Floral Arrangements for Wedding

This is a sampling of the floral arrangements I created for my daughter's wedding the end of August, 2010. There were over 25 total arrangements plus the bridal bouquet, corsages, and boutonnieres. There were also floating flowers in the 2 water features, 3 potted containers barricading the driveway which I had potted early in the summer (white geraniums, white pansies, and golden groundcover (forget the name right now-helichrysum?). I was making the corsages in my hotel room until 2am on W-Day. Yikes! There was a bit of a feather theme being woven through the decorations so my daughter wanted feathers in her bouquet which blended with her fascinator in her hair. She also wore the 2 crow feathers my late husband and I wore in our hair at our wedding 10 years ago. Transporting all of them took 2 SUV's with the air conditioning on full blast to keep them from wilting on the 1 1/2 hour drive to site. The amazing piece was between my daughter and my stash, we had all the containers, French flower vases, pedestals, galvanized cones we needed.

Floral Fireworks for my Daughter's Wedding

Here are some of the gorgeous flowers I had the joy to work with in putting together over 24 arrangements, one bridal bouquet, 7 corsages, 9 boutonnieres for my daughter's wedding the end of August. The colors were brown, white and citrus, with an emphasis on lime green and orange. Brown was picked up with manzanita branches and the white came mostly from dahlias & paniculata hydrangeas. The oranges came from rudbeckias, dahlias & crocosmia. Lime green came from limelight hydrangeas, bells of ireland, golden lonicera, golden cotinus, and monterrey cyprus, The next posting will show the finished products. Transporting them in two SUV's was a challenge. But my brilliant designer son figured out how to bungie-cord plastic crates and square buckets together to hold the vases. I worked late into the night under the tent but it sure was fun. Flowers were picked from 4 gardens in the area plus more from an area wholesale floral warehouse.