The Full Bouquet

Floral Inspirations - Almost Famous

Weeks ago when we did our fun photo shoot with photographer Anne Robert, we gave here a pile of boutonnieres, and unique floral designs.  Here are some of the images from that day. This first piece was a floral necklace.  Designer Jessie actually came up with this piece and I think it is really fun.

 

 

This really stunning bout, was created to go with the jewelry.

 

I created this head band of bark wire, rose petals swirled together and pieces of honeysuckle.

 

This necklace and the headband were not designed to go together, I had an orange bouquet and bout to go with this headband, but everyone had fun mixing the bouquets, bouts, and jewelry.

 

 

 

Are you digging our really cool boutonnieres?

 

 

This one looks like it got a little hot, but I think you get the idea. We are getting almost famous for our unique floral jewelry, boutonnieres and corsages. We love, that you love, what we do!!!

Thank you Anne for doing such a wonderful job capturing our work.

Tram- Westfields Marriott -Holly Chapple Flowers & Photographer Kate Triano

I really wish I was a professional photographer, because when I walked in the room and saw Tram in her wedding gown I would have given anything just to get one good photo.  I almost fell over when I saw how incredibly beautiful my bride looked, and her dress was completely amazing. Thank goodness photographer Kate Triano was there to capture the day!

 

Here is a picture of Kate at work, she is the pretty lady hiding behind the lens.  I love seeing the maids gather around Tram while they adorn her with the finishing touches.

 

 

The bridal bouquet was created with yellow calla lily, yellow billy balls, cream stock, white freesia, green cymbidium orchids, and pale yellow roses.  Pretty stunning right?

 

 

Maids bouquets were monochromatic yellow, but we inserted a tiny silver thread through the designs. The bouquets would be carried by maids wearing platinum dresses. The bouquets were created with yellow gerber daisies, yellow football mums, yellow roses, yellow billy balls, bupleurum and gardenia leaves.

 

The wedding took place at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia. We used several of the centerpieces to decorate the ceremony site.

 

Clusters of flowers were attached to the first rows indicating these were reserved for family.

 

 

Our centerpieces were a mix of all of the flowers of the day, but pops of bright green were added into these designs.

  

 

 

 

Tram was absolutely wonderful to work with. She has been a very supportive bride and a true fan of Holly Heider Chapple Flowers. I am proud to say I did the flowers for this wonderful wedding. Happy married life!!

 

In The Cooler - Here We Go Again

This week we worked on two weddings that feature the color yellow. Chartreuse green and accents of silver were added to one of the yellow weddings and that was the significant difference between the two looks. Our 3rd wedding of the weekend moves towards the fall colors. My weddings this week are all very special to me and I love my brides. Whoops, we actually provided flowers for four weddings; a woman I have known for years married today, and we were honored to make her bridal bouquet as well. Happy wedding day to Jennifer!

 

 

 

 

 

We are loving this new rose that was just developed; I believe my wholesalers were calling her Savannah. I have to admit I missed a lot of the chatter this week in the flower shop. I spent the majority of my week begging for my phone service to be restored. If you tried to reach me,  you know what I mean. Lucky me, they restored my phone today, but guess what; now they have given me the wrong phone number. The epic drama continues. Perhaps at some point the phone company thats name begins with a 'V' is going to figure out a way to give me phone, internet, and cable TV.

 

I am off to bed, I am trying to carve out enough time to get to the Lucketts Fair, which happens to be this weekend. I am looking for props for several of my weddings and I just know I can find everything I need right here in little old Lucketts.

 

I Am Still Here!!!

Just a quick note for those of your trying to reach me, I am having huge problems with Verizon right now. When you call my number you will be told that the line has been disconnected. Verizon is supposedly working on the problem. (I will not use this blog to vent, I will not use this blog to vent, I will not use this blog to vent.) We converted to FIOS 3 weeks ago and we can't seem to get, internet, TV, and telephone with voicemail, all working at the same time. They assure me that they are working on this issue but in the meantime please do not worry. We are here and working diligently on this weekends events. See you tonight with my "in the cooler" post.

The Last Few Days

 

I have missed a few blog posts, it has been beyond wild in the Chapple house. We are busy getting brides down the aisle, preparing for the weddings of the fall, meeting with 2011 clients, and we are packing up some of the Chaplets and sending them off to college. Our oldest Alex left last week, we have been through this before so it is painful but not gut wrenching. Packing up Abby to go for the first time could definitely be called gut wrenching. In spite of all of this family drama we have continued to produce some amazing designs. 

The bouquet above was created for Lindsay, it was designed with coxcomb, callas, dahlias, orchids, zinnia, roses, hydrangea, stock and scabiosa.  The wedding took place at the famous Whitehall Manor.

 

 

 

Here are some great shots of the remarkable Reget's at work. I love taking pictures of photographers on the job.

 

Our centerpieces were rich and vibrant and I loved the silver accents.

 

We added these pink crystals to the designs just before we headed to the wedding. I have had them in my shop for over a year and I have been dying to use them.

 

 

A huge round of applause needs to go to Jason at Market Salamander, he created this cake to look like the couples dog. His work and attention to detail was outrageous.

 

 

The real wedding cake was as lovely as the grooms cake was unique. I was amazed by the talent of this young baker. He is top notch and I bet we see him on TV some day.

 

We also provided these happy yellow designs to a wedding on Sunday. We had an event on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday last week, all while we were getting the kids off to school.

 

This bridal bouquet was created with yellow billy balls, white cabbage roses, creme de la creme roses, green hydrangea, green berry, and yellow spray rosees. We also added some white hydrangea from my garden.

 

We used football mums to create mini bouquets for the moms.

 

We have lots of amazing events coming up, I am in awe of what we will accomplish over the next few months; all with a broken heart. We miss you Abby this one hurts big time.

 

This is a photo of Abby ( she is on the left in the stripped shirt) just as we headed off to college.

 

Here she is in her new home away from home, at JMU.