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.

Annie and Ted were married on a perfect June day at the Neighborhood Church, followed by a reception at the Palos Verdes Country Club. Their colors were ivory with touches of blush pink.

Annie loves peonies and it was the perfect time for white and blush pink peonies. We also used lovely ‘polo’ ivory roses and hydrangea.

Annie’s bouquet featured all white peonies in various states of openness.

The bridesmaids carried bouquets of ivory ‘polo’ roses and blush pink peonies.

We placed a tall arrangement of hydrangea and peonies in the center of the escort card table with the escort cards radiating out from the flowers.

Each reception table held a low centerpiece of ivory hydrangea and ‘polo’ roses and blush pink peonies. We wrapped the clear glass cylinders with a band of gold ribbon.

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.

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:

Jenny and Kevin were married on a Saturday in May at the Marriott Hotel in Newport Beach. Their colors were peach, blush pink, ivory, and accents of lime green. Because the ceremony and reception both occurred in the afternoon, Jenny wanted a fun look that still spoke “wedding”. To make things more fun and interesting, we incorporated bright green Fuji mums and peachy-pink hypericum berry mixed in with the roses and hydrangea. The different textures from the Fuji mums and hypericum berry broke things up a little in the centerpieces so they didn’t look too soft.

The girls carried all rose bouquets in ivory and peachy-pink. Jenny’s bouquet also featured blush pink peonies and peach French tulips mixed in with the ivory roses. We accented the bouquet with loops of blush satin ribbon.

The flower girl carried a petite pomander made of lime green kermit poms.

And the groom and groomsmen boutonnieres were made from peachy-pink French tulips.

The bride and groom honored their close family and relatives with boutonniere style personal flowers made from pink cymbidium orchids.

The ceremony was held in a lovely garden setting at the hotel. We decorated the gazebo simply with vines and greenery. The tall centerpieces were repurposed as ceremony decor, placed on white pedestals along the aisle.

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:

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.

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!):