Woodland Bouquet

See what Brides.com said about our work

http://www.brides.com/blogs/aisle-say/2010/08/rock-on.html

also - check out their other link to our work.
http://www.brides.com/blogs/aisle-say/2010/07/the-new-shape-of-bouquets.html

We have one bouquet featured on line and the other in the full story
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http://www.brides.com/wedding-ideas/wedding-flowers/2010/05/BLM_SS10_Bouquet_Shapes#slide=3

Onteora Mountain House - June Wedding

Even though I have already Blogged about this wedding (see older posts June 30th) I thought I would post the entire wedding as I just got these amazing photos from a wonderful photographer named Cappy Hotchkiss. We have worked with her several times and are always captivated by her work. She works with film, a rarity these days and has such a creative eye. She has a nice and sweet disposition. She captures the essence of all the weddings she photographs. I love how she is able to “see” what we have envisioned in our work.
 Bravo Cappy and thank you. You can find more of Cappy’s work on her website at http://www.cappyhotchkiss.com/

The location for this wedding was at Onteora Mountain House- please visit them at http://www.onteora.com/ I cannot say enough about this magnificent place. It is a breathtaking place and the staff is so nice and accommodating. Cappy took some nice photos of Onteora I will include.
Without sounding redundant, I will explain the ideas for this wedding. The couple Sarah and Eric were great, stylish, smart and hip. We also worked a lot with Sarah’s mother who couldn’t be nicer. The couple was inspired by these old 1940’s maps, which they laminated and wanted to use on each table. We took the linen and napkin colors from these maps. At first, our sample was in a white glass square, (see sample on May 5th post). After discussing this with the bride, she thought that Bubble Bowls would look better on top of the maps as their shape was also rounded. We totally agreed. This is a good example how important the collaborative process is.
We alternated Bubble Bowls, Urns and Manzanita branch that are small desert trees. Because I have already gone through all the flowers for this wedding on a previous post I will just feature all the wonderful shots that Cappy took. If you would like to see and read, more you can view this wedding post – Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 under June weddings.

we decorated this cake with faux leaves branches, mushrooms and rock candy

Blue Mountain Bistro/ Bistro to Go, caterered this wedding and also baked this cake.You can find them at:

http://www.bluemountainbistro.com/

They are the in house caterers for Onteora and their food is delicious.

Round Hill House Weddings in August

I never made it to these two weddings so this post will be short. I also only got photos of the centerpieces for one wedding. The other wedding Steve added to the centerpieces at the location so I thought I would wait to get the professional photos.

This photo is of a Bridesmaids bouquet. We used Sumatra Lilies they are the darkest you can find. We also used green Celosia also known as Coxcomb, pink Stock, Amnesia Roses, and white Lisianthus.

The Maid of Honor bouquet had pink Cymbidium Orchids, lavender stock, white Scabiosa flowers; white Ranunculus, Amnesia Roses and Scabiosa Pods.

The Brides Bouquet had white Ranunculus, pale pink Stock, and pink Cymbidium Orchids, white Freesia, white Scabiosa flowers, Scabiosa Pods, Amnesia Roses and raspberry Zinnias.

The Boutonnières had white Ranunculus, white Freesia, Scabiosa Pod and Ivy.

There was only one Brides bouquet for the second wedding. Here we used ivory Stock, peach Parrot Tulips, white Lisianthus, apricot and white Ranunculus, ivory Dahlia, Brunia, white Freesia, Stars of Bethlehem, Tweedia, Lady’s Mantle and Scabiosa Pods.

Here are two photos of different sized centerpieces in mercury glass. They both had green Hydrangea, orange and yellow Mokara Orchids, ivory Stock, Pin Cushion Protea and Ivy.

The Boutonnière had apricot Ranunculus, white/green Lisianthus, Orchids and Ivy.

Woodland Inspirational samples

Finally, I have our “Woodland” bouquet and centerpiece ready to show you. As I mentioned before, I had a vision of these and wanted desperately to see it come to fruition. I am inspired by nature and have been pondering how to bring the woods into a bouquet and centerpiece. I wanted the focal point of the bouquet to be the moss and river rocks. I wanted the flowers to be secondary. I also wanted it to look like the moss was growing over the rocks. I love when I see this in nature. Since this is our first attempt, there are several other ideas and Modifications which can be used. I ordered flowers that would look like they belonged in the forest. I instructed Steve to make the bouquet how I envisioned it. I cannot explain all the inner working of the construction. I wanted some of the rocks to have small amounts of Reindeer Moss attached by wire. I wanted to see the wire as well.

In the bouquet, there are river rocks, three types of Moss, Tweedia, Agapanthus, Brunia, Lady’s Mantle and Scabiosa Pods.

For the Boutonniere, I used Tweedia, Lady’s Mantle, Brunia, Moss, Wax flower, a river stone and a small Guinea feather. I know this looks big but it is only because the photo is a closeup.

I made the centerpiece similar to the bouquet then I added Ivy, Fern, Hosta leaves and small vines.

I am showing several detailed photos so you can see what we used close up.

I absolutely love what we did for these arrangements. I would love to see some driftwood or Kiwi vine in the centerpiece. I would love to see some fern, small branch or driftwood in the bouquet.

I am sharing some photos of our two-year-old Scarlett Lily. Boy did I have to make a fuss to get any photos with our work.