The Great Hall at Mains Wedding Open Weekend 7th & 8th February 2009

The Great Hall at Mains know how to put on a great event, from Fabulous Banquets, Romantic Weddings to Weekends like this one dedicated to their future bridal couples, this weekend is the perfect opportunity to see the GHM dressed with the most amazing flowers by Flower Design of course and fabulous table linen courtesy of Creative Cover Hire, Not only all of that but this too, stupendous wedding day suppliers available for you to question and interview.

Meet Chriss, Chriss is the brilliant Manager at The Great Hall, she is absolutely excellent and is there to guide and inspire with lots of great ideas for your big day (she also lights all the millions of candles) My old pal Chris Astbury from The Astbury Studio, what can I say the guy's a photographic genius and we jsut love working with him.

Top Table dressed with gorgeous colour co-ordinated flowers, the candles for the focus right inbetween the Bride & Groom's seats, the flowers cluster around the centre trailing away to the outer reaches of the long table, we've extended this one with the use of goldish bowls in varying sizes.

Who could resist chocolates from Twelve? These handmade mouthfuls of deliciousness are what you get with your coffee at an event catered by Twelve Event Management. One of the best things about Twelve apart from the fabulous food and service is of course that they are a local Fylde based company and we all need to support our local economy!

Shots of perfectly complimenting Pudding Wine, to warm you on this crisp February day. Jason & I went to Twelve's Restaurant at Marsh Mill on Friday night the food was just perfect.

The candelabra decorated in profusion of pink roses and gerberas.

On this shot you can see the goldfish bowl extensions, pulling you eye to the outer reaches of the table

Heathcotes always do a really full on professional job, the food, the service and the staff are always spot on.

The exceptionally talented Ashton's are there, we have agreat time working with Steve & Stephanie, their work is always exceptional.

With a Twist caterers again another superb outfit, each one of the catering companies that TGHM reccommends is absolutely first class and quite different in their styles of cooking and presentation. As the name would suggest "With a Twist" offers you something a little different.

The amazing Cameron Scott offering you a fabulous choice of entertainment.

The Great Hall have also provided you with the cream of The North West's photographers, Aggie Mcguinness is superb, her photography is innovative and beautiful.

The great people from Jet Set Limousines are there too.

The beautiful Registrars design to grace this very important table.

Axa Insurance "Do" at Lytham Hall

The Gold Room is just so beautiful and these candelabras really suit the character of The Hall. Please try to ignore the balloons in the background their presence isn't intended to offend any of my readers Sensitivities.

Lytham Hall have a brand new all singing all dancing website click on Lytham Hall to link

We used Amnesia & Ruby Red Roses amongst an array of fabulous Christmassy foliages, the fragrance was superb particularly once the candles had been lit for a little while.

Rudding Park House Harrogate Wedding

Table Centre candelabras

The Thoughts and Inspiration behind the designs for Heidi & Chris Hopkins…

Heidi & Chris's Wedding day was all about elegance, understated opulence and traditional British values; this is shown in their choice of magical venue Rudding Park House in Harrogate, traditional cake maker Betty's of Harrogate and the elegance of Heidi's Alan Hannah, Thai silk gown, not to mention the table names taken from the Harry Connick jnr classic "Recipe for Making Love"

There was always going to be a surrounding sense of magic and enchantment, with secret jewels tucked deep into some of the blooms, Flower fairy bridesmaids carrying magic wands their wishes picked out in tiny jewels and fragrant buds. Some flickering candles in frosted glass and golden chocolate hearts for the table favours (From Betty's).

The cream and gold colour scheme is not only graceful and classy but is also suggestive of angelic freedom, charm and magic. In order to add to this feeling we wanted to use flowers and materials with magical qualities, such as fragrant herbs, dangly amaranthus, ivy, orchids, callas and a variety of diamantes and jewels. And there was just the slightest hint of fairy dust (A bit like the finish on the invitations).

Everything though was to be truly beautiful and elegant, nothing superficial. Truly independent flowers – beautiful in their own right; the swirls and curls of the rose, the elegant arch of the calla lily and the intense details of the orchids. We wanted everything to be subtle yet all the more beautiful because of the surroundings we recommended some high designs, candelabras on some of the dining tables and silver fruit bowls filled with gorgeous blooms on others, the golden glow of candlelight added to the ambience. The chairs were copvered by Creative Cover Hire who as always did a superb job.

The ceremony itself needed to be dressed in order to add enchantment to the proceedings the two placements of flowers on either side of the bride groom for any kind of marriage ceremony historically these are to represent the couples Guardian Angels, I thought as an angel collector Heidi might enjoy this imagery.

The staircase is wonderful and perfect for indoor photography on cold wet days.

Heidi was staying in one of the lovely rooms at Rudding Park, so we delivered her bouquet along with her bridesmaids quite early, we showed everyone how to carry and make the most of their bouquets.

The library is perfect for guests to gather before and after the ceremony.

Civil Ceremony dressed with fresh flowers

The pedestals looked so at home in this room.

The photographer for the day was Aggie McGuinness, we have a copy of the album filled with the most fantastic images, my piccies look slightly hopeless by comparison, but should you wish to see the professionals version of the day call into the shop and we'll happily show it to you.

The arrival of the groom and his party, Chris wore a Picasso Calla lily (Which matched perfectly with the image on the order of service) a sprig of fresh lily of the Valley and a small Cymbidium Orchid.

Chris's Mum wore a fabulous eppaulette corsage of White mini Calla lilies and Singapore Orchids.

The Groom's father wore a single Picasso Calla lily, whilst Chris's nephews wore Vendella Roses.

The Bride her Father & the Bridesmaids make there way to the ceremony room.

The ceremony was lovely, the room is so comfortable and perfect for a Civil Ceremony.

After the ceremony there was time for some photography.

The Bridesmaids looked beautiful and were kept warm with co-ordinating wraps.

Heidi's bouquet was in a very tradtionally English design, the colours were subtle but complimented the day perfectly.

Then some lovely fresh Rose Petal Confetti throwing

We bid our farewells ...