Real Weddings: Lynne and Don

Lynne called me one day all the way from Maui asking about personal flowers for her and Don’s wedding at the beautiful glass Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes. Their colors were white/ivory with touches of blue. I love using blue flowers, but unfortunately, there just aren’t that many available in nature to choose from! During the summer months, we use a lot of delphinium when we need a blue flower. Delphinium are a very versatile flower to use because they can come in long and short stems, and for color, a light baby blue shade to a deep medium blue. Here in LA, we can get a lot of locally grown delphinium from Carpenteria as well as out east in sunny hot San Bernardino.

Here are some images of Lynne’s personal bridal party flowers.

For the bridal bouquet, we used white peonies, light blue delphinium, deep blue delphinium, vendela roses, white freesia, and stephanotis. The bridesmaid bouquets had similar flowers, but no stephanotis.

For the flower girls, Lynne requested two halos for the girls – or in Hawaii, “lei po’o”! I had just learned to make head leis at a workshop in Kauai not too long ago, so for Lynne’s wedding, the baby’s breath lei po’o were made in the wili wili method.

The flower girls also carried white and blue pomanders. These were comprised of white carnations accented with light blue and deep blue delphinium.