2026 & 2027 wedding diaries now open: enquire for your date

Ballyfern · Glenmara · Co. Wicklow

2026 & 2027 wedding diaries open

Grown here.
Picked fresh.
Just a little wild.

Wedding and event flowers grown without chemicals on two acres in the middle of our village, then picked, arranged and delivered by the mother-and-daughter team who grew them.

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A big, colourful hand-tied bouquet of garden dahlias held in both arms
Fresh from the farm's picking

Flowers for your wedding

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Garden-gathered, and just a little wild: no two of our weddings are ever the same. We don't do stiff bouquets of perfect roses (and our couples wouldn't ask). Around forty weddings leave the farm each year.

Cream and blush dahlias gathered loosely into a bridal armful

Bridal bouquets

Cut fresh from the beds

 Gathering flowers by hand in a wild summer meadow

Arches & ceremony

Foam-free, always

 A candlelit wedding table dressed with garden flowers

Table arrangements

Chicken wire & moss

 Arranging dahlias by hand outside a blue studio door

On-the-day styling

Delivered & dressed by us

Wedding flowers are priced by enquiry: every arrow above leads to Jess, not to a cart.

A mum, a daughter & two acres

Flowers that grew up here.

Martha sows, propagates and grows; her daughter Jess picks, arranges and runs the show. It all started in the first lockdown of March 2020, with one polytunnel put up by Jess's husband Kenny. It's now meadows, raised beds and four and a half tunnels of chemical-free flowers in the middle of our Wicklow village.

Ours is the third trade on this ground: first the forge, then the village post office, now the flower farm, arranged in "the purple studio", a converted horse stable. Martha's own mother farmed flowers before us, and Jess's daughter Emily already presses the wedding keepsakes at her own little press. That's three generations, and counting.

- Martha Hale & Jess Carter

Visit the farm
Hands cutting deep red dahlias on the farm

The farm, by the numbers

Every stem on your day grew on this ground: none of it flew here, and none of it was sprayed.

  • 2acres of meadows, raised beds & 4.5 polytunnels (yes, half a tunnel)
  • ~15varieties of dahlia through the summer flush
  • ~40weddings flowered from the farm every year
  • 0air miles, chemicals or floral foam. Ever

5.0 · weddingsonline.ie

"Did a brilliant job … always at end of phone when we had a question … beautiful bouquets for our mothers and grandmothers."
Padraic Kennedy, married December 2023
  • Irish Farmers Journal · feature, March 2025
  • The Gloss · "Best Flower Farms To Visit In Ireland"
  • Flower Farmers of Ireland · member

Fresh from the farm gate

Order on 087 123 4567

Flowers for no reason at all, hand-tied fresh from the beds. Collect at the farm gate, or we deliver nationwide.

A bright hand-tied bouquet of sunflowers and asters

Hand-tied bouquets

From €50 · €50 / €60

 A pink dahlia in close-up

Wreaths & bulb boxes

Through the seasons

 A pale pink dahlia laid flat on a pink background

Pressed keepsakes

Your wedding flowers, kept

 Rows of dahlias in the field under a blue summer sky

Farm visits

By appointment

Pressed-flower pictures and wedding keepsakes are made here in the studio, so the day lasts a little longer.

The 2026 & 2027 diaries are open

Tell Jess about your day

Send your date, your venue and a feeling (wild, soft, colourful, anything) and Jess will come back to you. If your date is free, we'll grow for it.

Email Jess DM on Instagram Call 087 123 4567

Ballyfern, Glenmara, Co. Wicklow · A00 XY12, and you're welcome to visit the farm by appointment.