The wedding took place at the John James Audubon Center in Audubon. It has a very natural, rustic feel to it. Colors for the ceremony included pastels of peach, pink, white, and purple. We used very textured flowers in Rachels's bouquet including lisianthus, scabiosa, ranunulus, freesia, seeded eucalyptus, and lavender. I wrapped her stems in twine for a more natural look. Chris' boutonniere was made up of lavender, too.
Bridesmaids' textured bouquets were made up of daisies, crown asters, and herbs. Groomsmens' boutonnieres matched the bouquets and contained hers.
How I enjoyed making the ceremony arrangements! Besides flowers I was able to use peppers, beets, eggplants inside produce baskets which stood on barrels that I rent out. There was one on each side of the aisle. And I used rustic white baskets filled with three shades of alstromeria on the seats in the aisle. So pretty!
Cocktail hour was held in another one of the out-buildings. Rachel collected wine bottles with pretty labels. There was a variety of these around the room with different flowers.
I used a large watering can on the appetizer buffet table filled with larger flowers.
The placecard table was placed in the same room. Rachel used an assortment of herbs to hang each namecard from the rack. I thought it looked terrific! I had a wooden carpenter's box painted and filled it with jelly jars of daisies, zinnias, and sunflowers.
For half of the guest tables I filled different watering cans with a variety of flowers. Each watering can one was different. Here are three of those.
The other half of the tables were made up of something different from us. I had our artist paint the sides of the wooden boxes with different flowers, fruits, and vegetables. They were gorgeous! And then I planted each box with a flowering type of plant - kalanchoe, lilies, and coleus are just a few samples. Not run of the mill for this bride!
Rachel's mother had two jars of colorful, canned peppers. Where else should they go but on the sweetheart table flanking a jar full of garden flowers!
And the icing on the cake for me (pun intended) was decorating the naked cake! This was my first and it was so much fun. I used strawberries, raspberries, and peach lilies. Loved it!!
Loved, loved, loved this wedding. I'll probably remember it always because it was so unique. Thanks to Rachel and Chris for having me be a part of it! Congratulations!
