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Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
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Friday, June 25, 2010

Upscale St.Paul Wedding | Slate Blue, Silver, Green, White

Last week's wedding was a color combination of slate blue, green, silver, pewter, and white...extremely elegant and superbly stunning!













View of the reception room. 3 different styles of centerpieces dressed the tables with excellence.



















The tall centerpieces set the tone


















2nd style of centerpiece was a medium height arrangement in silver mint julep vase



















3rd style was similar to the one above, just in a shorter vase...



















The boutonnieres...












Groom's boutonniere...












The flower girl's bouquet














The bridal party with their bouquets







Close up of the bride's bouquet...

Monday, June 14, 2010

Special Order for a Special Momma's Birthday


2 of my aunts, uncle, and grandma chipped in and ordered an arrangement from me for my mom's birthday this year. I chipped in a little too to make it 3 times as special.

Over 2 dozen roses, peonies of plenty, vibrant colors, and some extraordinary specialty flowers from Kenya, Africa cooperate to make this arrangement pop!








A Romantic Beachy Wedding | Pink, Green, Ivory

Molly & Jamie's May 23rd wedding had a sweet romantic beach theme and her color choices were gorgeous.

The Bride's Bouquet...







































Bridal Party...








I love this one of one of her bridesmaids!














The flower girl's pomander (or kissing ball)


















The Groom's Boutonniere























The Mother's Wrist Corsage













The Grandmother's Corsage












And, the color splash reception centerpieces!


































Wedding work is pure loveliness, I love my job!

For One of My Lovely Bride's Shower

The bride whose wedding I am doing this weekend's colors are blue, green, and white. Her bridesmaids ordered some coordinating flowers for the shower they threw her a few weeks ago and this is what we came up with!





























































Stay tuned for photos of her wedding flowers after this week...

Vibrant Colored Mother's Day

Whipped up a vibrantly colored arrangement for my momma for mother's day. She loves deep colors, bright colors, and jewel tones.
































And, I love using curly willow in anything and everything.
I absolutely love the organic and unconfined individuality it gives to arrangements.

Dark Red & White, A Simple Wedding

My first wedding of the season this past May was a simple wedding with the colors deep red, white, and silver. It seems red and white is a traditional color combination. This bride was on a tight budget and decided to do mini bouquets for her bridesmaids...simple & sleek nosegays. Take a look:




















Photo of the toss bouquet, (unfortunately, never got a good picture of the bride's actual bouquet)














And, the altar bouquets...there were 2 of these for the altar

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

These are a Few of My Favorite Things...

Working on flowers for Molly & Jamie's wedding...one of my favorite color combinations (greens, pinks, whites) and a lot of my favorite flowers...


Is there anything more delicious than a peony?



Well, ranunculus comes in close second...



Then there's one of my absolute favorite roses...esperance



Mmmm...Green lisianthus













More wonderfully green flowers....
Super green roses



Mini green hydrangeas


Working with flowers is wonderful...nothing better than having constant eye candy

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Happy Administrative Professionals Day!

Today was Administrative Professional's Day also known in the past as "Secretary's Day"

The flower shop that I do freelance work for sometimes asked me to come in to do miscellaneous design work and even some deliveries! Call me crazy, but I love delivering! (I used to always want to be a bus driver so I could drive a large vehicle around all day)

Here's a little about my busy, but fun day...

Spent some time making these cutsie little arrangements for the bosses that wanted a little something for their secretary or "administrative professional"


































I also got to take some deliveries...
First delivery was a GORGEOUS arrangement (wish I would have taken a pic) to Medtronic. Had to bring it through security and everything, but the highlight of that delivery was that it was on Coral Sea Street! Coral Sea?!?! In Minnesota? Sounds like a Florida street name...it just gave me happy thoughts about my ever so distant dream of moving to Florida.

Second delivery was to our beautiful state capitol. Hate to say it, but I had NEVER been inside before! I am very glad I got to take this delivery!

A nice man led around this corner and that, and down this hallway and that, and up this elevator...after I dropped off the arrangement, he was gone! And I was lost! But, I enjoyed it and snapped a few pictures...

The building is so gorgeous! I had no idea! There was even a speech/press conference going on in the rotunda!


















I did make my way outside, on the wrong side of the building, but I didn't mind because I got to walk down all these steps and snapped this picture too.

Then I took a leisurely jog in the beautiful sunshine back to the delivery van.



















My last delivery that I took was to a receptionist at a die cast company. I brought the arrangement in and said it was for "Mickey" that's what the card said. She said there was no Mickey there. I read the last name...she said, "oh, that's me! My name is Nikki and that's my last name!" I guess someone heard the name over the phone wrong.

Needless to say, she was ecstatic and actually started crying right then and there! She said "they are too good to me here." I love running into people who love their job and who are treated well!

Lastly, I just wanted to say, I love how many cool textures and flowers I get to work with. Here's a little picture of just some of the fun stuff... The tricillium (darker green fluffy spikey stuff) and berzilia (round textured ball things) were my 2 favorites of the day...the other more common flowers are tulips, asiatic lilies, and roses...enjoy!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Reflecting on a Past Blog Post

When I first started blogging a couple years ago, I used it to update my personal life and business life. I decided to copy and paste one of the posts from back then to this new blog.

It's crazy how quickly the time goes!

Posted back on...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

This wedding flower business stuff is kinda fun! Here are a few pics from my most recent wedding! (May 2008)

The Bride's Bouquet...pictures do not do this justice (Real Lily of the Valley)!



















The bridesmaid's bouquets...purple and bronze were the colors...

















The reception centerpieces...




















The cake topper...
















The photographer sent me a few nice pictures from the wedding...