2027 dates open · twelve weddings a season · enquiries answered within three working days
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Planning & grown flowers · Cairn Valley
We plan outdoor weddings and cut the flowers for them from our own meadow, four fields up the lane. One planner, one growing plan, one team on the morning — and only twelve weddings a year so none of it is rushed.
Who this suits
Barns, orchards, walled gardens, a field with a marquee and a generator. We are used to uneven ground, long tables, and flowers that have to survive being carried through a gate. If your day is indoors and formal we are probably the wrong studio, and we will say so in our first reply rather than three months in.
Everything we suggest is tied to what will actually be flowering in your month. That is the whole idea, and it is also the main thing couples want to talk through before they commit to a date.
Three collections
Each collection is a fixed shape of work, not a tier of quality — the same beds and the same hands are behind all three. Guide figures are a starting point for the quote we write after we have your numbers.
For couples starting with a date and not much else. We shortlist venues, hold the suppliers together and grow to your palette from the first sowing.
Guide: planning from £3,900 · flowers from £2,600
For couples who have the venue, the date and the plan, and want the flowers to be the grown, slightly wild kind rather than boxed and wired.
Guide: from £1,450
Registrar at eleven, lunch at one, home by dark. Small enough that we can usually take a booking inside eight weeks if the beds allow it.
Guide: from £620
What is cutting, month by month
This is the guide we send before anyone pays a deposit. If your heart is set on a stem that will not be in the field on your date, better to know now — there is nearly always a close relation that will be.
Tulips, narcissi, hellebore, ranunculus, blossom branches, honesty, first sweet rocket.
Cool, pale and papery. Branches do the structural work, so ceremony pieces read tall and open rather than dense.
Garden roses, sweet peas, cosmos, scabious, phlox, ammi, dahlias from late July.
The widest choice and the shortest vase life. Anything cut in a heatwave goes in at the last possible hour and gets watered twice.
Dahlias, chrysanthemums, amaranth, rudbeckia, hips, crab apple, seed heads and grasses.
Deeper and heavier, and the most forgiving to work with. Our own favourite month to grow for is late September.
Anemones and narcissi under glass, evergreen, dried grasses, strawflower, willow, ivy.
A short list, and honest about it: winter days lean on greenery, dried work and candlelight rather than open blooms.
Two things we cannot promise: an exact colour match to a screenshot, and a named variety on a named day. A hard frost in May or three weeks of rain in July changes what is worth cutting. What we do promise is the palette you chose, in the shape you chose, from the same beds.
How a wedding runs with us
Send the date, the place and a rough guest number. We reply within three working days with whether it is free, what we would suggest, and a figure. A date is held for fourteen days, unpaid, while you think.
Saturday mornings, late February to October. You see what is actually growing, we talk palette standing in it, and you leave with a jar of whatever is out. No charge, no obligation.
We write the sowing plan for your month and a quote broken down piece by piece, so you can add the urn or drop the bar flowers without unpicking everything else. A third confirms the booking.
Final numbers, table shapes, access times and the venue's clear-down rules. We walk your site if we have not already, and everything is settled in writing after that call.
Cut and conditioned in the two days before, installed on the morning, topped up before guests arrive. We come back the next day, take the vessels away and compost what has gone over.
Questions we are asked most
We can match its palette, scale and looseness, and we will tell you honestly which stems in it are out of season or imported. Most saved images are early-summer English gardens photographed at their peak — if your date is April or October we will suggest the nearest thing that will be standing in the field.
Every growing plan is sown with more than your wedding needs and with two or three substitutes chosen in advance for each key stem. If a bed fails outright we buy in from one of two growers in the valley, at our cost, not yours, and we tell you what changed before the day rather than after.
For The Whole Season, twelve to eighteen months, because the sowing has to happen. For Ceremony & Flowers, seven months is comfortable and four is usually possible. Two Of You can often be taken inside eight weeks. May, September and the first half of October go first.
We work across the Cairn Valley and roughly ninety minutes beyond it. Further than that and cut flowers spend too long in a van to arrive well, so we would rather recommend a grower closer to you than sell you a long journey.
Yes. Tell us at the six-week call and we will bring wrapping so guests can take arrangements home, or leave the vessels with you for a few days. Anything left with us is dried if it will dry and composted if it will not.
That is exactly what Ceremony & Flowers is. You keep your own timeline and suppliers, we handle the cutting plan, install and collection. We will still read your venue's access rules, because that is where flower-only bookings usually go wrong.
Access two to three hours before guests, somewhere shaded to condition stems, a tap, and confirmation of when we can return. Marquee weddings usually need the flooring down before we start. We confirm all of it with your venue directly once you have booked.
Check your date
One short form, one reply from the person who will actually be there on the morning. Within three working days you will have availability, a suggested collection and a figure.
Meadow walks run on Saturday mornings from late February. Ask for one in your notes and we will offer you two dates.