Millennium Hotel Wedding - Pro Pics

Just wanted to share some really incredible photos from a wedding earlier in the year that was held at the Millennium Hotel.  I can't say enough good things about Scott from Midwest Lifeshots - not only gorgeous photos, but awesome to work with as well!  Please check out his website at www.midwestlifeshots.com.

Sorry if I get carried away...I loved the photos and couldn't decide when to stop.  Here are a couple of different views of the bridal bouquet.

Here are a couple of the bride and her bridesmaids. 

Here's the whole wedding party.  LOVE the photo of them crossing the street!

A couple of shots of the ceremony - the dome there is a pretty incredible back drop for a ceremony!  and the first dance with the sunset.  

Some of the reception space - we did very minimal flowers and floating candles, but with the bright yellow, it really added a nice touch.  Everything was very clean and crisp, with just the touch of yellow.  Travel was the theme of their wedding, and the bride and groom have traveled all over the world - at each table, there was a photo of them in an exotic location that they've been and the guestbook was a travel journal.  The place cards were luggage tags.  She had some really great ideas.

They had a sweetheart table with just the mercury glass votives, some floating candles and her bouquet.

Loved the cheesecake table!

And then finishing up, some really beautiful photos of the bride and groom!

Crowne Plaza Wedding

Just finished up a fun, glamorous wedding at the Crowne Plaza this past weekend!  Lots of "bling" everywhere!  And a color scheme of dark purple, silver, and black.  Lauren and Matt were awesome to work with!  Lauren and her mom were so much fun when they'd come in to discuss details (and provide me with some branches to add to the curly willow we were spraypainting silver).  It's so much fun for me when my "clients" end up becoming more like family...and I have to say, it's way more often than not that it happens.  I have loved working with each and every one of my brides - not a bridezilla in the bunch!!

Lauren and Matt had a spectacular, glamorous, kind of Hollywood feel to their wedding.  The Crowne Plaza on the riverfront in St. Paul is a beautiful place with a round area surrounded by windows where the ceremony takes place, and then the room opens into a wide open expansive room with a big dance floor.  It's huge!  They also have a great area outside the ballroom for the cocktail area.  The people there were wonderful to work with as well...couldn't have asked for a better experience (other than the silver spray paint!  ;)

Here are a few photos of some of the flowers...

Here are a couple of the bridal bouquet - she had picasso mini-callas, purple stock, white hydrangea, moonvista carnations, silver brunia, etc.  No greens were used.  You can see a touch of the wrap - we had purple wraps with bling around the top and the bottom and then crystal pins.

The bridesmaids carried all white bouquets made up of white hydrangea, roses, white standard mums, silver brunia and dusty miller.

I don't have photos of the ceremony, but after the ceremony, we placed them on the sides of the head table.  Here is a pic or two of them.  At the front of the aisle, we had tables with three tall cylinder vases with purple orchids and floating candles.  The other arrangements were six foot tall spraypainted silver curly willow and dogwood in large cylinder vases with black ribbon and bling.  Lots of purple dendrobium orchids throughout.

Her guest tables beautiful with black tablecloths, black chair covers with eggplant/purple colored sashes, and then a damask runner.  For the first style of centerpiece, we went simple with three vases with floating crystals and some ribbon and bling.  Added a touch of the orchids for a teensy bit of color.  We used silver mercury glass votives, as well as some regular votives with a little bling wrapped around the base.

For the second style of centerpiece, we spraypainted some rust colored boxes silver and added some ribbon and bling to them and filled them with the moonvista carnations and a few crystals.  Again, we used the mercury glass and regular bling votives.

For the third type of centerpiece, we did a large cylinder vase with 3 ft tall curly willow and dogwood spraypainted silver with the purple orchids to be similar to the ceremony flowers.  We added hanging crystals, hanging votives, etc, to the branches.  We had the same votives, as well as some stemmed ones to add some extra candle light.

And here is one that kind of shows more of the room.

The day really turned out super beautiful!  Thanks so much Lauren and Matt!!  

Minikahda Club Wedding

I have another sneak peek of a wedding I recently did.  I was so lucky to have worked with Thuy and Kyle on their beautiful wedding!  They wanted some really unique looks for their bouquets/bouts/etc.  I was in a rush that day and only got a few pics, but wanted to share the ones I had.  Will hopefully have lots more to share of the professional photos!

The ceremony was in the beautiful chapel on St. Kate's campus...absolutely beautiful church!  We did very minimal flowers there with just submerged purple orchids in three staggered vases on each side of the altar.  The church had more than enough beauty already without a lot of flowers needed.

The reception was held at the posh Minikahda Club.  With some of the fall leaves still on the trees and lots of windows, the scenery out the windows, as well as the reflecting candlelight was beautiful.  I can never say it enough - always double the amount of candles you think you want!  It makes for such a warm, romantic atmosphere.  There were also fireplaces, lounge areas, a cocktail area, etc, for the guests to use.

 For the bridal bouquet, as well as the bridesmaid's bouquets, it was all about texture!  We tried to add lots of different types of flowers and fillers to add to the different textures of the bouquets.  The bridal bouquet was all white with some of the flowers being hydrangea, mini-callas, dahlias, garden roses, roses, spray roses, lisianthus, queen anne's lace, peris buds, seeded eucalyptus in different shades, stock, trachellium, and ranunculus.  There were also some greens added around the base.

The bridesmaid's bouquets were all a bit different and had mainly the antique purple and green hydrangea, light pink and white spray roses, purple stock, queen anne's lace, purple and green trachellium, white lisianthus and ranunculus, some seeded eucalyptus in green and purple, some dusty miller, as well as greens like ruscus, myrtle, and boxwood.

The bout for the groom was salal, snowberries, green trachellium, and seeded eucalyptus and the groomsmen were silver brunia, salal, and dusty miller.  Some of the corsages were white mini-callas with some snowberries, trachellium and peris buds, as well as some ribbon.  All of them were a bit different.

I don't have any reception photos at this time, but I'll post them when I get some.  I was really happy with the way everything turned out - lots of hydrangea were used at the reception as well.

Thank you Thuy and Kyle SO much for allowing me to work with you on your wedding day - it was such a pleasure!

Minnesota Valley Country Club

Lori was a super sweet bride who I loved working with!  From the first visit with a few of her bridesmaids, to the set up, clean up, etc, with kind words from her mother, mother-in-law, etc, I really almost felt like part of the family!  Everyone was so sweet to me and couldn't be nicer!  The Minnesota Valley Country Club in Bloomington was a beautiful venue with all the fall trees surrounding the building - it was perfect for her color scheme.  The people there were awesome to work with as well!

Lori's colors were a vibrant iridescent teal and pretty burnt orange color.  The dresses were teal and we focused on using mainly orange and red flowers.  Lori made table squares of the teal and burnt orange colors and had DIY touches of those colors throughout the venue. I wish I had photos of the bouquets, because I thought they were really bright and fun.  Those will have to wait til later.  Here are some photos of the church flowers (church was Wooddale Lutheran Church) and the reception set-up...

At the church, we added a couple of arrangements with the bright oranges and reds, as well as a remembrance arrangement of white roses and a little touch of orange filler.

Love the stained glass!

Here is a sample of the wrist corsage, a pin on corsage, and a bout

The flower girl's kissing ball was made with white mini-poms and teal pins and ribbon.

All the tables had three cylinder vases with curly willow twigs and river rocks in them.  Lots of candlelight with the floating candles.  The teal tables had orange gerb accents.

the orange tables had green poms with teal pins in the middle

We added some flowers and greens to the cake, along with globe votives

Then she had a fun sweets table that we added some gerbs to.

Just a few accents of color around the family photos and guest book

Along the place card table, we added flowers and floating candles with river rock.

Loved working with you Lori!!  Thanks so much for making me feel like part of the family!