Sarah & Josh on Style Me Pretty

This week Style me Pretty featured Sarah and Josh's wedding! It was one of my favorites for lots of reasons!

To see the full gallery go to www.stylemepretty.com/2011/06/13/newcastle-wedding-from-blooms-by-martha-andrews

When Sarah and I first talked she mentioned wanting a planner so I told her to call the fabulous Michalea of Plush www.plushweddings.com. From there Michalea brought together a fabulous team of vendors to create an amazing wedding day! I love working with Michalea and putting our heads together to come up with wedding design. Josh's family built the wooden walls that helped create an outdoor room for the ceremony. Then Michalea brought in CMC to drape the barn walls to add elegance for the reception.

Photography by Alexandra Frankel Photography alexandrafrankel.blogspot.com

Invitations and wedding paper by Stephanie of stephaniejdesigns.blogspot.com
Cake by www.sweetcakesbyrebecca.com

Catering by Jackson Catering

Organic herbal bridal bouquet

We all know there is a huge trend toward eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable products, and the wedding industry is no exception. Most people are putting their money where there mouth is and are fully embracing a lifestyle that will be better for our planet. So when I bride starts looking for a florist it is becoming more common that she wants to know where her flowers are coming from.

Thankfully Blooms is located in a place that allows for purchasing many of our flowers right from the grower, or even using flowers and greens that we grow ourselves. Being in the central valley of California, farmers markets are everywhere and having our workshop in the country, we are near many local growers of flowers, vegetables and herbs.

The bouquet shown was made up of herbs grown by Blooms just for putting in bouquets, oregano, sage, rosemary and kale. The flowers featured are roses, bouvardia and celosia.

Another wonderful thing about using locally grown flowers is you actually have fragrance. Many wholesale grown flowers have been so genetically altered that the fragrance is diminished or gone altogether.

Photo by Paul Estebrook for Our Weddings Magazine

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.

Aaron and Kim part II centerpieces

Last week you saw Aaron and Kim's ceremony flowers, today I'll show you what we did up stairs. Kim wanted to add pops of color, pink, green and white. We made flower balls and placed them on mercury pillars, then every other table had mercury glass with candles.
For the head table we did a combination of candles and flower balls.

All reception photos by Anne Andrews

http://www.anneandrewsphotography.blogspot.com/

Sweet Liz at The Sacramento Grand Ballroom

Liz loves pop art, bright colors and cartoons! She choose hot pink gerbera daisies, such a cheerful flower~
Beth Bauer from http//truelovephoto.com/blog/ did the fabulous photography!
For her bouquet Liz chose a small version of the Blooms signature bouquet.







We lined the aisle with floating candles


We used cylinders with hot pink gerbera daisies, crystals and hanging candles



The sweetheart table, feathers and flowers!


This darling stand was made by the brides father

Much of the reception decor were tall cylinders with flowers and floating candles.