Real Weddings Carissa and Todd, The Elms, Excelsior Springs

Carissa and Todd's wedding was a true collaboration.  When I showed up to our first consult Carissa's mom, Dana, had already collected all the vases for the tables.  Talk about prepared!  Their event was taking place at the newly remodeled Elms Hotel, in Excelsior Springs.  A beautiful historic spot, with an outdoor space for the ceremony.  Unfortunately it was rainy and humid on the first day of September, but we made due in the ballroom with a beautiful ceremony (all the decor for the ceremony was created by Dana).  We were really happy with how everything turned out, and Carissa and Todd loved it, which was the most important part (and Dana as well).  

A big thank you to Dana and Carissa for collaborating with us on this lovely event, and to Morgan at Cornerstone Photography for the images.

Carissa carried a classic, romantic bouquet full of ivory dahlias, ranunculus, and garden roses.

Instead of traditional pin corsages we made brooches out of fresh flowers and incorporated vintage rhinestone jewelry for a bit of sparkle.  Bouts were textural with ranunculus, scabiosa pods, and berries.

The bridesmaids wore beautiful poppy orange dresses and had bouquets with garden roses, dahlias, and ranunculus.  

The ceremony took place in the grand ballroom, and all the decor was provided to us by Dana, the mother of the bride, we just set it up.  Loved those beautiful fabric flower pomanders!

Half of the tables had vases provided by Dana were filled with twig balls for a touch of brown, along with fluffy white hydrangeas, beautiful orange roses, and touches of pink, and accents of sparkling crystal.

The other half of the tables had pomanders in orange, peach, and ivory.  We wanted a sort of ombre effect.

If you notice the place settings Dana also made napkin wraps and menue cards for every guest, and butterfly escort cards as well.  

The sweetheart table was covered in a gorgeous ivory rose linen, super fluffy, and romantic.  We just added the flowers for a little touch of color.

Vintage glassware and tons of candles filled the mantel.  We supplied the blooms.

And although I had absolutely nothing to do with the cake, I just had to include it because, yes, Dana, the mother of the bride made it as well (she bakes cakes).

Such a lovely day, we were happy to be a part of it!

xo ~ Emily

For the Love of Flower: Kristi and Joe, October 2011

Kristi and Joe's wedding was a bit different than usual because I didn't do the personal flowers.  Instead they were put together by some designers I really admire, Blue Bouquet.  However I really loved working on their wedding at The Hobbs Building, which is actually where my husband and I had our reception.  Kristi definitely wanted to embrace the fall vibe, but didn't want it to be the usual palette of oranges, reds, and golds.  Blue Bouquet came up with a beautiful concept that included soft peaches and pinks, alongside dark crimson dahlias, and smokebush.  Kristi also wanted us to add in dried green hydrangea that she and her mom had purchased.  I'd never worked with them before but they were fabulous and really filled out the arrangements nicely.  A big thank you to Kristi and Joe for letting us be part of your day!

xo ~ Em

 

Gorgeous crimson dahlias in rustic centerpieces.

Varied size and height containers with lots of greens.

 

fall centerpieces with pink, orange, green, and red flowers

 

Lanterns and burlap runners.

 

Kristi's mom hand drew each of these escort cards to hang from this tree.

 

The receptions space at The Hobbs Building.

 

Large centerpieces for the outdoor courtyard.

 

The garden roses, dahlias, and ranunculus were so gorgeous.

 

Lush green garlands with wispy wheat and muslin ribbons.

 

For the Love of Flowers: Corinne and Jimmy

I met Corinne through a fabulous former client (thanks Carrie).  She and Jimmy were having a very small family event, with their ceremony at Loose Park, and an at home reception.  She came to me with beautiful swatches of paper from Paper Source in Fig and Sage and said she wanted lots of texture in her flowers.  Thankfully fall is a wonderful time of year for textural flowers, and I used beautiful plum dahlias, and coxcomb, green trick, and scabiosa pods.  I got creative with the bouquet wraps using fig and sage ribbon from Paper Source along with jute, and some raw silk from Midori.  Thanks so much to Corinne and Jimmy for letting us be a part of your special day, your flowers were so fun to create.

xo ~ Em

For the Love of Flowers: Favorite Bridal Bouquets

In the next week or two I'm going to be showing a round up of some of my favorite floral designs from 2010.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm new to the floral business, but 2010 was 4x busier than 2009, and I can't wait to see what 2011 will bring!  

Today's category is bridal bouquets.  I worked with lots of different brides this year, some were friends, some were strangers, but all were fantastic to collaborate with.  I'd like to take a moment to thank each and everyone of these ladies for choosing me for their weddings and supporting my small business.  

Here they are in no particular order:

Ellen and Brian, September 2010.  Ellen's bouquet was beautiful and sentimental.  She requested to carry white roses, and white stephanotis, the flowers that were in her mother and mother in-laws bouquets when they got married.

Tracy and Chris, May 2010.  I'm a big fan of color, and these flowers were some of the most beautiful I had an opportunity to work with this year.  With one bloom more beautiful than the next including peonies, ranunculus, and huge roses.

Joanna and Andy, June 2010.  Joanna gave me total freedom with her bouquet, and it's one of the most textural I created.  The lilies were fantastic and dramatic, the dusty miller and amazing scabiosa's added a little sweetness, and her bouquet was wrapped in a little ostrich feather trim to match her dress.

Laura and Aaron, August 2010.  I'm pretty sure the color on this pictures been tweaked a bit, but this was by far one of the most saturated bouquets I created this year.  Cool colors like purple and blue were a big trend this year, and this one color bouquet came out full and dramatic.

Claudia and James, May 2010.  There's not a whole lot that needs to be said about this beauty.  Claudia wanted something soft and romantic, and loved peonies, and this bouquet included all of these elements.  

Heidi and Zeb, August 2010.  Last but not least, Heidi was the funnest bride to collaborate with this year.  She was super enthusiastic about all my ideas and willing to experiment with out of the box ideas.  The dahlias for her wedding were to die for, and the color palette, a mix of purples, blues, and whites was to die for!

Thanks for looking at my favorite bridal bouquets of 2010.  Next up, boutonniere's!

Love, emmy-ray

 

 

Floral Friday: Can't Get Enough of Bash Please

As a fairly new wedding florist (at two years in the business I'm a baby), I'm not always busy, especially during the "off season" for weddings.  So it gives me plenty of time to work on proposals and find inspiration, and one of my go to sources for the later is the lovely duo at bash please.  They've been featured on almost every wedding website out there, and for good reason.  Get a load of all this loveliness:

There's a fun mix of ribbons in this bouquet.

Dahlias, peonies, and confetti, doesn't get much better than that.

So cute, I love working with succulents.

This last bouquet, OMG!