A Beautiful Wedding and Candy at Cortijo Bravo Hotel, Velez Malaga

As our weddings started to get well and truly underway in May, we were very excited about decorating Michelle and Andrew´s wedding at the Cortijo Bravo Hotel in Velez Malaga. It is a beautiful venue and a fairly new one for us to decorate which is always exciting as we like a challenge so we did head off earlier this year to take a good look around this hotel to see what we would create for our weddings booked here this year.

Michelle and Andrew´s wedding started with a beautiful church ceremony in Nerja and then back to the Cortijo for a wonderful night of festivities and entertainments organised by Moira at Perfect Spanish Weddings.

The venue do supply some flowers so we woofed (I love this word!) everything up by supplying glassware which we filled with water, pink crystals and floating candles and then added in the pink roses we had ordered from the hotel, we also bought our mirrors and finished the centrepieces off with tealights and scattered the tables with crystals.

Peonies are delightful at this time of year and perfect for huge fluffy balls of loveliness, we created Michelle´s bouquet with ivory peonies and the bridesmaids in a fabulous combination of pink. They were delightful and huge! We were not allowed to decorate the pew ends at the church with our bows, which was disappointing but soon made use of them back at the venue by using them on the orange trees on the terrace so all was not lost!

Our highlight was the Candy Bar, there was a big clap all round from us and the staff, at the hotel, when we switched the fairy lights on, I think they were wondering what we were up to and it looked fabulous. Anoulka had done a fabulous job creating all the candy bar signs and Jeremy and Rob did get a look in later in the night when no one was watching!

We love the photos of the terrace that we decorated with lanterns, fairy lights and candles. It was a gorgeous wedding and lots of fun was had with the photo booth supplied by Jeremy, a gorgeous wedding cake from Fi, and dancing all night with fantastic music, lights and sounds from Rob the DJ. The A team were out in full force and here is our lovely email from Michelle and Andrew that was posted on our Facebook page

Hi Laura, sorry it has taken so long but I just had to thank you for helping me create my dream wedding. Your attention to detail goes way beyond what I had even imagined and it was only when I looked back at Jeremy´s photos I could see the extent that you and your team went to. Thoroughly breathtaking. The flowers were amazing and just what we discussed and of course all my guests are still talking about the sweet table (can I add they lasted the whole week we were here in Spain) such a treat. You were like my fairy godmother that waved her magic wand and made all my dreams come true, once again thank you so much, Michelle and Andrew xxx

Our thanks to Jeremy again for sending me these photos so we can share these fabulous photos of our work with you

A Delightful Wedding at Villa Padierna Hotel

Nothing says Summer in Spain such as a bright fuchsia colour scheme for a wedding.

Fuchsia is perfect for a bright sunny outdoor Mediterranean wedding theme and reflects the colours of the local surrounding flowers from the brightly coloured bouganvilla to the vibrant hibiscus. 

The original colour scheme we were creating with Alice as we designed her wedding was a deep crimson red, but this changed after the bridesmaids dresses were chosen.  When you see the photos you will know why!

One of my favorite colours combos is the red and hot pinks, this can look truly stunning, we sneaked some reds into Alice's wedding with the hearts :)

This wedding was set in the glorious Ritz Carlton Villa Padierna Hotel and with so many details packed into one day we could not wait to share this wedding with you. 

(Photo nagger again I am afraid!)

On a magical September evening, Alice made her way down the aisle with her mother and our bride and groom had a beautiful ceremony in the Amphitheatre of this regal hotel, under a stunning gazebo.  We dressed the gazebo with a host of gorgeous flowers in various shades of pinks using star gazers, roses, and some huge, fat pale pink hydrangeas which were to die for.  The aisle was dressed with glittering white tulles and floral pew ends and hot pink petals were scattered down the aisle.

We created personalised white fans with deep pink ribbons and ivory paper rose details to keep the guests cool and commandered two nice ushers to hand over the confetti bombs to! :)

Alice had a fuchsia rose handtie for her bouquet which complimented beautifully with her bridesmaids who had dolce vita rose handties.  The buttonholes were also a single dolce vita rose which is a durable rose and quite large, surviving the spanish heat well and rarely wilts after hours in heat.

The elegant reception was set out on the Linares Terrace.

We dressed the chairs with white satin loose style covers and fuchsia sashes, the napkins were tied with beautiful satin pink ribbon and decorated with an ivory paper rose.  The details were stunning and just enough to set off the crisp white tables.   We had some gorgeous red hearts in our shop that Alice fell in love with, so we bought these to decorate the surrounding trees at the reception.

The centrepieces were our romantic hurricane style glassware surrounded with a flurry of white hydrangeas and dolce vita roses, set on mirrors with surrounding tealights, simple but luxuriously divine.

As the evening fell onto this fabulous reception we had added some more lanterns and candles onto the terrace, using luminieres, hanging lanterns, large wax cylinder candles in groups and fairy lights to add a truly romantic glow to the night.

Mark from Cake Marbella casually wandered past us yet again setting up his gorgeous chocolate cupcakes, and yet again had not bought spares!  It is pure torture as they are by far the best cupcakes in the world but we move on!

Our thanks to Heather at Fiestasol, who had recommended us to Alice and planned this wedding to perfection, again a huge hug to Jeremy and Jenny for these wonderful photos, and another huge hug to the beautiful Alice, a fabulously happy and radiant bride.

We were delighted to share Alice's beautiful day and when Heather told us Alice was desperate to have one of our red hearts as mementoe, we jumped at the chance to send her one as it is so lovely to present our brides with such special memories of their weddings.

Elegant Sophistication in a Stunning Sevillian Setting

Patience, patience, I know I nag the photographers until they must dread the site of my email address and glaze over, but I was so excited about receiving these stunning photos from Jeremy of the most beautiful wedding we created here in September at the charming Hacienda San Rafael in Seville. 

Imogen was a delight to work with as she knew exactly what she wanted and after a few consultations in the shop, with flower samples checked for colours and lots of lovely swatches of fabrics and lace we were ready to create Imogen's special day. 

Due to the Hacienda being located near Sevilla and a 2 hour drive away, we were not able to leave the coast as we were so busy, so after some detailed preparations and schedules in place we were able to create Imogen's wedding from afar!

The lantern and candles were already at the venue from a wedding the week before (which was good timing) and the utterly charming owner, Anthony, insisted on helping us by watching where everything had been placed and getting his staff to painstakingly reinstall everything again for the following weekend.  I have never met such a helpful venue and they were a joy to work with. 

Jeremy, bless him, was then put in charge of taking all the flowers to the venue, so meeting on route, we carefully transferred all the flowers to his car!  A nail biting moment until I heard that everything had arrived safely and in one piece so another big thank you to Jeremy for being our courier for the day :)

We had worked with Imogen to create a beautifully designed wedding featuring ivory and sahara roses, with lace and bead details.  The bridal flowers were absolutely divine and our table centrepieces (yes Jeremy had all this in his car!) were the same roses set on gold vintage style plates Loraine had found on a trip to London.  The end result as you can see where absolutely divine, a balance between elegant sophistication and the rustic charm of this breathtaking venue.

Imogen emailed us recently

Hi Laura Just wanted to say a big thank you for everything. The venue looked stunning and Loraine did the most beautiful job with the flowers. Thanks again xxx

The adorable flower girl with her mini bouquet has to be my favorite photo, she is too gorgeous for words :)  I also laughed when I saw the final photo of the three wise monkeys!  All stunning, and a huge thank you to Imogen and Lindsay for allowing us to create such a beautiful wedding, to Jeremy for such amazing photos yet again and to Anthony for being one of the most charming people I have ever met.

A striking Hot Pink and Lime Theme at Finca Cortesin

In the height of the summer here in Spain we decorated the beautiful wedding of Susan and Sean. Starting with top hats and tails at the Encarnacion Church in Marbella, followed by a fabulous reception at the Finca Cortesin.   A huge well done to the lads who managed to keep their hats and jackets on in the spanish July heat!!

Susan wanted a brightly coloured scheme using hot pinks and limes and was quite determined to have as many flowers as she possibly could for her wedding!

We created a beautifully vibrant bridal bouquet with bright yellow cala lilies and hot pink roses and the adorable bridemaids had bright pink gerbera bouquetstied with long lime green satin ribbons, all the buttonholes and corsages were made up with sunflower yellow gerberas.

The tables were dressed with very tall flower arrangements filled with lemons and limes sitting in pink water and topped with some fabulous colourful and tropical floral displays and we decorated the chairs with lime sashes and hot pink gerberas which certainly added that party atmosphere to the already beautifully decorated reception.

Mini cava bottles tied with hot pink and lime ribbons, adorned the tables as favours and we designed the table stationery to compliment the colour scheme tying large tags with the table seating plans to jugs of sangria at the cocktail.

Our other details for Susan and Sean's wedding day also included fuschia fans at the church and our famous romantic lanterns and candles for the evening surrounding the pool and the reception area

This was a fabulous wedding and one of our favourites this year but herein lies a lesson to be learnt that never travel to your wedding day here in Spain in July in a non air conditioned car, thanks to Kathryn, Susan's make up and hair stayed put, but in plus 40 degrees without air con and a 30 minute journey to the church I am sure Susan was cursing Sean for bringing one of his vintage cars down to Spain!!!! 

This wedding was organised by the lovely Joan and our thanks to Jeremy yet again for these fabulous photos of our flowers and decorations.