The Full Bouquet

WINTER WEDDING "IN THE COOLER"

It seems like every time it snows we have a wedding. In spite of a foot of snow we are ready to deliver. My lovely flowers are resting "in the cooler."  The bride will carry a bridal bouquet of white cabbage roses, pine cones, pods, cedar, magnolia, dusty miller, and white ranunculus. The bouquet is absolutely delicious and it is the perfect winter bouquet.

Half of the centerpieces were designed in my birch vases. The vases were carved by my husband Evan. The other half of the centerpieces are huge mounds of evergreen, roses, pine cones and fillers.  The pictures I took are so horrible I was unable to post them.

Maids will carry bouquets of gold combo roses, dusty miller, seeded euc, pine cones, and cedar. The bouquets were bound with gold satin ribbon.

The grooms bout was created with angel vine, spray roses, cedar, pine cones, and dusty miller.

We also have some sweet pink designs "in the cooler,"  it's my baby Grace's 2nd birthday. Time is flying.

IN THE COOLER, IN THE OFFICE, AND FAMILY TIME

The energy in my house is perfect right now, all of my kids are home and this is absolutely when I am the happiest.

Our day started with  trip to Eli's preschool for a little pre Thanksgiving celebration.  Big sister Abby got home just in time to visit with us at the school.

Casey, and Kelly, got to check out working in the new office. Our makeover is going to be a huge help. We went through countless emails, ordered flowers, wrote invoices, and worked on the new website which is very close to launching.

Our cooler is holding flowers for two weddings and we look forward to delivering both of these events.

Now that Alex is home our house is full, and I am totally content.

Good night and enjoy the family around you!!

Royalty "in the cooler"

We have a purple and red toned wedding tomorrow. Purple and red is regal, dramatic, and super lush. Purple and red is also the color of royalty.  I am so excited because our wedding is at the Goodstone Inn. I have always truly dreamed of doing a wedding at this venue, so I am seriously ready to preform.  The Goodstone is one of the finest inns, and it is seriously famous. I can't wait to get these awesome flowers to our wedding.

We added touches of gold to our designs this weekend to increase the drama.

These pieces are for our huge king sized table. We have several large elevated designs for this table and multiple little designs and lots of candlelight.

This is the start of my bridal bouquet. Since sleeping on the bridal bouquet went so well last weekend, I decided to finish this in the morning. I wonder what I will think of in the middle of the night. 

These designs are going in the windows of an old ruin on the property. The ruin or stone wall is covered in green ivy and it is the backdrop for the ceremony.

We will be creating two large columns of flowers. I look forward to seeing all of these flowers in a huge garland style design.

Time to get to sleep, I have a big day ahead of me. 

Wedding Flowers For Donna, Erica, Marci, and Lanah

Our weekend started Friday night with this gorgeous fall toned wedding at Rust Manor House in Leesburg, VA.  Donna was the bride of the day, and her bouquet was a rich mix of white dahlias, brown cymbidium orchids, white cabbage roses, gypsy curiosa roses, seeded euc, and jester amaranthus. The only word for this bouquet was stunning. We also wrapped the bouquet with a collar of angel vine. Angel vine is a brown twig that I love to wrap into my designs.

 

 

Maids carried bouquets of white dahlias, white stock, white spray roses, white roses, and each bouquet was collared with seeded euc.

 

The wedding took place on the steps of the manor home.

 

 

Centerpieces were created in vintage wooden boxes and I totally loved the look. In fact we now have 15 of these in inventory.

 

Centerpieces featured copper football mums, white hydrangea, hypericum berry, white roses, gypsy curiosa roses, white stock and filler flowers.

 

 

The head table featured 2 elevated designs, lanterns, and smaller designs in the wooden boxes.

Next we headed to Erika's wedding at the Stables at Great Country Farms. Here I used an awesome mix of green and white blossoms with pops of hot pink and yellow. This look was fun, bright and happy.

 

Erika's bouquet featured green hydrangea, green roses, Don's white dahlias, green cymbidium orchids, hot pink globe amaranthus, pink smartweed, seeded euc, white freesia, and white stock. This was such a refreshing combination. 

 

The maids were really loose and airy and loaded in great stuff like, green carnations, smartweed, the pink globe amaranthus, white stock, white phlox, seeded euc, green dianthus, and hot pink dahlias.

 

When I saw the family hanging the place cards on the barn wall, I just simply could not resist, I had to add a few extra flowers from my doctor bucket.

 

 

Centerpieces were an amazing mix of all the flowers of the day, plus we added pink zinnia's from my garden, hypericum berry , green amaranthus, and yellow tansy. We used all 3 sizes of mason jars and power packed the table with color and charm. Erica also rented these fabulous table runners from us and we now offer them as a rental. 

 

 

We decorated the aisle with these sweet vases and twig poles.

 

We decorated the cake from Market Salamander with fresh flowers and I begged to have it placed on this wine barrel instead of the usual cake table.

 

 

We also used the leftover blossoms to sexy up a few naked areas.

 

With flowers and scissors in hand, I can decorate anything.

 

Bride Marci sent her soon to be groom out to the Chapple Flower house to pick up these fabulous centerpieces and bouquets. Marci found me while surfing the internet and she became convinced that the trip to my house for flowers, would be worth her one and half hour drive. She really loves our flowers.

 

 

 

You may notice the amazing dahlias are finally showing up in my designs. My local grower Don is finally harvesting from his crop of dahlias. The incredible heat and lack of rain has made this growing season a real challenge. With the change in climate the dahlias are able to produce. Thank you God, and thank you Don.

 

This amazing design was created for Lanah. Lanah worked here a short period of time last winter so helping to create these bouquets was awesome. We made this bridal, 8 maids bouquets and over 50 designs in silver trophy bowls. Lanah's wedding took place on her family horse farm in Maryland. For her bridal bouquet, I was so happy to use my clematis vine that had just come into bloom, we also used white cabbage roses, sahara roses, quicksand roses, tuber roses, white mini callas, lambs ear from my garden, white freesia, and seeded euc. This bridal bouquet was completely classic.

 

Each of the maids bouquets was unique and featured some of the bridal flowers.

 

 

In addition to the wedding orders we also provided birthday flowers for Tracy's moms, 75th birthday party. Tracy was my bride 3 years ago, and she had me recreate her bridal centerpieces again, for her moms big day. Now, that is totally cool! I also got to do birthday flowers for Felicity's big birthday. I worked with Felicity 23 years ago at an airline called Presidential airways. I was 20 years old when I last saw her. She found me on Facebook and I was thrilled to be able to provide her family with birthday flowers. Felicity was from Africa and she used to absolutely enthrall us with stories of her life in Africa. 

All in all, I would say we had a pretty rocking weekend, for a small little weekend. The kids are all fine, Evan and I are managing to handle this house, this life, and this business. We certainly have our challenges, but we are dealing with them all. It was a great flower weekend at our place.

 

"In The Cooler" Sleepy Style

I am going to cheat a little with my " in the cooler" post and hurry up to bed, I am sleepy...Today was Donna's wedding and her flowers were totally awesome. I will post her full wedding on Monday when I have a little more energy, you will love her designs. I have several other events "in the cooler" and I will give you a quick stroll through the cooler and then I am heading to bed. It is 10:24 as I start this post, I just got home from seeing my daughter in the marching band, and I am totally worn out. Having 3 kids under the age of 5 at a football game while your teenagers stroll around or perform in the band is totally freaking exhausting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Night, night...