April 2011

Leticia and Sloan were married in an intimate church ceremony with close family and friends at The Presbyterian Church of Beverly Hills.

Leticia requested a natural looking bouquet with white flowers and accents of green. We used lilies, waxflower, lisianthus, hypericum berry, seeded eucalyptus, dusty miller, and accents of trailing strands of jasmine vine.

Cute boutonnieres of white ranunculus accented with little lisianthus buds.

Corsages made from white mini cymbidium orchids, green hypericum berry, and ivory ranunculus. I love the pseudo twine/burlap ribbon tie accenting the corsages – perfect for the organic and natural floral theme.

The reception was held at La Dolce Vita, an Italian restaurant with a warm, romantic atmosphere, not too far away. Each table seated only about 4 guests, so Leticia and Sloan requested small arrangements. We made them in vintage looking metal containers with a bit of raffia tied around them. The flowers included lisianthus, waxflower, sweetpeas, and accents of jasmine vine.

The church flowers also featured white flowers with green accents: lilies, hydrangea, lisianthus, seeded eucalyptus, curly willow and white cherry blossom branches.

Each guest received a small bag of petals, which were placed on the pews. After the wedding, the couple was cheered and showered with rose petals while the photographer captured the moment in a rain storm of petals!

Everyone’s favorite wedding blogsite, Style Me Pretty, recently featured a wedding we did at Saddle Rock Ranch in Malibu. Alex and Jason were married back in June of last year, so it was like seeing old friends again when I saw the blogpost. The flowers look simply stunning in these pictures taken by Hazelnut Photography!

Here are some of the pictures:

Check out the full blog post here.

Practically an old married couple by now – Elisa and Dave were married back in September 2010 at the Pacific Palms Resort. But here are some professional photos from their wedding taken by fantastic husband and wife duo, Adi and Cat, of Next Exit Photography. The flowers look pretty darn lovely in these pictures!

It was a colorful wedding in red, purple, and pink at Yamashiro Restaurant in Hollywood. Corinna carried a hand-tied bouquet of purple hydrangea, pink cymbidium orchids, purple mini calla lilies, and deep red roses.

Each bridesmaid carried a similar, but simplified, bouquet of purple hydrangea and deep red roses.

Hide wore a pink cymbidium orchid boutonniere accented with horsetail, while the groomsmen and family members wore purple mini calla lily boutonnieres, also accented with horsetail.

The mothers wore wristlet corsages made of pink cymbidium orchids and purple mini calla lilies.

For the centerpieces, Corinna and Hide requested bright and vivid colored flowers arranged in a unique and modern design. Each table sat six guests and we placed a rectangular centerpiece in the center. We topped the surface of each black wooden box with purple or plum carnations and arranged a row of short pieces of horsetail down the mid-line of the box. Then we arranged, in parallel, red and fuchsia ranunculus, plum anemones, and magenta dendrobium orchids around the horsetail. As a finishing touch, we weaved several lengths of purple midollino around and throughout the flowers and horsetail. These unique and colorful centerpieces were a big hit!

Valerie and David were recently married at the lovely Altadena Town and Country Club on a beautiful, sunny Sunday in February. It was a garden and vintage-inspired wedding in ivory, purple, and plum. We were at the height of ranunculus and anemone season – especially local varieties grown in Carpenteria.

The bride carried a hand-tied bouquet in a natural and wild style with peonies, anemones, lisianthus, limonium, waxflower, sword fern, and seeded eucalyptus.

In contrast, the bridesmaids carried bouquets of mostly white and ivory flowers with accents of variegated Italian pittosporum leaves. The flowers included lisianthus, ranunculus, anemones, and snapdragons. I loved the rustic and sweet vintage feel of these bouquets.

Boutonnieres and corsages were made with ivory ranunculus accented with a succulent, plus light purple freesia for the women.

For the ceremony, we decorated the arch lightly concentrating at the top of the structure. In addition to the flowers, which consisted of limonium, anemones, lisianthus, ranunculus as well as seeded eucalyptus and ivy vines, we hung little glass mason jars with purple ribbon filled with the same purple and plum colored flowers.

Mason jars filled with spring flowers were hung from every other aisle chair, and the aisle was lined with ivory rose petals.

For the reception centerpieces, the flowers were held in silver metal buckets and surrounded by small mason jars filled with similar spring, garden flowers. As in the ceremony flowers, we used ranunculus, anemones, limonium, snapdragons, waxflower, lisianthus, and accents of sword fern and seeded eucalyptus.