Succulent Love!


Time for another style lounge installment as featured by Save The Date Magazine yesterday!

If, like me, you enjoy reading some of the gorgeous American wedding blogs like Style Me Pretty and Green Wedding Shoes, you will have noticed a massive trend over the last few years toward using lots of natural elements and textured foliage in bouquets and arrangements. I think we are definitely going to see more of this over here as brides become a bit more daring in their flower and style choices.

The use of succulents in particular is becoming very popular as an accent in both rustic and glamorous wedding styles alike. The perfect choice for adding variety and gorgeous texture to your arrangements.
Here I've used succulents with vibrant coral and pink peonies, roses, dahlias and thistles to create relaxed and informal arrangements perfect for a garden wedding...



Why not try an alternative table linen such as hessian and rustic wooden boxes for your centrepieces to compliment this outdoor country style!
Alternatively, these succulents which have been sprayed silver would be perfect with white roses for a contemporary winter wedding...

(Flowers & Styling by JLDesigns)


(Flowers & Styling by JLDesigns)

Use silvered vases and votives with crisp white linens and geometric table runner designs for a luxurious and stylish celebration.

If you’re looking for a touch of Hollywood glamour why not try gilded succulents with lavish arrangements of gold and white flowers with elegant silvery foliage...perfectly glam!




(Flowers & Styling by JLDesigns)

They are even perfect for the groom who’s looking for something a bit different!

(Buttonholes by JLDesigns)

Will you be brave enough to try these out? Go on, do something out of the ordinary!!





Let's go Wild!

Save the Date Magazine have asked me to do a fortnightly blog for them, looking at floral trends and upcoming wedding styles so I thought I'd share these here with you too!

2013 is definitely going to be an exciting year for floral trends. I have noticed in my own brides a huge trend towards wanting to re-create a natural, garden like style with more relaxed and informal arrangements of mixed blooms with lots of unusual flowers and foliage.

As Sarah Ryhanen over at Saipua flowers says...

emphasis will be placed on using seasonal flowers and foliage to build loose and wild compositions that evoke the feeling of an overgrown late summer garden





So many more brides are taking a more eco-friendly approach to their flowers using more natural, organic textures such as twigs, branches and mosses, richer seasonal colours and mis-matched wooden, ceramic and galvanised vintage and rustic containers.
 These spring arrangements of tulips, ranunculus, peonies, astrantia and craspedia look beautiful with trailing honeysuckle and cherry blossom straight from my garden!



I love this style as it allows blooms to be expressed in their own natural shape and style.
Country garden roses are perfect in this bouquet as each rose is so unique in shape and size...



The vintage theme is still extremely popular but I think we’ll see lots more bolder floral patterns, layers of lace and deeper, stronger colours like purple, magenta and burgundy.

In these arrangements I used gorgeous autumnal hydrangeas, sedum, amaranthus and astrantia with lovely rambling clematis and fuchsia and mixed foliage...




What do you think of this growing trend? Go wild or keep it traditional?!