Business Details
14 Years
experience
Bespoke Wedding & Event Florist in Henstridge
Founded in 2012 by Oonagh, The English Florist specialises in creating bespoke floral arrangements for weddings, events, and funerals across the South of England. With formal training in art and fashion, Oonagh brings a creative approach to floristry, utilising seasonal English flowers, herbs, and hedgerow finds to craft designs that reflect the natural beauty of each season. Our portfolio includes weddings, corporate events, charity dinners, and funerals, with a focus on sustainability and locally sourced blooms. Based in Henstridge on the Dorset-Somerset border, we serve clients throughout Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Devon, and beyond. Our expertise spans from intimate ceremonies to large-scale events, offering tailored consultations and detailed design proposals.We prioritise client collaboration, seasonal availability, and budget optimisation to deliver unique floral experiences. Our work has been featured in prominent wedding publications, including Brides Magazine and Rock My Wedding. With over a decade of experience in the industry, we combine technical skill with artistic vision to create memorable floral narratives. Our commitment to quality ensures every arrangement is handmade with care, using the freshest available flowers. We offer flexible consultation options, including Zoom meetings, to accommodate client needs.
Services
Wedding Flowers
Event Florals
Funeral Tributes
Bouquet Design
Floral Installations
Details
- Year established: 2012
Highlights and features
- We offer over a decade of professional floristry experience since 2012
- Our designs exclusively use seasonal English flowers and foliage
- We provide tailored floral solutions for weddings from intimate ceremonies to grand events
- Our portfolio includes high-profile events at venues like Clouds House and Eastbury Hotel
- We hold formal qualifications in professional floristry from UK institutions
Services
Wedding Flowers
We create bespoke wedding flowers using seasonal English blooms, including bridal bouquets, floral arches, and table arrangements. Our designs focus on natural textures and scents, with options ranging from intimate ceremonies to large-scale events. Clients receive detailed consultations to develop colour palettes and seasonal flower selections.
Event Florals
Our event floristry services cover corporate functions, charity dinners, and private parties. We design centrepieces, floral installations, and venue decorations that complement each occasion's theme. Previous work includes charity balls at Clouds House and private celebrations at Rampisham Manor.
Funeral Tributes
We provide funeral flowers and sympathy tributes with careful attention to personal preferences. Our service includes coordinating with funeral directors for timely delivery and offering guidance on appropriate floral choices during difficult times.
Bouquet Design
We craft custom bouquets for weddings and events using locally sourced flowers. Options include bridal bouquets, bridesmaid posies, and buttonholes, all designed to coordinate with the overall floral scheme and seasonal availability.
Floral Installations
Our large-scale floral installations transform venues with dramatic arrangements. Recent projects include 9-foot centrepieces for private parties and seasonal displays for annual events at historic locations.
People
Oonagh
Founder & Lead Florist
Oonagh established The English Florist in 2012 after completing professional floristry qualifications. With prior experience in London's creative industries, she combines artistic vision with technical expertise to create seasonal floral designs for weddings and events across the South of England.
Questions
What types of events do you cater for?
We specialise in weddings, corporate events, charity dinners, and funerals.
Do you offer consultations outside regular hours?
Yes, we provide flexible consultation options including Zoom meetings.
Can you accommodate specific colour schemes?
We create custom designs to match any colour palette using seasonal flowers.
Do you deliver floral arrangements?
Delivery is available for all orders at an additional cost.
What areas do you cover?
We serve Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Devon, and the wider South of England.
Reviews (7)
Kat Tegg Mapperton
Oct 20, 2021
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As a wedding venue, we love to hear when couples have booked with Oonagh. Her passion for what she does really shows in her arrangements as they are just beautiful! She not only does table displays but she has also covered our barn beams with amazing foliage! That was one of our favourite styles this year! Always a pleasure working with Oonagh!
Eve Velikova
Sep 01, 2021
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Oonagh did the most wonderful flower arrangements for our wedding! Her creativity and insights were invaluable to creating a truly personal look that was authentic to us. Her communication was superb and always very helpful and friendly, and we especially appreciated her patience and flexibility as we made some major changes to our design ideas in the final weeks running up to the wedding. She is very talented and professional, and can really create anything you can imagine to make your day special and as you envisioned it!
Lucy Broad
Aug 04, 2021
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Oonagh was very easy to work with to discuss ideas for our wedding flowers and her communication was everything I hoped, to ensure things were all ready for our wedding day. Not only logistically was it sound, but importantly the flower arrangements were stunning and extremely beautiful - exactly what I had envisioned. She is very passionate about getting this right for each person and this is shown through the incredible end results. I would thoroughly recommend.
Harriet Lockyear
Jul 29, 2021
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Oonagh did an absolutely fantastic job on all the flowers for our wedding!! We had so many comments on how gorgeous they all were and they were original and different to others we had seen. She was so lovely right from the outset and really professional and easy to stay in touch with. We talked about our ideas initially and then she brought them to life but made them even better than we had imagined. My bouquet was absolutely stunning! Thank you so much for all your hard work, everything was perfect and made our wedding day absolutely beautiful! x
Chris Powell
Oct 11, 2020
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We got married mid October at Upton country house, the range of flowers and colours Oonagh used worked perfectly in the beautiful country house. The moment we walked in to the room it looked much better than we couldve even imagined. Thank you they were the perfect background to our beautiful day. We even took one of the centre pieces on honeymoon which lasted well over a week. Thank you, we would definitely recommend using The English Florist to everyone we know.
Maisie Priscott
May 22, 2019
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Oonagh (The English Florist) is warm, welcoming and full of ideas to assist any bride to be (and indeed any event). Our wedding flowers were amazing, really in keeping with our day and exactly what we were after. The bouquets looked fresh and modern and set off the photographs beautifully. Oonagh also put together a hanging installation for us at the venue full of greenery and our preferred choice of flowers. This really made the venue come to life and so many of our guests commented on how beautiful it was. The buttonholes were fab and perfectly understated for groomsmen who were reluctant to
Elena & Matt
Jun 19, 2018
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Beautiful flowers (floral hoop, table arrangements, buttonholes, bouquets and urns) for our wedding in July. Oonagh was great to work with and provided lots of helpful advice in the decision making process. She had a good sense of what we wanted, even though we weren't entirely sure ourselves! The end result was better than we even imagined and we'd definitely recommend her. Wish we could have her flowers in our home every day.
