Hello to all our Lovely Lunga 2017 and 2018 Brides and Grooms ...

A very warm welcome and big hello to all our brides and grooms of 2017 & 2018.....

Our bookings are filling up and that makes us excited! We love a good party and making people happy.

I am hugely excited about becoming Lovely Lunga's wedding co-ordinator. I have been working with the fabulous Lunga team since 2012, and they are the best!

I am a wedding florist and stylist, and now wedding co-ordinator for this little castle with a big heart ❤️. I have been working with flowers for as long as I can remember, both growing them and designing with them. My arrangements are stylishly un-arranged; natural and relaxed, taking my inspiration from the wonderful Argyll surroundings.

I was creative director for Crear Flowers at its inception and designed and created many, many weddings there ... and my freelance work has taken me all over Scotland and Southern Ireland. I was the recommended florist for the prestigous Powerscourt near Dublin, and I am so proud to be recommended by beautiful Inveraray Castle. The Duke and Duchess are utterly charming and I was very honoured to be asked recently to design and create florals for the State Dining Room (where an episode of Downton Abbey was filmed). It was such a beautiful and elegant space in which to work.

However, my favourite wedding venue is lovely Lunga. It truly is a magical place; surrounded by the sea and with stunning views and vistas, but still very private; a little castle hideaway tucked into a Scottish hillside. It owns a very special little pier too ... fabulous for photographs and shenanigans and a perfect choice for your wedding! Lunga has beautiful gardens if you wish to be married outside, but if the Scottish weather chases you indoors there are cosy fires and twinkling light. Either way, your wedding will be fabulous and wonderful!

Gill Stewart

December 2016

A food romance!

This quieter time of year is a great opportunity for food thinking. I love menus that are a bit of a visual play on words and like every food related element to have a bit of a wow factor. Obviously at Lunga we have an abundance of local and seasonal produce to play with: Langoustines, scallops, beef, venison. Wild garlic in the spring; organic salads. Home- made desserts. The food we serve here at Lunga is a significant part of anyone's Scottish wedding, so we give it a lot of thought and a lot of love.

We're also mindful that celebration food should be first and foremost about what you want, and the Lunga team work really hard to design menus that reflect your style and your personality. Below, you'll find pictures of some of the food I prepared last year (at a number of venues) - but it's the style and the sense of food that I hope might get you thinking about your own wedding meal. The Lunga kitchen team genuinely enjoy being a part of what will make your celebration so individual.

a cluck of lemon possets

white chocolate and pistachio meringues - back by popular demand!

what my lovely son (Ben) used to call grass

beetroot and seville orange pate

tea smoked salmon, apple and fennel salad wit chicory

lamb cutlet nibbles

A solitary lemon posset with peanut brittle

China cup cakes from The Hidden Lane Tearoom

nibbles

part of a cheese table

smoked salmon blinis and chocolate (not at the same time, of course!)

liquid refreshment and lavender fairy cakes with chive flowers

nibbles

squat lobster with lemon mayo (and a lovely sunset)

beetroot and radish pate

nibbles

a veritable tea set of  china cup cakes

the start of the venison casserole

Scottish anti pasta nibbles