About Rebecca Yussuf

Flowers bring such joy, they evoke wonderful memories and their beauty is often unrivalled in nature.

How lucky am I to get to create this for you on your wedding day?

Can you tell that I absolutely love everything about being a wedding florist?

I am honestly at my happiest with a bucket of blooms, a pair of scissors and a wonderfully creative brief. The feeling I get when I bring something to life that only previously existed in someone’s imagination is beyond words.

Rebecca Yussuf of Lilac and Lace Floral Design, a wedding florist in Kent, England.
Studio

My path to being a wedding florist is perhaps an odd one, but my adventures have definitely shaped the person I am today. I grew up in rural Suffolk in a tiny village with nature on my doorstep, cycling in the lanes and watching the combines for hours. At 16, I decided to spend a month in Venezuela and it is a country I hold in my heart. I cannot begin to tell you the beauty, the waterfalls, the sunsets..

I always wanted to be just like Sir David Attenborough – he is and always will be my hero! Instead, through various plots twists, I became a Meteorologist and forecast the weather for airports, roads and then finally for tv. I loved my job, but the hours were very long and unsocial. The garden became my retreat and I grew flowers, trying to emulate my dad and grandma. She was a florist too!

In 2014, I was brought an introduction to floristry course at the local college and the rest as they say is history!

My floral design

I know what you are perhaps thinking.. how can a scientist suddenly become a creative artist? Well, I guess it was always in there just kind of bursting to come out. I absolutely love to paint and create with a brush, and now I get to do the same with flowers.

My style is warm and personal, natural and effortless – I always want my designs to look like they have just fallen together. I love to use lots of different textures and beautiful scent too –  There is something so romantic about the idea that a couple could be instantly taken back to their wedding day by the sight or scent of a flower that they simply brush past in a garden.

My love of nature is at the heart of everything I do and I made a very conscious decision back in 2018 to stop using floral foam. Since then, I have worked very hard on changing my little flowery world into something that treads incredibly gently on the planet. In 2023, I started growing my own flowers and will continue to do this more and more in the years to come.

Rebecca thank YOU so much for the flowers – I can’t tell you how grateful Ricky & I were to see the marquee – it was simply stunning. I absolutely loved my bouquet & the bridesmaids flowers – honestly I couldn’t have wished for anything more. Thank you for all your hard work! Just amazing!

Claire and Ricky
Falconhurst, July 2018

Please get in touch if you would like to check my availability for your wedding day