i heart fall weddings!

Sydney & Luke revisited...

thanks to jonathan canlas for these awesome images!

stay tuned for some upcoming fall weddings...and our main site will be getting an update in the next few weeks!

The Movie Wedding

One question I am often asked is, "So, do you do this full time?" Well, the answer is...sometimes. I like to do all kinds of creative things--and flowers and weddings are just two of them!

I also work in the film industry with my uber-talented director brother. This summer I took a month off from weddings to be the production designer for his latest indie film that was shooting here in Utah called "White on Rice." What is a production designer? Well, basically I was responsible for all of the set design, or how the backdrop of the movie looked--props, wall color, artwork, decor, furniture etc. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun too.

One of the scenes in the movie was a wedding! Being that this is an indie film, we didn't have a very big budget to work with...and by not very big, I mean almost nothing...However, we wanted a funky, hip, young and creative look and we needed 10-- 60" tables and 10 cabaret tables, a cake and a few big pieces. Three things came to mind: curly willow, wheat grass and gerbera daisies.

(Incidentally, I also got to learn how to make a wedding cake for this scene! Yikes, are those ever a lot of work!!!)

























































































This last shot is with two of the main actors: Nae and Mio Takada

You can visit the imdb page for more information.

And you can check out some of the promotional stills by Jonathan Canlas here

Sydney & Luke: June 1

Sydney and Luke got married last weekend at Millcreek Inn. Sydney chose chocolate and Tiffany blue as her colors (two of my favorites!), and we used all white flowers for all of the floral designs. I think this might be one of my favorite weddings ever! Sydney wanted a loose and natural bouquet with peonies, ranunculus, roses, freesia, sweet pea and mini callas. We added some fern curls in to tie in the chocolate. The bridesmaids all carried bouquets of white peonies wrapped in chocolate satin.

For the ceremony, we lined the aisle with white and cream rose petals and we tied small rose clutch bouquets on every other row using chocolate satin and thin Tiffany blue satin. We hung strands of white orchids (silk) from the back of the altar area and scattered rose petals.

Each table had a grouping of 3 vases: A tall vase with white peonies and 2 fern curls, a medium vase with white tulips and a small vase with white roses. All of the vases had a chocolate ribbon with a thin stripe of blue ribbon.

Sydney's idea for the guestbook display was also super chic--we used 2 large fishbowls on bases--one with flowers and the other to hold the message cards from guests. (Sydney had beautiful stationary in her colors too--a great touch!) Then we had 3 smaller fishbowls with flowers.

What a great combination of colors and flowers! (And can I tell you how good it all smelled on the way up Millcreek!!) I can't wait to see the images from Jonathan Canlas !! (If you haven't seen his work, be sure to take a look! It is a-m-a-z-i-n-g!!!)

October Weddings

I am completely behind on blogging! Here are some images from October weddings--lots of orange, deep red and fall textures. I just love fall weddings because there are so many neat textures to work with--especially fall foliage, chocolate cosmos, fiddlehead fern curls, hypericum berries, and seeded eucalyptus. We paired all of these great textures with sunflowers, roses, dahlias and calla lilies in rich fall colors. One of the brides chose a very rustic theme for her centerpieces, so we used pumpkins with flowers in the top ---perfect for October!

Sunflowers

Merrilee and David were married at the beautiful Rendezvous Ranch in Oakley, UT. The mountain setting was absolutely gorgeous and their sunflower theme was just perfect for their early September wedding!

We used yellow and some red sunflowers, yellow roses, chocolate cosmos and seeded eucalyptus berries throughout the whole wedding. Merrilee chose 3 different centerpiece designs and containers which is such a great way to add interest to a room.



Merrilee's bouquet with mini sunflowers, yellow roses, chocolate cosmos, solidago and seeded eucalyptus, tied with a chocolate satin ribbon.

We used a 20 ft. fresh garland with 2 sunflower swags to highlight the fence behind the ceremony area. We also placed two large urn pieces at the front of the altar area.



To coordinate with the various sizes of tables, we created 3 different designs for the centerpieces using galvanized pails and rustic baskets filled with sunflowers.

Looking Forward to Fall!

We have a lot of bridals scheduled in the next few weeks for our fall clients. I'm getting so excited for the rich colors and textures that come with fall weddings! This bouquet today included 'Black Magic' roses, 'Circus' roses, mango mini callas and chocolate cosmos. I am a huge fan of the chocolate cosmos---they are a deep burgundy/brown color and the actually smell like chocolate!

Brown + Baby Blue

If you've been reading bridal magazines for the last year or so, then you know that brown is being hailed as "the new black" by just about everyone in the business. I too am a big fan of color combinations with brown--and last week we got a do a wedding that was chocolate brown and baby blue! This obviously poses a few problems for flowers, since there are relatively few choices for brown or bably blue flowers. So, we used 'Hot Chocolate' mini calla lilies for the bridal bouquet--they're more of a deep plum brown, but gorgeous nonetheless! For the bridesmaids we used white mini callas and white freesia wrapped in baby blue ribbon cuffs. And for the corsages and boutonnieres, we used white mini callas and freesia with brown ribbon-wrapped stems.