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Real wedding: Wendy and Jonathan / Smog shoppe / Culver City, CA
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Real wedding: Amanda and Mike / The Victorian / Santa Monica CA
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Amanda & Mike were married in our favorite venue, The Victorian in Santa Monica.
Peachers and Peter were recently married on a sunny Saturday in March. The wedding was held at Castaway Restaurant with a beautiful mountain view. Their colors were peach, blush and ivory with yellow accents. Here are some beautiful images provided by Jessica M wood Photography.
Real wedding : Peachers and Peter / Castaway Restaurant / Burbank, CA
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Peachers carried a bouquet of peach, blush and ivory flowers: white peonies, peach garden rose " juliet" , white freesia, and white ranunculus with dusty miller.
Peter wore a white ranunculus boutonniere accented with white freesia and dusty miller.
Real Weddings: Rebecca and Andrew / Smog shoppe /Culver City, CA
Rebecca and Andrew got married in a beautiful Sunday. The wedding held at one of my favorite venue, Smog shoppe in Culver city. Rustic and organic wedding. Their colors were ivory and green flowers accented with blue and plum.
Rebecca carried a bouquet of white flowers : garden rose, dahlia, ranunculus, anemone, dusty miller.
Andrew worn a boutonniere of succulent and eryngium.
Creatibe bride made the game books by herself.
Lounge area.
Real Weddings: Kristin and Ashish / Calamigos Ranch, Malibu CA
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Kristin and Ashish were married at Calamigos Ranch, in the lovely Cottage Pavilion. Kristin loves colors!! So we featured coral-pink, poppy red in her wedding and added succulents for variety.
Kristin carried a bouquet of coral peony, white lilacs, “Amazon” bicolor roses, peachy-pink " Juliet" garden roses, poppy-red ranunculus. The bridesmaids bouquets featured white peonies, ivory "Polo" roses, and white ranunculus.
Real Weddings: Nicole and Ryan / Marvimon, Los Angeles CA
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Nicole and Ryan were married last November at the fabulous Marvimon in downtown Los Angeles. For their wedding flowers, we featured peonies, ranunculus, anemones, succulents, dusty miller, silver brunia, and seeded eucalyptus.
Here is a picture of the beautiful bridal bouquet!
… and the lovely bridesmaid bouquets.
November is when peonies start to become available again after no peonies in September and October. Ranunculus and anemones start to appear again in September after a long summer break.
Nicole and Ryan collected lots of interesting vintage finds for decorating their reception tables. Old books, a variety of different vintage cameras and vases adorned the tables. We also used mason jars for holding the flowers. Put all together, they make for unique and very creative table arrangements. Some of the titles for the books were a lot of fun (like a midcentury guide for being a good wife!). Both Ryan and his father are cameramen, so the vintage cameras were a nice tribute to Ryan and his family.
Real weddings: Jeanine and Scott /The Mountain Mermaid, Topanga CA
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Jeanine and Scott were recently married at T
in Topanga. The color scheme was white, blush pink, and light purple. Jeanine loved peonies so we included blush pink and white peonies in her bouquet and centerpieces. Here are some amazing images provided by
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All lined up and ready to go on the tables.
A close-up of the centerpiece. Flowers include: ivory hydrangea, lavender “stranger” roses, blush pink “Anna” roses, blush pink peonies, and dusty miller leaves.
Real Weddings: Nina and Alex / Calamigos Ranch, Malibu CA
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Real Wedding: Holly and Gabriel / Temescal Canyon Gateaway Park, Los Angeles CA
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Real Wedding: Kristen and Brian / Sherwood Country Club, Thousand Oaks CA
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Kristen and Brian were married at the beautiful Sherwood Country Club, Thousand Oaks. Here are some spectacular and dramatic photographs from
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Real Weddings: Senta and Rob / Smog Shoppe , Culver city CA
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Ahh, the Smog Shoppe! One cool venue for a not too large wedding! What was once a place to get your smog checked, is now an urban oasis event space with chic vintage furnishings.
These beautiful images of Senta and Rob’s wedding were taken by Laura Grier of
Boutonnieres featuring yellow craspedia, waxflower, astilbe, veronica, and limonium. Lovely wildflower bouquet of limonium, stock, waxflower, alstroemeria, astilbe, veronica, and monte casino aster.
Senta picked out these awesome old soda bottles from the Rose Bowl Flea Market to use as her centerpiece containers. It was really cool seeing all the different brands of soda pop from back in the day! We sprinkled loose flower blossoms along the length of each reception table.
Old flattened spoons with table numbers etched in — another great find by Senta!
Each place setting held a box of candy cigarette gum! I remember getting these as a kid and thinking I was so cool puffing out the fake smoke!
I may be partial, but I love this photo of the reception in full swing with Senta and Rob framed by their flowers… and guests too!
And now for some additional flower pictures, unfortunately taken from a lesser photographer (moi!)
Real Weddings: Katie and Dave / La Chiquita Ranch , Malibu CA
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Kaite and Dave were recently married at the lovely La Chiquita Ranch in Malibu canyon country. Tiffany and I got a good work out setting up their wedding with lots of walks up and down steep hills – whew! The views and the fresh air made it seem like we were on a mini holiday getaway (on a fat farm?)!
Katie carried a lovely bouquet of all white peonies. When I saw the couple for the sample centerpiece showing, Katie brought with her some family heirlooms from her grandmothers. Here we attached her grandmother’s locket and her other grandmother’s rosary to the handle of the bouquet. I love how it turned out!
The groom wore a small peony bud accented with craspedia and a succulent. The groomsmen wore boutonnieres of lime green Fuji mums with a fun accent of craspedia.
The ring bearer carried a little floral pillow made of green kermit poms. And the flower girls wore little barrets with green mini cymbidium orchids.
We used a lot of fun and interesting botanicals for Katie and Dave’s wedding featuring lime green and purple. In particular, succulents, craspedia, aka “billy balls”, artichokes, protea, and umbrella fern
The other centerpiece design was a grouping of four glass bubble bowls of two different sizes. Each of these held an interesting flower or botanical, such as a king protea, a Fuji mum, several stems of green molucella, and purple hydrangea. Wispy stems of umbrella ferns completed the look – either arranged so the ferns stick out of the bowl, or are viewed through the walls of the glass bowls, like specimens in a terrarium.
We had a lot of fun with the centerpieces! There were two designs which we placed on the 17 tables. One used a low, dark slate, square container that we filled with deep purple hydrangea, all sorts of interesting succulents, Fuji mums, lisianthus, and mini purple artichokes.
Real Weddings: Marjan and Arman / Saddlerock Ranch, Malibu CA
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The Flower Lab recently helped set up another wedding at the extraordinary Saddle Rock Ranch. It was another perfect Saturday with clear blue skies. The horses were frolicking, the zebras were snoozing, and the llama didn’t spit at anyone.
In the Persian tradition, the bride and groom sat at a table laden with nuts and sweets during the ceremony. Here, we decorated the canopy with sheer organza draping and accented with white hydrangea and green cymbidium orchids. Centerpieces of white hydrangea lined the front of the table and two tall manzanita trees framed the bride and groom. The trees were decorated with puffs of hydrangea, cymbidium orchid blossoms, hanging crystals, and floral spheres comprised of green kermit poms.
Individual green cymbidium orchid blossoms accented with a crystal and tied with ivory satin ribbon adorned each aisle chair. I love how effectively simple (and economical) this method of decorating the aisle chairs is.
Marjan carried a gorgeous, large bouquet of all green cymbidium orchids. Triumphal!!
Petite poseys of soft white peonies were carried by the sisters.
Cute floral spheres made of kermit poms were topped with white cymbidium orchids for a couture look.
One of my favorite style of arrangement for a long, rectangular escort card table, this arrangement of bleached corkscrew willow branches, white hydrangea, dendrobium orchids, and cymbidiums is interesting and unique.
Fluffy, bulbous centerpieces of white hydrangea have an asymmetrical flair of green dendrobium orchid stems and curly willow branch accent. They look so haute couture to me that I wouldn’t be surprised to see them jump up and prance down the catwalk!
Real Weddings: Rileah and Adam / Calamigo Ranch, Malibu CA
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Rileah and Adam were married at the beautiful and mystical Calamigos Ranch in Mailibu. A big fan of Star Wars, Rileah wanted something a little different for her wedding. It was a enchanted, Midsummer Night’s Dream wedding in shades of purple.
For the bridal bouquet, we made a loose and wild bouquet of seeded eucalyptus, dark purple limonium, sword fern, purple hydrangea, and magenta peonies.
The reception table centerpieces featured sandblasted manzanita branches secured in slate stone containers and dripping with pink crystal beads, purple “wisteria” beads, green amaranthus, purple dendrobium orchid blossoms, and lots of lovely moss.
There were also lower centerpieces of sandblasted grapewood branches on a bed of mood moss with accents of glittery butterflies, sword ferns, and fun little things you’d find on the forest floor.
Additional details included a garland atop a small wooden bridge that crossed a babbling little creek and cute forest landscapes on the cocktail tables.
The escort cards were placed on a bed of moss highlighted by branchy candelabras decorated with moss and purple dendrobium orchids.
Instead of carrying bouquets, each bridesmaid carried a lantern and wore a single blossom dahlia corsage pinned to her dress.
