June 2011

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Real Weddings: Emily and Donald

June 21, 2011 in Weddings | 1 comment

Emily and Donald were married in early May at the Eagle Rock SDA Church and celebrated their reception at the beautiful Athenaeum at CalTech.

Here are some beautiful images of their wedding from Christine Choi Photography:

First, the flowers!

Emily’s gorgeous bouquet of peonies, roses, tulips, freesia, and dusty miller:

Bridesmaids bouquet:

Low centerpiece in a silver mercury-glass-like bowl filled with peonies, roses, tulips, peach stock, dusty miller, seeded eucalyptus:


Here are some additional pictures we took of the bouquets and church decor:

The flowers in the bridesmaids bouquets had subtle shades of peach/blush pink, and ivory:

Large pew posies with hydrangea, casablanca lilies, hanging green amaranthus, and ruscus:

Real Weddings: Naomi and Brian

June 17, 2011 in Weddings | No comments

Naomi and Brian were recently married at the Sherwood Country Club in Westlake Village. Sherwood is a gorgeous location to be married, but what Una and I liked best were the humongous wrought iron gates that opened and closed as we drove into the location – after getting the okay from the security guard! It was like James Bond!

Naomi wanted a lot of fuchsia in her flowers so we used fuchsia “wild thing” roses, hot pink peonies, hot pink dendrobium orchids, dark pink mini callas, fuchsia tulips, and pink garden spray roses.

Here are some lovely images from photographer Chris Schmitt:


Look at the background! What, are we in Tuscany??

And here are some flower pictures taken by The Flower Lab:

The bridal bouquet:

Some boutonnieres:

The chuppah!

We used an 8 ft. x 8 ft. x 8 ft. chuppah and decorated it with white drapery, like a window curtain. The bottoms of the drapery had fuchsia silk rose petals attached. The top and sides were accented with bouquets of fuchsia peonies, roses, and spray roses with accents of lemon leaf.

Flowers decorating the aisle chairs:

Centerpieces:

Each reception table held a trio of clear glass vases with immersed fuchsia flowers. The tallest one held a sandblasted manzanita branch with attached dendrobium orchids. The medium cylinder held several stems of hot pink tulips topped with a floating candle. And the lowest cylinder had hot pink pink mini calla lilies wrapped and twisted around within the water, also topped with a floating candle.

Real Weddings: Senta and Rob

June 13, 2011 in Flowers, Weddings | No comments

Ahh, the Smog Shoppe! One cool venue for a not too large wedding! What was once a place to get your smog checked, is now an urban oasis event space with chic vintage furnishings.

These beautiful images of Senta and Rob’s wedding were taken by Laura Grier of Beautiful Day Photography.

Boutonnieres featuring yellow craspedia, waxflower, astilbe, veronica, and limonium.

Lovely wildflower bouquet of limonium, stock, waxflower, alstroemeria, astilbe, veronica, and monte casino aster.

Senta picked out these awesome old soda bottles from the Rose Bowl Flea Market to use as her centerpiece containers. It was really cool seeing all the different brands of soda pop from back in the day!

We sprinkled loose flower blossoms along the length of each reception table.

Old flattened spoons with table numbers etched in — another great find by Senta!

Each place setting held a box of candy cigarette gum! I remember getting these as a kid and thinking I was so cool puffing out the fake smoke!

I may be partial, but I love this photo of the reception in full swing with Senta and Rob framed by their flowers… and guests too!

Congratulations Senta and Rob!

And now for some additional flower pictures, unfortunately taken from a lesser photographer (moi!):

A Surprise Anniversary Party

June 10, 2011 in Flowers | No comments

Wendy was surprising her parents with a party celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary! The big bash was held in the Oceanside room at Shutters on the Beach, Santa Monica. This is one of the most beautiful spaces at Shutters – perfect for an intimate party of 50 or so people.

Wendy made up fun little quizzes for the guests to play and spread out pictures of her parents from back in the day!

To coordinate with the blue walls and white trim, the flowers were all white in white wooden boxes for the long dining table. And for the cocktail tables, Wendy requested light blue and white in silver containers. In the main centerpieces, we used hydrangea, roses, stock, china mums, and peonies. For the cocktail flowers, we brought in the nice light blue color with some amazing hydrangea.

We placed a white cymbidium orchid on every place setting.

What a fun cake!

A Graduation Party on the Malibu Pier

June 8, 2011 in Flowers | No comments

A swell was in one clear sunny Saturday in May and the surfers were out in full force. At the end of the Malibu Pier, Liz was having her graduation party in the Surfrider room at the Beachcomber Restaurant. Here are some pictures of the floral arrangements we provided. The color theme was orange and pool blue and Liz thought having actual oranges in the arrangements would be a lot of fun. I couldn’t agree with her more! We also used fun, bright orange gerbera daisies, yellow craspedia, peachy-orange roses, and accents of light green bupleurum.

Succulent corsage and boutonniere

June 2, 2011 in Flowers, Weddings | 1 comment

Anne and Tommie were recently married at the Marvimon, a fabulously cool and utterly hip loft/garage-like venue in LA. Anne is a DIY bride and made her own centerpieces! Lucky her, peony season was in full force and she was able to get tons of lovely peonies from the flower market.

The Flower Lab was hired to provide the bouquets, boutonnieres, and corsages, which we delivered to the Marvimon (and my assistant Una got to check it out after setting up at their sister venue, Smog Shoppe, in Culver City the day before). I forgot to take pictures of the bridal bouquet which featured all ivory peonies and the bridesmaid bouquets which was all blush pink peonies. Oops! But how about some boutonnieres and corsages?

I’ve posted personal flowers with succulents before, but these are slightly different because they have a very high succulent to flower ratio. I really like how they turned out:

The groom’s boutonniere is on the left which with highlighted with white waxflower.

Some of the women requested a pin-on corsage (right) and some requested a wristlet (left). Mixed in with the succulents are green hypericum berry and ivory freesia.