Guest Post on DA Weddings

One of my friends from high school runs a fabulous wedding blog, and recently asked me to write a guest post for her.  Of course I was excited to do it, and put together what I hope is a useful post for planning brides.  It's all about who gets what in terms of flowers for the wedding party.  I've written a little on that topic before in this blog post.

Check out my post on DA Weddings blog here.

And check out all of the other fabulous posts on her blog!

Happy almost spring everyone.  Pictures and posts with beautiful spring blossoms coming soon.

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Sorry I've been kind of m.i.a. lately.  I took somewhat of a break this fall to work on some other projects I had going on.

Like starting an etsy shop!  Not at all related to flowers actually, but lots of fun.  It's mostly finger puppets and other things made out of felt right now, but I'm working on expanding to clothes and accessories for kids as well.

Here's one of my favorites - a Noah's Ark finger puppet set.

I decided to focus a bit more on this business through Christmas (lots of Christmas present orders!) but now I'm back and going to be spending more time on flowers again.  

And because I feel like I just can't post on here without some wedding flower inspiration for you.  These are photos from a wedding I did a while ago that the photographer sent me after I'd already done a blog post on this wedding, so I never posted them on here!  But they're gorgeous and I wanted to share.

More posts coming soon!  I promise!

fall flowers and a pumpkin

I had the opportunity to work on some fall-themed florals recently for a dinner at my church.  It was lots of fun, and I love fall colors!  Plus, I got to use a pumpkin!  I've been wanting to do an arrangement like this for a while, but well, you just can't do this any time of year but fall!  And, as long as I had the flowers, I did a little bouquet as well.

A fall color bouquet wrapped in twine

Fall color flowers and curly willow in a pumpkin 

A close up of the flowers - yellow alstromeria, mums, and asters, orange daisies and asters, and burgundy carnations 

Happy Fall everyone!

floating roses - an elegant white wedding

Elegant and classy, but with a unique twist.  So many weddings have round tables, so it was fun to do long tables - they allow for a different style and a little more room.  Instead of just one centerpiece, we went with a row of centerpieces down the length of the table.  And those of you thinking "yeah, but that would totally blow my budget! I can't afford more than one centerpiece per table!" - definitely not the case here.  Each vase had only a single flower in it - a large white garden rose floating on top of the water.  We did mix it up a bit so some tables had a taller centerpiece in the middle, but the tables with only the floating roses looked just as lovely.  And the little glass votives, lace tablecloths, and delicate china gave it an even more romantic feeling.

A row of full white roses floating in glass vases

The taller centerpiece was actually on a glass cake stand - white roses, some greenery, and a taller candle in the middle

Retro Wildflower Themed Shoot

Here are just a few of the pictures from the awesome shoot I worked on a few weeks ago.  Thanks April from Bladh Photography for the gorgeous photos!  They were going for a very retro/vintage look, with the flowers looking very natural and organic, so we used some wildflowers, and some things you might find growing in your own garden.  We also used mason jars and some vintage looking vases and pitchers to hold the flowers and tie it all together.  Enjoy!

Photography: Bladh Photography

Makeup: Shanda Palmer with Fase It Makeup

Cotton Candy: Candy Clouds

For more of this fun shoot, check out Bladh Photography's blog post 

For more pictures just of the flowers, go to my previous blog post

blue, white, and silver wedding flowers

I recently got some of the beautiful photographs from the wonderfully talented Jessie Alexis Photography from this June wedding.  Enjoy!

I think this one of the bride is my favorite.  Also, I absolutely love love love her dress!!

And here are a few from her gorgeous bridal session.

Thanks again, Jessie, for the beautiful photos!  To see more of her wonderful work, click here.

You can also take a look at my previous posts from this wedding and bridal session.

white and gray wedding flowers

I had the wonderful opportunity to do the wedding party flowers for a lovely wedding this weekend.  I actually never got to meet the bride - she lives in Australia, but got married here, and we did all of the planning over the phone and email.  And when I delivered the flowers, I met her sister.  So I'm hoping to get some pictures from the photographer so I can see 1) how the wedding all turned out and 2) what this lovely bride looks like!

But until then, I'm happy to share some pictures I got of the flowers.  She wanted to stay simple and traditional, so we went with all white flowers - roses, tulips, lilies, and freesia - and some greenery.  I really like how elegant all white wedding bouquets can be.

The bride's bouquet (center) with the bridesmaids' bouquets on either side

All of the boutonnieres and mothers' corsages.  I didn't have time to take individual pictures... but you get the idea.  White roses with greenery and either some baby's breath or freesia.

The bride's and bridesmaids' bouquets - white roses, tulips, lilies (in the bride's) and freesia.  The bride's had a gray wrap, the bridesmaids' a white wrap, with pearl pins.