I am so fortunate to have the coolest clients EVER!  Alicia and Isaiah were so sweet, and talk about pulling together some fun details!  I think you’ll {heart} their wedding as well; all captured beautifully by Kristy Huston with Kristy Huston Photography.  {Just love her, and her work!}

Congratulations Alicia and Isaiah!

Alicia and Isaiah’s colors were black, white and chartreuse green.  The green color gave the whole palette an “edgy” pop, don’t you just love it!

Their wedding ceremony and reception took place at the gorgeous Wine and Roses property in Lodi, California.

Alicia’s bouquet featured green hydrangeas, and white with black centered anemone flowers.

The Maid of Honor bouquet was created with green flowers.  We used green hydrangeas, green spider mums and other green flowers.

Instead of the standard circular tables, long and wide king’s tables were used for the reception.  Black chivari chairs finished off the look.  I love mixing up the look of the tables!  These king’s tables allowed for us to create multi-compositional centerpieces in black containers of various sizes of square and rectangular shapes.  The black damask runners added a fun pattern to the tables.  The green florals again, added an “edgy” punch that made a statement!

For the Sweetheart table, we did a raised glass tabletop featuring flowers between the glass and actual table.  We were able to slip flowers between the layer of glass and tabletop, creating the sense of a floating table.

The room was finished off with a sweet wedding candy bar.  Alicia and Isaiah supplied the green treats, and we arranged and brought in our glass rentals for this tasty display!

If you are a bride out there looking to infuse some well-rounded design elements into your wedding, email me!  I’d love to hear what you’ve planned so far, and I’d love to share with you some great designer tips to get your wedding that “pulled together” look.

Don’t you just love this feminine and soft feeling bouquet?!  Created with light pink roses, lavender roses, white snowberries and pink lisianthus, this hand-tied style bouquet is the perfect compliment to your wedding day ensemble.  We finished off the look by adding pearl and crystal beads into the flowers as well as finishing off the stems with a lace treatment and pearl accented vintage brooches.

Fall weddings are just around the corner, and I wanted to share this lovely orange Fall wedding bouquet with you all.  I think it has just enough modern touches to re-invent the more traditional Fall wedding flowers. Instead of wrapping the stems with ribbon, we opted for a natural, almost jute binding and finished off the stems with a gold embellishment.

Flowers used include ‘Flame’ miniature calla lilies, brown conepods, orange celosia, orange bittersweet, orange spray roses, brown fiddlehead ferns and a collaring treatment around the base of the bouquet with these fun calathea leaves.  It’s clean and modern with just a little flair.

What is your favorite Fall flower or foliage?

Photograph By: Jodi Yorston Photography

This bouquet was featured in:  Real Weddings Magazine

Taking inspiration from the Fashion world, I decided to implement a new look to the standard bridal bouquet handle.  Here we have braided ribbons to add a new dimension to the handle of this fun pink bouquet.  I have a few shirts in my closet that have braided straps like this, and I thought it would be kind of fun to incorporate this into flowers.  I think it just goes to show, you can get inspiration from any place, some of them the most common.  I think this look would be quite gorgeous in a hue on hue ensemble to add some texture and interest to the bouquet handle.

What do you think, do you like the look?

To see more bouquet handle styles check out our other post on:

“Dress Up Those Stems“

Photograph by: Botanica Floral Designs

This pink wedding bouquet features pink dahlias, pink veronica, pink nerine lilies, pink peonies, miniature calla lilies and burgundy scabiosa.

Today I am sharing just a few teaser photos of a wedding we designed the flowers on, which is featured on Kristy Huston Photography’s blog today!  This wedding was held just a few weeks ago at the ever lovely Wine and Roses in Lodi.  I have to say, I was just in love with the decor!  I’ll be posting a more in-depth blog post on this, so for now, enjoy a few images:

Kristy is an awesome, awesome photographer, it is always a pleasure to work with such talent!

To see the full post, visit:

Kristy Huston Blog: Alicia + Isaiah, Wine and Roses Wedding

Shelly and Austin were married at the beautiful Morris Chapel in Stockton, California.  This Stockton wedding featured yellow wedding flowers with accents of white.  Shelly’s yellow bridal bouquet was designed with white hydrangeas, yellow tulips, yellow cymbidium orchids and white roses.  Special thanks to Briggs Photography for sharing these wonderful images with us!

There are so many fun Sacramento weddings we have worked on this year, and Sean + Caitlin’s wedding was definitely a highlight!  Working with the very talented Kevin Cohee of Do An Event, there was more excitement and unexpected personal touches to this fun wedding than you could imagine!  Here are just a few of the exciting wedding elements all captured by Sacramento wedding photographers, The Memory Journalists.

The Sacramento wedding ceremony took place at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.  Here are two church arrangements we created that actually had live fish in them!

Bridesmaid bouquets were created from a few miniature calla lilies which we wired and added a few green hanging amaranthus to.  These modern bouquets were not only different, but cost effective as well!

The green and orange bridal bouquet was a teardrop bouquet, created with ‘Flame’ calla lilies, succulents, orange ornithogalum, orange dahlias, string of pearls and white freesia.

The gentlemen wore boutonnieres which were created with vintage postcards, which the couple used as save the dates.  This was Kevin’s original inspiration which we interpreted into these fun pieces.  Each was different, and we accented these paper boutonnieres with decorative green wiring, orange beads to tie in with the color theme, and a single hypericum berry.  Very fun boutonnieres, modern boutonnieres… for a unique couple!  Love it!

Tomorrow, we will get into the details of the reception, so make sure you stop back in to see the fun wedding ideas we’ve got in store to share!

Debbie and Scott were married a few weeks earlier at an intimate ceremony in Lake Tahoe.  They celebrated last week by having a photo shoot and small reception captured by Kristy Huston with Kristy Huston Photography.  The venue where these photos were taken is at Empire Mine State Park in Grass Valley, CA.  Don’t you just love the background of this gorgeous venue!

Debbie was looking for shades of pinks with black accents for her florals.

Debbie’s bouquet was created with pink hydrangea, pink sweet peas and pink lisianthus.  The dark and light pink tones just “pop” off the green backdrop!

The bridesmaids carried shades of pinks with black accents of scabiosa in their bouquets.  I think the colors look quite fun with the zebra print gowns!

And lastly, this flower girl purse is to die for!  Finished off with a girly bow and a few rhinestones, we all loved the final look!

Let’s celebrate the 4th with a photo shoot to inspire brides and groom’s tying the knot on our country’s favorite holiday!  Themed around a Sacramento backyard wedding, this shoot has details galore to pull some inspiration from!  Featured on a blog I follow on a regular basis and draw inspiration from myself, Style Me Pretty,  we were so thrilled to have been able to share this with all of their wonderful followers!  Caroline and Daniel with Tinywater Photography took these amazing shots for the feature and Amber with Platinum Planning pulled together the details and stylizing for the shoot!  Along with some of California’s finest wedding vendors listed below, this shoot was a true ode to Vintage Americana!  Awesome work team, it was a pleasure to do this one with you all!

A short wedding dress for a warm Summer evening, red high heels, deep red lipstick and a red dahlia bouquet, what girl could ask for more?

Festive red, white and blue paper adornments hang from a vine covered arbor.  The table scape: simple, garden feeling and American at heart!

We created the centerpiece out of a wooden rectangular box which I covered in antique produce labels I found at an antique faire.  I think the red and blue on the labels bring together our theme and colors very nicely.  And, with local labels, a nod to the past.  For the flowers, we were going for a wild-garden look.  I used passion vine, red dahlias, burgundy dianthus and a mixture of green foliages in varying textures.

Guest favors included locally grown cherries and strawberries each in their own personalized baskets with flag name tags to double as place cards.  Glasses embellished with cut strawberries are the perfect elixir to quench your thirst on a hot day!

The groom wore a simple boutonniere which is an antique piece we found at the antique faire.  It symbolizes George Washington chopping down the cherry tree.

Fresh cherries and whoopie pies, yum!

A milk and cookie bar was finished off with fresh fruit and cool whip for guests to enjoy!

Annie is wearing a 40′s feeling blusher-feather hearpiece we just love!  Her bouquet was created to mimic the feel of the centerpiece with poppy pods, freeform passionvine and little stem treatment to give the feel of a “picked from the garden” look.

Special thanks to:

Tinywater Photography for taking the amazing photos you see here!  Caroline and Daniel ROCK, they are super sweet and uber talented.

Amber Novey with Platinum Planning who organized and brought together the details.  You couldn’t believe all of the goodies it takes to bring together a shoot like this!

Tina Chan with The Cookie Drop who made all of the cookies you see in our cookie bar… which were later scavenged by ants!

Herdah Warner who created all of the custom labels, soda pop flags and invitations!  So festive, so 4th!

Rona Basa with Luxe Image for the hair and make-up which looks amazing!  Rona is located in the Sacramento area and is available for travel!

Wish Bridal for the awesomely cute short wedding dress!  Isn’t it lovely!

Hair accessories by Pegasus Maiden, super cute, stylish and all customizable to you!

And of course, Callie the super cute golden retriever!

A couple of months ago we participated in the Glitz and Glamour Wedding Showcase out at Scribner Bend Vineyards.  I love wedding shows because it gives me an opportunity to create something not every bride comes to me with a picture of.  An all rose bouquet has been done thousands of times… I thought we’d liven it up a bit with this lovely design.

This bouquet is a bit rustic, but still very elegant! The look was designed for an outdoor- casual wedding.  It was a show favorite of the brides with the preserved cotton bolls, soft lamb’s ear, ‘Sahara’ roses and green hanging amaranthus.  I also finished it off by adding a few rustic branches throughout the flowers to add some movement.  The stems were treated with a layering affect of brown freshwater pearls of various sizes and styles.

Not necessarily a bouquet a bride would come to me and ask for, but now maybe a little interest has been peaked?  Of course we do the traditional designs, but this had to spark more thought and creativity and when you take a look at this in person, you say, “yeah, I like… no, I love it.”

What things are you interested in seeing in a bouquet?  I’ll take on the challenge and surprise you to create something any bride would be proud to carry, all while staying elegant and stylish for your wedding day.  Let’s hear from you??