May Madness

Hello lovelies,

Just dropping by the long neglected blog quickly today. Its been SO busy here at I Heart Flowers HQ, I've barely had time to sleep!*

For all those expecting an email from me, hang in there. I will email you soon. I know waiting sucks, but I can only answer so many emails in one go. It'll be worth the wait I promise.

For now, here's some pictures of flowery happenings over the last few weeks. All photos are by either me, Anne-Marie McElroy or Lauren McGlynn. Both such lovely ladies to work with.

This last one is something of a sneaky peek....more on that soon, or you can take a look over on A Safe Mooring for more peeks of all the details. I'm pretty much the happiest I can be when I'm outside, up a ladder making something sculptural. Its the artist in me rudely pushing the florist in me aside, and saying "see if you can find an excuse to use some power tools".

More updates soon, including my lovely new website, which isn't ready yet but will be shortly......watch this space.

xxx

*No joke. 12 hours over three days, and at one point, a 7 minute power nap to stop me falling asleep at the wheel.

Mona and Simon's 60's inspired casino wedding

Mona and Simon got married last summer in the gorgeously chic Corinthian Club in Glasgow. (Last summer you say...? Yes, I know I'm not the speediest blogger. This post, and those that will eventually follow are my attempts to rectify that!) Anyway, back to Mona and Simon....

Mona didn't have a set colour scheme in mind when we met, her only specification was for the flowers to be seasonal and in pastel and vintagy shades. We settled on a lovely combination of light blues, pale pinks and subtle peaches with a little dollop of cream to balance the rest of the colours. Mona wore a beautiful lace 60's style wedding dress, which I adored. Simon and the boys had miniature rose buttonholes, and Mona's best women wore wrist corsages. As Mona is Norwegian there were no bridesmaids, but two best women instead, as is customary. We used my collection of white vintage milk glass and pale blue Mason jars for the flowers on each table for the reception, held in the splendid Langley room.

All photographs are courtesy of the very talented Ed Osborn and you can see more of this beautiful wedding over on Ed's blog. Well, I hope you'll come to enjoy the more frequent blogging! Happy Wednesday xx

Glasgow Wedding Collective Fayre

So lately, I feel like I've been saying the same thing to everyone. It mostly involves the words "chasing my tail", or "catching up with myself", or on a really dramatic day I'll say "running around like a headless chicken. I'm always a little hesitant to use that last one. Something at the back of my brain says I probably shouldn't be describing mutilated poultry when replying to professional emails....

Anyway, the point is I've been running hard on the spot for since the new year. I started the year off with a tripple whammy of amazing weddings, all of which will be blogged in due course (along with some lovely autumn and winter weddings from last year!). I've also been working away on my new website with the help of the fantastic Glenn from Atelier 1A. This will be revealed shortly, once we've finished putting the finishing touches on it! It'll be well worth the wait, as until now I've only had this little blog to showcase my work. I'm also excited to be designing the flowers for Glenn and his finance Heather for their lovely wedding this summer! 

There was also the run up to St. Valentines Day with the ever gorgeous Pierrot et Coco, followed by the latest edition of the Glasgow Wedding Collective Fayre at The Lighthouse. Phew! Now for the pictures! 

I decided to steer away from the soft vintage colours and blast everyone with vibrant yellowy-orangey-peachy shades, contrasting with bright blues. Everyone needs a bit of a blast in the winter after all. It was inspired partly by this wedding last summer and partly by the designs for one of my lovely couples who are marrying this summer. I got in all my of-the-moment favorites - succulents, chamomile daisies, hydrangeas, anemones, ranunculus and some incredible Italian poppies which I fell head over heels in love with. I also made some little arrangements up for my fabulous photographer friend Lauren McGlynn, who took these beautiful shots of the flowers on our stalls. 

Lauren and I are *dying* to work on a wedding together, so you should of course book both of us immediately if you are getting hitched in the near future.

I also had a fantastic time working with Nikki and Claire who run Be Eventful wedding planning. We styled a bright and cheerful mexicana themed wedding table together - complete with mini cacti, vintage bottles and painted jam jars with little hints of gold and pops of bright colour everywhere! 

All in all, a good day was had! And also, I got to sleep all day the day after, which was well deserved and utterly delightful.

Signing out for now lovelies, watch this space xxx

Rhona and Darren's Lovely Library Inspired Wedding

Hello lovelies, 

I've been an extremely bad blogger this year, and hardly blogged any of the amazingly lovely weddings I've worked on over the last 12 months. I've been using my time off to contemplate how next year is going to be better than this year, and one of my resolutions is to try and be a better blogger. 

note: This probably won't happen, but at least I might get a few posts scheduled for January.

So without further ado I'd like to share with you the wedding of Rhona and Darren at One Devonshire Gardens - all the little details  and gorgeous styling really made this wedding, from the vintage ladybird books, mini macaron favours, library card seating plan and table numbers - from my favorite shop EVER - to the beautiful dresses (two dresses for Rhona!), shoes and jewellery worn by the ladies. And all captured expertly by one of my favorite photographers, the lovely Caroline of Candysnaps, what more can a girl ask for? 

Rhona and I chose a beautiful selection of seasonal anemones, ranunculus, and narcissi alongside Romantic Pepita, Hypnose, Vendella and Sweet Avalanche roses, finished off with berried ivy and tied with a lovely thick grosgrain ribbon. It was so delicious you could (almost) eat them.

You can see more gorgeous details on the Candysnaps blog, and also over on Love My Dress who featured Rhona and Darren's wedding loveliness too! (I got one helluva lovely review on there, made me blush and everything).

Hope you all have a super Saturday Xx

Jess and Steven's Drumtochty Summer Wedding

Hello lovelies,

I just wanted to share a few photographs from another lovely Aberdeen wedding this summer. Jess and Steven got married at the gorgeous St Palladius Chapel and Drumtochty Castle, which is quite a long drive away from Glasgow but definitely worth it for such a beautiful venue. 

Jess chose a beautiful colour range of soft blue-greens, whites and creams - we used eucalyptus, hydrangea, echevaria and poppy seed heads to bring out the sea-green colour alongside white roses, queen annes lace, astrantia and lovely scented stocks. As Jess and Steven are based over in the states, we planned the flowers via phone and email. It was really nice to meet face to face for the first time on the morning of the wedding! 

All the photographs of this delicious wedding are by the brilliant Edward Osborn, and you can see more from this wedding on his blog. 

Tonight I'm trying to work out how I can move to Mexico. For the sunshine (and the tequilla)....Over and out Xx

Hazel and Craig's Aberdeen Springtime Celebration

Hello lovelies, how is everyone today? I'll be honest, I've been better. I find these short November days very hard to deal with. I've been cramming vitamin D down my throat like there's no tomorrow and wishing for Spring to hurry up and get here. 

I've been getting more and more enquires for lovely weddings up in Aberdeenshire, and I thought I would share one of the first of these from earlier this year, with photographs courtesy of Mirrorbox Photography. This wedding was particularly lovely as I had a ball working with Hazel on all the little details, she even took the time to chauffer me around the various venues before the wedding while we planned the flowers together. We chose a variety of lovely spring flowers - tulips, anemones, ranunculus, miniature daffodils and muscari amongst others - I could hardly choose! Hazel wanted to keep the colours fresh and vibrant as it was Springtime, and also to tone in with her amazing and unusual wedding dress, which was the pale green Madame Butterfly by Suzanne Neville. 

I was helped out on the day by my lovely assistant Lauren, without whom I could not have hung all the pompoms inside and the ribbons in the trees outside, arranged all the vases, or installed Hazel and Craig's archway in time. I'm hoping that one day I will have a permanent assistant, but thats another story for another day.

There were so many lovely details to this wedding I can't begin to describe them all! You should however go and see what Hazel has been up to since her wedding to Craig. She's been a busy bee setting up her own incredible china hire business in Aberdeen - A Vintage Tea Party. All the beautiful china and tablecloths at the wedding were carefully collected by Hazel.

Well, enjoy the pictures my lovelies! Over and out for now xxx

Summer Days - A Styled Shoot

I needed some colour today, so I thought I'd dig out these pictures by the wonderful Lillian and Leonard. They are from a photoshoot we worked on together, styled by the lovely Jillian Manger of Mimi Nicole Event Design. You might have seen it earlier this year on Rock My Wedding, but I haven't written anything about it until now. Bad blogger.

Anyway, I was feeling dreary today (being ill for two days and residing in what feels like perpetual dusk whilst trying to work will do that to you), so I decided to share this summery loveliness with you to brighten up everyones' day. I'm imagining sitting back in the sun on a veranda, basking in the warmth and smelling the climbing roses which are sprawling over the garden wall next to me. Someone brings out pink lemonade. Children laugh in the distance, at play.....

I love escapism. Happy Monday my lovelies Xx

Vendor Credits:

Photography: Lillian and Leonard Photography

Planning + Design: Mimi Nicole Event Design

Flowers: I Heart Flowers

Stationery: Mae Mae Paperie

Venue: Greenbank Garden, Glasgow, Scotland

Dress + Shoes + Flower Head Piece: Lamesley Bridal

Rentals: Butler + Taylor

Balloon: Bon Bon Balloon

Model: Megan Stern from Across the Pond

PS. We were all pretending that it was summer when we did the shoot. It was actually March!