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Wedding Season 2021

We’re nearing the end of wedding season 2021 with just two more weddings to flower this week and next.

It’s been an extraordinary year with so many weddings moved from 2020 but I’m glad to say that we’ve safely delivered everything we planned and it’s been uplifting to see so many of our lovely clients finally get married.

Most of our weddings were at Cowdray House and The Walled Garden at Cowdray which are located 5 minutes away from our flower studio and home.

I’ll post lots more photos when I get the chance but if you can’t wait for that then our Instagram is a good place to look for wedding photos @thisflorallife

This wonderful photo is by David Jenkins Photography

wedding by This Floral Life at Cowdray House

Siobhan and Marinus’s Wedding at Cowdray House captured by DavidJenkinsPhotography.com

tags: Wedding, Wedding flowers, Cowdray House
categories: Cowdray House, Weddings
Wednesday 11.24.21
Posted by Karen Watson
 

Tatler Best Wedding Venues in the UK

Tatler have listed Cowdray House as on of their top 11 wedding venues in the UK and one of our weddings from 2016 has been used in the feature photograph.

The photo is by the very talented Nadine Van Biljon

Click here to read the article on Tatler

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tags: Tatler, Cowdray House, Wedding, Best wedding venues in UK
categories: Cowdray, Cowdray House, Events, News, Press, Weddings
Monday 01.28.19
Posted by Karen Watson
 

An Autumn Wedding at Cowdray House

It was a glorious Autumn morning for Krisztina and Graeme's wedding at Cowdray House on 8th October 2016.  

If you look through this journal you may have seen that I was the florist for the very first wedding held at Cowdray House, at the end of June this year. Well, this wedding included the first actual civil wedding ceremony at the house.

Autumn is a great time to get married and at Cowdray House the views from the ceremony room out to the garden are spectacular with all of the colours of Autumn represented in the landscape.

The flowers also included colours from the Autumn landscape mixed with pink and peaches and the last flush of the English roses.

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The ceremony room at Cowdray House

The ceremony room at Cowdray House

The wedding reception in Buck Hall, Cowdray House, Midhurst, West Sussex

The wedding reception in Buck Hall, Cowdray House, Midhurst, West Sussex

tags: Thisflorallife, Wedding, bestweddingvenues, Cowdray, Cowdray Estate, Eventflowers, Midhurst, Wedding flowers, Cowdray House, Autumn, West Sussex, South Downs National Park, britishflowers, autumnflowers, autumnweddingflowers, eventflowers, autumnstyle, dahlias, Cowdray Florist
categories: Cowdray, Weddings, News, In season
Tuesday 10.25.16
Posted by Karen Watson
 

June wedding at Cowdray House, West Sussex

It's been an extraordinarily busy Summer and I have some catching up to do on this journal. Apologies!

Now, I posted a photograph that I took of Miranda, my gorgeous bride whose reception was at Cowdray House at the end of June, but I didn't post any of my other photographs so I aim to address that in this journal entry.

It was a fabulous wedding and the Lewis family were an absolute dream to work with. It's always such a huge pleasure for me to work with such lovely people on these really important occasions in their lives. Helping to create great memories through flowers and styling, it's hard not to be swept up in the happiness wave. We became firm friends in the run up to the wedding and we've met up on several occasions since and I know we'll always stay in touch.

The Lewis's wedding was one of the first weddings that Cowdray House had hosted and Sian and Jayne, who hosted the weekend on behalf of the house, made sure it was a huge success. Jacaranda Catering provided the food and a team to run the event over the weekend, led by the amazing Minty Moore and I hear that the food was superb. If you're looking for a caterer for a wedding or an event, do get in touch with them, I often work with them on events and the clients are always really delighted with their excellent food and brilliant service.

My team were superb (Nia, Sue, Rob, Alyson and Stuart) and we had a great time making and installing the flowers. We all went on to make and install the floral decorations at another large private party the day after so it was a very busy few days, but fun too.

Here are a few of the photographs that I took on the morning of the wedding.

Happy memories. 

 

Entrance to Buck Hall

Entrance to Buck Hall

Entrance Hall Flowers

Entrance Hall Flowers

The Morning Room

The Morning Room

Morning Room Flowers

Morning Room Flowers

Buck Hall Wedding Breakfast

Buck Hall Wedding Breakfast

Candleabra in Buck Hall

Candleabra in Buck Hall

Buck Hall

Buck Hall

Miranda leaving for the church

Miranda leaving for the church

Beautiful Miranda

Beautiful Miranda

St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Midhurst, West Sussex

St Mary's Church, Easebourne, Midhurst, West Sussex

Milk Churns down the Aisle of St Mary's

Milk Churns down the Aisle of St Mary's

tags: Wedding florist, Cowdray, Wedding flowers, blushpinkflowers, Cowdray Florist, June wedding flowers, eventprofs, West Sussex, bridalbouquet, Jacaranda Catering, eventstyling, South Downs National Park, Cowdray House, cafeaulaitdahlia, Midhurst, eventflowers, Wedding, britishflowers
categories: Weddings, Cowdray, Events
Sunday 09.04.16
Posted by Karen Watson
 

A Country Wedding in July

It was another beautiful July day in West Sussex when Claire and Graham's wedding took place.

We used seasonal English flowers in pink, ivory and blue to create garden inspired table wreaths with candles ; candles being an essential component at all weddings, no matter what time of year.

Claire's gorgeous bridal bouquet was filled with garden roses, cafe au lait dahlias in blush pink, jasmine trails, pink oregano and pink garden anemones.

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Claire's Bridal Bouquet

Claire's Bridal Bouquet

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tags: blushpinkflowers, Wedding, midhurst, bridalbouquet, slowflowers, Flowers, West Sussex, Wedding florist, summerflowers, Wedding flowers, dahliaseason, flowersofjuly, seasonalflowers
categories: Weddings, Events
Sunday 09.04.16
Posted by Karen Watson
 

Wedding at Cowdray House - The beautiful Bride

This was such a beautiful wedding and the family were an absolute joy to work with.

Miranda and James got married on 25th June 2016 at St Mary's Church, Cowdray Park, Easebourne, Midhurst and the weekend reception and celebrations were held at the fabulous Cowdray House, Midhurst.

Miranda looked incredibly beautiful and I managed to take a few photos of her leaving Cowdray House for the Church. I'll post more shortly but here is one of my favourites...

Miranda leaving for the church

Miranda leaving for the church

tags: Wedding flowers, Wedding florist, June wedding flowers, Cowdray Florist, Bridal Bouquet, Midhurst, Thisflorallife, West Sussex, Wedding, Cowdray House
categories: Weddings, Events, News
Saturday 07.09.16
Posted by Karen Watson