesterday cutting thousands of stems (much of the day in the rain 😫) and today sorting stems/making bouquet orders/handing over party flowers /putting recipe buckets together and setting up some of our beautiful big birch trees for a marquee at @warmwell.house
We have a variety of events this weekend but the garden has provided thousands and thousands of stems so far, and the rest to be picked tomorrow at dawn before we make up the rest of all the pieces. ✂️💚🌸💕🌿
W O R K S H O P S 🌿
A wonderful group of ladies cutting treasure from the garden and creating these beautiful hand tied bouquets today! Filled with lupins, anemone, ranunculus, honesty, hesperis, corncockle, sweet peas etc. All slightly different and totally beautiful! Well done ladies! 💕
O P E N D A Y ☀️🌿
Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for our open day! Possibly a few places left on the tours at 11 and 3, but anyone is welcome anytime to come and buy flowers, wander around and enjoy some coffee and Monica's amazing cakes. 💛
A little bridal posy for the wonderful Jayne last week... Bright spring flowers and these kind words:
"I cannot recommend Katie enough! Patient, kind and highly professional. Her flowers and bouquets are outstanding and she cannot do enough for you! A very happy bride! Thank you!"
Wow Jayne!! Thank you for your kind and thoughtful words. It was my absolute pleasure and I hope you both had a wonderful day 💫
Oh my goodness....what a wash out!!!! ☔☔☔
It's much too wet and miserable to photograph the mud disaster outside today, so these are flowers from this day last year... Quite the difference !!
Thank you SO MUCH to those customers-who-have-become-friends who came today to support my open day and bought bunches of flowers and plants despite me cancelling due to the weather!! I'm so grateful for your support and for cheering me up on this awful stormy day.
I'm signing off for Easter now. Have a good break everyone 💚
