The Full Bouquet

Tricia & Jason Featured On Style Me Pretty

Some of our most favorite weddings from last year have been hidden under lock and key. Tricia and Jason's wedding was one of those events. Yesterday the wedding was featured on Style Me Pretty and can be seen here. From the moment event planner & designer Allison Jackson of Pineapple Productions told me about this event, I knew it would be special. Every element and detail was handled flawlessly by Allison and with photographer Anne Robert to capture the day we were rewarded ten fold for all of our hard work and planning.

Guests and wedding party wove through the vines to make it to the aisle on time.

The bride and groom exhanged vows on the top of a hill at Sharp Rock Vineyard in Sperryville. The mountain veiws were amazing.

 

I love this image of Tricia with her dad. Tricia carried a bouquet of green button mums, orange callas, orange dahlias, and several shades of roses.

Tricia and Jason in the vineyard.

Tricia and Jason with a goat, yes a goat. When Anne sent me the first images, my first question was " where did the goat come from?' Being a very clever photographer she found and borrowed the goat. Such a fun shot.

I loved creating this piece with dahlias from the amazing Don. This design welcomed guests on the lemonade table and was later used during the cocktail hour.

This fabulous Ikat fabric was the featured pattern of the day. It was used to create boards to display the  place cards, pillows for lounging areas, and custom table runners.

Perfect right? My vintage milk glass vases were used for the centerpieces with popping bright orange flowers.

Every element about this wedding was so much fun and comfortable.

Perhaps my favorite image of the day, our beautiful bride.

Please make sure you visit our post  on Style Me Pretty, you will be able to see more images from the day. Anne's work is amazing and you won't want to miss a single photograph. Many thanks to Allison for designing such an incredible event. This wedding is one we can all be proud of. It was an honor to provide the flowers for this special day.

HC

 

 

BEAUTIFUL-PHOTOGRAPHY BY GENEVIEVE LEIPER

This is my beautiful bride Allie, she married last fall at Lansdowne Resort. Her Loudoun County resort wedding was captured by the totally remarkable Genevieve Leiper. Allie's wedding was totally stunning and I was grateful that I was working with a talented photographer, getting images of the day is crucial for me.

The bridal bouquet was created with sahara roses, cream hydrangea, white phalaenopsis orchids.

The pastry chef at Lansdowne should be applauded for her beautiful creation. This cake was one of the most lovely and complicated designs I have seen.

The gold and crystal candlesticks found by Allie and her mom added additional glamour and candlelight to the tables.

Working with Allie and her mom was one of the highlights of last year. Their sense of style and color was awesome and creating their designs was so fulfilling. Knowing Gen. was capturing the day made it all that more fun.

Lansdowne Country Club.

Genevieve also shoots destination weddings, here is a great shot of her working in St. Kitts, she is also pregnant. I love those hard working mom's. Husband Charles took this picture with the iPhone.

Anyone considering a destination wedding should seriously consider Gen. and then consider taking me along as well. I am ready to do some tropical floral designs. Lets Go!!!!!

A Moraccan Photo Shoot

Hello everyone, Kelly here! I had to jump in and bring you this too good for words Moroccan day after shoot that Holly collaborated on with Kate Triano and Vicki Grafton. You know, I had a big Moroccan-themed birthday bash a few years ago but this shoot completely blew that out of the water! Too bad I didn't know about this awesomely talented trio back then, huh?

(I have to insert here that Holly is yelling at me from the flower shop telling me to give a huge, enormous shout out to Kate & Vicki-- so there's another one for you!)

To make quite the color explosion, Holly used jewel toned flowers like blue thistle, orange crocosmia and hot pink celosia.

I am always a sucker for those gorgeous lanterns and the teal, purple and orange silks are seriously unreal, aren't they?

Be sure to check out the rest of the images on Style Me Pretty by clicking right here!

P.S. I made a few changes on the blog today while we wait patiently for our fancy new blog to come along! What do you think?!

KARLI AND RICH- WHITEHALL MANOR-HOLLY HEIDER CHAPPLE FLOWERS-TRACY TIMMESTER PHOTOGRAPHY

Karli and Rich's wedding is complete and total eye candy. Several things help to make this event so amazing, number 1- the couple is gorgeous, 2- you can never go wrong at Whitehall Manor, 3- Vicki Grafton from My Simple Details seriously knows how to design and plan an event, 4- photographer Tracy Timmester did some of the most amazing pictures I have seen this year, 5- there also happens to be pretty flowers, provided by me. Sit back and enjoy, our pretty wedding that was so pretty, it was featured on Style Me Pretty.

The bridal bouquet was made with Don's famous Dahlias, black baccara roses, red coxcomb, red orchids, red roses, and red mini callas. I love the drama of this bouquet.

All of the vendors on this event can bend and take a bow, because this wedding was a total success. Triple "S" stylish, sophisticated, and sexy.

 

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!!