Posts Tagged ‘London wedding planner Lester Gethings’

Chic Winter Wedding

January 7, 2011

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Take one beautiful Central London hotel, a stunning bride, an amazing wedding planner, a fantastic photographer and us and what have you got? A Euphoric wedding of course!! Back in November we had the pleasure of working at one of London’s most glamorous hotels, the Haymarket for the wedding of Suzanne and Declan. This wonderfully stylish event saw the ceremony take place in the Shooting Gallery of the hotel, followed by a drinks reception in the Library. While guests enjoyed champagne and canapes, the Shooting Gallery was transformed into a stunning setting for the wedding breakfast. The flower palette for this wedding included elegent calla lilies, white hydrangeas, white roses and blue eryngium thistle, which worked perfectly with the restrained colour scheme of the Shooting Gallery.

As an alternative to a traditional table plan, guests found their tables from an escort card table in the Library which we dressed with small cubes of flowers.

Luca and Olivia stole the day!
For the wedding breakfast we dressed the tables with the hotel’s wonderful candelabra and rings of hydrangeas, roses and thistle. For the evening celebrations, the hotel’s best kept secret came into it’s own; the amazing swimming pool! Furniture was moved, vases transported and the fabulous cup cakes from Peggy Porschen were served in London’s most glamorous basement! All this could not have happened without wedding planner, Lester Gethings from No.10 Wedding Design & Management who co-ordinated the entire event or, our good friend Lloyd Dobbie who captured the day so brilliantly with his wonderful photography.

Fairytale Castle

July 3, 2009

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

The wedding of Robyn and Billy at Highclere Castle last week was a truly transatlantic affair. With the couple based in America, this week long celebration was superbly planned by one of our favourite wedding planners, Lester Gethings from No.10 Wedding Design & Management, who co-ordinated a truly spectacular event. Flowers were an extremely important element of this wedding and, it was a pleasure to work with such a vibrant colour palette of purple, red, orange and zesty lime green. As the bride said, ‘I want the colours to really pop!!’
The saloon of Lord and Lady Carnarvon’s home took centre stage for the wedding ceremony, where the bride and groom exchanged their vows in front of the magnificent stone fireplace, flanked with lavish urns of purple delphinium, rich red peonies, magenta ‘sumatra’ scented lilies and deep violet hydrangea. The bride made her entrance down the grand staircase also flanked with urn arrangements, and carried a very glamorous trailing bouquet of dark pink phalaenopsis orchids, whilst her bridesmaids, wearing full length aubergine silk gowns, carried posies of velvety ‘grand prix’ roses.
The drinks reception was held on the south lawn of the castle with breathtaking views across the estate. Here on the occasional tables we placed mini moss topiary trees in antique pots tied with sumptuous purple ribbon. Following champagne and canapes, the guests entered the richly decorated library for the wedding breakfast.Against a backdrop of exquisite purple table linen and shimmering crystal, tall and lavish arrangements on mirror plates adorned the centre of each table, accessorised with mercuried silver votives.The gorgeous four tiered wedding cake by Peggy Porschen which we decorated with heads of deep pink phalaenopsis orchids was pin spot to highlight the iced champagne bubbles on each tier.We would have loved to have stayed to enjoy the evening entertainment which included a jazz band, singing waiters and fireworks at midnight, but we were thoroughly exhausted and drove back down the M4 feeling weary, but confident we had another Euphoric Triumph!!!!!

History and Romance

February 24, 2009

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Almost a year to the day, we made a return visit to Fawsley Hall last week, as guest speakers for The Association of Bridal Consultants, who had arranged a wonderful day of networking and presentations at this historic country house in the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside. We recently blogged about the wedding of Isobelle and Steve which took place at Fawsley last year, so it was good to be back at a venue that is now firmly one of our favourites. As ever the whole event was superbly arranged by Amanda Sherlock from the ABC, who works tirelessly to promote professionalism within the wedding industry, so being asked by her to do a presentation was a real pleasure.Welcomed by the Fawsley Hall team, we were given a history of the house, and it it is hard to believe that little more than 30 years ago the house was a ruin and in danger of being demolished. There was even a tree growing in the roofless Great Hall! We were then given a tour of the house and it’s facilities, which includes a new spa opening in April. If you fancy a real treat you can even stay in the room that Queen Elizabeth occupied when she visited in 1575.After lunch the afternoon was given over to presentations, firstly by Sandals who told us about their wonderful Luxury Included resort holidays and Wedding Moon packages (complete with butler service if you want it!) Then it was our turn to take our audience through “A Year of Flowers”. This was our chance to share our knowledge of what flowers are best available in each season with a room full of wedding planners, who are a major part of our business.

The afternoon was rounded off with tea, lots of cake and networking with industry professional including wedding planners, Lester Gethings from No.10 Wedding Design & Management, Siobhan Craven Robins and Zoe Lingard, together with make up artist Lina Cameron. Fantastic entertainment was provided by magician Jamie Raven, who made rings disappear and reappear in implausible places and £20 notes turn into £50′s!!
We must thank everyone at Fawsley for their hospitality and are very jealous of Amanda Sherlock who got to stay the night!

Dream Wedding

October 15, 2008

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Once in a while you get a client who says those magic words, “I want flowers everywhere”. So we did just that, two weeks ago for the recent wedding of Noor and Alan at the Enstone Manor estate in Oxfordshire. Using 1,300 white roses, casablanca lilies and a palette of gorgeous seasonal flowers and foliages, we filled every room in the house. From the smallest bathroom to the great hall, we created a floral feast for the senses for the three day event. Managed exclusively by Jalapeno Enstone is set in 200 acres of stunning countryside with every facility you could wish for during your stay. Unfortunately we didnt get to see much of this, as we were holed up in the equestrian barn for two days!! However, Jalapeno’s director Charles Howard looked after us superbly with bacon croissants and full butler service! (or so it seemed!). Once again, the wedding planner for this event is our fave, Kelly Chandler of The Bespoke Wedding Company who pulled out all the stops as usual for this truly stunning event. This was the second time we have worked with Kelly at Enstone, having previously teamed up at the end of May for a peony packed extravaganza!!

For all those who think floristry is a glamorous profession, try getting up at 3.45am, collecting a van load of flowers from New Covent Garden Market, scoffing a fried egg sandwich, and driving up the M40 in thick fog to arrive in a freezing cold barn! And we hadn’t even started work yet! To give you a rough idea, this was the order of play for Day 1: Prepare and arrange vases of flowers for every room in the house (including 11 bedrooms and bathrooms!) before the guests arrive at 2pm. Prepare flowers for the evening dinner party, and begin preparation for the wedding ceremony and reception the following day! Leave, absolutely exhausted and drive down a series of dark country lanes trying to find your hotel!
We loved every minute of it!! Day 2: Leave hotel too early for breakfast and start all over again. Lucky for us, we had the services of the lovely Lester from

No.10 Wedding Design whose skills we couldn’t have managed without.

The transformation of the house for the wedding ceremony and reception was magical with yet more roses and lilies filling the great hall. The bride looked stunning in an Elie Saab gown from Pronovias and the whole event was captured by photographer Pippa Mackenzie Our one regret was not being able to stay and join the party!

Another English Classic!

August 15, 2008

Friday, August 15th, 2008

On what turned out to be a gloriously sunny day a few weeks ago, we set off for the wedding of Rachel and
James at the elegant
Stoke Park Club
With glorious views across the surrounding parkland, guests enjoyed a champagne reception on the terrace, before the wedding breakfast in the regency Wyatt room. Our classic champagne flute vases filled with hydrangeas, roses and scented freesias ( a favourite of the bride ) in soft pinks and creams set the tone for this most elegant of formal receptions. A touch of whimsy was added by decorating the beautiful silver gilt “epergnes” with hydrangeas and roses, so that they almost looked like gorgeous edible arrangements!
We were very grateful to be assisted by Lester from No.10 Wedding Design whose creative styling was invaluable!

A Euphoric Year!

July 16, 2008

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Welcome to the world of Euphoric! a place we love and have watched grow for the last three and a half years. Join us and see what we get up to in the wonderful world of flowers!

It’s been a really good year for us so far with some amazing weddings and events which we’ll share with you all soon, but we started the year with a move, from our beloved old studio in leafy Holland Park to our new one in Fulham (which is still leafy!) We outgrew our old space and made the move across town to our great new one only 15 minutes from New Covent Garden Market, close to all the floral action.

We were finalists for the second year running at the Wrapit Wedding Industry Awards in February (3rd year lucky!) http://www.wrapitawards.co.uk/ and have continued our foray into the world of public speaking that we started last year, this time as guest speakers for The Association of Bridal Consultantshttp://www.bridalassn.com/ at the fabulous Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge. http://www.the-berkeley.co.uk/ giving a room full of wedding planners an insight into what it’s like to work with a wedding planner from a florist’s point of view.

We’ve made plenty of new contacts in the wedding industry, including venues, planners and photographers – watch this space for more news! For now though check out a new wedding planner we love, Lester Gethings at No.10 Wedding Design & Management http://www.noten.co.uk/ We think he’ll go far.