Real Weddings: June 2009

It has been a little while since I have updated, but here are a few shots from this past summer. It was a great season and I am looking forward to the events coming up this fall. More photos to come!

Color scheme of deep purple, bright green, and white
Event location: Trophy Lake Golf and Casting

Brides Bouquet: white mini calla lilies, purple lisianthus, green hydrangea, green hypericum berries, and white dahlias.

Bridesmaid Bouquet: Green hydrangea and white lisianthus.

Grooms Boutonniere: White mini calla lily with green hypericum berries

Additional Boutonnieres: Green button mums with beargrass.

Centerpiece 1: Tall glass cylinders with purple lisianthus anchored in green grass.

Centerpiece 2: Green spider mum in a small bubble bowl.

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Color scheme: Sea Glass (light blue, green , white)
Event location: Inn at Gig Harbor

Brides Bouquet: Light blue hydrangea, white lisianthus, green cymbidium
orchids and beargrass.

Altar/Head Table Arrangements: Light blue hydrangea, roses, green cymbidium orhcids, white dendrobium orchids and beargrass sit atop a tall glass cylinder filled with sea glass.

Bridesmaids Bouquets: Light blue hydrangeas, green cymbidium orchids, and beargrass.

Real Weddings: May 2009

The first wedding was a color scheme of green and white.
This wedding was at Tacoma’s Landmark Convention Center
in the roof garden ballroom and deck overlooking
the Puget Sound and Mt. Rainier.

Brides Bouquet: white phalaenopsis and green cymbidium orchids, green and white hydrangea, white tulips and lily grass.

The roof garden deck with a view of Mt. Rainier in the distance was set for the ceremony. Pomanders of green button mums hung from the chairs.

3-tiered square cake from Celebrity Cake Studio was decorated with green cymbidium orchids.

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I also did a pink and white wedding this past month.
The main flower used was stargazer lilies.

Brides Bouquet: stargazer lilies, pink roses and beargrass.

Maid of Honor & Bridesmaids:
stargazer liles, white roses and beargrass.

Centerpieces: large bubble bowl with a single stargazer lily.

Altar: 2 arrangements (one on each side) of stargazer lilies, roses, spray roses, white hydrangea, white stock, bells of Ireland, lily grass and variegated greens.

Cherry Blossoms

The cherry trees in my front yard are in full bloom right now. They are so beautiful and I love that the blossoms are the promise of sweet fruit through the summer. Here are a few photos of the trees as well as a simple centerpiece idea.

Glass cylinder with a single branch tucked inside.

This is the small vase I keep on my desk. Perfect for a cluster of cherry blossoms!

April 25th Wedding

The wedding colors were deep magenta, pale yellow, and silver.
The bride and groom wanted a very soft, romantic, spring look.

So I used peonies, tulips, narcissus cheerfulness, lisianthus, sweetpeas, waxflower, and ivy.

Brides Bouquet: peony, sweetpea, lisianthus, tulips & trailing ivy

Bridesmaids: their dresses were magenta so we focused on the pale yellow for their bouquets

Grooms Boutonniere: tulips, waxflower, & ivy

Groomsmen & Others Boutonniere: cream lisianthus with waxflower and ivy

March 3, 2009 Wedding

The bride carried light blue hydrangea, yellow daffodils, yellow mini daffodils (narcissus), and silver painted beargrass.

The bridesmaids bouquets echoed the brides bouquet but smaller and with only the hydrangea and full size daffodils.

The candleabras and pew ends had swags of hydrange and daffodils with ruscus and silver satin ribbon.

Boutonnieres: 2 mini daffodils with looped silver grass and a satin silver ribbon.

Corsages: light blue hydrangea and yellow freesia with a silver satin ribbon.

Tacoma Spring Wedding Expo!

This wedding expo, American Party Place provided a beautiful booth bursting with color and personality. The linens they chose were ocean, silver, and white. Jen’s Blossoms brought in floral accents of orange with a bit of fuchsia, green, and white to compliment the linens.

The centerpiece above has 3 varieties of orange roses, fuchsia spray roses, kumquats on the branch, privet berries, and magnolia leaves. Below is a top view on the centerpiece.

Flower tower (above) filled with kumquats and topped with white phalaenopsis orchids and lily grass.

A bouquet of orange roses and mini calla lilies tied with an orange striped ribbon.

A glass cylinder (above) is filled with kumquats surrounding a pillar candle and topped with an arrangement of roses, bells of Ireland, magnolia leaves, and curly willow.

Hand-tied bouquet of orange roses, green cymbidium orchids, ti leaves, and beaded flowers.

Here a white urn (above) is filled with a spray of curly willow nestled in a base of moss, roses, magnolia leaves, and kumquats.

Green cybmidium orchids float in a bubble bowl.

The glass cube filled with kumquats is the perfect accent to these mini calla lilies and ti leaves.

Wedding Trends 2009 Symposium

March 8th was the 2009 Wedding Trends Symposium at Washington Floral Service. The day brought many helpful tips, introduction to some new products, cool design ideas, and yes, snow! Here are photos of a few designs that top designer Loann Burke, AIFD, PFCI showed us.

Loann holding a “cascade bouquet”, the cascade in this bouquet is the beargrass handle.

A trio arrangement (below) with daisies. The colored floral foam cubes look like cut fruit. Cantaloupe, honeydew, and pineapple!

A delicate cascading bridal bouquet (below left) complete with bustle flowers (below right). Martha Stewart Weddings Fall 2008 also showed bustle flowers although theirs were done with ribbon/fabric flowers.

Loann showing us a presentation bouquet of monstera leaves, burgundy ti leaves, cymbidium orchids, calla lilies, leucadendron, and gold glittered branches.

A close up of the above presentation bouquet.

Finally Loann showed us a tall arrangement with submerged hydrangea, river rocks, and a floating candle topped with an extravagant display of white and green flowers.

Socks & Onesies Bouquet!

I was invited to a friends baby shower recently and was looking for a unique gift that would reflect me…I stumbled across these adorable arrangements of baby clothes folded and rolled to look like flowers. How perfect! I decided to try and make one myself. Here is how it turned out. I love it and I am sure there will be more of these made in the future!

This bouquet was for a baby boy. What you cannot see is that the handle of the bouquet is wrapped in chocolate brown ribbon and tied with a bow.

Winter, Spring, & Something In Between!

Signs of Spring are popping up around the Northwest but still winter lingers with the occasional snow shower.

I couldn’t help but take a photo of these tulips in the lingering snow…such a contrast, winter meets spring.

For Valentines Day this year I kept things pretty traditional (usually I am striving to find a new way to present red roses) but I was feeling a bit nostalgic for classic design. A display of red roses, baby’s breath, and leather leaf fern. I got beautiful Black Bacarra roses, Million Star (baby’s breath) and an awesome pink/red/white striped sheer ribbon.

January Wedding Expo

So I decided to kick off my blog with some shots of the Tacoma Wedding Expo this past month. I exhibited with American Party Place (they do event rentals) and we had such a great time. Here is a photo (left) of me and Loree from American Party Place.

Our colors were red and a minty aqua…such a stunning contrast…so vibrant!

I tried to work in a variety of designs at different price points. American Party Place supplied the vases and containers and I took it from there. I used red gerbera daisies with dark centers, red anemones, red hybrid ranunculus, red carnations massed together, and red mokara dendrobium orchids to contrast the variety of white flowers including peonies, hydrangea, anemones, freesia, cymbidium orchids, and dendrobium orchids.

 

Left: 3 red gerbera daisies “planted” in wheatgrass all inside a tall cylinder vase with a grosgrain ribbon wrap around the base.  Right: A floating candle in a glass cylinder surrounded by a wreath of white flowers including: peonies, cymbidium orchids, anemone, and freesia.

Below: A hand-tied bouquet of peonies, anemone, and freesia wrapped with a striped grosgrain ribbon and tied with a bow.

 

Left: Tall cylinder filled with aqua colored water and topped with an arrangement of curly willow, monstera leaves, hydrangea, and orchids.  Right: Bubble bowl lined with custom paper and then topped with a mass of red carnations.

The tented booth!

Check back for new posts about the latest event trends, new ideas,
and my adventures in floral design!
till next time…