April 20, 2011

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.