2022 Recap
2022, a bumper year for weddings!!!
Phew, what a year it’s been! If I had to describe our year I couldn’t settle on one word if I tried! Unprecedented, marvellous, remarkable, busy, rewarding and ever so slightly tiring! 2022 was certainly a year of catch-ups where the wedding industry is concerned. With so many couples playing catch up after the pandemic, and an explosion of new brides and grooms who wanted to tie the knot after desperately waiting for everything to open up so they could book their favourite venue, photographer and of course floral designers!
We have bounced from wedding to wedding with little time to come up for air and we have adored every second!
Our wedding season kicked off in Early February, at local venue Ashfield House with an elegant wedding with seasonal white florals and natural textural bouquets and centrepieces. Then the whirlwind ensued. With weddings at some of our favourite venues that are scattered across the northern counties of the UK. Beeston Manor, Colshaw Hall, Alberts Standish, Eaves Hall, Merrydale Manor, Springkell, Askham Hall, Stock Farm and Knowsley Hall to name a small few! With each wedding using beautiful fresh flowers, candlelight in abundance and bespoke designs to suit each of our couples.
One wedding flower trend that was a constant was timeless whites and sage colour palettes, and this doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, as we head speedily towards 2023. As I write this today, just a couple of days before Christmas we found ourselves back at Ashfield House with a beautiful wintery white wedding florals with roses, thistles, tulips, and other complimenting seasonal blooms with lashings of fresh eucalyptus scattered throughout. Simply beautiful and wonderfully festive!
We did have those brides who did want to inject colour into their big day with berrylicious raspberry, corals, blues, oranges and yellows which allowed us to us a wider variety of florals, which we always relish working with! If I had to name my personal favourite flower for weddings I would most certainly struggle, I love so many of them and I’m As I write this today, just a couple of days before Christmas we found ourselves back at Ashfield House with a beautiful wintery white wedding florals with roses, thistles, tulips, and other complimenting seasonal blooms with lashings of fresh eucalyptus scattered throughout.
My personal highlight came along in October when we were nominated for a prestigious award for ‘Best wedding Florist of the Year ‘with the British Florist Association (the industry body for Florists across the UK. We made it to the finals, thanks to our client’s votes and testimonials and on assessment by the Judging panel. We attended Fleurex for the Gala Evening and Awards ceremony on 14th October and were beyond thrilled to be named a Runner up, beating celebrity florists who we have looked up to and admired for years! This has wet my whistle for 2023 and I’m determined that we will bring that trophy and accolade home for my fabulous team of talented florists and our future Brides and grooms!
So, let’s raise a glass and celebrate what has past and what is yet to come!
