Florist : Cutting Garden

Sarah | Lodge on Loch Goil | September

Back in September, we had our first visit to The Lodge on Loch Goil and what a beautiful sunny day it turned out to be.  We did a last minute installation down on the pebbled beach and created a freestanding piece, tumbling down from a large Copper Beech as it was just too beautiful a day not to get married outside.

Our Bride Sarah, lives close to David Austin Roses so we accented all the Scottish late summer flowers with Patience, Juliet and Beartice.  For dinner, we created a rambling tablescape with a touch of wildness.  Lovely.

Thanks to one of our favourite photography duos Criag & Eva Saunders for capturing all the romance, and Asteria Bridal were also on hand to create the perfect beauty.

Kathrynn | The Byre at Inchyra | June

Hello flower lovers!   How quickly has Autumn descended on us this year? It really is our favourite season for colour and texture and we are so looking forward to some really beautiful weddings over the coming months. 

We are back at Inchyra in a few weeks, and whilst skteching away in front of the wood burner today and deaming up what we will be creating, our minds retuturned to the last time we were at this beautiful venue back in June.

Kathrynn opted for a light and airy seassonal colour palette of lemons, ivories and blush and we were so happy that the weather allowed her ceremony to take place in Inchyra’s beautiful walled gardens.

Always an absolute pleasure to work alongside our favourite stylists Lemonbox, and thank you so much to Lisa Devine for capurting all the beauty.

Kate | Mansfield Traquair | October

Hello 2017 flower lovers!

I hope you all had a super time over the festive period, and if you got engaged – congratulations!

2016 was a busy old year for us here at Myrtle & Bracken HQ and we have lots of lovely weddings to share with you over the coming weeks.  This year is looking really exciting so far and our minds are already filled with all sorts of flowery loveliness as we start to plan ahead.

Back in October, we had the pleasure of creating Kate’s wedding flowers at the beautiful Mansfield Traquair in Edinburgh.  Autumn was in full swing and we brought the outside in with seasonal berries, copper Beech and turned Oak leaf.  Just lovely.

The ever lovely Lisa Devine was on hand to capture the love, thank you so much for sharing these images with us.

Lisa | Rowallan Castle | Spring

Hello blog!

It has been a very, VERY long time.  Apologies, the flowers have been demanding all our attention this year, but we are not complaining when they have been as pretty as this lovely wedding back in the Spring that we are sharing with you today.

Lisa and her girl friends chose the best in the business to take care of hair and make up, Anne Marie McElroy and Julie Duplacito and they worked their magic in the beautiful Tour House.

It was then off to Rowallan Castle which we filled with highly scented seasonal Magnolia, Blossom and Viburnum and warmed the air with pillar candles in storm lanters.  Just lovely.

You can see more of this wedding on Love My Dress, with the dreamiest of images by our Wedding Collective chums Craig & Eva Sanders.

Kim | Cottiers

Happy New Year you flowery bunch!  Hope you all had a lovely time over the festive period.  And a huge hello to all our new recently engaged ladies, welcome to our world.

A lot of our time has been spent over the past few weeks resting, reflecting and drinking Raspberry Gin.  It has been lovely.  But we are now strarting to look ahead at another flower filled year and planning what to grow in the cuttings gardens and what wonderful pieces we are going to create for some really beautiful weddings.

Today, we are looking back at Kim’s beautiful wedding which took place in August at Cottiers.  Kim themed her wedding around “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and the soft, romantic florals we created were supported by antlers, vines and local ferns.

A Wedding Collective dream team were on hand to help create Kim’s vision, with Anne Marie McElroy on hair, Julie Duplacito on make up and Craig & Eva Sanders behind the lens.

Ruth, Blairquhan Castle

What a miserable, wet time we are all having at the moment!  Time to fire up the wood burner, pop some scones in the oven, and start to reflect what has been an incredible year of weddings for us here at Myrtle & Bracken.

We have clocked up over 17,000 miles travelling the length and breadth of the country, flowering up beautiful spaces along the way.  We have worked with some really lovely clients and we are so grateful to be invited to play a part in a really special time for them and their friends and families.  We have also been getting to grips with our first growing season for our cutting garden, and are really loving living and working in tandem with the seasons.  Although it has been wet.  Very wet!

So today we are thinking back to a hot sunny day in June, when Ruth and Paul had the loveliest romantic wedding at Blairquhan Castle.

Scented flowers were the order of the day, with home grown Stock, Sweet Peas, Oregano and Mint.  Add in some David Austin Juliet roses, and the castle was filled with the delicate garden scent of summer.  We loved draping the staircase in wildy romantic garlands, framing Ruths entrance to marry her beau.  Lovely.

Craig and Eva Sanders were there to capture all the romance, thank you so much for allowing us to share these dreamy images.

Sigh.

A Secret Wedding at Ardanaisieg

Laura and James eloped to the beautiful Ardanaiseig at the start of the Autumn last year and I have to say, we were swept away with the romance!

Laura wore a stunning Dragonfly Dress Design and opted for a little flower hat and a lush Autumnal bouquet in gooey toffee pinks.  We recommended that Laura treat herself to a little pampering on the day itself and Jennifer Peffer from Asteria Bridal was on hand to highlight Lauras natural beauty, and finished off her 1950’s look just perfectly.

We also made a seasonal foliage and berry collar for Laura and James’s pooch!

Huge thanks go to John Stirling Photography for these lovely images.  You can see John’s full blog post on this elopement here.

MORE FLOWER HATS PLEASE.

AND MORE ELOPEMENTS.

A city centre wedding

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It had been a while since we ventured into town after our move to a rural existence, and back in September Suzanne and Ben’s wedding brought us right back into the heart of Glasgow for this beautiful city centre wedding.

The day started in Blythswood Hotel, then onto Glasgow University Chapel and finished off with a roof top party at 29.  Suzanne’s classic green and white flowers were heavily scented with Wild Thyme, Tuberosa, Eucaris and fresh Hops.  The Brides Mum was asking people all day what the lovely smell was, not realising it was her corsage.

Huge thanks to Lillian and Leonard Photography for allowing us to share there images, this is such a beautifully shot wedding and you can see more over on their blog.

And stripey bridesmaids.  LOVE.

Gillian at Oran Mor

At the end of July, we were in Glasgow’s Westend for the beautiful Gillian’s wedding.

I had so much fun creating Gillian’s loose and wild trailing bouquet which included David Austin Roses, Chocolate Cosmos and an abundance of herbs and grasses.  She wore a delicate floral headpiece of Passionflower and Princess Caroline Delphinium heads – just lovely.

This was a real Glasgow Wedding Collective affair, with Caro Weiss on photo’s, Sugar 8 on film, and Asteria Bridal on hair and make up.

How naturally beautiful it all turned out to be.

Thanks to Caro for the beautiful images, you can see more of the wedding over on her blog.

 

A Glasgow Wedding, Janet at West

Back in August, we had the pleasure of providing the flowers for a lovely wedding celebration at West Brewery in Glasgow.

Janet’s brief to us was to fill her wedding day with bright seasonal blooms and her bouquet was a rustic explosion of oranges and blues.

Our Glasgow Wedding Collective friend Lisa Devine was on hand on the day and provided us with these lovely images.  Thank you Lisa!