A thank you note to make my day

On Saturday I did the flowers for the sister of my friend and fabulous wedding planner, Catriona of www.catrinamaria.com.

The wedding was at the beautiful River Highlands Ranch and there was a wonderful team of top notch wedding vendors! I can't wait to show you more photos.

But the point of this blog post is that the sweet bride and groom sent me an email in the wee hours of the morning. So thoughtful and just what I needed to start my week.

"We are about to leave on our honeymoon but before we take off I just had to let you know what a crazy beautiful amazing job you did. I honestly couldn't believe my eyes, everything was so gorgeous! Thank you so much for all your hard work, please let us know if there is anything we can do for you!

Marianne and Darwin"

Jennifer with the Memory Journalists was the amazing photographer of the day!

www.memoryjournalists.com

More wedding details, place settings

Another small but elegant touch is placing a flower or herb for fragrence at each guests table setting. A small but thoughtful gesture that will have each one of your wedding guests feeling special. It also adds color and drama to the overall look of your

table.

Wedding details

While most brides are eager to talk about and plan their bridal bouquet, ceremony flowers, centerpieces etc.... it's the floral details that excite me the most. A garland strung around a chandelier, a beautiful floral cluster on the back of the bride and grooms chair, or a wreath of fresh flowers like one shown here hung on an entrance door to greet your guests. These are the details that often set your wedding apart and create that extra special feeling for your wedding day.

Photography by Xsight Photography

The Memory Journalists

Alexandra Frankel Photography

Our Wedding Magazine shoot...the photos

A few posts ago I showed you the magazine lay out for the Blooms feature in the Our Weddings Magazine. Today I want to share more of the images taken by Jennifer of http://www.memoryjournalists.com/
The design was created by office mate, Stephanie of /stephaniejdesigns.blogspot.com and myself. We had a lot of fun pulling from our grandmothers linen cupboards, searching antique stores for milk glass and depression glass. The setting was Wilson Vineyards in front of a lovely creek. We set our table under the tree and hung a floral wreath to define our space. Stephanie created all the labels for the soda bottles, champagne bottles etc...To me details make the decor, flower garlands on the backs of the chairs, the old ice chest lid graces with blooms.
I really love how it all came together!

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/

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.

Rock and Roll Bride

For the bride who just isn't like everyone else! How about a rock-n-roll theme?

Guitar cookies made by Village Cake Company

Custom leather chair covers by Wild Flower Linen

Fabulous boutoineer

The place cards are "back stage passes"

The team

A while back I did a photo shoot with some wedding friends Catriona of www.arcularius-events.com/ and Jennifer from www.memoryjournalists.com/
We went with a rock and roll theme. Catriona found these fabulous custom made leather chair covers from Wildflower linen along with a leather table linen, leopard and red!
I brought in aluminum sheets to serve as our back drop and cut chargers for our place settings out of aluminum as well.
I used antherium and caranations with lots of bling! Then I accented the fabulous Z gallery chandelier with strands of carnations.
Partick from Village Cake Comany made wonderful guitar cookies and Sarah with Bella Vita Invitations did all our paper, place settings etc...