Flowers for my wedding
By peter
29 comments
Hi everyone!
I’ve already mentioned to a few GoY friends that I’m getting married this year and the day is fast approaching. In fact, I have a mere ten days left before I tie the knot on 21st June!!
We’re organizing almost everything ourselves, and have been incredibly busy. I say we, but really it’s been my fiancee. She’s even doing the table arrangements herself!
We have basically borrowed a field and are hiring a marquee so there’s no ‘wedding manager’ type person at the venue telling us what to do and by when.
Doing it ourselves seemed a great idea nine months ago when the venue said they didn’t charge corkage, but it has been a lot of work. It has also meant we’ve left some things a bit late and we only got the flowers sorted today.
We went to the garden centre to order the cala lilies for the table decorations but ended up with orchids instead – the white cala lilies were smaller than we expected. My best man, ushers and me are also wearing orchid button holes so they’ll match, and we ordered two pedestal arrangements.
The button holes were quite easy to choose but there were just so many choices for the pedestal arrangements. I was glad the woman at the shop was so helpful in giving advice. We picked a style that we liked and she helped us decide on the flowers. Faced with so many style options was a bit daunting; it was good to pick one and start talking about the flowers that we could use to give the right style, and match the colours of the wedding.
In the end we decided on Peonies, cezanne roses, whitestocks, hydrangeas, lisianthus and astilbes – the woman said that all of those are in season now which is good, although they’ll still be from Holland. Blimey – that seems quite a lot now I’ve typed it out.
I did try to convince my fiancee that we should have vegetables rather than flowers :o) … That idea did not meet with approval.
I’ll be sure to post pictures of the wedding flowers in a couple of weeks and let you know how the table decorations go!!
Happy gardening
10 Jun, 2008
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Congratulations Peter and have a great day.
Sorry I can't be with you(!) but I am invited to an 80th birthday party on that day, not mine I hasten to add, although it is my birthday on the 17th.
Andrewr
10 Jun, 2008
Hope everything goes well for you both on your special day, hope the weather stays fine for you as well.
10 Jun, 2008
aw congrats peter, enjoy your special day. wish you and your bride to be all the happiness in the world.xx
10 Jun, 2008
OOOOOOOOOOoooo A Wedding How Lovely :) All the best to u both 4 your Furture 2 gether :)XXX
10 Jun, 2008
Well, if you had planted Nasturtiums earlier, you could have used those for your buttonholes, couldn't you? We will all be thinking about you both and keeping our fingers crossed for good weather, Peter. Have a great day!
10 Jun, 2008
With very best wishes to both of you for a wonderful day and lots of happiness for the future..
10 Jun, 2008
Many congratulations to you both - getting married in a field on the summer solstice watch out Peter you could be gate - crashed by Druids! Wishing you both much peace and happiness for the future.
10 Jun, 2008
Thanks everyone :o)
Ickle - does that first year go as quickly as the time leading up to the wedding? It's flying at the moment! Congratulations on your imminent anniversary :o)
Andrew - Thanks for the RSVP :o) Enjoy the celebrations and many happy returns for next Tuesday!!
Lol, Spritz - yes, I should have listened! The photos of Akane getting ready could have had flowers in the background too, rather than garlic and manky cabbages :D
Bonkers - You've spotted my ploy! I figured I should be able to remember mid-summer's eve, so no excuses on anniversaries. My ushers have been told to look out for white capes.
We're looking up readings this evening and I've just found 'I rely on you' with the cracking verse...
I rely on you
like a handyman needs pliers
like an auctioneer needs buyers
like a laundromat needs driers
like The Good Life needed Richard Briers...
I was in stitches reading it - suggestion met with the same look as vegetable arrangements.
10 Jun, 2008
lol i wonder has anyone used that reading
10 Jun, 2008
I think so, I was just reading about the poet, Hovis Presley :D from Bolton. Apparently he was asked a lot if people could use it at their wedding.
10 Jun, 2008
oh well, each to their own lol
10 Jun, 2008
Well Peter whats that flower arrangement ladies carry at weddings , corsage? try suggesting courgettes instead and get ready to duck!
10 Jun, 2008
Many congratulations - look forward to seeing lots of pictures!
10 Jun, 2008
Congratulations Peter, to you & your fiancee!
11 Jun, 2008
Congratulations to you and your fiancee Peter Good luck for the future
11 Jun, 2008
Hope you enjoy the day after all the hard work . Congratulations : )
11 Jun, 2008
If your bride wants flowers and you want vegetables, no doubt you will compromise and have her carrying cauli-flowers?
11 Jun, 2008
Congratulations Peter I do hope that all runs smoothly for you and your lovely bride I can just imagine the chaos your going through at the moment but I'm sure it will all work out great on the day.Good luck and remember to enjoy it.Hel.xxx.
11 Jun, 2008
Peter... Time flies when ur having fun!!! My wedding present was the polytunnel we decided (after the event!) how lovely it would have been to grow arches of beans and sit our guests in the raised beds haha!! The possibilities are endless!
11 Jun, 2008
Congtatulations Peter. Have a wonderful day, and the rest of your lives too. Time does fly. We've been married for 40 years and a bit, and it seems like yesterday.
11 Jun, 2008
Ditto what everyone has said, Peter! Hope the weather holds out for you :-)
11 Jun, 2008
Congratulations to you both, hope the sun shines and you have a lovely day!
11 Jun, 2008
Thanks for all your kind words - and suggestions :o) Courgette corsages and cauli-flowers both look unlikely at the moment!!
This evening's task is the seating plan. I think we're nearly there!
11 Jun, 2008
Ahhh..new beginnings... so much to look forward to...
as many have already said...take time to enjoy the day...Congratulations to you..and all best wishes to your bride. It isn't just the years that will fly by, but the decades...hope they are filled with health, wealth and happiness!
12 Jun, 2008
Good Health and Happiness to you both and as Lori says take time to enjoy your special day !! Margaret n Eddie x
12 Jun, 2008
Congratulations To you both ,
May the Love you share today grow stronger every day of your lives
Hope you have a lovely day
Amy
12 Jun, 2008
LOL to the vegetable suggestion and the vows! Congratulations Peter! As for a year flying by, my husband and I have been together for 19 years this September, and we still feel like teenagers! It all goes by too fast.
13 Jun, 2008
Thanks again :o) I'm really looking forward to the day and I'm sure it will be over in a flash! We'll try to have a little time to take it all in.
13 Jun, 2008
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gosh exciting times... its the first anniversary of my wedding soon! cant believe it its flown by!! Wishing you and ur bride to be a wonderful day! Try and take it all in the day will whizz by! Cant wait to see the piccies! x
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