Jen & Joe - Skippack Rocks!

I had the honor of working my first wedding at Hotel Fiesole in Skippack with Jennifer and Joe. It's right in my own neighborhood! I was particularly excited when Jen first contacted me and absolutely thrilled when I met her in person. What a lovely person she is! She wanted to use pink and we needed to make it look more like "Fall" than Spring. And with the addition of burgundy, I think we accomplished it beautifully. I really enjoyed working with this color combination and a couple that were enthusiastic about doing things "a little bit differently". Congratulations to the two of you!

Jen's bouquet was made up of burgundy roses, pink sweetheart roses, pink spray roses, and green mini hydrangea for a texture and color contrast.

Joe wore a boutonniere of sweetheart roses and hypericum berries.

Jen's attendant carried a bouquet of pink roses and burgundy gomphrena.

An example of a pink and burgundy corsage for this wedding is included.



The wedding ceremony took place in an upstairs room at the Hotel. I made one large pink and burgundy arrangement in a green urn to sit in front of the large window.



Jen loves to cook. So we put our heads together and came up with an unusual placecard table arrangement The glass is filled with brussel sprouts, eggplants, and peppers. In addition to the burgundy seeded eucalyptus, I added flowers and winter cabbages! We all loved it!! I recommended that Jen not cook with the veggies in the glass because I coated them with LeafShine - but I gave her all the leftovers so she could do just that later. I hope she made something yummy!

I gave instructions to Jen and she had her dad make these cute golf containers for Joe for the cocktail tables. He was so proud of these! I think they came out great. I added a "golf bag" to the top of each and filled them with fall hydrangea.
Flowers in the centerpieces included mini gerber daisies, dahlias, hypericum berries, and hydrangea in different colors. The containers of both versions were filled with burgundy chipped glass pieces.


I made smaller versions of the guest table centerpieces for the sweetheart table and added a frothy bow and rose to the back of the bride and groom chairs.

Hotel Fiesole's baker makes their wedding cakes. I hope it tasted as good as it looked!

Laura & Joe at the Fabulous Fonthill

I enjoyed working on this wedding immensely. I loved Laura's choice of wedding colors - orange, green, and white - and really appreciated her attention to detail. My photos don't do her hard work justice, but I wanted to share some of her great ideas. Working at Fonthill - a place we've toured several times - was wonderful! I was so happy to be there.

Laura's bouquet was made up of SuperGreen roses, ivory lisianthus, and green hypericum berries. It looked stunning against her wedding gown.

I made Joe's boutonniere out of ivory lisianthus and hypericum berries.

I filled mason jars with green fuji mums hung from shepherds' hooks. These lined the aisle, upon which I scattered orange rose petals. Laura arranged her programs in vintage wooden boxes for guests to take.

I made sprays of circus roses for the Moms to carry down the aisle.

Bridesmaids' dainty bouquets of Circus roses and green hypericum berries. I loved how they "popped" against their dresses.

Groomsmen wore matching boutonnieres.

Laura made containers of golf pencils for the cocktail tables representative of Joe's love of golf. I filled them with yellow, white, and orange alstromeria.

I arranged green dendrobium orchids and white hydrangea in a cylinder filled with green apples for the placecard table. Laura set up her placecards in moss-filled vintage suitcases which looked adorable!

I LOVED working on these centerpieces. Our idea was to utilize only flowers that came in green, white, and orange - which I have to admit were sometimes painted. The centerpieces were then done in pairs. One set were arranged in leaf wrapped squares while the matching ones with those same flowers, were tablescaped in square vases. Roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, calla lilies, gladiolus, and hydrangea were used.











Laura's mom loved my wire decorated vases so I made one for her to enjoy.

Touches of green and white roses decorated the wedding cake. What a lovely end to a lovely wedding. Congratulations to both of you!

Christmas Party Luncheon 2011

Today was my day to bring the centerpieces that I made for the Christmas luncheon at Marjeanes for the workers (and their families) from the Developmental Enterprises Corp. - North Penn Training Center. It is my honor to donate flowers to this wonderful annual event. I'm sure they all had a blast at their festive party. Merry Christmas everyone!

Jessica & George - At Amazing Aldie!

Jessica and George were planning a wonderful wedding at Aldie Mansion in Doylestown. Jess had chosen a color palette of orange, purple and white which I thought came together so beautifully. She also coordinated so many wonderful details for their special day. Lawn games were spread out all over the broad expanse of Aldie grounds. And her dessert table was made up of four different adorable cupcakes spelling out "LOVE". Soooo cute! I placed floating, light up water lilies in the fountain. And her table frames/photos/names were so cute that my future daughter-in-law bought them from Jess for her wedding.

Jess' bouquet was made up of ivory roses, orange sweetheart roses, and white mini calla lilies. She looked gorgeous! And George wore a matching calla lily as his boutonniere. Loved the purple ties!

Bridesmaids' wore dresses of light purple and carried bouquets made up of orange dahlias, purple statice, and ivory spray roses gathered in a more casual style.

I made boutonnieres of safflower and statice for the groomsmen.

I created a large "branch enhanced" placecard table arrangement for the Great Hall. Flowers included roses, safflower, and stock. Rose petals separated the rows of cards. Because Jess named her tables after places, she added a "map" to this table so that her guests had an easier time locating where they were sitting. A great idea!




The sweetheart table was enhanced by three vases of purple and orange flowers topping some fun white bubbles.






























High flower arrangements of roses, carnations, hydrangea, and larkspur were placed on top of tall glass vases and contained purple hydrangea. White bubbles inside the glass were lit up with underwater lighting.




Low centerpieces were made up of white bubbles with either purple or orange flowers as pictured.




I would like to give credit to Jess & George's photographer for taking such beautiful photos and sending them with me. Lorenz Fine Photography www.blorenz.com/blog Unfortunately, those that he sent me were too large for me to share so I had to use those that I took which aren't nearly as good! Sorry about that Bruce!

Flowers for some of my MNHS Class of 1970 friends.

Since meeting with Robin Kohn and her daughter Kelly today, I thought it would be fun to post pictures of a couple of our classmates at their childrens' weddings. I especially love doing flowers for family and friends. It's reassuring to me to know that their flowers are done "right" and so gratifying to know that I did a good job for people I care about.

That's Marlyne LaCorte standing with her two beautiful daughters and Pam, her new daughter-in-law. Marlyne looks terrific and the back of that dress was amazing!
Only one of Marlyne's three handsome sons are in this picture. John is obviously the groom standing next to Pam, his bride.



Many of you will recognize Janice Sherman. She still looks the same since we graduated and is as pretty as ever! The two bridesmaids in blue are Janice's beautiful younger daughters Rebekah and Rachel. Standing next to her new husband Dan, is Janice's eldest - the lovely Lisa. Janice's parents are next. They still look terrific to this day! And then Janice is in the pretty green gown standing with her husband Don. This is one good looking group!

I don't think I have photos of Debbie Klayman's family at her son's engagement party to share with you. Her kids are gorgeous too! There must have been something special in the water we drank at MNHS!

Kristin & Bill - Lovely Lilies

Kristin chose a wonderful color palette of black, white, and dark pink for her wedding at Talamore CC. Black is always a challenge to incorporate into the decor, but we achieved this with ribbon in the personal flowers and marbles and ribbon for the centerpieces. I think the blend of the three colors is very striking. I think Kristin made a wonderful choice!

Kristin's bouquet was made up of StarFighter and White hybrid lilies. I scattered stephanotis with crystals inside and rhinestone sprays throughout the flowers. Bill wore a matching boutonniere of three stephanotis.

Moms carried single standard white calla lilies with a black ribbon accent. Dads wore mini white calla lilies for boutonnieres.

My awful photography does not do the wedding party bouquets justice. They were made up of StarFighter lilies and limonium. Groomsmen wore boutonnieres of double stephanotis.

I did two different types of centerpieces for the guest tables. I love Malibu roses because of their color and their high petal count. I used them in mixed arrangements with gorgeous dahlias and lovely carnations in cylinders with a double ribbon wrap. In the second centerpiece I placed opened Malibu roses on beds of mixed marbles. The color really "pops" doesn't it?