Congratulations you got engaged! How to maximise your flower budget with a spot of repurposing

So, you are getting married- hurrah! Congratulations! And so, the fun of planning your wedding begins- and it should be fun… us wedding suppliers are here to make the process fun and easy along the way- making your planning as stress free as possible whilst helping you to get the most from your flower budget.

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The Royal Berkshire Hotel: A Florist’s Dream Venue for Future Weddings

As a wedding florist, I’ve had the pleasure of working in all sorts of venues over the years, but there’s something special about The Royal Berkshire Hotel. Nestled in the heart of the Berkshire countryside, this place has a charm and elegance that just speaks to you. The grounds are gorgeous, the staff are lovely, and every corner of the venue seems to have a bit of magic about it. It’s the sort of place that really gets my creative juices flowing, and I can already picture some absolutely stunning weddings I’ll have the chance to decorate there in the future.

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Weekly Flowers For Beautiful Homes

When looking at my website- you may think that I solely make wedding flowers…. Well weddings do take up a lot of my week, but I also have the lovely task of bringing weekly flowers to beautiful homes in the local Berkshire area too.

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Post Barn Wedding of Flowers

Post Barn Wedding of Mr & Mrs Flowers. Post Barn is one of the loveliest venues I have had the pleasure of decorating, and also for one of the loveliest couples too. And when they will also be known and Mr and Mrs Flowers- going big on the flowers for the Post Barn was an absolute must!

Jess and Alex gave me the brief of “pastel, lovely and seasonal” and when I hear this as a supplier- inside I do a little dance- from our first chat I knew that this was going to be AWESOME!

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Spotlight on Wasing Park

Spotlight today on the fantastic Wasing Park. Nestled in the heart of West Berkshire, this venue literally has it all.

Beautiful sweeping grounds to greet you, (occasionally with a few cows along the way!), church onsite, outdoor ceremony area, Garden Room and the stunning Castle Barn too. So many options for every couple to have the ceremony they prefer, and I have decorated them all over the years.

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Things you should ask your florist when booking for your wedding

So, you are engaged- congratulations!! Hope you both are on cloud 9! You have a venue booked, a date in the diary- now you move on to other suppliers. Every couple prioritises each supplier industry differently and tackles their planning differently. Some tackle it like Stacey in “Gavin and Stacey” and have 8 weeks to blast it all- some break wedding planning down into bitesize chunks and book a supplier month by month while their wedding is some way into the future.

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