Country Chic Backyard Shower

This was one of the most fun events for me to design for this past October. It was planned within a week of the event and held in the backyard of a gorgeous home I've done some of my favorite events in the past at. She told me the colors of her linen, chairs and china and let me run with it from there. Knowing the brides favorite flowers are dahlias and her wedding was an Elegant Cowboy theme, this was all a perfect match! Flowers used in the designs are Cafe AuLait Dahlias, Hydrangeas, Scabiosa Pods, Astilbe, Roses, Bunny Tails and Dusty Miller. The combo of the wood boxes and birch wrapped vases, rich neutrals and natural elements, gold votives with the table set up made this look over all totally complete!!

Rita and Stefan - Beach tones in Yosemite

My friends Rita and Stefan were married in Calcutta, India earlier in 2011. Rita is finishing her thesis with Harvard and Stefan is a professor at Berkley and between the friendships they have established in the US, they chose Yosemite for another celebration of their union. This was something we planned in just a couple of months as they were packing up to move to Europe for the summer and thanks to Skype, we were able to still have a face to face consultation and view specific flower combinations to help her decide. She loved the bright fresh tones of bold blues, spring greens and peach and we threw in some touches of Yosemite with scabiosa pods and coffee berries. They decided on a morning ceremony at Sentinel Beach following with brunch for their guests so they can enjoy their days throughout the park. Her choice for centerpieces was to create an overall larger scale look but it was made of various small vases so each guest was able to take one as their favor. Guests signed wooden puzzle pieces for the guest book, everyone made well wishes out of handmade butterflies and danced before continuing outside for a fun group shot with the falls as a backdrop. This was such an honor to be a witness into such an amazing couple with an incredible group of friends who traveled from very far distances to experience this amazing day as well.

Soft Summer Rustics

Claire and Taylor were married this last June at the Evergreen Lodge in Yosemite. Like most of my clients having a destination wedding, most communication is initially done through emailing ideas, descriptions and photo samples. They made a trip over to Merced to iron out the details with me. The lined the isle with hooks and mason jar arragements which turned into centerpieces, they brought the material and built their own driftwood arch which was enhanced with some gatherings of the wedding flowers and then of course some wedding party flowers. She was sweet enough to think of me in sending me some images from their wedding and with the sun shinning so much this winter, I've been already itching for some of these colors to come around again... Flowers we used in the designs are Juliet Garden Roses, Scabiosa Pods, Billy Balls, Asilbe, Coffee Berries, Bunny Tails, Fern Shoots, Sweet Peas, Gooseneck, Geranium, Scabiosa, Salidago and lisianthus.

The Madrugas - Wedding and Beyond

I have been saving this particular entry until I got a new layout going on for my blog so we can take a good look at some big pictures! Jessica and Morgan are the prime example on why I love every aspect of my job. Since expanding my wedding territory to down here in the valley, I now have the potential to not only build lasting friendships out of my clients but the fun part is to continue to watch their lives grown and help capture moments through some photography.

I met Jessica sometime early 2008 when she booked our services for the flowers for her wedding. We spent endless amounts of time on her unique color palette since her wedding was the end of August not to be too summery and not to be too fall. Ivories, greens, chocolate brown, burnt oranges and touches of a deep pink.

They had over 300 guests attending so we tried to have some extra fun with the ceremony decor and the escort card tree. They also chose to switch up the centerpieces. One with a large low square vase and heavy votives and the other with a candle scape.

For the ceremony site, we hung long strands of orchid lei's about 12' long with flowing simple satin ribbons in ivory, sage green and chocolate brown with a crystal to weigh it down and strands of crystals for some extra bling. Then down the isle a thick scatter of petals in ivory, raspberry pink and burnt orange.



Our escort card display was a blast to make and was also possible due to such a large amount of wedding guests. We hung long sage satin ribbons from the tree and also weighed them down with a crystal. At the top of each row was a chocolate sparkly letter so the guest can all cruise around looking for their cards which were all attached with a cute copper swirly clip.

Reception





Now we flash forward to their future together and October 2009, I was able to squeeze in some maternity pictures just 2 days before the TWINS got here!





Now introducing....Piper and Holden!! We finally got to snap a few at 3 months.





And we then got the entire crew when the twins hit almost 8 months.








Thank you Madrugas for letting me capture moments in your lives!