Prestwick Golf Course Wedding

We recently were privileged to do the flowers for the wedding of Katie and Jason at the Prestwick Golf Course and Woodbury Lutheran Church.  The theme of the day for me was "warmth".  I felt warmth from Katie and Jason the moment I met them and it carried through in their choices of church and reception venues.  Both places were warm and welcoming just like them.  Katie was a joy to be around and was never without a smile on her face. They chose lapis colored bridesmaid's dresses and we focused on a yellow, green and ivory for the flowers.  Here are some of my photos...can't wait to see the professional ones!

Here is a close up of the bridal bouquet - it's a mix of light green mini-hydrangea, white hydrangea, white and yellow stock, yellow mums, yellow freesia, white, ivory, and yellow roses, buplerum, and variegated pittosporum.

The bridesmaid's bouquets had a white wrap and had more white in the bouquets than the bride.  Also, they were a bit smaller.

For the ceremony, we just did some hydrangea on every-other pew along the aisle and one arrangement up in the altar area with a mix of the same flowers in the bouquet, as well as some yellow and white glads and snapdragons and a few more greens.

For the reception, Katie provided some awesome vases that we did most of the centerpieces in.  We made a mini-bouquet in each one with the same flowers as used in the bouquets, with the addition of some dahlias.  We added a touch of the lapis ribbon around the bouquets.

I loved Katie's idea of doing table "letters" instead of numbers.  

The other arrangement was a tall one of curly willow, white delphinium, and yellow stock.  We wrapped with a little sheer dark purple ribbon to add just a touch.

 Here you can get a sense of the whole room.  Loved the warm colors in combination with the yellows.

For the head table, we did yellow petals, votives, and a couple of bud vases with some yellow freesia.  The bride and bridesmaids added their bouquets in vases to the table later on.

For the cake table, they were having several different cakes, so we just added petals and votives.  We really wanted to steal the flourless chocolate cake, but we barely resisted!  :)

Katie had an awesome bird cage that she placed on the fireplace, which served as her gift table.  We added some buds to the bird cage, as well as some petals and the toss bouquet for a little extra decoration.

In both the reception room and the entryway, there were really beautiful fireplaces.  We added floating candles and rose heads to the mantles for a little extra decor.  Hopefully the photographer will have photos of all the candlelight.

On the other mantle, we added a little bud vase with some white roses and freesia. 

Thanks so much Katie and Jason!  I was so happy to be part of your day!

Katie and Trent - Professional Pics!

Hi Everyone...

I originally posted about Katie and Trent's fabulous pink and damask wedding a while back and you can check out the post "pink and damask" to get some more detailed info, but I wanted to share some of the fabulous photos Katie sent me from their photographer Ben Berndt at Ben Berndt Photography - he did an incredible job on an extremely hot day!  Everything and everyone was so beautiful!  :)  You can just see Katie and Trent beaming in the photos!  I was so lucky to be a part of their wedding day!  To see more of the incredible photos, check out this link:
http://www.benberndtphotography.com/blog/?p=5186

ENJOY!!  

St. Paul Landmark Center Wedding

I had lots of fun doing Debbie and Josh's wedding!  Debbie had lots of great plans and ideas to work with from the beginning and we incorporated a little bit of everything with their wedding.  They were going for a little bit of an old Hollywood kind of feel, so we had a few feathers, a little bit of bling, and lots of vibrant purples and greens.  We took a few photos to share.  Enjoy!

Unfortunately the photos, again, do not do the venues justice.  We were only able to take a few photos of things before everything was set up, so it looks pretty incomplete.  More photos when the professionals get done.

Here are a few of the church.  This is St. Stanislaus in St. Paul.  It is a beautiful old Catholic church that doesn't need a lot of embellishment.  We just added some white hydrangea on some sparkly purple ribbon to the aisles.  These were then re-purposed on the cocktail tables at the Landmark with some floating candles and bling.

Here are a couple of photos of the bouquets.  The bride had a mix of green cymbidium orchids, dark purple mini-callas, and picasso mini-callas.  The bridesmaids had green cymbidiums and dark purple mini-callas and were a bit smaller.  We added some bling wrap to the tops and crystal pins.

We did four different arrangements.  One was a stem of green cymbidiums submerged with a floating candle, along with some floating candles and votives.

Another was three mini-callas in a square vase - two picassos and 1 dark purple, some floating candles, and some votives.

The third was a large spray of dendrobium orchids and feathers on an eiffel tower vase.

and the fourth was a large pomander ball with bits of small feathers on top of a pilsner vase with bling ribbon at the top and crystals floating in water in the base.

We added some other little touches of extra floating candles and orchids on the different tables.  This is the placecard table (before the placecards were set out).

This was the cake table before the cake got there...just a small mix of ruscus and dendrobium orchid stem to be placed around the cake.

I can't wait for you to see the entire venue!  When we went back to do our takedown at the end of the evening, it was soooo beautiful with all the candlelight.  I'll share more later!