Kara's Black and Red Affair

Kara and her mom came to us and knew exactly what they envisioned for their fall wedding at The Gates on Roblin. The bride wanted a pretty white mix for her bouquet and some rich, fall colors for her maids. We designed one of our most popular white bouquets for her with hydrangea, two types of lilies, roses and orchids. The maids had a similar mix but with reds and oranges with an addition of red hypericum berries and the very unique, brown fiddle head. We loved the finished product!

One of her Five Maids

The bride's white on white with a little bit of bling

The ceremony was held outside (we thought that was pretty brave for a mid-October wedding!) where we lined the aisle with red petals. We also created two very large pieces to flank the couple during the ceremony but unfortunately had to bring them inside because it was too windy and one actually blew over and broke right before the ceremony! One thing we have learned about weddings is you never know what will happen and sometimes you just have to roll with the punches and make it work. The pieces consisted of red roses and greenery for the base and very tall curly willow with red orchids made to look like "falling leaves" from the branches of the willow.

The ceremony setting right before the crash :(

 Other then the  floral decor,  Brock and Kara added a unique personal feel to their ceremony  by having Brock's fellow RCMP officers line the aisle while holding flags for the processional. It was beautiful and touching and who doesn't love a man in uniform?!?! 

The guestbook piece was a smaller version of the ceremony pies without the roses and more orchids. Kara chose black and red linens for the room with the addition of damask runners for the tables, which were provided by Madeline's.

We also added a few extra blooms to the front entry (and of course the bathroom!) of the Gates to further tie everything together.

Pretty ribbon details and rose petals were one of the touches they didn't expect but loved!

The guest tables centerpieces featured hundreds of red mokara orchids, which provided Kara with a very luxurious look for her reception. We came up with three different centerpieces for the guest tables. Each one had submerged mokaras spiraled into different size vases and completed with floating candles. One was a tall 18" cylinder, the other was a grouping of three smaller vases and the other was a short, wide cylinder. It added a lot of interested to the room but also tied everything together so well.

Here is the amazing email we received from the bride's mother, Janet, after the wedding:

"What can we say but “WOW’!  The flowers were amazing!  Everything looked so beautiful and was more than Kara had expected.  You ladies did a fabulous job and should be proud of the work you do!  The artistic component was so very evident in all the arrangements.  We will be recommending you to all our family & friends.  The little extras you did at The Gates was awesome.

Thanks again for making Kara & Brock’s day one they will remember for a lifetime!"

It is the best feeling to know they truly appreciated the pieces we created for their wedding so thank YOU Kara and Brock for including us in your day!! Congratulations!!

We also have to thank Melissa and Dale of the Gates for being so helpful and fun to work with!

~L

Four on the floor

Remember a few weeks ago when we said we had four weddings? 

Well, we survived the craziness and have a huge run down of what we created for all those nuptial celebrations!

First up is Kay's brown and yellow party.

The bride carried an all white mix.  Her stem wrap was embellished with bead work from her dress.

Her eight maids carried a mix of light and dark yellow roses with white hydrangea wrapped with brown organza from their dresses.

We made two silk pomanders of yellow roses for each of her two flower girls.

27 guest tables were dressed in brown pin tuck table cloths and topped with mokara orchid towers.  Natural river rock and large floating candles finished off each piece.

Lilies and orchids finished off the floral package.

Next up was Erin's lime green and hot pink party at the Greenwood.

A green mix with white roses for the bride.

Her five maids carried the same mix with pops of hot pink

The two flower girls carried a tiny posy of pretty pink roses.

Guest tables dressed in celery linens and clusters of pink roses with lime green cushion mums.  At the end of the evening the bride gave away all her table centers to close friends and family that helped her put together her big day.

The guest book piece with their seating chart.  If you look close you can see that all the tables were named after the couples favorite NFL teams.  I bet they are a pretty fun couple!

Matching flowers for the candy bar.

You know that this is!!

White Callas were the blooms of choice for the next bride.  Since we were already fully booked up we didn't end up doing any of the on site set up for this wedding.  As a result all we have to show you are the bouquets.  The other pieces we made included table centers of 2 large submerged callas, a memorial piece of 24 red roses, a guest book piece and a large table center for their sweetheart table. 

Five large callas and tropical greens for the bride.

A smaller version for the MOH.

And last but for sure not least.....Christel had a super unique vision for her amazing day that included locally, responsibly grown product, vintage vases and broaches and a coloured dress! We cannot wait to see the pictures!

The bride's bouquet consisted of scabiosa pods, roses, hydrangea, local orchids and seedum and hypericum berries mixed with the vintage broaches and eyeless peacock feathers.

The four maids and two flower girls carried smaller versions of the bride without the bling.

The groom's bout

The centerpieces were primarily made with local, organic product.  Featuring the vintage vases from some of our past weddings the groupings were a mix of the jewel toned blooms we used in the bouquets with some potted plants.

We hope that all our brides enjoyed their day September 10th and are loving life as newly weds!
The grand totals for that weekend are.......

116 centerpieces, 26 bouquets, 2 pomanders, 42 corsages/bouts, 3 guest book arrangements, 4 big accent pieces, 1 tree and of course the bathroom arrangements

~K

Three Wedding Weekend

Congratulations Brina, Courtney and Nicole!

This past weekend we had three different weddings to do.  Luckily they fell on Friday, Saturday and Sunday so we had plenty of time to get everything done.

The first event was for an awesome couple that wanted their wedding to be very personal.  They are a fun loving,easy going pair who have filled their home with one of a kind finds they have collected over the years as they travelled around the world.  They knew that they didn't want their wedding to be like any others and made choices to ensure they stood out.

The bride carried white and peach to match the girls dresses and was wrapped with a scrap of the dark coral material from a few of those dresses.

Pretty Poppy Pods

To match his blushing bride, the bridegroom got a boutonniere of a poppy pod and peach hypericum berries.  I was a little nervous for this one because we didn't talk about the options beforehand and I couldn't resist making this up for him.  Thankfully Chad was totally into it and didn't want to wear the back up one I had on stand by!

Also finished with left over bride's maid material.

There were eight brides maids, a Junior Bride's maid and two flower girls.  The bouquets for the girls were all white with dark greenery. 

 The couple was very thoughtful in recognizing the important people in their lives.  Aside from parents and grandparents they also had personal flowers made for sisters, cousins and siblings significant others not in the wedding party.

Sister's Wristlet

The venue was The Gates On Roblin and the guest list topped 230.  As a result we had 25 guest tables and 10 cocktails to decorate.  For table centers we designed the look around vintage vases and the colours of the wedding which ranged from peach to coral and every shade in between.  Each table had a different combination of vases grouped in threes and fives sitting on top of slate tiles. The groupings were all colour blocked and the blooms consisted of roses, alstromeria, hypericum berries, freesia, veronica, hydrangea, aster and gladiolas.

Sample of Table Center

In addition we also added large vases filled with gladiolas in yellow, red, orange, peach, coral and white to add visual interest and pops to the otherwise very white walls.

The perfect flower for summer weddings.  They come in almost every colour and add height to any arrangement

The ceremony was outside on the lawn in the steamy late afternoon sun.  Instead of trying to bring all the colours of the inside Flowers out we focused on white and orange with green accents to compliment the natural setting.  

Two large accent pieces sat on our brand spanking new pillars and a grapevine wreath with seeded eucalyptus completed the arch.

Natural ceremony flowers work well to highlight natures beauty, not compete with it.

The look was finished with a small posey of wild flowers on every second chair and a thick band of rose petals up the aisle.

The girls looked stunning in dresses custom made by the ultra talented Jill of Tony Chestnut and Freshair was responsible for the wedding day beauty.  As soon as the Photog has pics up I will share the link so that you can see the stunning women yourself.  My pictures don't do that work justice.

That's it for now. There are two other events to add to the blog and I will all in good time.  The weekend has been long and yesterday brought some wonderfully exciting news that we will also share very, very soon.

Our signature bathroom blooms.  This time they matched the bride!

Congratulations again, Brina and Chad.  Enjoy your honeymoon

~K

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary.......

How does your garden grow?  Good enough to make these beauties?

A sampling of the arrangements we made up for her.

The norm around here is to use commercially grown product to make arrangements for weddings, Anniversaries, Funerals and all our other events.  Usually we are the ones supplying the blooms and doing the designing but not in this case. A few weeks ago our client brought over armloads of organically, locally grown flowers and asked us to whip her up some arrangements.  Since we had the green light to do whatever our little hearts pleased we came up with the colour blocked posies you see pictured here.  Instead of mixing them all together for a garden inspired feeling we went modern and kept all the colours in the same family.  The assorted vases came from our stock and she was able to place them around her home to add colour and personality to the decore.

~K