Showing posts with label Gold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gold. Show all posts
Yosemite in Full Bloom
When describing my natural style choice for my designs I would categorize it as "rustic elegance" long before the rustic world took the wedding industry by storm. Shannon and Mark's wedding is the perfect example as to why. When Yosemite is your backdrop but the more formal and elegant touches of the Ahwahnee are to be blended with the nature you can't help but to fit right in between the two worlds by creating anything less.
The colors they had decided to showcase for their wedding were periwinkle, creams, navy blue, antique golds and a pop of a spring green. The peonies were the most gorgeous I had ever worked with, practically the size of melons. We went with a few style centerpieces to play in to the narrow crescent shaped room of the Solarium. The tall vases were best displayed by allowing some free stems to flow in the water with river rock at the base. Surrounding was three antique mercury gold sundae cups with florals and clusters of gold mercury votives.
The second style was in the rustic wood box and then 3rd was in a gilded antique gold vase.
Lindsay and Zach - Plums and Gilded Golds
The colors you choose for your wedding play such an important part to the feel of your entire day. You have to think about how they fit you as a couple, the time of year, definitely the venue down to what flowers you choose and how much of the specific colors to implement.
From when I began doing weddings 9 years ago when discussing something like purple it was pretty much light, dark or both. Now that this industry has leaped in to such a customized world and the colors offered have become endless, it is important to remain true and specific to your palette.
This brings me to Lindsay and Zachs gorgeous wedding. The past couple years the plums and eggplants have been making a statement and pulling in flowers to represent that is very limited. We have Calla Lilies which are a more modern and sleek look, scabiosas which are more on the wildflower side, ranunculus which are breathtaking but not always available and outside of that we need to achieve that look by pulling in things like succulents and actual plums.
When working with Lindsay she was so kick back over all on knowing what style she wanted with long runner type centerpieces, she wanted to pull in some rich vine foliage to the bouquets, also requested to use some cream cotton or jute to finish the bouquets off, wanted some succulents as well. She mentioned and sent a sample picture of her making of her killer gilded gold water bottle table numbers but never did I know she was going to knock my socks off with all the other details she put in to this event herself.
She had custom wood pins made to enhance each boutonniere for the men that were in the shape of squirrels, dinosaurs, fox and bears, gold gilded dinosaurs scattered in specific places at the reception, wood heart garlands with specified signage around the reception, her own pallets for her ceremony altar area. All the way down to the very dedicated detail of taking every guests facebook profile picture and making it a Polaroid for them to find their faces and then the table numbers. Such a gorgeous day this past August at The Evergreen. You can see by the photos how rich and powerful her simple color scheme was!
Kelly and Roy - Peacock Elegance
Kelly is an old friend of mine from my cocktailing days before becoming a mom and entering the floral side of weddings. She herself is an artist with a passion for fashion...I really didn't mean for that to flow but I guess it fits. She definitely has always had the vision of the use of peacock feathers in her wedding....long before they became the trend. When first communicating with her and pulling images of inspiration, we found a lot of colors going on as you tend to see with peacock feathers....teals, purples, even fuschia. With reminding that she wanted a very elegant and classy look, the colors were streamlined into a midnight navy blue, antique golds and creams with the use of the feathers and some accents of actual little peacocks for that slight touch of teal.
The date was set for October 1st at Los Willows in Fallbrook, CA. So after a very busy September 24th weekend, I packed up the family and headed south. Thankfully with that being my home, I have lots of family for the kids to be well entertained while I tackle an event.
Below are some details to highlight the day.
Kelly and Roy, thank you for inviting me to join this amazing team to make your day magical! Wishing you a lifetime of hapiness!!!
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| The bridal bouquet was designed with mini white calla lilies and mini white cymbidiums with clusters of white feathers finished with white Italian satin and an angel pendant that belonged to her grandmother. |
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