THESE DATES WERE FOR 2017, WE ARE NOT HOLDING ANY WORKSHOPS IN 2018 – SORRY
Join Passion for Flowers on one of our Christmas wreath making workshops. We will teach you how to make your own festive wreath to decorate your door for the festive period. Have fun in a small group with plenty of help. All tools, materials and equipment will be included as well as a glass of festive fizz and mince pies.
WHEN?
No dates for 2018.
WHERE?
The wreath making workshops will be held in Passion for Flowers consultation room. Balsall Common, CV7 7RE.
WHAT?
Join Passion for Flowers on one of our Christmas wreath making workshops. We will teach you how to make your own festive wreath to decorate your door for the festive period. Have fun in a small group with plenty of help. All tools, materials and equipment will be included as well as a glass of festive fizz and mince pies.
PRICE?
£60 per person inclusive of all materials
HOW TO BOOK?
Email karen@passionforflowers.net confirming how many places you would like to book and which workshop you would like to attend.
TOO BUSY TO ATTEND?
Passion for Flowers will also create wreaths to order, sizes and styles can vary to suit your door, prices start from £40 upwards. Email karen@passionforflowers.net to place your order, collection from Balsall Common before Christmas.
Here at Passion for Flowers we were delighted to hear that we had been selected for the judging panel in the florist category for The National Wedding Awards 2018. After a couple of years winning The Best Wedding Florist in The West Midlands and winning Best Wedding Florist in the country in 2015 we know how tough the competition is for these awards and it is a privilege to have been chosen to sit on the judging panel in 2018.
Here at Passion for Flowers we have a 6’6″ birch wedding ceremony arch available for hire. For a rustic wedding in a barn, tipi or outdoors this would make a beautiful backdrop as you tie the knot. Please get in touch if you would like to include our birch arch in your wedding ceremony decorations. POA.
BIRCH WEDDING CEREMONY ARCH
Our 6’6 birch arch is perfect for rustic style weddings. The birch structure can be hired ‘naked’ or dressed with flowers. We think it looks stunning with white material draped over the birch and a floral touch to the corners. Go all out and use our birch stumps and candles around the base for a dreamy candle lit ceremony.
Here at Passion for Flowers we now have a 2m moongate round ceremony arch available for hire. Please get in touch if you would like to include this in your wedding ceremony floral decorations. POA.
MOONGATE / ROUND WEDDING ARCH FOR CEREMONY BACKDROPS
Our circular arch or moongate makes a gorgeous backdrop. The full circle can be decorated with foliage and flowers, with a 2m diameter this makes a real statement. The moongate can be used as a backdrop for your wedding ceremony, a backdrop to your top table, dessert table or used behind the bar or statement area at your venue.
Here at Passion for Flowers we love working with couples getting married at Shustoke Farm Barns, the venue suits natural organic florals with a rustic touch. See some of our favourite touches and decorations from our weddings at Shustoke below.
SHUSTOKE FARM BARNS ENTRANCE DECORATIONS
BRIDAL PARTY PHOTOS
HANGING FLORAL DECORATIONS IN THE BARN
DECORATION IDEAS FOR THE ENTRANCE TABLE AT SHUSTOKE FARM BARNS
CEREMONY FLOWERS
CENTREPIECE IDEAS FOR SHUSTOKE FARM BARNS
Photography credits and links to see these weddings in full:
Emily and Matt tied the knot at Iscoyd Park. Their wedding was oh so elegant yet understated, natural and perfect for the setting at Iscoyd Park. Their palette kept to the freshest greens, whites and greys we could source.
ISCOYD PARK WEDDING BY PASSION FOR FLOWERS
It is always a pleasure to create flowers at Iscoyd Park, the staff do all they can do make everyone feel at home and most welcome. From the gorgeous rooms to get ready in to the smallest detail everything is covered.
NATURAL WHITE AND GREEN BRIDAL BOUQUET
For Emily we creaed a natural bouquet with touches of grey brunia, eucalyptus leaves, lisianthus, softest hydrangea and roses.
SIMPLE ROSE BUTTON HOLES – WHITE AND GREEN
The button holes and corsages were natural tones of eucalyptus and spray roses for effortless style.
INDOOR WEDDING CEREMONY AT ISCOYD PARK
The indoor ceremony room at Iscoyd Park is a delightful room, full of light for an elegant day. The front of the house offers the perfect frame for confetti shots and laid back photos.
MARQUEE DECORATIONS
Flowers and decoration to the marquee continued the eleant natural look with tables being set with beautiful grey linen offset by the elegant foliage and flower filled rings with candlelight. Sometimes the simplest details create the most beautiful look and have great impact.
EXTRA DETAILS: FOLIAGE TO THE TABLE PLAN
Touches of foliage finish off the table plan to continue the look.
TOP TABLE AT ISCOYD PARK – LANTERNS, FOLIAGE AND ROSES
The long top table was laid with garlands of foliage with roses and lisianthus, the scent was amazing and the lanterns added an elegance to the look.
STATEMENT WEDDING CAKE FLOWERS – HANGING FEATURE
Every wedding needs a statement piece and we created a large hanging ring overfilled with foliage of different textures using the freshest ingredients available. Offset with roses and hanging baubles to create a centrepiece over the cake.
Karen and the team at Passion for Flowers regularly work at Iscoyd Park, if you have booked Iscoyd and are looking for a florist please get in touch, we’d love to hear about your wedding plans and how we could help.
Come along to a 1-2-1 flower course with Passion for Flowers. Her’s a taster of what you could make, the course can be completely tailored to you, your skill level and what you would like to learn.
Flower friends are great and as florists we enjoy working and learning together. Earlier in the year I was delighted to spend time with Alison from Mad Lilies and Janet from the Flower Room Belfast. Alison had kindly invited Sabine Darrall to join us for the day and work with us all to create bountiful and beautiful flowers in the stunning English countryside. I had long admired Sabine’s work but had never had the opportunity to spend time with her and learn from her. We started off with a relaxed evening together talking all things flowery and more besides!
All the flowers and foliage were beautifully conditioned ready for our flowery adventure.
TOP TABLE STYLING WITH HANGING FLOWERS ABOVE
Hanging flowers always hit the spot and a chandelier over a top table is just so lush with a mix of spring blooms. The table below was styled with runners, candlesticks, bottles and tea lights from our sister company theweddingofmydreams. Dreamy floral place settings lovingly tied with ribbon completed this romantic,spring look.
HANGING FLOWER INSTALLATION OVER TOP TABLE
We kept the look on the table light and airy so as not to distract from the star attraction the hanging flower installation. For a top table it is always lovely to have a great feature iin place for added impact when it comes to the speeches.
CEREMONY TABLE WITH FLOWER CANOPY OVER HEAD
For a ceremony table with a soft, romantic feel we worked together to create a flower canopy. This lush design was oozing with scented roses, tulips, ranunculi and masses of different foliages for texture.
An asymetric grouping of bottles, vases and votives is perfect for the table with a lush footed urn as the centrepiece. This look really allows your guests to see the individual blooms and appreciate the true beauty of the flowers.
CEREMONY ARCHES – PURPLE, LILAC AND RED
We love creating wild, relaxed florals and worked together to create this beautiful ceremony arch perfect for a country garden or rustic inspired wedding. The rich mix of purple, lilac and red were jewel tones and really made our hearts sing. The finishing touches of logs, lanterns and potting shed finds were just perfect to complete the look. Working together was a fun and heartwarming experience.
CEREMONY ARCHES – LILAC, PINK AND PEACH
For a more subdued look then lilac, pink an peach fit the bill, an abundance of scented lilac, soft and delicate helebroes, snapdragon, wax flower, viburnum berries, delicate scabious and the softest blush and peach roses made a great choice.
I certainly enjoyed our day and look forward to us flowering and inspiring each other in the coming months and years. Thank you Sabine for your warmth and openess, and to Alison for organising the day.
Tom and Jo or TOJ as they are known by friends and family celebrated with an amazing wedding at Hampton Manor at the beginning of the year. These images capture a beautiful day and their characters just perfectly. The couple chose Hampton Manor as their home for the day with a romantic, luxurious, cosy and warm look and feel to their wedding day with flowers in neutral colours white, creams, and some grey tones with soft blush.
BRIDAL BOUQUET
A romantic bridal bouqet with touches of Earl Grey roses and brunia suited the style of the day.
BRIDESMAIDS BOUQUETS
The bridesmaids carried smaller bouquets with touches of dusty miller and brunia, finished with the softest ribbon.
LADIES CORSAGES
A touch of berried eucalyptus added interest to the corsages for the ladies in keeping with the rustic, elegant feel of the day.
BUTTON HOLES
The boys looking dandy on the doorstep of the Manor before going over to the ceremony.
RUSTIC ELEGANT WEDDING CEREMONY
The calligraphy signs welcomed guests to the wedding with a posy of flowers and foliage from the day. Candles and trees created a romantic backdrop to the ceremony with soft underplanting of helebores for freshness.
CONFETTI
Scented delphinium petals created the confetti shot just outside the cermeony, always a moment to cherish.
MERCURY SILVER VASE CENTREPIECES
The mercury silver vases overfilled with the softest blooms looked elegant for the reception with hanging baubles and trees to frame the top table.The tables had quotes from favourites films to add a personal touch to the decor.
DETAILS
It is all in the detail and nothing had been forgotten to keep their guests warm and cosy as day turned to night and memories were made.
Tom and Jo were so wonderful to work with and we just loved their winter wedding at Hampton Manor, a most favourite venue of ours.
Hampton Manor is the most elegant of settings for a wedding and we always love the opportunity to dress Elizabeth’s Court. The spring Wedding Fair gave us the chance to show our tall bronze centrepieces. Thank you to all who visited and to Jonny Barratt for his amazing images.
TALL BRONZE WEDDING CENTREPIECE
A tall wedding centrepiece always has a WOW factor and these bronze stands look elegant on a table in the manor. Lush foliage and large Mejer roses in softest peach, ivory with spray roses add a touch of glam to the tall bronze arrangement. Add in posy vases, candlesticks and tealights to complete the look.
GROUPING OF BRONZE VASES FOR WEDDING CENTREPIECES
As a more relaxed look select a grouping of bronze vases with simple but stunning blooms, here roses mixed with scented jasmine worked a treat. Make sure to add in glass and bronze candlesticks for that extra touch.
TOP TABLE FLOWERS AT HAMPTON MANOR
The wooden butchers block can be used for a small top table. Here we added luxe bronze vases, bronze candlesticks and wooden tree tea lights for a rustic twist to the bronze look. The spring ranunculus are such natural beauties and one of our favourite flowers.
PASSION FOR FLOWERS STAND – ALL PROPS AVAILABLE TO HIRE
We have a new hire guide available to all. The guide shows how to use our props and features a wealth of looks. Our studio in Berkswell houses our props and we are happy to show you the collection when having a consultation. We also had to sneak in the recently published Rock My Wedding book featuring some of our flowers and bouquets as well as our props. Happy days…
WOODLAND SETTING – TREE STUMPS, LANTERNS, FERNS
Our display at the show included a rustic woodland setting with mix of tree stumps, an abundance of ferns and helebores, lanterns and cylinder vases. This display would make a wonderful setting for a ceremony, down the aisle or at the base of a table.
Iscoyd Park is a pleasure to work at for an elegant wedding. We were thrilled to create flowers for this epic 2 day wedding at Iscoyd Park for Asia and Jason.
BRIDAL BOUQUET
For an elegant wedding bouquet you just cant beat a lush trailing or cascading bouquet with delicious scented David Austin roses, cascading foliage,an opulent mix of textures all topped off with an elegant bridal gown and cathedral length veil.
BRIDESMAIDS FLOWERS
Elegant bridesmaids bouquets coordinated with the bridal bouquet, soft shaped hand tied bouquets with succulents and an abundance of bountiful blooms and texture. The cute flower girls carried posies with cafe au lait dahlia and roses finished with gold ribbon and flower crowns for the youngest. Not to forget an elegant wrist corsage for Mother of the Bride.
GROOM BUTTONHOLE
This wedding at Iscoyd Park oozed style and charm. I just love the groom’s button hole and cool moment captured by the flower wall backdrop.
WEDDING CEREMONY – ISCOYD PARK
This was day 2 of the wedding clebrations and Asia looked a dream as she walked down the aisle. Lush posies with English country garden flowers decorated the chairs for this gorgeous couple.
WEDDING CENTREPIECES – ISCOYD PARK
Iscoyd Park is the perfect setting for an elegant,romantic wedding with bags of style. Crystal glass centrepieces dripping with flowers, gold candle sticks, glasses and charger plates complemented the look.
TOP TABLE DECOR – ISCOYD PARK
The top table continued an elegant look but allowed all guests to see the radiant couple. Rococo style gold candlesticks and crystal vase arrangements bedecked with flowers oozed charm and elegance.
OUTDOOR SWING – ISCOYD PARK
The gardens at Iscoyd Park are a must for gorgeous informal shots, I love the swing decorated with a trail of flowers and foliage from the day. Happiness is a swing and a smile.
All weddings need a touch of whimsy and fun, this cool flower wall photo booth backdrop was enjoyed by guests all through the day. A moss backing with a design of roses, succulents and trailing amaranthus was also the romantic backdrop for the happy couple .A labour of love to create and a WOW factor for all the guests.
Hampton Manor is our closest venue, just a stone’s throw from our studio in Berswell and we always love a Hampton Manor wedding.
CREAM ROSE BRIDAL BOUQUET – ELEGANT WEDDING FLOWERS
Cream rose bridal bouquets epitomise an elegant bride and with avalanche roses and touches of delicate astilbe and touches of grey dusty miller they add a little twist to the day.
BRIDESMAIDS BOUQUETS IN CRYSTAL VASES – ELEGANT WEDDING FLOWERS
A great idea for a gift for bridesmaids is to present their bouquets in beautiful crystal vases finished with a small photo frame with a photo of the bride with their besties. A lovely keepsake from the wedding day.
CREAM ROSE BUTTON HOLES ON SILVER TRAYS
Elegant cream rose button holes look good presented on silver trays for the boys to hand out.
ELEGANT CEREMONY FLOWERS AT HAMPTON MANOR
An all white and cream display for the ceremony is always fresh and elegant.
Last week we ran our first wedding flowers workshops here at Passion for Flowers in our new studio at Home Farm in Warwickshire.
WHAT THE DAY INVOLVED
Karen demonstrated how to make a number of rustic country style centrepieces, including milk churns, jugs, mini crates and a grouping on a tree slice. She spoke about which flowers work well together and the techniques needed to make the different types of centrepieces.
In the afternoon all attendees made a place setting and crate centrepiece to take away with them.They also worked as a team to create a top table design, table plan and asked many questions about their own weddings and how they would go about creating various florals.
A FEW PHOTOS FROM THE DAY
OUR WORKSHOP:
THE FLOWERS:
KAREN DEMONSTRATING:
GETTING STUCK IN
THE FINISHED RESULTS
If you are interested in attending one of our wedding flowers workshops or wedding florist courses send us an email to register your interest and we’ll let you know about future workshop dates. Email karen@passionforflowers.net
At Passion for Flowers we have an array of different wedding props to hire. We have been collecting props for years to make our weddings stand out. We have built up a large collection of vases, urns, candle holders, candelabra, signs, large scale props such as wooden carts, ladders, arches and crates. Up until now these props have only been available to if you are using Passion for Flowers floral design service, however we are now opening them up to everyone.
BROWSE OUR PROP HIRE BROCHURE BELOW
Below is our prop hire brochure, why not open it up and see if anything takes your fancy. We suggest viewing in full screen to see the props more clearly.
At the moment props have to be collected and returned to our workshop in Berkswell, Warwickshire.
To place your order please send an email to karen@passionforflowers.net using the subject
‘Prop Hire Order’ followed by your name and date of your wedding.
Within the email list the items and quantity you would like with the exact name and page number found in the hire guide.
Sometimes in life you meet someone who inspires you and whom you love working with. I met with Charlotte O’Shea quite by chance and have enjoyed working with her ever since those early days. Never did I expect that I would travel the country with the Rock My Wedding team and create the florals for their stunning book. This past year has been a milestone in our floral journey and I feel so honoured to have my work featured in a book. When Charlotte first approached us at the concept stage we just knew we had to be involved and put our heart and soul into this project.
As Charlotte so beautifully put it “Karen Morgan from Passion for Flowers followed us halfway around the country with her magnificent blooms and ability to whip up a floral storm in an unprecedented short amount of time. I swear she is actually ‘Mary Poppins’ in disguise. Her van plays host to a seemingly limitless supply of trinkets and decorative pieces from her daughter Gemma’s wedding decor store – The Wedding of My Dreams”
WHO SHOULD BUY THE BOOK
The book is an inspiring read, a great gift for newly engaged couples or for anyone wanting to add some last minute details to their wedding day. No wedding should be planned without it!
