Ava's Bouquet

Just wanted to post a wedding bouquet I made for a bride in August. It just so happened to be the opening weekend at the CNE that day so delivery at the Liberty Grande was on the insane side, but regardless I loved the bouquets. I didn't have a chance to take photos of the bridesmaid bouquets (they were baby's breath, en masse), but I had to make time for the bridal bouquet, which I made out of local dahlias, pink astilbe, pink and cream tea roses and wax flowers. Congrats Ava!

 Here's a slightly blurry picture of the bouquet resting on my cast iron bunny (the black blob), to show off the handle I did for her.

 

Fuschia Flowers at the Estates of Sunnybrook

I haven't had a chance to post all the weddings i've had the honor of creating flowers for this past season, but I happened to have a small window of time to crack down on the backlog. Here's a look at a wedding I decorated at the lovely Estates of Sunnybrook in Toronto. What's nice about it is you dont need so many decorations as it is already a beautifully appointed room.

I created two large alter pieces, and to add some drama, sprinkled rose petals at the microphone stand. As unattractive as AV equipment is, most of the time you can't hide it, so might as well make it pretty!

 A closeup of the alter arrangement with its bright fuschia bold blooms.

 I created this signing table arrangement using fuschia roses, hydrangeas, and tinted ranunculus.

 I didnt get a chance to take photos of all the decoration I made as the guests came quickly, but here are some rental tea light stands and mini arrangements used on the cocktail tables.

 The bride wanted a vintage theme with birdcages, so I laid fresh moss on the bottom of these birdcages, with bouquets of flowers.


Last but not least, here's the bride's bouquet, with fuschia roses, ranunculus, tinted hydrangeas and pink double lisianthus.

A French Garden Themed Wedding

It was a very, very hot and rainy July day when I made the bouquets for this wedding, but looking at the photos, it did seem like just another fresh spring day!  The biggest challenge for the design of this wedding was to recreate a French garden themed wedding in a contemporary church and gym (which is where we had the reception). One of the main features was this trellis we created using many wired fresh flowers and fresh leaves over the cake table. Carnations are a great sturdy flower for wiring and look great when wired en masse.

Above is the bridal bouquet I made with eucalyptus, lisianthus, garden roses, vendela roses and wax flowers. Below are the pew decorations made from hydrangeas and vendela roses. The flowers are held in paper "booklets" with a jewelled button.

A corsage for the sister of the bride with lisianthus, wax flowers and a rose.

A wrist corsage I created using a fuschia garden rose with wax flowers


 A fresh basket of flowers for the flower girl to carry made from green hydrangeas, pink roses and green pom mums

Celebrate Beautifully Goes Peach & Celadon!

It was an absolute joy to create the bouquets and decor for the wedding of my friends Mark and Harmony. The colour palette was peach, celadon, cream and pink and the result was a soft, romantic and beautiful garden wedding in the middle of october right before the big storm! The venue was Calvin Presbyterian Church in Toronto and One King West for the reception. Congrats!

Photography by Andreas Avdoulos / www.andreasavdoulos.com

Photography by Andreas Avdoulos / www.andreasavdoulos.com

Photography by Andreas Avdoulos / www.andreasavdoulos.com

The bouquet consisted of queen anne's lace, garden roses, ranunculus, star of bethlehem, lambs ear, and sage from my garden



I created two large alter pieces for the church.
Photography by Andreas Avdoulos / www.andreasavdoulos.com



The bride shared my love of ribbons and ruffles, so I created this bouquet handle with a bit of lace peaking through the bottom to match her dress.



I created the grooms boutonniere with roses and lambs ear.

The bride's ruffle cake with rose petals

Aerial shot of the head table from the balcony

The head table was decorated with roses, garden roses, and countless candles



I created two large rectangular planters with moss, roses and votives.

I decorated the dessert table in the same garden theme.

Something Blue

Dress: A bolder statement of "Something Blue": a blue bodice confection by Oscar de la Renta (Fall 2011 collection)
Cocktails: Blue colored cocktails with sprigs of mint and parasols from Martha Stewart
Bouquet: A bundle of brightly hued ranunculus is wrapped with a blue satin ribbon by Bloomin Buckets. Bridal Handkerchief: The bride holds another traditional "something blue" item given to her by Darcy Miller- a custom embroidered handkerchief. You can purchase white bridal handkerchiefs to embroider at the Linenbranch.

Color Themes- Blue & Yellow

Though one might think of blue and yellow as a colour combination from the 60's, it can be classic and elegant with the right mix of white.
Invitations: As featured on Martha Stewart by Jeff Canham
Bridesmaid Dress: Silk bow front shift dress by Monique Lhuillier
Bouquet: Martha Stewart

Literary Weddings

Here's one of my favourite weddings (a Pride and Prejudice themed wedding) by Amorology Weddings that inspired this post on literature inspired weddings.

This spread definitely looks like it belongs at Pemberley!

(From Martha Stewart: the groom is a writer, so they used vintage typewriter keys as place cards)

Literature themed wedding featured on Style Me Pretty

Blooms coming out of an antique typewriter at a wedding created by Sixpence For Your Shoe

Amazing Weddings by Amorology

I absolutely love these photos of weddings planned by San Diego based designers Amorology. They're fun, fresh, sophisticated and witty.

All photos from Style Me Pretty and Amorology Weddings.

Pink Princess

This look was inspired by my pink Charming bouquet. Fairy tales do come true!
Dress: Oscar de la Renta's pink-lined ruched dress looks almost good enough to eat. Photo from Brides.com
Bouquet: Fairy tale faux flower bouquet made from pink peonies, garden pink roses, rose buds and feathers, wrapped with lace by Celebrate Beautifully . It doesn't get any dreamier than this!
Earrings: Assael Peach Pearl Earrings from Neiman Marcus $2000
Clutch: Judith Leiber Pink Fluted Beaded Clutch from Neiman Marcus $2995

Shoes: Valentino's Couture Half d'Orsay Pump in Gold from Bergdorf Goodman $695

A Christmas Wedding

Red and green themed Christmas weddings dont needn't be tacky; they can be classy and beautiful like this storyboard inspired by my red and green bouquet available from the Celebrate Beautifully shop.
Dress: Lace gown with a lace caplet by Monique Lhuillier
Bouquet: Faux bouquet with a green hydrangea, and red roses by Celebrate Beautifully
Bracelet: Bow hinge cuff from Forever 21 $11.80
Shoes: We haven't had this much fun with red shoes since Dorothy's ruby red shoes! Sergio Rossi's Cannes Peacock Feather Sandal from Neiman Marcus $1495

Winter Weddings: Look 2 - Winter Romance

For the second look, I put together a more casual, romantic-vintage look.

Dress: JCrew. A pretty petticoat lace gown in cream with a faux fur wrap or silk bolero would look beautiful in the winter.
Bouquet: Bardin Palomo. A more casual arrangement of chocolata garden and lovely lydia roses, sweet peas, hypercium berries, tied with a pink velvet ribbon. (photo from Instyle.com)
Cake: Ron Ben-Israel. A gorgeous icy turquoise cake goes perfectly with large burgundy and deep magenta sugar peonies. The cake is a dark chocolate with dulce de leche and raspberry buttercream. (photo from Instyle.com)
Earrings: JCrew. Finish off the look by adding vintage looking jewelry like these pearl glass earrings.

Congrats Angela & Marty

I know this post is on the late side, but I had to share photos of my friend Angela's wedding, which was at the gorgeous Hunt Club on Canada Day. Congratulations!

The ceremony overlooking Lake Ontario.
The cake in her colours of fuchsia and turquoise.

Head table flowers

Gorgeous tones of fuchsia orchids, peonies, mini calla lilies, roses and carnations tied with a turquoise ribbon.