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Sara Reeve www.sarareeve.com  was taking pictures for Charley and Kevin’s wedding recently and she very generously let us have a look at some shots of the flowers - do take time to visit her website too

we loved being a part of the day

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every now and then we have some seriously big news and this weekend is the time, have a look at this picture

and now have a look at this picture

now after a lot of very late nights with seamstress Sue and a ,lot of serious input from her engineer husband Paul we now have created our own bespoke draping for the curtains in the ballroom at Buxted park

- bespoke, stylish and affordable with tie backs to match the chair sashes and a choice of fairy light colours plus discounts for customers who have booked their chair covers and table centrepieces with us - momentous news!

( and there’s more Orangery news too………………..)

come back soon!

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this image supplied generously by Danni Beach www.dannibeachphotography.com

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we saw Sarah recently at the hotel and no doubt she will be back many times over the year

here is a little taster of the day and if you follow the link to her blog you can see more and also how Sarah has captured the celebration and also so many of the lovely features of the house and grounds

Sarah has been a very generous provider of pictures to us over the years which we really do appreciate

link to Sarah’s website

http://www.critchlowphotography.co.uk

straight to the blog with more gorgeous shots

http://blog.critchlowphotography.co.uk/samantha-adrian-buxted-park-hotel/

Serena gerberas and avalanche roses

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……….. we nipped off to lovely Upwaltham Barns and Tim Simpson supplied these great shots of some of our new props - great stuff thanks Tim

www.timsimpsonphotography.co.uk

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we were booked at pelham house with our vintage limewashed chiavari chairs which looked gorgeous in the chamber room and our new crystal globe candelabra centrepieces were on show at buxted park

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……our new chair covers arrived - specially made for venues with round backed chairs like the lovely Felbridge Hotel, the Holiday Inn and the Thistle hotel in Brighton

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Anyone coming to the blog over the last month must have
thought  ‘ there’s not much going on at
pollen HQ?!’

Well to be honest, it’s been our busiest first quarter of
the year since records began in year  2000  and so many brides got lucky with the unseasonal
warm weather and the blog got left on the to-do list which became the to-didn’t
list until now so………..

Not only that but Sarah had matched the sugar flowers to the
real flowers donal had designed for the bride which were totally spot on

Now at pollen we know about special day planning and this
looked like serious cake work to us and we have seen a lot of designer cakes .

After Sarah had gone I took a picture too

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these gorgeous pictures came through the post and I scanned them into the computer. now as you can see there is a bit of a grainy finish to my uploading efforts - sorry Claire - but we loved the pictures and being part of the special day they have to be published on the blog

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on my never ending quest to eat cake - believe me at Pollen towers we all love cake!

on behalf of all, I have been resuming my position of official taste tester for future brides and grooms and any couples  planning a very special civil partnership celebration

now at this point i need to say this is not a difficult or onerous job - it basically involves me hoovering up cake samples at wedding fairs, going uuuuuuuuum aaaaaaaaaaaaah and then saying ‘ don’t suppose i could try another bit?’

my latest baking recruit has actually been on the scene for a long time and I am embarrassed to say that Sarah did point this out to me at Buxted Park wedding fair. we have been meeting there for so many years and i have been (to be honest) snarfing down huge quantities of her cake and never a mention on the blog!

After a very busy day meeting prospective customers, a box arrived on the pollen towers stand which contained the most delicious cake

I am talking historically delicious and there was so much of it we shared it out at the business park where we are based and the rest of the week I was constantly approached by electricians, carpenters, upholsterers, seamstresses and builders with

‘cor that cake was bl****dy delicious!’

the cakes not only look amazing they taste it too, so here is a long over due link to Sarah’s website here at

www.elegantcakes.co.uk

Sarah is going to be at Ashdown park wedding fair on Sunday 11th March 2012 so if you fancy sampling some for yourself get along there and tell her Dex sent you - try the 3 layered Victoria sponge…….

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