Flowers for wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton

Описание: (27 Apr 2011)
Windsor Great Park, London
1. Wide of flowers at Windsor Great Park, from where the majority of flowers for the royal wedding will come
2. Close up of white flowers
3. Wide of purple flowers
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Emma Sampson, Florist and Managing Director, Green Parlour, Middleton family's florist:
"I think flowers to any bride are really, really important and they really set the scene for their day, so I am sure that Catherine would feel the same as well."
5. Close-up of flowers at the park
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Flanagan, Keeper of the Gardens at Windsor Great Park:
"We obviously begun cutting early yesterday (Tuesday) morning and then it was full on for several hours. We had a system well in place, vehicular support, and we think that the flowers arrived as fresh as they possibly could at Westminster Abbey."
7. Close-up of flowers
8. Wide pan of the park
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shane Connolly, Artistic Director for the flowers at the Royal Wedding:
"I suggested right from the beginning that we would use things from the Royal Estates, because her (Kate Middleton) whole ethos is being that they had to be British which would be mine as well; and as seasonal and as organic to the place as possible. So I suggested that we approach the Royal Estates, and Prince William spoke with Her Majesty, who was delighted to supply these things from here."
10. Wide of trees in the park
Westminster Abbey, London
11. Tilt down from exterior of Westminster Abbey to potted Maple trees waiting to be placed inside the church for the royal wedding
12. Workers carrying tree into the Abbey
13. Various of people and media gathered outside Westminster Abbey
14. Various of workers bringing and setting up trees inside the Abbey
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Halksworth, Managing Director of Tendercare Nurseries:
"They are native trees to the UK. They are also particularly attractive trees, beautiful shape and they lend themselves, I think, to celebrating the spring, which obviously we are now."
16. Various of Westminster Abbey interior
STORYLINE:
Almost 30-thousand flowers are to be used for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday, and most of them were taken from Windsor Great Park's Valley Gardens in Surrey.
The choice of flowers for a wedding is very important to the bride, said Emma Sampson, the Middleton family florist.
"They really set the scene for their day, so I am sure that Catherine would feel the same as well," Sampson said.
The flowers, which include azaleas, blossoms, rhododendrons and euphorbias, were cut on Tuesday and sent to Westminster Abbey in Central London for the wedding.
Mark Flanagan, Keeper of the Gardens at Windsor Great Park said that the whole procedure went according to plan.
"We had a system well in place, vehicular support, and we think that the flowers arrived as fresh as they possibly could at Westminster Abbey."
Shane Connolly, artistic director for the flowers at the Royal wedding said that it had been Kate's wish that the flowers be British and seasonal.
"So I suggested that we approach the Royal Estates, and Prince William spoke with Her Majesty, who was delighted to supply these things from here."
Meanwhile at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, workmen delivered some surprising wedding floral decorations.
Instead of flowers, five men hoisted an 18-year-old potted maple trees inside.
In all, six field maples and two hornbeams will form an "avenue of trees" lining the aisle leading up to the altar.

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