Showing posts with label plum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plum. Show all posts

Friday, March 1, 2013

Real Weddings: Hilary and Andre, Californos in Kansas City.

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I'd just like to start by saying Hilary and Andre are brave.  Why you may ask?  Well, here in the midwest the summers are HOT, and this past summer was extra warm.  When Hilary told me they were planning to get married in July, my first thought was, you're crazy girl.  However despite the heat their day turned out beautiful.  I can honestly say that their color combination was totally unique, unlike any wedding trend we've worked with many times before.  Bold plum, hot orange, soft peach, and touches of lime green, with tiny hints of yellow.  Bold colors, which as you know are our favorite!  We got to work at one of our very favorite KC venues, Californos, and our flowers were captured beautifully by Carter Photography.  Thanks for choosing us Hilary and Andre, we loved being part of your day! 

xo ~ Emily

All photos by Carter Photography and emmy-ray.


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Both the bridal and bridesmaids bouquets contained burgundy dahlias, white hydrangea, orange ranunculus, fever few, purple and peach stock, and beautiful bright green cymbidium orchids.  To make her bouquet extra special Hilary also had large purple throated cymbidiums, so gorgeous!  A collar of seeded eucalyptus added texture and interest to each bouquet.  


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The boutonnieres were made up of orange ranunculus, plum mums, yellow fever few, and a bit of seeded eucalyptus.  Each was wrapped in beautiful raw silk ribbon from Midori.  

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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


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Monday, November 14, 2011

For the Love of Flowers: Lindsay and Warren

Lindsay was one of the "easy" brides of the 2011 wedding season.  The sister of my husbands good friend from law school I instantly felt she was going to be great to work with.  It didn't hurt that she'd already been in a wedding I'd worked on previously (Erin and Matt's from back in the spring, which I never posted about for some reason, stay tuned for that one).  Lindsay wanted purple in all different shades, and basically gave us total freedom to create and design.  Here's what we came up with for her and Warren's day...


Plum, purple, and lavender bridal bouquet




We got lucky that weekend with some gorgeous plum colored ranunculus and dahlias.  


Burgundy dahlia wrist corsage


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(image via Sarah Dickerson Photography)


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(image via Sarah Dickerson Photography)


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(image via Sarah Dickerson Photography)


Globe vase arrangement, purple and lavender flowers


Purple, lavender, and white wedding flowers.


Curly willow arrangement with purple, lavender, and white flowers


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This may or may not have been a fake "working" picture...


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I also collaborated with Lindsay to create a custom pearl and rhinestone brooch and ostrich feather fascinator that she added to her hair after the ceremony for a little bit of fun.  


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(image via Sarah Dickerson Photography)


A big thank you to Lindsay and Warren for letting me be a part of your big day, and to Sarah Dickerson Photography for her lovely shots.


cheers, emmy-ray