A weeks work...

When we're not creating floral designs for wedding, we design bespoke funeral tributes with special meaning for the relatives and we also create bouquets for birthdays, thank you gifts and just because.

This week we had a special order for two bespoke tributes, one a bicycle and the other a cycling club emblem.

When the tributes were collected the customer was really pleased with them.

We also created a £100 hand tied bouquet as a thank you gift, which although we photographed in our normal way it didn't show it's scale very well so we photographed it being held and it came to half the height of the person! And with this in mind it was also that width as well!

The model hiding behind the flowers! Not difficult to do when the bouquet is this big!

We also created a bouquet for BBC Gardener's World presenter Christine Walkden who opened the Hadlow College Open Day at their Mottingham campus.

Christine with the bouquet!

If you have a special order, please call us Tuesday - Saturday 9am - 5pm or send us an email anytime at broadview.florist@hadlow.ac.uk

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Emma and Stuart's Wedding

We met with Emma and Stuart last year to discuss the flowers for their May wedding at the Hadlow Manor Hotel, just up the road from our shop!

Emma wanted compact hand tied bouquets for herself and her five bridesmaids. She chose Roses and after a few colour changes she settled upon two tone cerise Roses.

Emma's bouquet was a hand tied bouquet of massed Amalia Roses finished with an ivory ribbon handle and decorative pearl pins.

Compact, domed hand tied bridal bouquet of Amalia Roses

Two tone cerise Rose hand tied bouquet

Amalia Rose hand tied bridal bouquet

For Emma's four adult bridesmaids and her child bridesmaid, she chose smaller versions of her bouquet.

Bridesmaids bouquet of Amalia roses

Bridesmaids' hand tied bouquets of massed Roses

For Stuart and his groomsmen and the ladies, they all wore single cerise pink Rose buttonholes with bear grass and foliage.

Amalia Rose Buttonhole

Amalia Rose Buttonholes

We also provided two Bay trees dressed with bright pink Gerberas in their heads and finished with pink ribbon bows. These would be moved from the ceremony room to the reception room.

Dressed Bay Trees with bright pink Gereberas

We also created hand tied thank you bouquets but forgot to photograph them! We did however take photos of some buttonholes ordered by guests at the wedding that we delivered up to the Hadlow Manor.

White Rose buttonholes for the guests

We hope Emma and Stuart had a wonderful day and we wish them many congratulations!

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Lucy and Jeff's Wedding

We had the pleasure of getting all Spring like with the creation of Lucy and Jeff's wedding flowers. Lucy visited us with her Mother and decided she wanted beautiful seasonal Tulips as her main wedding flower.

The colour scheme for the wedding was light purple and Lucy's child bridesmaids were to be wearing light purple dresses. Lucy wanted a compact, hand tied bouquet of light purple Tulips with small leafed foliage interspersed throughout. We finished the bouquet with an ivory ribbon handle and decorative pearl pins.

Bridal bouquet of light purple Tulips and Eucalyptus foliage

Compact Tulip bridal bouquet

Light purple Tulip, hand tied bridal bouquet

For Lucy's bridesmaids, she chose ivory tulips with scented, light purple Freesia with small leafed foliage interspersed throughout. We finished the bouquets with light purple ribbon handles and pearl pins.

Bridesmaid bouquet of ivory Tulips and light purple Freesia

Compact hand tied bouquets of Tulips and Freesia

Scented light purple Freesia with ivory Tulips and Eucalyptus

We also wired small Ornitholgalum flowers for the Bridesmaids hair which we think would look lovely with their tiny white petals and black "eye" centres. 

Ornithogalum hair flowers

Tiny white Ornithogalum hair flowers

We don't yet have any pictures from the wedding but here is a picture of what they look like in a hair style (which we love!)

Jeff wore a double purple Tulip buttonhole with foliage and his groomsmen wore a selection of light purple Tulip buttonholes and ivory Tulip buttonholes.

Double Tulip Buttonhole

Tulip Buttonholes

For the Mothers, we created double ivory Tulip corsages attached with magnets to protect delicate clothing.

Double ivory Tulip corsages

After delivering Lucy her flowers we headed over to the reception venue at Squerryes Court in Westerham. 

Squerryes Court

In the grounds of Squerryes a marquee had been erected for the reception. We dressed the entrance to the marquee with Bay Trees finished with cream Gerbera inserted into the head of the tree and finished with light purple ribbon bows.

Cream Gerbera in Bay Trees

Two standard Bay trees dressed with cream Gerbera and light purple ribbon bows

For the tables, our large clear glass fishbowls carried on the Spring theme with twisted light purple Tulips inside and were seated upon large circular mirror plates with candle votives around the edge.

Twisted tulips in large fishbowls

Tulip fishbowls on circular mirror plates and candle votives

We also created Tulip and Gerbera hand tied gift bouquets as thank you presents and as it was Lucy's Aunts birthday on the wedding day we also gift wrapped a beautiful Orchid for her. We didn't photograph the bouquets as we were too busy photographing the favours (nothing to do with us but really lovely)! 

Lucy's favour

Jeff's favour

We wish Lucy and Jeff all the very best!

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London Bridal Photo Shoot

Tomorrow we are off to London to deliver flowers for a very exciting photo shoot! As well as Broadview Florist supplying flowers for the photo shoot, many other local wedding suppliers will also be going.

We won't post any pre photo shoot pics, so we can keep you in suspense and wait for the fantastic pics in a couple of weeks time!

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Hazel and Steve's Wedding

Hazel and Steve married at Mountains Country House in Hildenborough on a lovely sunny Saturday. The colour scheme for the wedding was aubergine, which Hazel's bridesmaids would be wearing.

Hazel chose a hand tied bouquet of beautiful Avalanche Roses, cream spray Roses with spring time aubergine Tulips along with neat foliages.

For Hazel's bridesmaid, she carried a smaller version of the bridal bouquet without the spray Roses.

And the two bouquets together!

For Steve and his groomsmen they wore single white Tulip buttonholes.

We also provided thank you bouquets for the Mums to be given at the reception.

We wish Hazel and Steve all the very best!

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Charlotte and Michael's Wedding

Another lovely spring day for a wedding and we headed off to The Spa Hotel in Tunbridge Wells to deliver Charlotte her wedding flowers!

Charlotte had originally chosen different  flowers for her wedding bouquets but after she saw one of our previous weddings from last year she fell in love with them and with a few tweeks we tailor made the bouquets just right for her!

Charlotte carried a hand tied bouquet of Avalanche Roses, spray Roses, dark purple Lisianthus and double lilac Lisianthus (beautiful!). Her Bridesmaids carried smaller hand tied bouquets again in creams, lilacs and dark purple. All were finished with diamante pins.

Michael wore an Avalanche Rose buttonhole with dark purple and lilac Lisianthus with a diamante pin to attach.

The groomsmen wore Avalanche Rose buttonholes with dark purple Lisianthus

For the two page boys they wore dark purple Lisianthus buttonholes. The ladies wore corsages of Avalanche Roses with ivory and lilac Lisianthus.

We wish Charlotte and Michael all the very best!

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Amy and Sam's Wedding

What a beautiful weekend for a wedding! Amy and Sam could not have wished for a better day with the sun shining and not a cloud in the sky!

For most weddings we start with meeting the Bride and either the groom to be or the mother of the bride but we actually met with Amy's dad who had popped into the shop for a bouquet and was so pleased with the bouquet that was made for him he decided to pass on our details to Amy and his wife who called the next day to book a consultation!

Amy and Sam booked Bradbourne House for their wedding reception and it looked stunning in the sunshine with all the flowers in place on the tables.

The colour scheme for the wedding was dark purple but Amy wanted an accent colour of bright yellow included which really made the arrangements pop!

Amy chose a neat teardrop bouquet to compliment her dress and we used Avalanche Roses, ivory Calla Lilies, dark purple Lisianthus and dark purple Veronica with bright yellow Freesia and a hint of lime green Bupleurum

Amy had two adult Bridesmaids and one child Bridesmaid who all carried hand tied bouquets of Avalanche Roses, Lisianthus and Freesia with Bupleurum.

Sam wore an Avalanche Rose buttonhole with dark purple Lisianthus.

The groomsmen wore Avalanche Rose buttonholes

The mother of the Bride wore a corsage of ivory spray Roses and ivory Freesia and the mother of the groom wore a corsage of ivory Freesia and ivory Lisianthus

At Bradbourne we decorated the entrance porch with our Bay trees with Avalanche Rose heads within the head of the tree and finished with purple ribbon bows.

The wood panelled hallway was decorated with a large front facing arrangement on the main table.

The top table was dressed with a long and low arrangement and the guest tables were dressed with tall flute vase arrangements seated on our large mirror plates.

We hope Amy and Sam had a wonderful day as we really enjoyed creating the flowers for their wedding!

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