They chose to get married at The Elephant Hotel in Pangbourne for its truly relaxed vibe and super chilled out atmosphere. The perfect setting for the winter wonderland wedding of their dreams.

The final touches to the ceremony room included these rather ‘WOW’ candelabras, which I found just days before the wedding. A rushed email to Emily and Andrew with attached pictures and they loved them too.

The flowers were designed to create a wonderfully romantic setting, with an undertone of 1940’s vintage glamour. Completely up my street!

White Akito roses, were combined with berried ivy, viburnum berries, steely green eucalyptus, scented freesias, Avalanche roses and hints of Amnesia roses to create luxurious, opulent table centres. We all absolutely fell in love with the large silver pedestal bowls and decided they were a must!

Cakes always amaze me, and Emily and Andrew had spared no expense with this drop-dead-I-want cake made by Peggy Porschen, who travelled all the way to Pangbourne to install it herself.

Emily’s wedding bouquet contained Akito roses, Amnesia roses, Majolika spray roses, berried ivy, viburnum berries, scented eucalyptus and thistles as a nod to her Scottish roots.

The bridesmaid’s bouquets were filled with Akito roses, Majolika spray roses, viburnum berries, berried ivy, eucalyptus and scented freesias. The perfect accompaniment to Emily’s wedding bouquet.

I can’t sign off without mentioning their wedding favours. Macaroons are possibly my favourite sweet treat of all time; macaroons from Ladurée are to die for.

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!

Get Emily and Andrews look

Venue: The Elephant Hotel, Pangbourne

Wedding Planning: Essentially You

Cake by: Peggy Porschen

Wedding favours by: Ladurée

Book a wedding consultation for your flowers by calling 0118 984 4000 or email info@greenparlour.com

Hearth of the home.

The fireplace is the centre of most homes at Christmas, roaring log fires and gorgeous surrounds also make this the perfect place to create your dream winter wonderland setting.

Inspiration awaits…

Fill old jars with handfuls of pussy willow and place along the entire length of the fireplace for a gorgeous woodland inspired scene.

Pussy willow £10.00 a bunch

Available in store

Place beautiful finds from around your home in small groupings, scatter with pinecones and large pillar candles for an eclectic, romantic setting.

Christmas trees £15.00 for 3

Large wicker star £5.50

Available in store and online www.greenparlour.com

Silver sparkle and candles go hand in hand at Christmas. These mercury glass candlesticks and tea light holders would look stunning paired with a simple pine garland.

Large mercury glass candlestick £21.50 each

Small mercury glass candlestick £12.50 each

Tea light holder £4.50 each

Pine garlands price available on request

Available in store and online www.greenparlour.com

These gorgeous antique tea light holders add a perfect vintage glint to any Christmas table. Scatter amongst small hyacinths bulbs planted in glass container decorated with moss for a simply stunning way to decorate your hearth.

Tea light holder £4.50 each

Hyacinth bulbs from £1.50 each

Available in store and online www.greenparlour.com

Hang your rustic willow wreath above your fireplace using lace ribbon for a romantic wonderland look. Decorate the surround with a lush garland filled with pine, berries, ivy and eucalyptus.

Rustic willow wreath £15.00

Pine garlands price available on request

Available in store and online www.greenparlour.com

Garlands are the perfect decoration for any fireplace. Use English pine, ivy, berries and herbs to add the most wonderful scent to your home.

Pine garlands price available on request

Available in store

It Its all about the Christmas door wreaths …

Country Fayre Christmas door wreath

This wreath is filled with foliage from the English countryside. Complimented with dried lavender, pine cones, willow and finished with feathers and baubles for a touch of winter wonderland.

Order yours online

Christmas Pine door wreath

Gorgeous scented pine wreath measuring 30cm in diameter simply decorated with pine cones and a satin hanging ribbon and bow. This wreath is a classic addition to any door.

Order yours online

Vintage Christmas door wreath

Our vintage Christmas door wreath is filled with dried hydrangea heads, fresh scented eucalyptus, pine cones, pearls, skimmia and berries. Designed to bring a touch of winter glamour to your door.

Order yours online

Christmas Fruits door wreath

A rich sumptuous door wreath filled with scented pine, eucalyptus and skimmia and adorned with dried oranges, pine cones, miniature baubles and limes. Finished in a traditional red satin ribbon.

Order yours online

Confession time.

We like Mariah a little too much. Its bordering on obsessional.

Her picture is yet to join the likes of Anton du Beke, The Queen and a giraffe in our “all the things we love” board. Bide your time Mariah, perhaps this will be your year.

We are the busy elves of the flower world, clusters of these gorgeous baubles have finally filled every corner of the shop. I cannot wait to decorate our tree.

I love buying one special bauble every year, wrapped (beautifully of course) and presented in what should be, some sort of glamourous ceremony. It is duly unwrapped and placed in prime position on the chosen tree.

Tradition is what Christmas is all about.

Buy some baubles.

You can book your place online HERE or call us on 0118 984 4000 to reserve your place!

Come and join us for a large glass of mulled wine, a minced pie and more importantly some floral fun.

Look forward to seeing you there,

ttfn x

Come and see Green Parlour (florist to the recent Royal Wedding of HRH Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) as they put on a fantastic floral demonstration designed to inspire. This event will be hosted at the beautiful Elephant Hotel in Pangbourne, Reading on 18th October 2011 at 7.00pm. Come and enjoy a drink and nibbles as you are amazed at the beautiful displays Green Parlour put together. This is a brilliant opportunity to see the Royal Wedding florist in action, and all the while helping to raise money for Breast Cancer Campaign during October’s Paint the Town Pink.

With a pink theme and inspiration galore, this is an evening not to be missed. You could also be in with a chance of winning one of the displays produced on the night, as the evening will be finished off with a raffle.

Date: Tuesday 18th October 2011, 7pm

Venue: The Elephant Hotel, Pangbourne

Ticket Price: £15 per person

(ticket price includes entry, drink and nibbles)

To purchase tickets, please use our Just Giving page HERE

Ticket numbers are strictly limited, so book yours now to avoid disappointment

Please remember to provide your email address with your donation so that we can send you your e-tickets. If you require more than one ticket, please just donate the correct multiple of £15 and we will issue your tickets accordingly.

We look forward to seeing you there, ttfn x

Emily and Paul came to see the Green Parlour wedding team over a year ago to start talking about all their ideas for wedding flowers.

Brides-to-be take note! we love brides who have an ideas book or ‘look book’ its great to start visualising ideas together and means that from the off we can start discussing the type of arrangements that will compliment everything from your dress to your venue. You don’t even have to have images of flowers (that’s kind of what we’re here for!) but anything from your save the dates, to weddings that you’ve seen on all the amazing wedding blogs out there and magazines. Basically we want to see images of what YOU have fallen in love with.

Emily came to us with a book packed full of gorgeous glamourous, vintage images. Pearls were in abundance, with dusky roses, mercury glass tea lights, some quirky ‘Mr and Mrs’ letters and heaps full of 40′s glamour. Heaven or what?

We designed the bouquet to reflect all these gorgeous ideas, with a slight country twist. The wedding bouquet contained soft Amnesia roses combined with Bombastic spray roses (queue the inevitable renditions of the song by Shaggy), scented ivory sweet peas, ivory Majolika spray roses, Upper Secret roses, subtle hints of eucalyptus and wired pearls, nestled between the flowers. The bouquet was bound in a ruched nude satin ribbon, with large pearls lining the length.

The reception was held at Warbrook House near Hook in Hampshire. Set in stunning grounds, Warbrook House was the perfect backdrop for the soft sage greens, vintage pink and ivory flowers we had planned. The reception room needed some height, each table centre was placed upon a tall lily vase with a country dome of flowers sitting on top. These stunning table centres filled with white delphiniums, Memory Lane and Amnesia roses, hydrangeas, eucalyptus and Bombastic spray roses, tied the whole theme together, adding a splash of Emily and Paul’s day to Warbrook House.

The last little details make all the difference to a wedding … we fell in love with Emily’s signing tree (twigs and urn provided by Green Parlour) what a novel change from a guest book!

Zoë first contacted us almost a year ago to start thinking about the flowers for her wedding taking place in The Black Barn, Rushall Farm. The barn is stunning, set in the middle of the Berkshire countryside with fields as far as you can see. With this stunning backdrop, we took full inspiration from the barns surroundings when designing the bridal bouquet and table centres for the wedding.

Zoë’s wedding bouquet was filled with English grown roses, scented stocks, sweet peas, lisianthus and hints of scented Baby Blue eucalyptus, it certainly smelt amazing!

Collections of old glass jars filled the long banqueting tables in The Black Barn, each filled with a miniature hand-tie of flowers. Queen Anne’s Lace is complimented with scented stocks, English grown roses, garden sedum, alchemilla mollis, eucalyptus, mint and agapanthus to create these wild, garden inspired wedding table centres.

The final touches involved winding ivy and fairy lights around the rustic centre pillars in the barn.

Gorgeous

For more information on Flowers for your Business click here to arrange an appointment

Who knew I blinked for such a long time whilst talking? I don’t think this was helped by a huge video camera 12″ away from me. The whole experience was rather daunting.

We have purchased our own little video camera, is there anything you would like to see?

I think tours of the shop and DIY follow at home inspiration are imminent.

Learn professional flower arranging in our summer 2011 flower schools.

We have finally announced our new season of flower schools, we are running a selection of day courses, evening courses and half day courses, designed to teach you how to arrange in the gorgeous Green Parlour style. Anyone can take part, budding amateur to professional florist wanting some fresh inspiration.

Flowers and home-made cakes are provided in abundance, as well as some gorgeous containers and all the know-how you need.

Our flower school is run from our flower shop in Pangbourne, Reading in small informal groups.

Its going to be a giggle.

Full Day course £200.00

Wednesday 14th September 2011

9.30am until 3.30pm

This one day course gives you an insight into how to arrange the flowers we love. Suitable for all abilities, this course will teach you how to make one of our signature hand-tied bouquets, a beautiful vase display and learn how to use small vases. The price includes all flowers and containers, refreshments and cake, lunch with a glass of sparkling wine. You also receive a discount card valid for 6 months on all flower purchases and a pair of professional floristry scissors. Please book in advance as places are limited.

Half day course £80.00

Wednesday 20th July 2011 and Friday 30th September 2011

9.30am until 12.30pm

This half day course gives you all the knowledge to produce one of our signature hand-tied bouquets within a beautiful glass vase. We will give advice on how to combine flowers and colours to create the perfect floral arrangement. Price includes all flowers and containers, a pair of professional floristry scissors, refreshments and cake. Please book in advance as places are limited.

Evening course £80.00

Thursday 18th August 2011 and Friday 7th October 2011

6.30pm until 9.30pm

This evening course teaches you how to make a table centre for the home using a selection of glass vases and containers. We will give advice on how to combine flowers and colours to create the perfect floral arrangement. Price includes all flowers and containers, a pair of professional floristry scissors, a glass of sparkling wine and cake. Please book in advance as places are limited.