Sugar Paste Orchid Wedding Cake

The wedding was beautiful, and the bride looked amazing!

The Sugar Paste Orchids looked great on the cake, and most importantly the bride was happy.

Now excuse me while I crawl back into bed to recover.......

Sugar Paste Orchids

We are going to wedding tomorrow.  It is our lovely friends Vicki and Dan who have been together forever and are finally taking the plunge.  It is going to be a beautiful wedding!

I thankfully had nothing to do with baking the cake! However the lovely Vicki asked if I could make her some flowers to go on top.

Wedding Brunch

I am making another wedding cake in December. 

I actually know the groom better than the bride (as we work together); they are planning on having wedding with an emphasis on fun and relaxation. 

They are coming down to final decision now so when they were talking about wedding flower inspiration, I was inspired to go back through photos to look at my own wedding flowers.  

I (and my lovely mother), did all the flowers for our wedding.  We did the church, the reception and the bouquets, so looking back I was able to find lots of photos.  

In my reminiscence I came across these photos which were of the brunch that we had the day after the wedding.  As we had so may overseas guests we wanted to make sure that we got a chance to see and talk to everybody properly. 

The Brunch was wonderful it was so relaxing and it was an absolutely beautiful day.  My father’s garden looked just beautiful (as always!) and as it was Lent when we got married so we had to remove all the flowers from the church after the ceremony and were able to use them in the backyard for the Brunch.

It was such a beautiful day.....

                 

The Bouquets

The night before the big day when everything was closed and nearly everything on the list of things to do was completed, I sat down to make the Bouquets.

As I had my lovely sister as my only Bridesmaid, there was only two to make....

I sourced my flowers from a lovely man called Patric who every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, along with his son Domenic, have a flower stall in the Newcastle Hunter Street Mall.

Patrick and Domenic own a flower farm called Kemps Creek Flowers.  Their main produce are Rose's and Carnation's but I have seen Sunflower's, Gladiola's and Lilly's there frequently.

A phone call to Patrick and Domenic asking for ivory and cream Rose's, and he brought them to Newcastle freshly cut the next morning.

 

The flowers were beautiful, I couldn't have asked for more perfect, fresh and beautiful flowers on my wedding day. 

Thank you Partric and Domenic!  

The Wedding Flowers

Just one day before the wedding all the flowers went to the both the church and the venue.

After much debate and much confusion (and a few false starts) the decision was made: White Oriental Lilly’s, Magnolia leaves and spear grass were the centre pieces for the tables.

I found candelabra that I just had to have, and they too became centre pieces. 

My tireless mother and I went to the venue (The Newcastle Club) the day before the wedding and put every single one of the flower arrangements together by hand.

I tied individual blue bows around each of the blue Sea Holly for each of the guest nameplates and we stood back and hoped that on the night the perfume from the Lilly’s would be the first thing that people noticed as they walked in the door......