Weddings

Kristin and Brian were married on a bright Sunday at the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks. They had a classic, natural style in ivory with lots of interesting greenery.

Kristin carried a natural bouquet in green and ivory with peonies, green hypericum berry, and green baby hydrangea. We accented the bouquet with seeded eucalyptus, sword fern, and beautiful host leaves with white edging.

The bridesmaids carried bouquets of all white and ivory flowers – dahlia, peonies, and roses – with light accent of hosta leaves and sword ferns surrounding the bottom of the bouquet.

The wedding ceremony was held outside at the country club on a shady patio with beautiful columns.

The altar area was framed with four white pedestals, each holding a tall reception table centerpiece, repurposed for the ceremony.

Two more pedestals and tall centerpieces were placed at the back of the aisle as well.

The aisle chairs were draped with ivory organza fabric and each aisle chair decorated with a bouquet of white hydrangea mixed with lemon leaf, green hypericum berry, seeded eucalyptus and ivy vines.

The pedestal arrangements that were later repurposed as reception table centerpieces were made from white and ivory flowers: hydrangea, “polo” roses, snapdragons, alstroemeria, spray roses, and accents of cabbage/kale, green kermit poms, green hypericum berry, variegated pittosporum, and draping ivy vines.

Half the reception tables held a tall centerpiece, and the other half held a low centerpiece. Kristin and Brian supplied cute wooden bird houses on which they attached the table numbers. We placed these creative table numbers within the flowers of the low centerpieces, and within the clear glass cylinders of the tall centerpieces.

Their sweetheart table was decorated with birdhouses and accented with vines, peonies, green cymbidium orchids, and sword ferns.

Julie and Daniel were married on a perfect Friday in June at the beautiful Casa Del Mar here in Santa Monica. Their colors were ivory and white with accents of pale yellow.

Julie carried a bouquet of all white and ivory toned flowers featuring a mix of peonies, mini calla lilies, freesia, and roses.

Each bridesmaid carried a mono botanical pale yellow bouquet, each made entirely of a different type of flower. We used cymbidium orchids, mini calla lilies, dahlia, tulips, and roses.

The groomsmen matched the bridesmaids, each boutonniere also a different type of yellow flower.

The reception tables held two similar, yet different designs. On half the tables were large 9″ square white wooden boxes filled with mostly white and ivory flowers and accents of pale yellow flowers. The other half of the tables held a quartet of smaller white wood boxes filled with similar types of flowers. We used hydrangea, roses, and stock in whites and ivories, and accents of freesia and dahlias in pale yellow.

The cake and cake table were decorated with rose petals, long stems of yellow mini calla lilies, and clusters of different types of yellow flowers: cymbidiums, tulips, roses, and dahlias.

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.

Valerie and Daniel were married in early June at the lovely Vellano Country Club in Chino Hills, CA. It was a warm and sunny day, with white puffy clouds in the sky. There were wide open views when gazing from the ceremony site – rolling hills and lots of blue skies!

The theme was vintage featuring large, beautiful garden roses in cream and pink. Valerie loved the creamy “caramel antique” garden roses. And for pink, we used “romantic antique”.

The bride carried a bouquet of all caramel antique garden roses and the bridesmaids carried bouquets of all pink romantic antique garden roses.

The groom and groomsman wore matching boutonnieres and the female family members wore corsages of both types of garden roses.

For the ceremony, we decorated the wrought iron arch with curly willow branches and a mix of garden roses, spray roses, sweetheart roses, and regular roses in a salmon-pink shade.

At the beginning of the aisle, we placed two tall arrangements of roses, antique green hydrangea, and curly willow branches on pedestals.

For the aisle chairs, Valerie provided vintage tin baskets that we filled with a few stems of garden roses.

For the centerpieces, we used vintage styled garden urns filled with roses and garden roses, with accents of curly willow branches.

The wedding cake was beautifully decorated by the bakery, so we just accented the table with petals and loose rose and garden rose blossoms.

Louise and Will were married on a sunny Saturday in May at the Hilton Hotel in Universal City. One thing that may not be well known is the fact that the Universal City Hilton has a very nice Chinese banquet package with highly scrumptious food!!

The photographer was Stephen Cheng, so most of the following images are from Stephen Cheng Photography.

Louise and Will chose for their colors burgundy with accents of purple. Louise carried a bouquet of deep red roses, burgundy peonies, and lovely deep burgundy cymbidium orchids.

Louise and Will love succulents! We wanted to feature some interesting looking California succulents accented with burgundy mokara and cymbidium orchids. To accomodate the many large platters that would be set on each of the reception tables, and to also create a somewhat terrarium style arrangement, we used footed clear glass “bias bowls”. These bowls are shaped like hatch shells.

The outdoor ceremony site came with a white gazebo featuring a nice decorative lattice-like pattern. We attached hanging strands of burgundy flowers all around the gazebo. The garlands were made of burgundy carnations and accented with burgundy cymbidium orchids.

Every other aisle chair was decorated with a small bouquet of burgundy roses and pink cymbidium orchids.

Personal flowers were comprised of cymbidium orchids and purple freesia.

The men also had little succulents accenting the cymbidiums.

A ring-bearer pillow made of green kermit poms:

The flower girl basket:

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:

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.