Pastel Spring Wedding

Last weekend I was lucky enough to work with Kiersten and Corey on their romantic garden-y pastel spring wedding.  Unfortunately, the weather wasn't too spring-like, but it didn't put a damper on a beautiful wedding day.  They got married at the new chapel at Hosanna Lutheran Church in Lakeville - a very modern, beautiful church.  Below are a few photos of the chapel.  Their reception was held at Royal Cliff in Eagan.  I have worked there several times and they are always so warm and hospitable there.  It's really a great group of people to work with and they have incredible food!  

Here are some photos we took with our bad camera skills...gives you an idea until the professional photos come in.  :)  

Here is the bridal bouquet  - a mix of white peonies, white "Patience" garden roses, my favorite peach "Juliet" garden roses, hydrangea, lisianthus, stock, seeded eucalyptus, and dusty miller.

And here are the bridesmaid's bouquets - a mix of different shades of peach and white - some peach osiana roses, cumbia roses, versilia roses, as well as some ilse spray roses in a coral color, white hydrangea, white wax flower, and dusty miller.

The ceremony was at the Hosanna Chapel in Lakeville.  Just opened up this month and I think this might have even been the first wedding in it.  It is a beautiful modern looking chapel with a lit up cross and stained glass windows with gray and beige tones.  Then there is a really gorgeous stone fountain over on the side.  Here are a few pics.  We kept it really simple with just some pillar candles in cylinder vases on a bed of clear, white, and peach colored stones, with large white polar star roses.  Very minimal, but just a little touch of their decor.  Can't wait to see the professional photos of the chapel!

For the reception, the bride had a terra cotta, peach, and mint green theme.  She had terra cotta chargers for the base of the centerpiece, then a mint green lantern sitting on top of that.  We added greens of tree fern, sea star fern, a touch of variegated pittosporum leaves, maidenhair fern and mini carnations in peach and white around the base.  We also added mercury glass and clear votives around the base. 

We added some flowers to the cake as well - which was made by the bride's mom!

This shows the draping and lighting done in the room - I love draping!  I think it adds so much to the reception venues.  Illuminations did a great job with this draping.

For the outer area, we always like to add a few touches.  For Kiersten's guestbook table, she had an awesome idea of a wishing tree.  She had people write little notes and sign them and add them to the wishing tree.  Loved the idea!  We added some floating candles and flowers, as well as an extra lantern to the table.

For the placecard table, we added some more floating candles and touches of flowers.  There were also some other tables and areas that we added some lanterns and flowers to.  

 I loved the soft romantic feel of the flowers and who doesn't love pastels for spring weddings?!  Thanks to Kiersten and Corey for letting me part of the fun!  Also a big thanks to the bride's mom, who was so helpful and great to work with!

Crowne Plaza Wedding - some pro pics

Lauren and Matt's wedding and reception at the Crowne Plaza was a fun mix of lots of purples, silvers, and whites.  I have a lot of photos in a previous post, but here is a little sampling of the professional photos taken by Cami at Hazel Brown and Blue Photography.  You can check out her beautiful work at www.hazelbrownandblue.blogspot.com.

Here is Lauren's bouquet of picasso mini-callas, white roses and hydrangea, purple stock and moonvista dark purple carnations, along with some silver brunia and dusty miller.

Lauren is a "bling" girl, so we added some fun crystal wrap to the bouquets.

The bridesmaids carried all white and silver bouquets with football mums, hydrangea, roses, silver brunia, stock, and dusty miller

The Jr. Bridesmaid carried a smaller version of the bridesmaids' bouquets.

Cute pic of the groom and groomsmen with the bouquets - you can see their bouts of white spray roses and dusty miller, silver brunia 

The adorable flower girl and ring bearer - so cute!  She is carrying a little kissing ball of dark purple mini-carnations with a little bling added in there.  LOVE her little sparkly shoes!

In the ceremony we had some large arrangements you can see in my previous post of their wedding, but at the entry to the aisle, we had some purple dendrobium orchids and floating candles as well.

Bayview Event Center - Pro Pics

Here are a few of the professional photos from a lovely cobalt blue and white wedding we did last year...loved working with the cobalt blue!  The photos were done by Kara Knutson of ME Photos.

The bride wanted simple and elegant and only the cobalt and white - with a touch of the green from some of the flowers, but nothing else.  The bouquets were all white except for the bridal, which had the blue delphinium and blue ribbon.  They all had white stock, football mums, freesia, lisianthus, and veronica

 

Here is the remembrance arrangement...just delphinium, waxflower, larkspur, and some ruscus and salal.

We did very simple arrangements at the reception, but the blue really made them "pop".  The reception was held at the beautiful Bayview Event Center.  Gorgeous venue!!

White dendrobium orchids and lily grass in blue wine bottles were one of the centerpieces.

Cobalt blue vases with stock and ruscus were another centerpiece.

Submerged blue delphinium with floating candles and ribbon were the third type of centerpiece.

The head table was decorated with the bouquets and some cobalt wine goblets I had filled with water and floating candles.

We repurposed the ceremony altar arrangements on each end of the head table.  These were a mix of gladiolas, curly willow, white and blue delphinium and some white larkspur.

On the cocktail tables, just simple fuji mums and lily grass in square vases with votive candles.

Just a few more pretty photos...

Thanks to Kara for the beautiful pics!  and to my wonderful bride Channa!  It was a blessing to work with you!