Lucy & Kevin - Sunshine and Sunflowers

Sunflowers are just one of those flowers that make every one smile.  They're bold and they're bright!  When you pair up their beautiful golden yellow color with red and bright blue - I believe you then have a party!  It's such a terrific color combination.  So when Lucy told me that this was her color palette and she wanted sunflowers all over her wedding - I was only too happy and delighted to oblige!

Lucy's bouquet was a large beautiful grouping of sunflowers, blue delphinium, blue iris, red hypericum berries, and solidago all wrapped up in burlap and lace.  Kevin's boutonniere consisted of Viking mums - which I think look like little baby sunflowers - and hypericum berries.

Bridesmaids' bouquets also were made up with sunflowers and solidago, but I added red roses and cornflower as well.  Groomsmen wore boutonnieres of Viking mums.

Lucy had to have sunflowers down her ceremony aisle, so we filled her mason jars with just that and added delphinium and hypericum berries.  These were later re-distributed in various locations inside the reception.

Lucy came to me with a lot of jars.  We decided to use her jelly jars for the cocktail tables.  I filled these with blue hydrangea and Viking mums.

I also own a wonderful replica vintage can with sunflowers on the front.  I knew this was perfect for this wedding and filled it with flowers for the placecard table.  This container is available for rental or sale.

We filled Lucy's mason jars for the guest tables with a combination of sunflowers and other blue and red flowers. Lucy used chalkboard labels for her table numbers.

For the sweetheart table, I used two of Lucy's blue mason jars and filled them with similar flowers.

Lucy added a lot of wonderful details to her wedding. I really liked the way she displayed her memory photographs. I used up her blue jars for this table and filled them with all white flowers.

Lucy and Kevin's cake had not yet arrived but I had to snap a picture of her topper of their little family.  How cute is this?

And lastly, this is one detail I have never seen before.  I love the sign on the toss bouquet jar!

What an adorable, happy wedding.  I hope the two of you are always as happy as you were on your special day.

Jessica & David - Kimberton Inn Quaintness

Kimberton Inn is certainly a gorgeous venue at which to have a wedding.  I just love the room with its wide expanse of windows surrounding the couple and their guests.  You have a choice at this venue of holding your ceremony indoors or outdoors.  When you choose to get married inside, the room has to be turned over from the ceremony to the reception during cocktail hour.  This is why I don't have centerpiece photos taken on top of tables.  However, the flowers and colors Jessica chose still look beautiful even sitting on the windowsills.

Jessica chose a combination of blue, purple, and white for her color palette.  Her bouquet was made up of some of the prettiest purple flowers including purple lisianthus - my favorite!  I wrapped the stems in lace ribbon.

Bridesmaids carried bouquets of purple and white with blue added in the form of cornflower and wrapped in blue satin ribbon.  So many brides tell me upfront that they do not like carnations.  However, when I show my "purple" brides the Moon family of carnations - which include 4 amazing shades of purple carnations - they quickly change their tune.  These carnations are so special and so beautiful that I've never had a bride tell me that they don't like them.  And believe me, they are definitely a money saver!

We brought in two pillars for the indoor ceremony upon which we placed two vases of beautiful flowers.  I love how lilies look among other flowers. And we added an arrangement of flowers on the top of the mantle to complete the ceremony look.  It broke up all that white so nicely.  Ignore the flowers sitting in the fireplace.  They're from a previous event and were ultimately removed.

And finally we have two types of centerpieces. One was made up of mixed flowers including blue hydrangea, white lisianthus, and purple carnations.  I like to use acrylics in the base of my centerpieces to "catch" any of the flower detritus that may fall.  They add a pretty finish to the arrangement as well.

The second set of centerpieces consisted of a lantern flanked by two smaller cylinders containing white hydrangea, cornflower, and purple mini-carnations.

Thanks to Jessica and David for having me be a part of your beautiful wedding. May the two of you have many, many long and happy years together.

Casie & Ken - The Joy of Spring

It's the beginning of Spring and with it comes beautiful, bright colors!  This was Casie's sentiment as well and she proved it by using such wonderful, happy colors for her marriage to Ken.We were also able to take advantage of some wonderful seasonal flowers.   So for Casie's bouquet, we used bright pink Esperance roses, calla lilies, and gigantic orange ranunculus!  Some were so large they looked like peonies!   Ken wore a matching calla lily boutonniere.

Casie's bridesmaid's carried what I like to call "joyful" bouquets.  The orange, bright pink, and yellow bouquets actually made me smile while I was putting them together.  To me, nothing says orange like Asian lilies!  We used Esperance roses for the groomsmen's boutonnieres.

Those bright orange lilies also appeared at church - in the aisle at the family rows and again on the altar.

Congratulations to Casie and Ken!  I hope the rest of your married life is as bright and happy as the beginning. 

Quynh and Kevin - Pretty in Pink

The stunning wall of flowers shown below was created by my bride Quynh as a backdrop for her marriage ceremony to Kevin. Due to my terrible computer skills I can only share part of it, but you get the idea.  It is just gorgeous and as you've noticed, contains lots of pink.  So when we created her bouquet, it contained both light pink and dark pink flowers with some contrasting green as well.   Kevin is wearing one of the dark pink ranunculus as his boutonniere.

Quynh wanted her bridesmaids to wear corsages instead of holding bouquets, so theirs were made up of lighter pink spray roses while Moms' corsages used darker pink spray roses. Boutonnieres matched the corsages.

Photo credit to Right Start Photography for this beautiful picture of the happy couple.  What a personal start to a wonderful life together.  Congratulations!

Jennifer and Mike's Disney Magic

I am a huge Disney fan, so naturally I was thrilled to help with a Disney themed wedding.  I'll share a couple of the special touches Jennifer and Mike added to their wedding.

The color palette this couple used was not a typical color combination for a wedding - teal, white,  and orange. But ironically, another wedding I worked on that weekend used the same exact colors!  I'll post pictures of that one soon, but I couldn't get over the coincidence.

Jennifer's bouquet was a short cascade done with white lilies, white roses, white waxflowers, and orange spray roses.  I've added some pretty rhinestone "flowers" to give it a bit more sparkle. M ike wore a boutonniere of stephanotis - which I like to use when a bride carries lilies.  The lilies are too large for a boutonniere and I think that the stephanotis have the same sort of shape, so that's what I use.

Jennifer wanted her bridesmaids to carry bouquets that coordinated with hers, so I made those out of just the spray roses and waxflowers.  Groomsmen wore matching orange spray roses.

We made two large orange and white arrangements for the head of the ceremony aisle.  Small buckets of white hydrangea and orange spray roses lined the aisle as well.

We worked a lot with round shapes for this wedding.  So for the cocktail tables I used vases with a round look to them and filled them with different flowers. They were pretty much all different from each other.

It was fun to come up with an appropriately colored placecard table arrangement.  I found an orange candle holder to which I added orange and white flowers.  And to get the teal in there, I used ting ting and party balls!  I love how it turned out.

Brides have come up with a lot of creative ideas for their guests to sign. Jennifer and Mike used unglazed "mouse" figurines - which I thought was so clever. And the pens were teal, black, and orange!

It was challenging to come up with ways to incorporate the teal color into this wedding, but I think adding the teal acrylics to the centerpieces turned out nicely.  Naturally, the tables were all named after different Disney characters.  I filled large round glass bowls with teal in the base and a  mix of orange and white flowers.  Jennifer wanted to use wine decanters for the rest of the tables.  The teal acrylics were also used in these.  Orange lilies and white limonium filled the glass.

And of course every Disney wedding needs a special cake.  This one definitely fits the bill  Congratulations to Jennifer and Mike.  May you have many, many happy years in Florida!  Say hi to Mickey for me.

Ashley & Tyrone - A Superb Superhero Event

I met Ashley at one of my Bridal Blossom events and there was something about her that I immediately liked - her creative mind!  I knew it would be fun working with her.

I was really happy when Ashley and Tyrone were able to set a date.  Due to school, job changes, and a move to another state, their wedding was postponed for a while.  And when it was "on" again, Ashley and I worked on-line to finalize her personal flowers.

Tyrone is a huge Superhero fan.  His groomsmen and he were actually wearing various Superhero figurines as boutonnieres.  Ashley was going to take care of this and unfortunately I do not have a photo. I would have loved to see them. Hopefully she'll send them to me one day.

In order to bring the heroes into the bridesmaids' bouquets, Ashley used Superhero comic books to create a paper flower that I inserted into the bridesmaids' flowers.  With a color palette of red and yellow - the comics added a little "Kapow" to the flowers. I do have the information about these from Ashley  to pass on about how to make these.

Ashley wanted some gold in her bouquet so I added a gold wire collar to the flowers.  I used the wonderful mixed yellow and red Hocus Pocus roses with yellow freesia and fun yellow craspedia.

Check out Ashley's comic book flowers among the roses and yellow mums.

Bouquets for Moms were a mix of yellow spray roses and red hypericum berries while Dads and Grandpas wore boutonnieres of a red rose.

Grandmothers received pretty yellow and red corsages.

Congratulations to Ashley, Tyrone, and their kids.  I wish you all a wonderful life together.