The Full Bouquet

In The Cooler & Happy Birthday Designer Debbie

In the midst of our busy Friday we got to stop for a mini birthday party for designer Debbie. Happy birthday Designer Debbie, we love you!!!

Elodie or Frenchy, worked on our pumpkin centerpieces.

Miriam created these awesome flower girl baskets.

Designer Debbie made mountains of bouts and corsages.

Designer Gabby helped with, bouquets, kids, and our puppy Sadie.

We have 3 events this weekend and we are enjoying a calmer week. I head to NYC once the weddings are complete. I will be looking for new sources, meeting with friends and visiting the NYC flower market. I have some great girls going with me and I am totally excited about our flower trip. I can't wait to show you everything I find in the big apple.

A SPECIAL "In The Cooler" IN HONOR OF CYNTHIA

This is my bride Christine and right now she is enjoying her reception. Christine married today at the Thomas Birkby House. I want to send out a big huge thanks to sister Cynthia, for helping to plan such a wonderful wedding. After weeks of assisting with the planning of this wedding, Cynthia became suddenly and seriously ill last night. She literally is in the hospital and was unable to come to her sisters wedding. I know this was a tough day for the whole family but at least Cynthia's touch was everywhere, and she helped to give her sister an amazingly beautiful wedding. I loved all of the gorgeous details the family either chose, or designed.

Our bridal bouquet consisted of orange calla lily, two shades of orange roses, green hypericum berry,  and a collar of green aspidistra leaves. My bride loved clean contemporary lines for the bouquets, but she also liked a vintage feel as well. I suggested we let the bouquets stay clean and contemporary and then we could get a  little bit looser at the reception, this way she could have some of the vintage vibe as well.

Maids bouquets were created with green hydrangea, green hypericum berry, green roses, green button mums and the same variegated aspidistra leaves.

Designer Debbie helped me to hang a 60 foot long garland. Notice, the odd look on my face. I hate when people take pictures of me while I'm working. I always look stressed, when I am creating.

The men's bouts were of course, inspired, and unique. We are famous for our bouts, and corsages.

We used several different arrangements in vintage containers to create the ceremony site, and I loved that look.

We placed Cynthia's bouquet on the altar, which gave us this little centerpiece to place with the programs.

The family made these great custom overlays, which we used everywhere.

We were in love with the fabrics the family chose as accents. The pieces they created were so clever.

Their favors were totally coordinated with the wedding and made from their specialty fabrics. This may have been the best DIY project I have ever seen.

We had just enough leftover garland to enhance the buffet tables.

We provided centerpieces in large, medium, and small mason jars. Event planner Stephanie Aspinwall of Pretty Entertaining not only oversaw the days events, but she also made these awesome table numbers.  I am totally buying a set.

Don's dahlias, always steal the show. You can see Don and his glorious dahlias at the Leesburg Farmers Market on Saturday mornings.

This was yet another wonderful event at the Thomas Birkby House. There is always magic at a Birkby House wedding.

Cynthia I hope you are feeling better, and I hope you are comforted by the fact that you helped to give your sister an awesome wedding. Happy married life Christine, and thank you for allowing us to be a part of your wedding.

Now this is what is, "in the cooler"

Good Night!

 

 

OUR GIRL JULIE + SUNDAY PHOTO SHOOT DESIGNS

Some of you may recognize our bride Julie. Julie is a teacher in Loudoun County but she also helps us periodically with Saturday wedding deliveries. This last Sunday it was Julies turn to marry. We loved getting these very sweet and moving pictures of our bride Julie.

Julie married at the Bluemont Vineyard Stables, I love the view at this venue, it always takes my breath away.

Doesn't our flower shop/teacher bride Julie look stunning?

In addition to providing flowers for Julie and Erin on Sunday, we delivered bouquets, and loose flowers to a nearby village for a huge photo shoot. The shoot started at 6:00 a.m., which meant I was up and in the flower shop at 4:30 a.m.  We were so excited to be working on this project, and we hope to see some of our designs published in the future. The bouquets were being used as props and the feature was more about the models, and the attire, but we shall see how this all works out.  For now, we are simply thrilled that we could be of service to one of our favorite publications.

As you can see it was quite the busy weekend once again at Holly Heider Chapple Flowers. We are so pleased with all that we have been producing. We are back at the design tables, getting ready for another really fun weekend.

Erin- Belmont Country Club - Holly Heider Chapple Flowers LTD.

We are in love with this picture of our Sunday bride Erin. She gave us the big thumbs up just before she went down the aisle. I think that pretty much sums up the whole wedding. A gorgeous bride, an incredible dress, and an awesome family (her MOB is super wonderful) partnered with the historic Belmont Country Club and Holly Heider Chapple Flowers,  we had a remarkable wedding.

We decided to use copper and gold toned flowers with a subtle mix of green and blue. We were inspired by the tones of the peacock feather and because the maids were wearing stunning royal blue gowns we knew we had developed a fabulous theme and color pallet.  Our big challenge occurred when the very unique and gold toned rose called combo seemed to disappear from the flower market. I begged, borrowed, and stole, to get this rose for Erin. I have been told I can never, ever, ask for this rose again.  I of course, will beg for it again, but for now, I am really glad we were able to get this rose for Erin. Our color combination would have been very different without the combo rose.

Mother of the bride found a remarkable sheer gold - blue fabric, that was iridescent and we used that throughout the wedding. We wrapped the girls bouquets with the fabric and we also tucked in little loops of fabric into the bouquets.

I just love the bouts and corsages that were designed for this wedding.

The elevated designs featured combo roses, camel roses, blue - green hydrangea, copper colored football mums. We elevated the designs on my gold stands and we placed the peacock feathers into the designs.

Our low designs featured arrangements in vases wrapped with the amazing fabric and of course feathers.

I loved how unique and special these creations were, these pieces truly were designed just for this family.  The look felt very original, rich, and glamorous. Next best love of this wedding, was  working with Erin, and her mom. Erin's mom actually has decided to move to Virginia.  She said she was inspired by my life here in Virginia, and my hydrangea. She is leaving Florida behind, and moving here just in time for winter. I hope she still loves me when the first snow drops fall.

Happy married life Erin, we loved doing your wedding flowers.

 

Emily's Wedding - Merriweather Manor - Holly Heider Chapple Flowers

First, a big huge shout out, and thanks to event planner Aimee Hardenbergh for managing this very magnificent event. Aimee owns and operates True Wedding Events. Some of DC's top wedding vendors gathered at Merriweather Manor this past weekend.  The venue was absolutely aglow with the beauty of the day. The fabulous Design Cuisine came to Leesburg to provide the catering. It was incredible to work with one of my favorite DC caterers here in Loudoun. Matt Mendelsohn was the photographer and I look forward to seeing the day through his eyes. All in all, the event was stacked with killer vendors.

Emily chose to marry in this meadow. The view was amazing. The venue boasts several ceremony options but because the weather was so perfect; Emily went for open air and open fields.

Emily carried a bouquet of wine toned callas, white callas, white roses, green cymbidium orchids, wine toned dahlias from Don, antique green hydrangea, and scabiosa flowers.

Maids carried bouquets of the dahlias, green hypericum berry, and wine callas.

We created this lovely kissing ball for each flower girl. We had two for this wedding.

We decorated 3 different mantels.

Elodie created garlands for all of the lanterns on the property.

This extraoridinary design was created for the  formal dinning room.

Designer Debbie created a floral garland for the bannister.

We potted 12 urns with ivy, cabbage and fresh flowers.

Two of the urns were designed very full with willow. These greeted the guests as they arrived at the manor.

We designed over 20 small pieces that were used for the cocktail hour, or for the sitting areas around the mansion.

Our dinner tables had as many as 25 designs on each table. We were in love with the look of this dining space. We had four king tables in the tent, so the room was absolutely stunning.

We provided these baskets for the place cards and we designed the flowers on the cake!

This wedding was amazing and I am so proud of our team. We had hundreds of designs to create for this wedding and all of them had to be in place in under two hours. What a great start to an amazing weekend.

Happy married life Emily, we loved doing your wedding flowers.