Ribby Hall's Brand New Conference & Banqueting Room

Welcome to Ribby Hall's new room, The Garden Room and I love it! Ribby is a fab choice for Civil Ceremonies and of course Church wedding the facilities are superb but best of all the C&B team are first Class, Paul and Sue head up a great team with Kristina the events co-ordinator looking after each client on a very individual basis.

This new room gives weddings the opportunity of getting married in one room and enjoying the wedding breakfast in here, which is great, the guests can then move back into the party suite for the evening do, how fabulous!
I love the wallpaper, Martini Glass design in Citrus shades, Yellow Asiatic Lilies, Lime Green Orchids, Orange Gerberas and Viburnum Opulus.

Deep Orange Germini's in jelly.

The potential for weddings and events is huge, we love the fact the room is so neutral, anyone's colour choice will look quite magnificent, there are no pillars or distracting bits of decoration, it is in actual fact a blank canvas for you to paint your own wedding or event picture, from a florists point of view this is fabulous news.

Just imagine chair covers, fabulous flowers, gorgeous guests and the most exquisite bride & groom ever...

The room here is laid out for a breakfast start to a conference day

We've put some diamante pins in one ore two of t he Gerbera heads and looped some steel grass over the top, with simple designs it's all in the details.

Ribby can offer banqueting for up to 350 guests and there aren't many venues on The Fylde that can accomodate so many, that said the choice of rooms means that your guests don't feel lost in a huge cavernous space to big for the numbers of people. If you'd like to see the ceremony room click on the link Civil Ceremony at Ribby Hall

18th Birthday Dinner Party Flowers

Welcome to the Salon in The Grand Hotel, Lytham St Annes.

This is "Little Emily's" 18th Birthday party, she's a very classy young lady with dramatic overtones and we felt this combination of fresh bright youthful colours, the individual flowers chosen and the way they are arranged are absolutely Emily, this is a very personal and individual table design created for a very special person.

The Flower Design seating plan for all the guests to sign

Each cube contains a simple design of either one or two varieties of Emily's favourite blooms.

Spring Lilac & Viburnum for Emily's youthfulness and her new beginnings.

Vanda Orchids for the absolutely Dramatic Little Emily


The roses for an English rose.

The white peonies are so pure, clean and innocent.

The order of the arrangement of these flowers is also so completely Emily, she is an amazing organiser and she loves order.

Little Emily is one of the very best Saturday Girls we've ever had at Flower Design and we all love her lots and wish her a very Happy 18th Birthday.

A Bright Summer Wedding Bouquet to Compliment Chocolate Brown Bridesmaid's Gowns

This is the lovely Rebecca's trial bridal bouquet, Rebecca's wedding will be in "Flaming June"

I've used a vivid combination of Tangerines, Pomegrante's, Lemons, Limes & Oranges

The combination of Germini's, Callas, Celosia, Alchemilla Mollis, folded & split Aspidestra leaves and Steel Grass loops looks both simple and contemporary.

This bridal bouquet will bring colour and life to the already lovely shades already chosen for this glorious wedding.

I'm seriously excited about this wedding, the bride has been a bridesmaid at her sister Helen's Flower Design wedding a few years ago and their family is just lovely, look out for the wedding pics in June.

Wedding Flowers at The Villa, Wrea Green

Another lovely day and another gorgeous wedding, this is the wedding day of Nicola & Michael Holroyd who were married on Saturday 25th April 2009 at The Villa in Wrea Green.

"Bubble Gum & Sugared Almonds" was our inspiration title, we really wanted the colour palette to reflect the fabulous shades of the bridesmaid's gowns.

Nicola looked absolutely divine in her exquisite gown from Dreamcatcher in Kirkham

Nicola's bouquet was created as a hand tied bridal bouquet, we included Aqua & Blue Curiosa Roses, Lilac Freesia, Ageratum, Germinis, Lissianthus, Angelique Tulips, Phlox, Blue Bells, Sweet Peas and Hyacinth.

We imagined all of the bouquets to be relaxed and youthful, each one to have an innocence and an individuality just like the bride and her bridesmaids.

The Groom's Mum & Dad Alan & Eileen

Eileen's corsage compliments her ensemble beautifully, we used white Rose Petals rolled, a single Crystal Blush Calla Lily and some teal bullion rolled into a sphere finished with a teal voile ribbon.

Nicola's extremely handsome and slightly nervous Groom Michael, we made Michael a Hot Pink Rose and Ageratum Buttonhole.

The Ceremony Room was dressed with Nicola's favourite Goldfish Bowls and a very elegant traditional style pedestal design complete with candle and the very first of this seasons Alliums.

Angelique such a beautiful end of season tulip, we love her.

I love using seasonal flowers and these lovely Blue Bells are just perfect for the time of year, as we drove through Wrea Green on Saturday there were just hundreds of them.

The Villa has a fabulous random, bespoke, homely feel which really relaxes everyone, the staff were also really helpful and very attentive to everyones needs, it was a great pleasure for us to work there and we enjoyed Stewart's (General Manager) hospitality almost as much as the guests did.

The girls wore fab gowns also from Dreamcatcher Bridal, the colous were chosen to compliment each Bridesmaid's individual colouring, it really worked too.

Kelly wore a shade called "Bubblegum" & Olivia wore "Carnation", Sarah was in "Wisteria" & Sophie fabric colour is called "Sweet Tarte"

Harry was the very best behaved young man there and he looked brilliant in his suit a smaller version of the grown up suits, we made him a miniature Rose Bud Buttonhole.

This is a close up of Sophie's bouquet we altered the colour balance in each bouquet to enhance the shades of the gowns, we've included sweet Peas, Ageratum, Ocean Song roses, Phlox "Bright eyes" and "Blue Moon" Freesia, an extremeley fragrant bouquet.

Sarah's Bouquet was more "Wisteria" Shaded with "Blue Curiosa" Roses and "Black Cherry Yoghurt" Tulips, Blue Bells and one of my old faithful's Alchemilla Mollis.

Olivia's Bouquet was more "Hot pink" we used "Sarah Bernhardt" Peonies, Aqua Roses, Germini's and Sweet Peas.

Kelly's bouquet was much paler and softer shades to co-ordinate with her "Bubblegum" gown, we used Lissianthus and the very palest Sweet Peas and peonies.

Nicola has the most wonderful figure and she looked simply perfect in her Benjamin Roberts wedding gown from Dreamcatcher Bridal.

The colours looked fabulous altogether and Nicola just took everyone's breath away.

The photographer for the day Anurag Sharma from Shutterleaf Photography, he was so kind to us and extremely generous, allowing us to get some great flower shots, he's also offered to send us some professional images later in the year, so I'll do a post dedicated to them, many thanks Anurag.

Michael looking for his bride

The ceremony was conducted beautifully and sincerely by Karen from Blackpool Registry Office

The girls were having a great time and colours were fab on the eye

Congratulations to Nicola & Michael and many thanks for allowing Flower Design to be such a big part of your very special day, we had a phenominal day with you all.

The Wedding Cake dressed with fresh flowers and a single Vanda Orchid in the glass cylinder seporator.

The top table was situated in the bay window, The Villa is very cosy with really great antique features which added to the feeling and atmosphere of romance at this wedding

The tables were dressed with goldfish bowls a particular favourite of Nicola & Michael's.

On some of the other tables we arranged tall narrow vases filled with fresh Alliums, Molucella and Roses.

This spray decorated the seating plan

Everyone spilled outside to enjoy the sunshine

The Villa looked very majestic

Nicola's Mum Jane gave her away, we made her a very special epaulette corsage of Germini petals, roses and Orchids they complimented her ensemble perfectly.

The Very Happy Couple