BRIDE AND BLOOM...
Couple get all their wedding flowers from allotment
THEIR love was blooming – and so were the flowers on their prized allotment.
So when Tyler Morrison got married to his fiancee Aimee, there was only one place to go for the floral displays.
The couple managed to grow all the flowers they needed for their lavish wedding in the single allotment, saving themselves around £2,000 in the process.
They spent a year growing colourful blooms which adorned the venue, the tables, the heads of the flower girls and the buttonholes of the groomsmen’s suits. There were bouquets made of poppies, dahlias and sweetpeas, as well as plenty of wild flowers including blue cornflowers. A floral arch featured 20 types of bloom. Even the confetti was made of dried petals from their plot.
The 25-year- olds from Salisbury in Wiltshire, married on August 10 after almost nine years together. Mr Morrison, a carpenter, joked: ‘Up until we got the allotment, my only real experience of gardening was that I had killed a few house plants.
‘We’ve always had the ambition of being quite self- sustaining. Once we’d decided we’d grow flowers for the wedding, it was quite a steep learning curve.
‘We jumped in at the deep end. We had to prepare it all in the winter, so we spent quite a lot of time down there with freezing fingers. Then as it got closer to the wedding, with the heat of this summer, we were quite often down there watering the flowers at 7am. Sometimes we wouldn’t leave the allotment until 10pm. Minutes definitely turn to hours down there – but we enjoyed it. We weren’t sick of it.’
He and graphic designer Aimee, who wed at Dean Hill Farm in West Sussex, now plan to turn their love of flowers into a business.
‘My only experience was killing a few house plants’