This innovative florist is based in the quiet North Dorset town of Stalbridge, and specialises in creating genteel English cottage garden flower arrangements, liberally mixed with herbs, plants and leaves gleaned from the bountiful surrounding countryside - resulting in a true taste, sight and smell of pastoral England!
Sourcing her English flowers from selected growers in the local area, experienced and well-qualified florist Oonagh Langrishe presents her unique take on wedding bouquets, arrangements and decorations. She provides a delivery and setup service for weddings far and wide, aspiring to share her fierce passion for the natural bounty of the English countryside across the region.
Oonagh Langrishe is the floral mastermind behind The English Florist. With a background in event management for weddings, formal training in art and garden design, your wedding flowers are in safe hands. With so many of the flowers we daily see in supermarkets and garage forecourts being shipped en masse from greenhouse-growing farms on the continent and beyond, Oonagh is passionate about using and re-popularising simple English wildflowers and plants in her delectable arrangements.
The English Florist offers a fantastic blend of traditional English garden flowers and plants with the exotic types that you would normally expect with classic wedding bouquets. Oonagh has a discerning eye for colour schemes and themes, which you will discover during your initial consultation with her, and this ability will develop highly personal and complementary arrangements.
Most English flowers, from white umbelliferous sprays to roses, thistles, daisies and peonies, are sourced from local growers.
Naturally, the more exotic types of wedding bouquet flower like lilies, crocosmia, lisianthus and Chinese lanterns also feature.
Oonagh is a deft hand at adding lovely green elements to her arrangements, juxtaposing naturally-occurring standards of the English countryside such as cow-parsley and leaves from hazel or beech trees with other common plants like ivy, barley, poppy and poppy-seed capsules, ferns etc. In Autumn, to all this add seasonal berries such as traditional rosehips and blackberries.
The English Florist creates and delivers bouquets, church and ceremony floral pedestals, lovely table centrepieces along with decorative items such as lanterns and jugs with garden flowers.
Oonagh offers delivery of your wedding flowers across the UK!
Get in touch with The English Florist in order to arrange a free consultation. Brides and grooms can collate their scrapbook of ideas and take this along for inspiration. Even if you don't have a theme, Oonagh, drawing on her years of event management and floristry experience, will surely help you come up with one.
Get chatting with Oonagh about your wedding flowers by activating the contact details at the bottom of this listing.
AddressWe just wanted to thank you so much for doing all of our flowers for our wedding. They made our wedding complete and gave it touch it needed to give it that country feel. The flower arrangements, bouquets and button holes were just what we were hoping for. Everyone at our wedding commented on how lovely the bouquets were and the flowers at the venue were a lovely surprise. Thank you also for being so flexible with the change in circumstances when we contacted you a month before the wedding to change a couple of things.
Thank you so much Oonagh for all of the hard work you put in for mine and Edd's wedding! The flowers were a really important part of the day to us, you listened to exactly what we wanted, came up with some stunning ideas for the decorations and truly brought our dream to life!! We loved everything, especially the bouquets, hair flowers and the hanging flower arrangements on the ceiling of the mill in line with the afternoon tea tables!!
Flowers, flowers, flowers! A big part of our wedding was based around flowers. All brightly coloured and quirky rather than just one or two colours. We didn't want matching table centre pieces, but lots of different vases filled with colour. Oonagh created a stunning atmosphere for our marquee wedding reception, with table centres, a gorgeous display around our cake and seating plan and also our card box. My bouquet was beautiful and the 5 slightly different button holes were exactly what I had imagined. You dealt with my last minute changes and requests with ease. Anyone getting married should ask Oonagh to do their flowers. She is so amazing at what she does. Thank you lovely xxx