My So Called Life: 4th of July

This past weekend was absolutely glorious.  With no weddings, and no social plans, Matt and I took the entire 4 days to ourselves to relax and enjoy each others company.  It might sound boring, but I think that it's always worth it to take a break every once in awhile and recharge, especially since I have 4 weddings coming up in the next two weeks!  Don't get me wrong I love what I do, and I love being busy, but everyone needs to rest once in awhile right?

For 4th of July we spent the day at Matt's parents house, and then headed out to my cousins for the annual BBQ.  We ate lots of good food, and enjoyed fireworks on the golf course to end the night.  It was a pretty perfect way to end the weekend.

Matt and Ollie, looking festive.

Flynn was all tuckered out from playing with all the other pups.

Matt and his mom putting the finishing touches on lunch.

We had a photo shoot with my cousins dogs and my two little sisters.  Needless to say things got a little silly (Tara's telling Guiness a secret?)

Me with my mom and my sisters.  Matt took about 30 pictures in the span of 2 minutes.

Hope everyone had a fabulous holiday weekend.  What did you do to celebrate?

love, emmy-ray

 

For the Love of Flowers: Blue, Green, and White

This wedding season it's been easy to see the trends as I look back on all the work we've done.  One thing we've had a lot of this year has been cool colors like purples, blues, and greens.  This weekend we had two weddings and they were no exception:

There aren't many blue flowers in nature, but these delphiniums and iris take the cake!

love, emmy-ray

For the Love of Flowers: Heidi and Zeb

This past weekend I got the chance to do wedding flowers for what has to be one of my favorite weddings to date (I know I say that every time).  With rich hues of purple and blue and a beautiful selection of flowers everything came out amazing.

One of my favorite things about this wedding was not only the color but the amount of freedom Heidi gave me.  We discussed what she wanted as far as colors and style and then she just let me design.  Below are a few snaps I took after we set up.  I forgot my SLR (darn) but you get the idea...

 Beautiful bride and groom.

Zeb is a writer and fan of comics so there were comic book elements throughout the wedding, including this custom POW! sign I created for them.

The dahlia's are beautiful this time of year.

Groupings of bud vases and milk glass, and vintage fabric runners with different patterns were on all the tables.

Thanks so much and congratulations to Heidi and Zeb for letting me be part of your awesome wedding.  I hope I was able to help make your wildest dreams come true! 

love, em