Blog customisation required, Wordpress, CMS.

We require a blog with some basic customisation. We have not set up the blog yet but wordpress is our preferred package to use. We have a template we would like to use as a basis but if it is easier to create it from scratch, this will be fine as long as the outcome is the same. The blog will contain three pages, the blog, an about page and a contact page. All will be editable from a CMS. There will be RSS links, send to a friend and search functionality, as well as tags and links to facebook/twitter. We have created the PSDs for the design, along with detailed explanations about all functionality required and ideally would like to start work on it asap. Once this is complete we will have future web development projects so we are looking to forge ongoing relationships if the work is of the required standard. Ideally, examples of previous blog work would be submitted as examples, which utilise the functionality we need.