I think I would cheat and visit the garden centre a couple of days before the wedding, better safe and all that..

Oooo what a good idea! I could always pretend I did them!

I'm inclined to agree with Pimpernel - it'll be an expensive way of doing it, but at least you're guaranteed it'd all be in flower. Daffodils vary from year to year enormously - some years they're finished by the end of February here in London, other years they don't even open till end of March (like this year).

You needn't buy ready done tubs - get pots and sink them in the compost.

Ah, steragram..took my a while to understand what you meant, but I think I get that, Sort of midway between the two. Do they sell pots of bulbs then?

Welcome to GoY.

Yes Swanny your GC will sell pots of bulbs which you can plunge into your fancy containers making it appear that they are growing in them. Keep them watered and recognise they will not survive long in that situation.

thanks for these ideas, good stuff!

:)) You can even do the whole thing in Southampton to save carting tubs across the country if you do it that way too.