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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Succulent fun for weddings

Succulents are very big in wedding flowers this season. Rather than go with the natural, earthy look, I thought it would be fun to mix it up and add bright colors. Bringing together, craspedia, succulents, and green Kermit mums. Then wrapping it all in fabulous polka dots and green buttons.
For centerpieces apothecary jars filled with succulents and flowers, with little floral balls to accent.
Then for the wedding guest table a potted topiary of green Kermit mums and Billy balls.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

St. Helena Wedding at Go Fish Restaraunt

Margot called me from Canada to help with her wedding in St. Helena. She was married at the Go Fish Restaurant. Go Fish has a great outdoor ceremony and their patio is lovely for receptions.
I used an eclectic mix roses, scabiosa, olive branches, moss, craspidia, dahlias, cosmos and other fun stuff.
I often work with brides from out of state planning weddings in Northern California. Margot and I never met face to face, yet she loved her flowers, here is her thank you note. I get so happy when my brides love their flowers.
, Martha, thank you so much for the beautiful job you did with our flowers. We were absolutely blown away by everything, and the fact that you did such a perfect job without even meeting us is unbelievable! As you may remember, I had planned for my bridesmaids to wear fall colours, but they kind of ended up in a mishmash of random colours... Somehow, the bouquets matched perfectly - even the fuschia! Perfect - you couldn't have done a better job if I had sent you dress swatches! :)

Thanks so much!

Margot

All photos by Christine Nairne

Monday, January 31, 2011

Corsages as jewelry

When considering the corsages for your wedding, consider adding a little bling to your pieces. The mothers will be wearing elegant dresses or gowns and a few rhinestones or pearls can really accent their ensemble. Whether they choose to pin on or wear a wristlet the possiblities are unlimited. If they do choose a wrist corsage to walk down the aisle, the choices here have improved quite a bit since the day of your prom. Gone are the silver stretchy, replaced by rhinesones, pearls and many other braceletts designed to look like jewelry.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Blooms featured in Our Wedding Magazine

The latest issue of Our Wedding Magazine just came out and I am so excited! For this issue Blooms teamed up with Stephanie J Designs, stephaniejdesigns.blogspot.com, to create what has to be one of my favorite shoots ever!
We went completely vintage for the shoot, from the linens to the old ice cooler, thanks grandma, to the depression glass plates and sterling silver flatware. Stephanie even found the old style paper straws, super cute.
We imagined what a bride from the 50's might have done if she was preparing a picnic for her sweetheart and a couple of friends, fresh colors, fresh fruit and of course, soda pop. The table sits overlooking a quiet stream with a floral wreath placed to anchor the setting. A stacked floral arrangement done in vintage milk glass grouping the flowers in a monochromatic scheme.
Each place setting has it's own color, yellow David Austin roses with daffodils, Pink garden roses with ranuculus, green roses and Kermit mums, and blue delphinium. Herbs are mixed in to add a lovely fragrance.
The nosegay is a mix of all the flowers wrapped in an antique linen.
Every occasion is made into a celebration with champagne, with this in mind we gave each of our guests, their own personal bottle, straw included.

The shoot took place at wilsonvineyards.com and was photographed by Jennifer of the http://www.memoryjournalists.com/

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Blooms signature bouquet Spring version

Blooms is known for their signature bouquet, here is a spring version made with sweet peas,

Nothing says spring like peonies. The are a favorite with brides, and give a full dramatic look to whatever they grace.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Fancy Pants Blog!

Today I wanted to give you all the heads up check out my floral friend Shannon's new blog, www.fancypantsweddings.com. Shannon has 20 years in the wedding business behind her and a lot of good advice to give, so head over and explore her blog, she has advice and inspiration to help you plan a fabulous wedding, plus she is hilarious! Oh and she is featuring one of my weddings too!

Friday, April 2, 2010

Anne & Arron @ River Highlands Ranch & Vineyard III

Today Anne and Aaron's ceremony details. For the outdoor ceremony I went with bright fall florals to add pops of color. Lots of details here, we started the aisle back on the lawn with poles filled with flowers and then added larger floral arrangments on the aisle proper.
Coming to the platform we brought in a large gate and fence to drape garland and Anne's favorite, a heart.