Succulents
Kate and Dylan were married last year at lovely Shutters on the Beach hotel in Santa Monica. I really enjoyed working with these two .
The following beautiful images are from David Michael Photography .
Kate carried a bouquet of white flowers: white peonies, white cymbidium orchid and accented with dusty miller and wrapped with ivory satin ribbon. Matching her simple and elegant dress.
Joyce and Sebastian were married at the beautiful hotel, Shutters on the Beach, in Santa Monica. A vintage classic wedding, their colors were pink, blush, white, and peach. Some amazing pictures by
.Tall white arrangements of hydrangea, dendrobium orchid and delphininm were placed on pedestals framing the bride and groom.
oyce carried a bridal bouquet of pink and peach flowers: pink/peach " Juliet" garden rose, white “polo” roses, white ranunculus, white sweetpeas, pink dahlia, Jasmine vine, sword fern and lysimachia.
Her bridesmaids carried bouquets of peach "avalanche bel" rose, ivory "polo" rose, coral" versilia" rose and white ranunculus, sweetpeas, hypericum.
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.
Sometimes our brides are more hands-on and crafty and decide to make their own centerpieces but hire us to provide the personal flowers. Here are some bouquets and boutonnieres we made for a recent wedding featuring succulents and dark “Schwarzwalder” mini calla lilies. We also inserted vintage buttons, which belonged to the bride’s grandmother, and incorporated them into the bridal bouquet.
The bridesmaids bouquets were slightly darker without any white mini calla lilies and were made of succulents, dark “Schwarzwalder” mini calla lilies, green hypericum berries, and green cymbidium orchids.
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.
