For the Love of Flowers: Heather and Mark, June 2012

Heather and Mark are a classic couple.  Heather's vision was a beautiful romantic event, with touches of metallic silver.  The flowers for their day couldn't have come in more perfect, fluffy white hydrangeas, soft ruffled peach garden roses, and those coral peonies?  Amazing (but I can't take any credit for that), and I loved the contrast between the soft brides bouquet, and the bold bridesmaids bouquets.  We created a HUGE statement arrangement for the escort card, definitely our largest to date.  Thank you so much for letting us be part of your day guys, and thanks to C. Lynne Photography for some of their lovely images.  

(picture taken by C. Lynne Photography, and emmy-ray).  

For the Love of Flowers: Shanna and Michael, May 2012

I met Shanna when I was setting up another wedding at Californos last year.  It's a common occurance, and I love Californos just for that reason (and many other reasons).  When we met for our consult she brought along a posse, including her sweet daughter.  From the start she was so open to ideas, and I absolutely LOVED the custom grey and white linens we created for their tables.  The set-up was a decor-a-thon, including a backdrop for their outdoor ceremony, sheer curtains for the entry way, and tons of white lanterns, lights, and hanging flowers over the dance floor.  A fun little tid bit: Shanna set her bridal bouquet down before the ceremony and someone placed it behind the bar for safe keeping, but failed to tell the bride.  When it came time for the ceremony no one could find it, so Shanna rolled with it, and subbed in a bridesmaids bouquet.  Now that's a laid back bride.  Thanks for letting us be part of your day Shanna and Michael, and also thanks to Melissa Lin Ellis for her lovely pics of the couple!

xo ~ Em

Inspiration: Cynthia Rowley Bouquet Recipe

Fashion Week was last week, and it inspired me to finally use this amazing Cynthia Rowley ribbon to create a bouquet.  As soon as I saw it at Jo-ann Fabric and Crafts, and I just had to have it.  The colorful confetti look makes me want to drop everything and party!  The natural choice for flowers was a mix of lots of bright fun colors, and being a texture lover I grabbed lots of fun novelty stems like green trick, thistle, and celosia!  Hope everyone had a fabulous fashion week, I love living vicariously through all your style pics and runway shows!

xo ~ Em

Inspiration: Bohemian Wedding Styled Shoot

I've was lucky enough, this summer, to work with an amazing team of women on a few different inspiration shoots.  When Cassandra and Kristen contacted me about taking part, I was super excited.  I live for these types of projects, it's always so much fun to collaborate with other creatively minded people.  They sent me an inspiration board, and told me what they had in mind, and I ran with the flowers from there.  The results were so lovely, and our models (a real married couple) were such troopers in the ridiculous heat.  Plus we were lucky enough to be published on one of my favorite wedding blogs, Ruffled.  Thanks so Cassandra Castaneda Photography, Rak Designs, and Porello Girls for including me!

xo ~ Em

 

For the Love of Flowers: Katie and Chris, May 2012

The summer heat wave pretty much started the day of Katie and Chris' wedding, or at least it seemed like it did.  However the lovely flowers we got in screamed spring, yellow and white tulips, pink peonies, and fun textural succulents.  Plus Katie and her mom gave me a bunch of beautiful vintage hat pins, and brooches that belonged to her grandmother to add to her bouquet.  All in all a super fun wedding, and one of the craziest (and quickest) room flips we've ever done!  Thanks to Katie and Chris for having us, and to Heather Brulez Photography for the lovely images!

xo ~ Em

For the Love of Flower: Will and Lea

My very favorite events to work on are ones for my friends.  It's not often that I get to actually attend a clients wedding, and see them enjoy the fruits of our labor.  I've known Will since I was 15 years old, and he and Lea are a perfect pair.  Both of them love the arts, and Lea gave me her color palette, and an awful lot of creative freedom.  Bright pinks, reds, oranges, greens, and touches of yellow made up the floral palette, and we threw in some lovely teal blue with our collection of vintage glassware.  Doing Will and Lea's flowers reminded me a lot of my wedding with the bright, bold color scheme, and we had a lot of fun celebrating with them and all our friends that night.  Thank you both for hosting such a fun event, and for letting us be part of your day!  Also to K&D Photography for the lovely images of the happy couple. (be sure to click "Continue Reading" to see more images from Will and Lea's Wedding).

xo ~ Em

For the bouquet we used garden roses, ranunculus, freesia, billy balls, and lily of the valley from Will and Lea's garden. 

Every boutonniere was a little bit different.

 

That's my hands pinning a bout on our good friend, and the best man Mike 

We created a fun crepe paper installation on the wall with white lights, and added arrangements with cherry branches and hydrangea. 

The Mr. and Mrs. cutting the cake. 

Claudia and I with my Ariel hair.