Peonies, Peonies, Peonies

It's wedding season and love is in the air. What is a great concern of the brides that will be walking down the aisle? Flowers. Whether it's the flowers that make up their bouquet, the flowers covering the pathway leading to their men-to-be, or the flowers arranged on the tables at the reception, couples spend serious time choosing the flowers that will adorn their ceremony of love. Many brides go for classically beautiful flowers, like roses, while some turn up their noses at the norm and choose crazy and fun arrangements. So which flower seems to be most popular at weddings, chosen across the board by almost all brides? Peonies. Because peonies are such loved and desired flowers for events, and especially for weddings, we decided we'd take the time to do some research and find out more

about the mystery behind what makes this flower so popular.

According to Greek myth, the peony flower is named after Paeon, who was the student of the Greek god of medicine and healing, Asclepius. As the story goes, the teacher became jealous of his student, so in order to save him from the wrath of Asclepius, Zeus changed Paeon into the peony flower.

Moving from myth to reality, peonies are native to Asia, southern Europe, and western North America. There are several different forms of peonies, but they all have at least five outer petals, called guard petals, and they come in just about every color but blue: ranges of pink, mauve, yellow, red, orange, white, and the list goes on.The peony has been used for centuries in ceremonies and has been prized by many cultures, even named the national emblem of China at one point. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I would say virtually all who behold this flower find it beautiful.

As a floral company, we are asked by several of our customers to include peonies in arrangements, especially weddings, and it is our delight to make gorgeous bouquets, etc. for the people who share our love for this flower. Below is a picture of a peony bouquet we made for one of our brides.

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Since Shug and I were traveling by ourselves for the last leg of our trip, we thought it would be fun to change up the typical "subject holds the camera" self portraits.  You know, the pictures where one person holds the camera with an outstretched arm and everyone always looks out of proportion and a little pained? 

We started taking pics of ourselves in all of the mirrors we came across in the museums we were able to visit in Paris.  The first pic in the Louvre proved to be inspirational, since the guy standing next to us did the same thing after we snapped out shot!

It was fun to get pictures of ourselves surrounded by the architecture and art of these amazing museums.  Some of the pics in the Centre Pompidou the mirrors were actually part of the installations!  Despite some of our somber faces, we were having so much fun when we took the pictures!

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John & Danielle Allen's Wedding at The Great Hall at Mains, Saturday 11th July 2009

Shirl & Malcolm delivered the Bridal Bouquets at around 8:30 on Saturday morning whilst the girls were having their hair done, Shirl did the bouquet holding lesson and introduced Danielle to all the lovely flowers in her bridal bouquet.

Then to The Great Hall at Mains to set up for the Ceremony, we used huge LSA Vases on stands swathed in Passion Flower tendrils and filled the vases with an abundance of gorgeous seasonal blooms including Hollyhocks, Delphiniums, Peonies & Hydrangeas.

The windwsills and occasional tables were decorated with small posies in glass vases and Birdcages filled with English Roses and Herbs

We placed a fresh flowing design with trails of Jasmine, Passion Flower & Patience Roses on the Registrars table

The Groom John wore a Buttonhole of Vendella Rose with Rolled Avalanche Petals and Fresh Lily of the Valley.

Jo & Rachel were the Flower Design Florists in attendance all day and they pinned on all the Boutonierres, took all of our photographs and looked after the change around of flowers following the ceremony.

The gorgeous Bridesmaids arrived, their bouquets included Amnesia, Metalina, Vendella, Patience & Avalanche Roses, Hydrangea and lovely White Peonies. The Bridesmaids had a few flowers in their hair

Danielle's Bridal Bouquet included English Garden Roses from David Austin, Ivory Peonies, Sweet Peas, Lily of the Valley, Chincherinchee Arabicum and soft gentle herbs and grasses

Danielle is just so beautiful and such a lovely person too, I've enjoyed the planning so much, danielle & John live in Belgium so we've had a few very long phone calls and lots of e-mails so it was great to meet all of the family last week

The Photographer for the day was one of our all time favourites Spencer Cartwright from Repartage Photography, we think he's a bit "edgy" great fun and seriously full of energy and all round great professional. (we also think he's quite cute too!) Spencer has just started a Blog which should be brilliant.

Ginormous congratulations to John & Danielle, what a glorious wedding day!

The caterers were Heathcotes another one of our favourites, everything is always totally spot on, immaculately clean and the tastes and flavours are beautiful.

As always The Great Hall at Mains looked superb and every credit to Chriss and her team she runs a tight ship there and you just feel immensley confident that everything will run smoothly and it always does.

We dressed the tables with a combination of designs, we used Verdi Gris Candelabras with Jasmine and Passion Flower and fresh Roses, Birdcages and on the top table and low design with candles in the centre.

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