Ashley and Chris and Wonderful Wheat!

The church in which Ashley and Chris had there wedding was one of the sweetest little churches I've ever seen.  And Ashley's details really added to its charm.

When guests walked in they were greeted by this sign. I loved how it was written on a decorated chalkboard.

Ashley also decorated her own unity candle set with lace and burlap. Pretty!

I used Ashley and Chris' fall color palette of orange and rusts to make altar flower arrangements.

I even found some orange colored wheat to add to the arrangements.

I added a touch of Fall to each of the window sills in the church with bud vases of Red Rover mums, eucalyptus and more orange wheat.

I made up Ashley's bouquet with orange spray roses, rust colored hypericum berries, ivory standard roses, and ivory spray roses.  Such a pretty combination!  Chris' boutonniere of an ivory rose with hypericum berries matched perfectly.

Wheat was also a lovely addition to the mix of peach spray roses and fall mums  in the bridesmaids' bouquets.  I bound the stems with twine for a more rustic look.

Wheat also appeared in the groomsmen's boutonnieres which I finished off in twine.

Using a rust colored ceramic vase, I made a pretty arrangement of orange wheat and leftover flowers for the placecard table at Bay Pony Inn.

I try to use up all of the flowers that I buy for a bride, so using up Ashley's bouquet roses proved to be the perfect topping for her wedding cake.  Congratulations and may the two of you live a long and happy life together!

Karen & Scott at Hotel Fiesole

Hotel Fiesole in Skippack is a lovely spot to have a smaller wedding.  I've worked there several times and am always impressed about how pretty it is.  Karen had attended a friend's wedding there that I had worked on and decided that it was the perfect place for her own.  Her color palette was purple and burgundy which was carried through her bouquet of lisianthus and roses.   Scott wore a burgundy rose boutonniere.  Karen's MoH carried a smaller bouquet of dark red spray roses with a matching boutonniere for the Best Man.

We made a beautiful arrangement of burgundy and purple flowers in a large urn placed in a central position in front of a large window for the ceremony.

All of Karen and Scott's paper goods were particularly pretty.  I made a small arrangement in a purple vase for the placecard table.  And on the opposite wall was a box where guests could leave notes for the happy couple.  I thought the note cards were adorable.

Another detail that I really liked were the table numbers.  All of the centerpieces were made up of purple hydrangea and burgundy roses with a leaf wrap inside the vases.

The flowers on the small sweetheart table matched the other centerpieces for a unified look.

Congratulations to Karen and Scott.  May you always be as happy as you were on your special day.

Stefanie & Jay - Delightful Daisies

Yellow, green, and white are perfect for a refreshing color palette for a summer wedding. Stephanie made great use of them. And what would be better than using lots of yellow and white daisies fto make those colors come to life?

 Stephanie's bouquet was a mix of lovely yellow and white Asian lilies combined with soft, white stock. Jay wore a white calla lily boutonniere.

The MoH's bouquet contained two colors of daisy mums plus button mums while the bridesmaids carried just white daisies and button mums. I made the groomsmen's bouts with button mums.

Daisies showed up again in a silk version for the flower girl pomander so that she could keep it and play "wedding" after the festivities were over.

Moms carried small daisy nosegays, too. The Dads' yellow daisy bouts matched!

Stephanie and her Mom did a wonderful job painting "greens" on ivy bowls for the cocktail hour.

We did a mix of high and low centerpiece styles for the tables. One way to get height without doing tall glass and an arrangement on the top, is to make topiaries from flowers with tall stems. In this case I used alstromeria, but there are other flowers that can be used.  The base was filled with a variety of yellow and white flowers in moss pots.

Low centerpieces were done in glass squares with yellow acrylics in the bottom.  I filled them with daisies, yellow sunflowers with green centers and hydrangea.

As is typical of my style, the flowers on the sweetheart table matched the other centerpieces in the room.

Congratulations to Stefanie and Jay. May your lives together always as happy as you were on your special day!

Alyssa and John at Glasbern Inn

Glasbern Inn is a beautiful, rustic venue in Fogelsburg PA.  Alyssa wanted all of the bouquets and centerpieces to reflect a rustic feel with lots of texture and using her colors of peach/coral, blue, and white/cream.  I was not able to travel up there to set up this wedding myself, so photos of Alyssa's flowers were taken in my workshop.  I huge thank you to Ron Dlutz (Dlutz Photography) for stopping by and taking pictures for me. 

Alyssa's bouquet was made up of stock, lisianthus, seeded eucalyptus, waxflower, and thistle wrapped in twine.   We were able to perfectly capture what she wanted and gave her lots and lots of texture.  The touch of blue came out in the thistle.  It's a unique "flower" which some brides love.  Bridesmaids carried bouquets of similar flowers but smaller in size.

Centerpieces followed suit.  In jars and glass cylinders I added Queen Anne's lace, roses, zinnias, dusty miller, and hypericum berries to the mix for a garden look. Some tables had a tall and a small jar sitting in wire on them.  Some tables had one  large jar sitting in wire on them and surrounded by votive candles.  And finally some tables had large cylinders of mixed garden flowers with river rocks in the base.   Sadly I don't have a photo of that one.

Congratulations to Alyssa and John.  It was a pleasure to work on your wedding.

Kelly & Greg - A Rustic Wedding in Collegeville

Kelly came to me so enthusiastic about the elements she had collected for her wedding. She had lanterns, jars, and bottles of all different designs and sizes. And she was full of ideas for unique table numbers and decorating. Together we sorted everything  into small table collections and figured out the flowers we would use for her yellow, gray, green, and white summer wedding.


 Kelly's bouquet was a mass of lisianthus, dusty miller, craspedia, white dahlias, and succulents tied together with twine. Greg wore a boutonniere of dusty miller and craspedia.   I don't have a photo of the bridesmaids' bouquets unfortunately.  They consisted of craspedia, white larkspur, and dusty miller.

Kelly and Greg provided their own chuppah for the ceremony. I filled buckets with white hydrangea to go down the aisle.

For cocktail hour under the tent, I used some of Kelly's self-decorated bottles that I filled with yellow alstromeria.

 We used groups of bud vases on the rest of the outside cocktail tables filled with a variety of flowers.

 Inside the venue, I filled a wooden Coke crate with cola bottles which held lots of pretty flowers. This was placed on the farm table - minus the clutter.

No detail was too small for Kelly. Her "cake table" looked fabulous. Signs were artistically decorated.  The love notes suitcase was adorable. Kelly rented my old wooden ladder to seat it on.

I can't put a picture of every table on my blog, but here are some of my favorites. Note that the "numbers" on each table are all different. Kelly did a fantastic job decorating!

I used small jelly jars to hold flowers on the sweetheart table. Even Kelly's candy table was perfectly matched to her color palette. Kelly and Greg worked hard on this wedding and it showed. Everything looked amazing.   Thanks to the two of you for allowing me to be a part of your wonderful day. Congratulations!

Nicole & Jeff - Vintage Villanova

I love working on weddings at Villanova Conference Center.  It's not only that I received my Master's Degree from VU, but the mansion is absolutely gorgeous!.  So when Nicole asked me to help her with her wedding, I was more than pleased.  I also would like to thank my good friend Ron Dlutz for sending me photos of the wedding flowers.  I couldn't have made this post without them.

Nicole wanted to use a color palette of white, yellow, and blue for her wedding and add touches of "vintage" wherever possible.  For her bouquet I used white roses mixed with white lisianthus and stuffed with stephanotis plugged with rhinestones.  Jeff wore a white rose boutonniere.

Bridesmaids carried bouquets of just the white lisianthus mixed with pale yellow hypericum berries while the groomsmen wore lisianthus boutonnieres.

Back at the mansion, we set up memory vases to go along with photographs provided by Nicole.

We had some fun with the sports that Nicole and Jeff love so we filled ceramic soccer balls, basketballs, footballs, and baseballs with hydrangea for the cocktail tables.  Jeff and Nicole provided the sports trivia questions to go along with them!

Half of the tables had vases of yellow, white, and blue flowers exactly like this one on the placecard table. 

On the other half of the tables, I displayed vintage vases on top of books provided by Nicole. Every table was a bit different. 

Thank you again to Nicole and Jeff for letting me be a part of their special day. Congratulations!

Christie & Bill in Beautiful Cape May

Christie is the second sister's wedding that I worked on from one of my favorite families.  I was sooo happy to work with her and ended up in Cape May for a gorgeous weekend. Hey, if I'm going to travel that far I'm going to take a mini-vacation too!

The shore is all about soft colors - pink, white, and aqua blue - and hydrangeas - and we used a LOT of those.  The combination turned out to be really beautiful.

For her bouquet, Christie chose soft pink roses with green hypericum berries to contrast and some Queen Anne's lace for softness.

Her bridesmaids carried the same soft pink roses combined with white lisianthus. I had fun with the groomsmens' shell boutonnieres.

It was a very windy day in Cape May, so the ceremony flowers were brought down to the beach much later in the day.  I had to get the blue in those so we made bows!

There were several cocktail tables both inside and outside of the Hotel Alcott.  I painted boxes an aqua blue - spray painted shells silver - and added hydrangea to them.  What a great place to relax and have a drink!

I added shells to the vase upon which I did an pink and white arrangement for the placecard table. I felt like Queen Anne's lace belonged in Victorian Cape May!

Carolyn and Bill used an underlying baseball theme - so their tables were named after their favorite players . For half of the tables I used glass squares of white hydrangea.  I tucked in pink mini-carnations along with shells among the flowers.  I used pink hydrangea with white carnations on the other half of the tables and filled those squares with aqua blue acrylics.

Again I used my little blue boxes to decorate the sweetheart table.  I added spray roses to the hydrangea.

A huge THANK YOU to Christie and Bill for having me help them with their wedding. Not only were you wonderful to work with, the whole weekend turned out to be wonderful!.  I wish your life together to be as fabulous as your wedding day!