Sea Shell Wedding Flowers

We have all seen sand and shells in the bottom of vases, for your beach wedding by the ocean, why not carry the theme all the way through and add shells to your personal flowers, bridal bouquets, boutonnieres and corsages?
For this beach wedding, I placed shells in the calla lillies and orchids.
I love the subtle way the ocean theme comes through in these wedding flowers.

Bridal Bouquets for Real Weddings Magazine

For the last issue of Real Weddings magazine I was asked to do a few bridal bouquets for their photo shoot. Andrea of www.andreasimages.com/was the photographer.
For the first bouquet I went with beautiful china mums, star of Bethlehem and black crystal flowers. I finished the stems with black velvet ribbon and a rhinestone broach.

The next bouquets was made with solid red and black anenomies wrapped in red ribbon, and the to personalize I had my fabulous friend Stephanie of stephaniejdesigns.blogspot.com

The last bouquet was a yellow and grey beauty. I used my favorite Billy balls, craspidia, yarrow, and silver brunia. I then wrapped it in a silver satin.

Notice how the look of the bouquet changes when put in front of different colors, amazing!

Nicole and John on San Francisco Style Unveiled

Check out Nicole and John's wedding on San Francisco Style Unveiled
http://www.sanfranciscostyleunveiled.com/nicoleandjohn/2010/3/16/nicole-and-johns-real-wedding.html#comments

Nicole and John's Slide show

I'm so excited! Jen of the Memory Journalists has a wonderful slide show of our Capitola wedding. Click the link and take a minute and enjoy the view.

www.memoryjournalists.com

Here are a few more images from the day

Capitola Wedding Ceremony part 2

Whats old is new! I know baby's breath is a no no, but once again if you take a flower and mass it together beautiful things happen.
Clusters of baby's breath and candles add to the charm of the Shawdowbrook Restaurant.



Shawdowbrook Restaurant has been around for many years! I loved the rustic 70's vibe.
Notice the candles on the floor.
Photos by www.memoryjournalists.com

Capitola wedding at the Shawdowbrook Restaurant

Now the one thing you need to know about the Shawdowbrook restaurant is that it has the only operational tram in existence! Very cool, unless that is you are hauling down 10 trips worth of flowers, chandeliers, candles etc... o.k. it really is marvelous but quite the little workout.

The three flights of stairs you go down AFTER you have taken the tram.


Nicole and John's wedding was lots of fun as it brought together a few fabulous vendors from the Sacramento area, Jennifer from http://www.memoryjournalists.com/ was the photograher,
Carissa with sugarandspice.me did a fabulous dessert bar and amazing cake that matched the invitation that was designed by stationary exdrordineree, Stephanie of stephaniejdesigns.blogspot.com. You really need to go the the Memory Journalist blog to see what an amazing job Carrisa did in matching the cake to the paper!

Also along for the fun was Phil of sheffieldmultimedia.com I will post the video as soon as it comes out.

Now onto the flowers!

These are some of my all time favorite boutonieers.


The bridal party flowers were made up of chocolate orchids, hyacinth, muscari, roses, galax leaves, ping pong scabiosa. I used satin ribbon and then fresh emblelishments down the front.

The centerpieces were composed of thistle, roses, Hyacinth,succulents, ranuculus and spider mums.
The reception room had glass windows that look out to the flowing river. We hung mini chandeliers from the ceiling to add a candlelit glow when it got dark.

Off to Capitola!

Today Blooms is off to the beach, not exactley your typical sunny California day, but hey the beach is the beach!
Happy Wedding Day Nicole.
I leave you with a bridal bouquet from last summer.
Photo by Ford Family Photography