My design fairy was left with my 2014 Instagram photos, his Mac and a whole lot of tunes.
I went to the gym. He made this.
Flowers really did fill every single day of 2014. It was a decidedly fragrant year.
x Steph
Goodbye 2014, hello 2015!
2014 was a super stunning year for us at fairy towers. Incredibly hard work, but oh so rewarding.
We made flowers for 92 beautiful weddings, appeared in various bridal magazines and blogs, prettied up some stunning events and worked with lots and lots of talented wedding folk.
We’ve also managed to gather a whole host of lovely new followers on Instagram, and likes on our Facebook page, which always makes me smile.
Knowing people like our flowers means the world to us.
So on to 2015.
We’ve got some utterly delicious weddings booked all over London, Surrey and Hampshire with lots further afield. We do like a change of scenery, although I’m thinking about asking to move in to Hampton Court House and Aynhoe Park this year as we have lots of lovely bookings in both venues.
I’m still waiting to quote on a Maldivian wedding, but I have every faith that the call will come. Won’t it?!
A huge thank you for every bit of support this year. From all my flower fairies that have helped create the prettiness, each one of our 92 wonderful couples, and every one that has liked or commented on Facebook, Instagram, email or read the blog.
We hope that you all had a perfect 2014, and 2015 is even more magical.
x Steph
Happy Christmas…
…from all of us at fairy towers.
May your Christmas be full of gifts, giggles, gin and good company.
Much love x Steph
Wedding Flowers & Accessories
I’ve always loved this magazine. And for florists, it is extra special when you are featured – either in the Flower Notebook, wedding advice or Real Weddings.
We have been lucky enough to appear in all of these section, but it’s Real Weddings where you will find our fleurs, in the latest November/December edition.
I can’t wait to feature the whole wedding (as it was super special) on the blog very soon, but I’m glad that Wedding Flowers magazine thought it was pretty too.
x Steph
Wedding Flowers & Accessories
We loved making this table plan for Rachel and Alex!
Rachel and Alex at Northbrook Park. It was oh so pretty.
Love is in the air.
Love is still in the air.
Photographer: Marianne Taylor Photography
Venue: Northbrook Park
82 flowered. Nine to go.
What a year it’s been at fairy towers. I didn’t realise that we will have broken the 90 wedding mark by the time Christmas arrives this year.
So that’s why I haven’t had time to write many blog posts of late! Sorry.
2014 has passed by in a delightful daze of gorgeous brides (and grooms), super stunning venues, and thousands upon thousands of beautiful blooms.
As weddings begin to calm a little, we are starting to work on our brand spanking new website. It’s about time I know. We have after all, been talking about it for the last two years. I promise, good things come to those who wait…
And so on to my little plea.
If you’re reading this, and we have already flowered your wedding, or you are one of the amazing photographers we have worked with, then it would be wonderful if you could get in touch with some of your lovely photos for us to feature, both here on the blog, and on the new site.
It would be ace. And we will make you all a badge. And a hat.
x Steph
Photo: Marianne Taylor
Katie & Billy
The ever so lovely Katie and Billy married earlier this year at one of my favourite venues ever – Hampton Court House. And what a delightfully wonderful wedding it was.
Flower crowns, sequins, peonies, a beautiful bride, a dapper groom and wonderful weather. It gets no better.
Oh and add to that little list, a host of amazing suppliers. The fab Cam and Pen at Mckinley-Rodgers were in charge of the delicious photos. A big thank you for letting me share them on my blog.
The yummy Kaz Fernando helped make the blushing bride look extra beautiful, Surrey Brides dressed Katie, and one of our favourite caterers, Acclaim, fed and watered all the guests.
Katie and Billy had strong ideas of what they wanted their day (and their flowers) to look like, and we were lucky enough to get the job of making it all come to life, with the help of some super stunning David Austin roses and the odd peony or two!
A huge thank you to Katie and Billy for choosing us to make your wedding extra pretty. We loved every minute.
x Steph
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Photographer: McKinley-Rodgers Photography
Venue: Hampton Court House
Make up: Kaz Fernando
Catering: Acclaim
Dress: Surrey Brides
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Louisa & Rich
This super stunning couple got married towards the end of last year, but I realised yesterday that I had never shared Eddie Judd Photography’s perfectly pretty pictures.
Louisa and Rich married at St Raphael’s Church in Kingston, before heading to The Wharf in Teddington, with a boat as their chariot!
Louisa found us through her good friend Sarah, whose wedding we had flowered in Eastbourne a few months earlier. We love the power of recommendations.
Thanks Louisa and Rich for choosing us to fill your day with all things pastel and pretty, and thanks to Eddie for sharing the photos with us, we reckon you captured the day perfectly.
x Steph
“I just wanted to say such a big thank you for the most beautiful flowers you could have ever given us for the wedding! The bouquets were stunning and everyone said so too. I could not have loved my bouquet any more…! I am attempting to dry it out as I don’t want to throw it away. It was such a lovely surprise too when we arrived at The Wharf and the flowers looked so picture perfect pretty and way past expectations of how we imagined it to look. You really made the extra effort with the finishing touches and we couldn’t have been happier with everything. All day people were praising the flowers so I can not thank you and Fairy Nuff flowers enough! x” – Louisa and Rich
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Photographer: Eddie Judd Photography
Venue: The Wharf, Teddington
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Emilia & Adam at Ham Polo Club
Emilia and Adam are one of the cutest couples going.
They married at the end of May, and what a day it was.
We got to decorate the church with wild ivy, roses, and buckets of gypsophila. Ham Polo Club got prettied up with bundles of jars that Emilia, and her family and friends, had patiently decorated with lace, and we got to fill with deliciously scented petals… and then there were the blowsy bridal blooms.
I got to use a whole host of my favourite flowers too – peonies, sweet peas, stocks, and garden roses in a perfect pastel palette.
The gorgeous photos of the day were taken by Amy B Photography – and oh how I love them. Thank you for letting me feature them on my blog Amy.
And a huge thank you to Emilia and Adam for being super sweet, and for choosing us to flower your terribly lovely wedding. We had the most fun.
x Steph
“I just wanted to write a short note to say thank you so much for the truly amazing work in creating our beautiful, stunning, glorious wedding blooms!! I honestly can’t thank you enough. Everyone was just completely in love with the flowers. You are a genius. Honestly! Just. Amazing. 🙂 Thank you so much, really, your gorgeous work just made our day more beautiful than we could’ve imagined. xx” – Emilia and Adam
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Photographer: Amy B Photography
Venue: Ham Polo Club
Hair and make up: Lucy St John
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Where has the last month gone?
Since my last blog post a month ago (that’s really rubbish of me), we have flowered 14 gorgeous weddings and been surrounded by pretty petals and beautiful brides – for this year, for next year and for 2016. There are some very, very organised ladies out there!
It’s also been a cracking month for fairy nuff flowers on Facebook, where we now have over 1000 likes, and on Instagram, where we currently have 5340 followers. It still amazes me. But I love it so.
I have to chase up all the lovely photographers that we have worked with for proper pictures, but here are a few of our flowery creations over the last four weeks… just in case you don’t follow us on Instagram or Facebook.
Hope you have all had a lovely month. Promise I won’t stay away as long again. Promise.
x Steph
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- Bridesmaid’s blooms
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- One of my favourites. Coral Charm peonies have been making us smile. Lots!
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- Bridal bouquet x
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- Flowery hearts have been silly popular this month.
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- Bridal fleurs x
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- Bridesmaid blooms. Don’t be afraid of colour!
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- Table plan flowers.
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- Bridal bouquet x
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- The most delicious of leftovers.
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- I bought an old swan and filled it with flowers. The deer was happy.
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- Perfect peonies.
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- Pretty petals.
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- Bridal bouquet x
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- Everything is all white.
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- White O’Hara roses = the most amazing smell ever.
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- Cute buttonholes.
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- Urns of pastel pretty things at Pembroke Lodge.
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- Faye & Josh x
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- Utterly loving these colours.
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- All packed up, ready to be admired!
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- David Austin roses, Bombastic spray roses and jasmine. Heavenly.
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- Bridal flowers x
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- Crates of fleurs.
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- Lush lupins.
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- Workshop filling up.
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- I heart you.
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- I still heart you.
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- Bridal flowers x
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- Bridal bouquet x
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- Northbrook Park looking luscious.
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- More peonies.
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- More O’Hara roses.
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- Bridesmaid blooms.
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- Stoke Place table flowers.
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- Jasmine and peony filled bridal flowers.
Becca & Matt at Northbrook Park
Another busy (and very pretty) weekend of weddings has just been and gone. Including a lovely one at Northbrook Park.
Whilst setting up, my mind wandered to Becca and Matt’s wedding which took place at the same venue last September, and I realised that I’d never shared their gorgeous pictures, taken by Graham Nixon.
I loved every minute of working with Becca. We met up for lots of chat and even visited flower market together, so I really got to know what she did, and didn’t like!
Thanks again Graham for sending the photos over. We do love to see the real life wedding pictures, and not just my Instagram snaps!
Oh, and where do I start with that cake?! I loved flowering it, and meeting you Alison!
Lots of love to the gorgeous couple. It was a beautiful day and I loved being a tiny part of it.
xx Steph
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Hi Steph
Words don’t really cover it but I will give it a go – thank you SO much for the most beautifully perfect jaw droppingly gorgeous flowers that you magicked up for our wedding day! Everything about them was perfect – I was very composed on the morning of the wedding until you arrived with the flowers! It then became very real and I starting shaking!
The flowers really brought everything together – you are so very clever and talented to transform an occasion with your beautiful flower combinations and styling/arranging!
So many people commented on them – all my bridesmaids, the mums and sisters in laws agreed that they were not only the best wedding flowers that they had ever seen, but the best flowers they have ever seen. Anywhere. Ever – now that is quite an achievement!
Thank you for being so wonderful and understanding my aversion to green and precisely picking the shades of pink and coral I had in my head without me ever actually being able to clearly pin point it!
Perfect has been used a lot, but really it was flower perfection – you truly are a fairy!
Thanks so much
Loads of love
Becca xx (and Matt – he loved them too!)
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Photographer ❤ Graham Nixon
Venue ❤ Northbrook Park
Cake ❤ Alison at AJS Cakes
Dress ❤ Intuzuri
