The Flower Shop's Blog: Recent Events at The Grove Hotel...

Located in Hertfordshire, The Grove Hotel isn't called London’s Country Estate for nothing. If you haven’t yet been, I recommend to put it on the ‘to do’ list! As one of the country’s leading hotels, you can be sure its luxury meeting rooms are fit for any occasion and event. From a florist’s perspective, each room makes for an ideal canvas in which to design floral arrangements suitable for any given circumstance.

At The Flower Shop, we have the pleasure of catering floral arrangements for many private functions held at The Grove Hotel. We thrive on being diverse and flexible in order to create the right setting and atmosphere for each individual event. Alongside usual shop duties, over the last week we have created some lovely designs for corporate and birthday events, so if you’re sitting comfortably I would like to share them with you! :)

So first up we were in the beautiful Donneraile Room. As stated on The Grove’s website, this is an impressive and intimate room, ‘set in the heart of the 18th century mansion.’ For this occasion, 5 wonderfully white cube arrangements were the order of the day to act as a runner along the table.

Wednesday saw a mid-week function made up of 11 Hurricane lamp arrangements complete with tea lights and Echeveria Succulents! Suitable for male clientele, it was super smart!

Next up, we had 2 birthday parties in The Ivory Suite on Sunday to prepare for and both were seasonal, scented and splendid! An exclusive room with an entrance into the gardens, The Ivory Suite is an ideal setting for a birthday lunch and with a fabulous colour palette of pinks, purples and lime green to design with, it was a pleasure to do. The selection of flowers couldn't be prettier!...

Later that day, in the same room, the criteria were to create 6 arrangements including colours of green, yellow, white and a hint of orange. So for this we combined Cymbidium Orchids, Mimosa, Ranuculus, Roses, Phlox and Viburnum beautifully arranged in leaf bowls. Leaf bowls make ideal containers for which guests get to take the whole arrangement home after the event. Perfect!

Next up we designed 4 table centres for a corporate function in the Donneraile Room. Talk about lush and plush! For this we needed to combine the colours silver, white, green and a hint of orange. So for this we included seasonal flowers like Hydrangea, Viburnum, Eustoma and Cymbidium Orchids arranged in a silver bowls to tick all the boxes. I think they look brill! :)