Becca's Red and White Wedding

Okay, so it was GORGEOUS! Completely eye catching with the dramatics of red and white and black. Becca has great taste! I know this post is late, since the wedding was in June, but I guess part of me wanted to save it for later, since I miss doing flowers so much.

Pictures by Melissa Burnett Photography. - but flowers done by

Rachelle Ellis of Abloomin' Daisy!

Becca had a lot of bridesmaids, so rather than get a bunch of bouquets for each one, she made a money saver move. She just asked for a simple large red gerbera daisy for them each to put in their hair. Unfortunately my mother has those pictures on her camera.

Cute little Bentley in her floral crown.

So you can sort of see the throw bouquet, but another cool thing about the photo was is the little umbrella. I totally made it! I had this grand design, but when I got to the location, and realized the space on the table and the time, and materials... I couldn't make it work. I will have to save that design for another time.

The evolution of the umbrella if you care to know. I tore the fabric off of a normal umbrella to it's skeleton, gesso-ed the doilie my great-grandmother made, so it would be whiter and stiff, then laid it on the skeleton umbrella overnight to shape and dry. My mother and John liked the idea of modern meeting the vintage, but for some reason, I just didn't like the little plastic handle, and had to find another way to make it happen. So I took the bamboo used for floral design, to match the shape, and created the umbrella. I was going to set it up high-ish and thread flowers with fish line to hang over the guestbook, creating a floral canopy..... like I said, I will save it for another time.

The Bride's bouquet included red ranunculus and little red spray roses, white stargazer lilies and some salal leaves. I had to make a repair from the temple pictures to the reception since the lilies are fragile and since they were white they show thieir folds and bruises well. The boutonnieres for these ring bearers were small white spray roses, while the groom's were ranunculus blooms to match the bridal bouquet and the flower girl's crown. The groomsmen and fathers had mini white or red gerbera dasies, and the mother's had large red gerbera wrist corsages with black beaded wristlets- very formal. I learned a lot from this event, but as always really enjoyed working with the flowers!

Steph with Steph

Stephanie's Awesome Wedding Flowers! Her colors were black, white and GREEEEEN! Not the norm, but ended up being the most fun I have had designing a wedding. Steph's easy-going pwersonality gave me my artistic license anytime I wanted to use it! And guess what the best part was?! SHE LOVED IT! (of course she did! have you seen the pictures yet? no? well get on with it!) So I still haven't heard back from the photographer, but these are better than nothing! The above is the gorgeous Bridal Bouquet, Two cymbidium orchids (representing the two lovebirds), surrounded by green spider mums, stephanotis (little white flowers with pearl centers), white roses, hypericum berries, and green button poms, with some bear grass loops. Stephanie was a little concerned with the greenery before, saying that she didn't want anyone looking at the flowers, and thinking "wow, that's a lot of leaves", so we just left them out completely.

This is the Throw Bouquet, obviously smaller, but similar flowers, and lots of bear grass! (ooo I love it!)

Sorry this is upside down, but you get the idea.

Close up on the Brial below.

For the sweet Bridesmaids..... gerber daisies, hypericum berries, green spider mums, and green button poms. (I waited until I was at the ceremony to cut the stems to proper length)

For the Groom: (above)

Pretty simple groomsmen boutonnieres, but they look pretty cool!

My favorite corsages, I have ever done! I loved each of them. The bear grass is an awesome airy substitute for normal green leaves.






To go along wth her invitations and to match her style, I designed this wrap! The black lace over the white silk is different, and "sexy". HA ha.

there are more pictures, but I just don't have them :( I'M stranded in New York.

Bridal Pictures Bouquet for Stephanie

Don't these roses look gorgeous!?

Two dozen white roses, with a wrap to match her Green, Black and White theme.

The Mara

I should be able to get some professional pictures. I just wanted to get some pictures up. Here ya go!

So usually, I come up with a name for particular arrangements... and this one was named after it's bride: Mara.

Awesome, her colors were purple and black. Originally we planned to have some purple poppies with black centers, but they weren't available. Instead I substituted the orchids, and I'll bet you agree, they look amazing! Better than any poppy. I think Mara loved it too.

Bridesmaid bouquets were smaller but very beautiful, with a thin black wire and black ribbon as an accent.

Above is the bride's bouquet, and instead of plain black wire, there are black beads, which are also in the Throw Bouquet (below).

10 Centerpieces, very simple and beautiful. Each with a simple dark purple (black) calla lilly, and glass pebbles. At night they lit floating candles which made for a very romantic atmosphere.Above is Jae's (the groom's) bout. Unfortunately it blends a little too much into the jacket. But I Love the simplicity of the calla lilly and two grass blades. Below are the groomsmen bouts, a simple dendro orchid, with salal leaves and a couple of black beads.

Above is a Mother's corsage. Women's have at least two flowers in them, and these have small purple (or blue) aster blooms.

Here is the cake done by the awesome Granite Bakery, which by the bride's request, I topped with some fresh flowers.