Michelle and Dax were on of the most memorable weddings that I worked on. They were both from Canada and had chosen to tie the knot in Killarney Co Kerry. The venues they chose for their ceremony and reception were, St Mary’s Cathedral and Cahernane house in Killarney. Michelle was very clear of what flowers she wanted from the start. Lily of the Valley!

Michelle’s bouquet was a hand-tied posy fill of just lily of the valley with a trimming of dark green leaves.

For Dax, we gave him a single sprig of Lily of the Valley

The six bridesmaids, wore emerald green dresses and carried smaller versions of Michelle’s bouquet.

For the church flowers, we used a combination of white hydrangeas, veronica, bells of Ireland, avalanche roses, amaranthus and lisianthus.

We continues with the same combination of flowers for the centrepieces at the reception only we added in a bit of the Lily of the Valley.

Caitriona and Allen, were married in August 2012. The ceremony was held in St James’s Church in Killorglin with the reception afterwards at the beautiful Dunloe Castle Hotel near the Gap of Dunloe in Co Kerry. Catriona came to me with the idea of having wild flowers incorporating her bridesmaids colours which were red.

Photography by Riona MacMonagle

The colours we decided on were rustic burnt oranges, yellow, brown, ivory and reds

The flowers we used were, hypericum berries, montbretia, solidage, dahlias, celosia and some grasses. The style of bouquet was a simple loosely  hand tied bouquet.

Allen’s boutonniere was a simple spray including some of the flowers that were in Catriona’s bouquet.

The arrangements in the church were also wild/garden flowers including hydrangeas and a few dentrobuim orchids. The altar arrangement was then reused at the reception on the top table.

Photography by Riona MacMonagle

Adrienne & Daniel were married in Killarney in July. They live in New york but decide to get married in Ireland as Daniel is From Dublin. They chose  Fossa Church for the ceremony and the reception was held at the Beautiful Aghadoe Heights hotel. The colour scheme was canary yellow and midnight blue. the  Bridesmaids wore Canary Yellow and the Men wore Midnight blue suits.

Adrienne wanted to use seasonal flowers especially Dahlias. So we used a mixture of white and yellow Dahlias and freesia for all the bouquets, having more yellow in the bridal bouquet than the bridesmaids.

The groom wore a single yellow Dahlia and the Best men white.

We carried the Dahlia theme throughout all the church flowers using white Dahlias, freesia and roses.For the table centrepieces we used various cube and bulb vases and filled them with seasonal flowers such as Dahlia, freesia, roses and white hydrangea.