WEDDINGS.
We believe that creating weddings with our clients is much more than the flowers we design. It is about helping to set the scene, create atmosphere, and ultimately put a beautiful finishing touch on the true core of a wedding: a place you love, filled with people you love, to celebrate the two of you in love.
This sentiment is shown in all the following wonderful imagery, taken by many talented photographers, that are now a treasured collection of memories for all involved.
We are proudly a preferred supplier at St.JOHN Smithfield & St. JOHN Bread & Wine
How we work.
INITIAL CONSULTATION
We always start with an initial meeting, where we discuss everything from scheduling to style preferences, colour palettes, flower preferences, design styles and budget. It’s where we get a real understanding of how you want your wedding to feel in your venue.
PRESENTATION
From here we spend a couple of weeks designing you a complementary, bespoke presentation, detailing custom colour palettes, suggested seasonal flowers, individual design suggestions and rough idea of budget allocation. Our work is an amalgamation of our expert design skills, paired with your own unique taste. Designing wedding flowers should always be a joyous, collaborative experience and our job is to take the stress out of wedding planning, and really let you enjoy the process by ensuring that we take care of everything, from liaising with venues about access timings, to full event set up and derig.
FEEDBACK STAGE
Once you have read through the presentation, we book in a feedback session, where you tell us what you think. From here we assess and allocate budget, and tweak colour palettes and design ideas if needed. Everything is very malleable at this stage, and if any areas need re-working or budget re-assessing, we are here to help. Once you are happy with everything, we then move on to invoicing and book in any site visits if required, which are free of charge.
Rosa & Bobby
I think it’s safe to say that Rosa and Bobby won the hearts of all involved in the production of their wedding. Simply put, they were a dream to work with.
We originally planned a winter wedding; flowers in antique stoneware, hops and holly grown on their parents farm and a palette of deep reds accented and lifted with touches of pinks and whites. Unfortunately it was the tail end of 2021 and the dreaded C word came into full force amongst most Londoners, so the wedding was postponed to June 2022.
And oh how glorious it was! We settled on soft summery colours, with punches of deeper tones to elevate the palette. Choosing from a list of whites, soft and deep pinks, peaches, oranges, mustard yellows and toffees with the occasional accents of powdered blue and burgundy from the boys at Bloomfield: all curated around gorgeous British foliage from GB at the market.
The Charter House & St. JOHN Smithfield
Rachel & Charlie
Our dear Ratty and Charlie. Two deeply kind, generous and creative souls that we had the utter pleasure of working with, twice!
The first took place in London 2020; Chelsea Town Hall followed by an intimate lunch at the Thomas Cubitt Pub in Belgravia. The brief: bright and summery with an undercurrent of warm soft tones paired alongside tapered beeswax candles that give off the subtlest, sweetest smell and glow; and quite frankly got me hooked on using them for wedding ever since!
Chelsea Town Hall & Thomas Cubitt Pub
“Thank you thank you thank you for such incredible wedding flowers. I honestly haven’t seen flowers more beautiful and they were a big part in making the day so special. As someone who loves flowers and coming from a very flower-centric family, they were really important to me and you went above and beyond. The whole process with you was wonderful - easy, organised, creative, thoughtful and fun - you’re the best!”
— Rachel & Charlie
“If you're looking for a show-stopping florist with a wild edge, hire Francesca Goldstone. She's a wonderful human with bucket loads of talent, tenacity and creativity. She entirely transformed our wedding venue, from theatre to enchanted forest – it was everything we could have hoped for and more. Thank you for everything. We and our guests were blown away by your work. We know many more will be, too.”
— Annie & Maff, Wilton’s Music Hall
“We used Goldstones Flowers for our wedding and I can’t recommend enough!! Francesca was absolutely amazing, she made the vision in my head a reality, she was so great to work with - we really tested her with all our last minute COVID changes and she went above and beyond to make everything perfect. Everybody commented on how beautiful the flowers were. I would 100% recommend!”
— Hannah & Richard, Owl Pen Manor
“We loved working with Goldstones Flowers - Francesca was so helpful from the start, sharing vision boards and ideas. On the day - I did not have to worry one bit about the flowers arriving at the relevant places - it all went off without a hitch!”
— Hanna & Chris, St. JOHN Bread & Wine
"I have already recommended Francesca to friends, who have used her and loved her, but I just wanted to publicly reiterate how grateful we are to Francesca. She designed the flowers for three events for us: a large winter wedding, a small January wedding and then a large party in June. We will always go back to her. Her vision was brilliant, but she was willing to incorporate hops and holly from the garden in winter and my grandmother's wisteria in the summer. She constantly went above and beyond - delivering flowers to my door, arches to my mother's garden, and pulling everything together on the day, even when our venue only gave us a couple of hours. My wedding(s) were an inevitable source of stress, but the flowers were just never even on my radar - Francesca is as organised as she is artistic. Need to have another wedding soon..."
— Rosa & Bobby, The Charter House & St. JOHN