Category Archives: orange
Orange you glad you’re a ranunculus?
Shining bright like summer and infused with orange juicy vibrancy! The fresh palette that Sarah went for is one of my faves for SoCal- orange ranunculus, cymbidium orchids, and white with green parrot tulips- can you get more fresh? Awww… 🙂 True tradition- this antique brooch has been in the family for generations- placed gently, but securely on the stems wrapped in Sarah’s lace. We get Papaya bridesmaid dresses to go with our Orange & Lime Bouquets!Have to give props … Read more
Flames of Flowers
Victoria & Balasz wanted to celebrate their wedding in a very intimate manner… after being friends for a long while, the time had come to bring the family from near and far to sit around one long table… Our beautiful bride, Victoria. In graceful repose on an adorable chaise at the La Jolla Darlington House. Handsome groom Balasz’s boutonniere of two red mini-garden roses and a cymbidium orchid. Unassuming, naturally designed ceremony flowers to encircle the couple as they said … Read more
Nature’s Texture
Christy’s flavor for organic movement in the flowers, earthy colors, and stylized beauty was a story told best by her flowing bouquet of hellebores, orchids, fiddleheads, lisianthus, dahlias, and berzilia… Contrasting simplicity of the Bridesmaids suited their royal purple dresses- papyrus flairs out around baby succulents, hydrangea, orchids, and lisianthus. Outdoor decorations were simple clusters of kiwi branches, equisetum, lisianthus, and berzilia along the railing above their ceremony. Table centerpieces of glass vases wrapped with variegated leaves surrounded by flows … Read more
Hot Fun
Holly & Jason flew in all the way from windy Chicago to be happily married at the classic La Valencia in La Jolla.. Focusing on a love for bright, fun colors that evoked the vacation feel of their San Diego destination, we found playful snapdragons and cymbidium orchids wrapped well in pink flax leaves. Holly’s bouquet was a soft, feminine spin on the color scheme- ruffly white nerines and ranunculus combine with blush garden roses and peonies with their golden … Read more
I’ll have the Coral with a side of Pearls & Feathers, please.
Chelsea and Ryan truly set their day of love aglow from start to finish- corals and candles to sparklers and getaway cars… Bride’s bouquet ~ wisps of feather, creamy cymbidiums and soft apricot garden spray roses. Lace and pearls romance the ring of history, majolica roses drape gracefully. Sumptuous, right? That shade of coral and the wrap bodice- bouquets of hydrangea, monkey tails, and roses complete the vision. Hi cutie with orchids in your hair!! Ok, I love my job, … Read more
Flowers in Paradise
Veronica & Anthony were married in the lavish setting of Grand Tradition Estate’s new Arbor Terrace Pavilion – tropical and lush, the flowers needed to not compete with the color palette, but enhance the richness of deep green leaves surrounding their wedding… Veronica’s desire for shades of warm reds and rust orange with a ton of play in texture turned out beautifully. Veronica’s bouquet of wildly colored calla lilies, dark milva and rouge basier roses, with mocha cymbidium orchids. The … Read more
Coral & Aqua
Julia & Michael wanted a romantic and luxurious feel to their wedding getaway. As a destination, La Jolla, California isn’t too shabby 😉 especially when staying and celebrating at The Grande Colonial hotel… with a color scheme that blended unbelievably well with the hotel’s own palette, the flowers covered a spectrum of warm corals to cool aquas… Julia’s bouquet knocked the color into place with it’s deep flame and mango miniature callas, dahlias, proteas, orchids, and echinachea pods, all tied … Read more
Rusty and Right for Fall
Alicia & Derek went for a tonal palette of deep to light oranges, rusty ruddy oranges and reds, with tons of texture. I know it looks a bit redundant, but I couldn’t get enough of Eddie B’s bouquet shots- so I’m posting them all! Thanks for making my art look even more artistic!! Eddie’s angles and framing are unbeatable! Macro view of red flame callas, mini roses, orange mokara orchids, echinacea coneflowers, red hypericum coffee berry, and orange dahlias. Such … Read more
Exquisite Weddings Tabletop
The new Exquisite Weddings Magazine has hit the stands and the launch party is next week, so needless to say we are pumped and proud!! Many many thanks to Terri Rippee for the beautiful photographs of our ‘Tableaux’ as she so appropriately called it.. Tableaux being defined as ‘a beautiful scene, dramatic moment, work of art, life captured in time’… that certainly was our goal 🙂 Rachel Welland of Bliss Event inspired a table setting of vivid orange and aqua … Read more
Where have you been all my life?? or at least this month??
🙂 I know, you’re just waiting.. waiting to see what we’ve been up to all month, all summer long! And I just want you to know, you will NOT be disappointed!! We have been loving on flowers and bling and herbs and wildflowers and neon and candles and draped organza and all kinds of other fun stuff!!! And you know that my favorite part (right after seeing the bride sooo happy with her bouquet and centerpieces..) is sharing every moment … Read more