Shabby chic and summer blooms...a happy marriage.

Bouquets with a picked from the field look...delphiniums were an amazing blue! Flowers for a pretty vintage summer wedding.

My lovely assistant, Jane and I used tea cups and jam jars trimmed with twine to help create a relaxed summer fete styling, using beautiful seasonal blooms with a palette of hot pinks, soft lilacs, purples and blues and lots of creamy summer whites. Ammi is one of my favourite just now.

So love this combination of summer colours... makes me happy and made our bride cry... 

Ice cream lime tea cups with pops of hot pink Gerberas to make it sing.

All photography copyright GILL STEWART.

Creative 'Flowerscape' at PORTAVADIE MARINA

Water inspired floral-scape, perfect for the Marina's contempory clean lines and nautical feel.

Created using a glass tank, ice gel redolent of bubbling water. Shells sunk to suggest movement... ripples of the ebb and flow of the tide. Finished with pops of icy white Hydrangeas suspended as if floating at sea level.

Decided to place small still lifes using flowers, shells and sand under glass to help create an organic feel, just  as you would find in specimen jars. It helps focus the eye and encourages you to study the design...a story under glass.

A huge sweetie jar filled with tiny shells , a fabulous Australian shell and an amazing green Hydrangea tinged with a hint of raspberry.....fun and quirky !

A table decoration by Robbie , one of the wedding team at Portavadie. Robbie has used an interesting storm lantern and filled it with local pebbles and a church candle . He has finished it off with some netting  and locally gathered ferns.

All photographs are copyright Gill Stewart 2012