Fran Smith

I love how ethical, eco and seasonal Fran’s flowers are, and she is simply a lovely person to work with. She takes time to listen to and consider a couples vision and every little detail is carefully thought about. Fran offers the best of style and quality. As a wedding planner she is a dream to work with and she is always reliable and helpful. Speak to Fran, you won’t be disappointed! Highly recommended.

Simply perfect. For a bride like me who knew very little about flowers and therefore found this part of the planning quite stressful, Fran was just great to work with. Her caring and reassuring influence was exactly what I needed and most importantly I felt throughout the whole process that she was truly invested in our day and that I was her “only bride” (despite having a wedding late in the season and knowing that I was actually her last of the busy summer!) From the early planning stages, using Pinterest boards and several meetings - Fran was somehow able to create the vision I had in my head and struggled to explain. How- I’m not sure! But she did. The locally grown flowers were just exquisite and felt guilt free too. I would highly recommend working with Fran and am beyond pleased that I chose to support a small local businesses. It really did add an extra special, personal touch. Not only are you a florist Fran, you’re also a stylist! Thank you for making our day look truly amazing. Katherine & Simon x *Image courtesy of Sarah Salotti Photography

I just wanted to send a little note to say thank you so much for the flower arrangements this weekend. They surpassed my expectations and were absolutely beautiful - I was so happy with them.

Just wanted to send a quick email to say thank you so much for making our wedding look absolutely gorgeous! You really are in the right business and I will definitely help put the word out for your business. Absolutely gorgeous! Far more than I expected! I was in total shock that someone could make flower arrangements that gorgeous!!! *Image courtesy of Cluskey Smith Wedding Photography

Fran was the perfect choice to help a busy bride choose flowers. Planning a wedding long-distance was challenging but Fran helped to take the pressure off and was very patient with ever-changing decisions and arrangements. On the day, Fran worked with my bridesmaids to make sure the table arrangements worked perfectly! We also loved the bouquets and button holes. Thank you so much, Fran! We cannot recommend you enough.

Fran at Limewood created my wedding flowers after I was introduced to her quite late on in my planning. I'd had a pretty bad experience with another florist and I cannot emphasise enough what a great decision it was to choose Fran to take over. My friends who had got married before me told me quite how important the 'right' florist would be in this process, and they couldn't have been more right. Fran was unstoppable; she was excited to try something different (I wanted tropical palm foliage, monstera leaves and anthuriums) and was absolutely determined and genuinely thrilled to bring this vision to life. She was everything I had hoped for: reassuring, calming, creative and super, super conscientious. As a bit of a control freak myself, I was anxious that someone else might not pay the same attention to detail as me. Wrong - Fran was just my type. She rang me on a Saturday night after I'd sent a rather panicked email about the possibility of rain to tell me hey, no worries, there's a week to go and I've got it covered! She'd pinned some alternatives to our shared Pinterest board - another brilliant idea of hers - and told me to have a look. After the nod from me, she proceeded to create these magnificent metal frames that we could use inside or outside, painted gold by her and decorated in sprays of my favourite leaves and flowers -- a pretty big change to make one week before a wedding but no trouble to Fran. When I actually came out of my room and saw what Fran had created, I couldn't believe it. it was better than anything I'd envisioned in my head, having thought I was the one with the vision! It was nothing short of incredible. Fran delivered the bouquets to me and scooted off all low-key, so I couldn't tell her how happy I was in person, which meant I drunkenly emailed her at 3am to tell her I couldn't sleep for thinking about how amazing the wedding had looked! But not to worry - I saw her in the morning, because Fran, like no wedding florist I've seen before, came back to the venue at 9am to dismantle all her hard work from the day before and create bouquets for wedding guests that had stayed over. There's literally nothing more I could have asked for from her (and I would have, if I could have thought of anything!!) So Fran, thank you SO much for it all. Any other bride out there looking for the perfect flowers (or, you know, tropical foliage) to suit them would be lucky to have you.

Thank you again for all your hard work, the flowers were stunning, so many of our guests commented on them, and are still talking about them

The flowers for our wedding were so beautiful and exactly what I wanted. Fran captured the relaxed nature of the wedding with her beautiful arrangements and we had so many comments about how lovely they were. You can tell Fran really cares about getting to know you and what you want and she was also so easy to work with, keeping you in the loop but also having everything in hand!