We were so honored to be able to create Nicole + Ben’s wedding florals for their May wedding at Viansa Winery in Sonoma.  Though we had worries for a chance of rain, we were so lucky to be able to have the ceremony in Viansa’s beautiful outdoor courtyard which is breathtaking!

Special thanks to Megan Clouse Photography for the amazing photographs capturing the day!  You can view more of this wedding if you head to Megan’s blog here.

The large wrought iron doors were opened in the courtyard where we created a beautiful arch with curly willow, phalenopsis orchids, hanging amaranthus and open roses.  It was a romantic setting for the ceremony!

The aisle was lined with floral stands with hanging Swarovski crystals and romantic florals in the pinks, white and purple shades.

The bridesmaid’s carried bouquets of antique green hydrangeas, pink and lavender roses and pink spray roses.

I love how everything is soft and romantic feeling!

For the reception, a more muted color palette with added whites, blush linens and lots of clear glassware with gold touches.

Hanging Swarovski crystals add that little touch of elegance!

This wedding was recently featured on Wedding Chicks!  Click the photo below to read the entire post!

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Photography: Megan Clouse Photography Venue:  Viansa Winery, Sonoma  Catering: Sage Catering Cake:  Sweet Cakes by Rebecca

This beautiful Sacramento wedding was held last June at The Flower Farm Inn in Loomis, California.  I love the Flower Farm Inn for a number of reasons: the luscious garden, beautiful barn, and free-range chickens!  Yes!

Shauna and Wagner were married at The Flower Farm Inn, and what a delight it was to design their gorgeous dusty pink and garden-feeling florals.  A special thanks to Maurice Ramirez Photography for providing some lovely images to share with you all.  If you haven’t checked out his website already, his work is amazing!

Alison with Alison Ulshoffer Events coordinated the day for a smooth and seamless day!

Gorgeous pink peonies, anemones, antique green hydrangeas.. ahhh, so beautiful!

I thought this was such a sweet photograph.  The flower head wreath she is wearing was created with roses and antique hydrangeas, the perfect match to her champagne colored dress.

The men wore pink cymbidium orchid boutonnieres.

Detailing treatment on the stems with rhinestone accents.  The peonies used here were stunning!

The bridesmaid bouquets were created with a soft look.  I love the combinations of pink and ivory as well as the soft, romantic florals we used to create these.

The arch at Flower Farm Inn was decorated with hanging amaranthus and lush florals for a beautiful backdrop for the ceremony.

Kissing balls lined the aisle for the ceremony site.

For the guest tables, a simple grouping of peonies surrounded by vintage glasses with peonies inside were used for centerpieces.  Sometimes simplicity speaks volumes.

Finally,  I had to leave you all with this gorgeous image!  Congratulations Shauna and Wagner!

Hopefully you enjoyed this lovely garden-inspired peony wedding.  As the weather continues to warm up, I look forward to more weddings like this around the corner!

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Photography: Maurice Ramirez Photography

Coordinator:  Alison Ulshoffer Events

Catering:  All Seasons All Reasons

Today, I am so excited to share Elizabeth and Justin’s wedding at The Citizen Hotel in Sacramento, CA!  Elizabeth’s wedding day style was sophisticated with soft tones, accents of succulents and romance!  The florals featured soft ivories with accents of greens and touches of blush pink.

Jen and Chris of Jen Stewart Photography photographed this wedding, and I was so excited to finally get to work with them!  The pictures are so beautiful!

Elizabeth’s bouquet was so romantic with white florals and accents of small green succulents and tulips.

The gentlemen wore succulent boutonnieres that were quite fun!  You can check a closer image on our FB Business page here.

Such a beautiful picture!

The ceremony took place in the Terrace room.  We placed petals on the outer edges of the aisle and had two displays of florals on either side of the bride and groom.

The reception was held in the Terrace Room at the Citizen Hotel as well, and featured tall and short centerpieces.  White hydrangea centerpieces with blush pink ranunculus, roses and green hanging amaranthus were a beautiful touch in the space!

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Venue & Catering: The Citizen Hotel

Photography: Jen Stewart Photography

Day of Coordination: Caitlin Zick 916.949.6501

Hair Stylist: Shannon Ertel

Make-Up: Jen Craig

DJ & Lighting: Joe Kalamaras with SJ’s Disc Jockey

Bridal Gown: Bella Donna Bridal Boutique

Linens: Mimi & Company

Florals: Botanica Floral Designs

I wanted to share these beautiful images we captured of the sweetheart table at our most recent wedding at the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento.  It got me thinking as I put these images up, that maybe not all brides understand the different options when it comes to head tables, so here you go!

Whether you are doing a head table for you and your bridal party, or a simple sweetheart table for just the bride and groom, you’ll want to put some thought into the decor and design you will use for this feature table.

Though it is nice to be able and re-use or re-purpose the bridal bouquet and bridesmaid bouquets, it’s also nice to add a little more finishing touches to this table to make it look beautiful!

Short arrangements always work best so that guests can see you and your bridal party.  Make sure your florals are complimenting to the rest of your decor and centerpieces.  If you plan on using a floral piece from your arch at the ceremony, be sure to have additional pieces if your table is large, and make sure your designer knows that this will be used for the head table following the ceremony.  You’ll want to be sure he-she designs something that will fit on the table, and will be easily removed and transported to the reception.  I always suggest incorporating plenty of candlelight to add some lighting as your evening progresses.

When it comes to table design styles, we’ve done various options of head tables:

Standard Head Table: where the bridal party typically faces guests

King’s Table : where the bridal party, sometimes including parent’s join around a large rectangular table.  This is also a great option if most of your bridal party has significant others that may feel left out if you are using a traditional head table

Sweetheart Table: for just the bride and groom

Upgraded linens and upgraded rentals are also a great way to have your table stand apart from guest tables.  A subtle variation in linens or a beautiful laced overlay as you see in the photos here are add a touch of elegance to your special table.

What will you be using for your head table at your wedding?  I’d love to hear!

Yet another real wedding of 2011 to share with you all!  Yes, wedding season is in full swing again, and I just can’t wait to share all of the fabulous weddings we have coming up with you!

This Lake Natoma Inn wedding with oranges and greens was held just a few weeks ago.  These are just a few images I captured, so I am hoping to share some pics of our beautiful bride and groom when the professional images come on in.  For the moment, here are just a few of the details…

The centerpieces were created with orange ranunculus, orange cymbidium orchids, orange ‘Milva’ roses and green hydrangea.  The green hydrangea really softens the orange vibrancy.

The bridal bouquet also featured the cymbidium orchids, mokara orchids and touches of ivory to compliment the bridal gown.

The ends of the chairs had groupings of simple poseys of green hydrangea and ‘Milva’ roses.  Following the ceremony, these were moved into the reception and used on the head table for additional decor.

Finally, we decorated the arch with smilax vine, roses and hydrangeas to “frame the couple” for their photographs.  It’s always suggested to add florals to a structure such as this, it allows for a “pop” of color, and will make your photos look that much more amazing!

The colors orange and green were used in combination for a few of our weddings this past year.  I love these colors together, they are so fresh and fun!

To check out the other orange and green weddings we have done, see the posts below:

Old Sugar Mill Wedding: Tiffany + Travis

Fall Inspired Table

Sacramento Wedding Reception

Orange and Green Wedding

Hope you enjoyed this great wedding!

We love Napa weddings, and we think you’ll just love this Harvest Inn wedding we worked on in the heart of wine country!  Kami and Dan, our bride and groom, planned their wedding from southern California, and chose the Harvest Inn for their wedding and reception.  The Harvest Inn is a gorgeous Napa wedding site with stone walkways throughout the property and gardens surrounding the villas and rooms.  The wedding location backs right up to a vineyard where the ceremony and reception take place.  Shaded by tall redwoods, a calming fountain and a gorgeous view of the hillsides, the Harvest Inn is simply gorgeous!

For Kami and Dan’s florals, they were looking for something light and vintage-feeling.  Florals all consisted of white and ivory tones of roses, hydrangeas, dahlias, and a few green accents.  Centerpieces were created in mismatched and eclectic milk glass that is part of our inventory.  From milkglass compotes to budvases, each piece was different and unique!

This wedding was recently featured on The Knotty Bride, a wedding website we invite you to check out yourself, and follow!

Kami’s all white bouquet featured miniature calla lilies, freesia, ivory spray roses, hydrangea and brown fiddlehead fern scrolls.

The stems of Kami’s bouquet were finished off with lace ribbon to match her gown; little details to tie it all together!

The men’s boutonnieres were created with white miniature calla lilies with a brown fiddlehead fern scroll backing.

What a gorgeous photograph with the light coming through the trees!

The ceremony aisle was lined with white rose petals.

Tables with white linens and lace runners added to the vintage feel.

Within the dance area we created a candle display around the large fireplace.  Lighting provided by SJ’s Disc Jockey added a fun, lounge feel to this portion of the evening.

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Photographer: M David Media Wedding Planner:  2 Chic Events & Design Dress: Rosa Clara Linens: Simply Elegant Rentals & Decor Rentals: Classic Party Rentals Cake: Sweet Cakes by Rebecca Lighting-DJ: SJ’s Disc Jockey String Trio: Ovation Strings Floral Design: Botanica Floral Designs

I am so excited to share with you all this amazing wedding we were so honored to work on.  Megan and PJ were married in San Francisco on Thanksgiving weekend, November 27, 2010.  The ceremony took place at Grace Cathedral, one of San Francisco’s historical landmarks, followed by a reception at Mark Hopkins Intercontinental.

Megan, our bride is not only gorgeous, but she has a huge heart, just like her family.  One of my favorite things about my line of work is that I get to be exposed to such great people, and this family is definitely one of them!  You can see the love and emotion this family has for each other in this video, all captured by the talented Philip Alan Films.  I hope you all check it out and see some amazing details, great moments captured and one heck of a party!

Florals used consisted of deep red roses, dahlias, orchids and the most amazing peacock feathers, vintage brooches and gold candelabras.  We’ll be posting more pics as soon as we can!

It takes some awesome team of wedding vendors to pull together a wedding such as this.  Make sure you check out these other amazing vendors who all worked to make this wedding awesome!  2Chic Events & Design, Gino Creglia Photography, Extreme Productions Entertainment, Stephanie J Designs – Social and Wedding Invitations, Mimi & Company Couture Linens and Sweet Cakes by Rebecca.

Though it seems like Spring is finally here in Northern California, I just had to share these Fall wedding flowers we created for a Wilson Vineyards wedding in Sacramento this past year.  The orange cymbidium orchids paired with the orange roses and asiatic lilies were that gorgeous “pop” of color that was infused throughout the personal flowers for this Sacramento wedding.

Jacqueline Photography captured all of these lovely images… aren’t they gorgeous?!

The details on the bouquet handle are the finishing touches that I just love to add a little flair to.  Here we’ve used a combination of orange and brown ribbons with a brooch embellishment to finish off the look of this Fall bridal bouquet.

The groom wore an orchid boutonniere to compliment the flowers used in the bridal bouquet.  We finished off the stems with gold wiring to add a nice touch.

The ladies all wore brown dresses, and carried orange bouquets to add contrast against their gowns.

Hope you enjoyed the share.  Please leave a comment and let us know what you think!

The following designs were inspired from a previous vignette designed by Fearon May Events for the wonderful bridal event, Lavish and Fabulous.  Just so happens a bride saw the tablescape and in her words “it was designed to fit her personality perfectly!”

With her wedding taking place just a few weeks ago, I snapped a few photos of the centerpieces and bouquet I’d like to share with you all!

The color palette ranged from a deep purple to a vibrant orchid-purple and of course, grey!  {If you haven’t taken style note, grey IS the new black, and we will have a whole post dedicated to this tomorrow, so check back in!}

These containers are so sleek and sexy!  We combined different textures and finishes of matte, dimpled and shiny designs to add interest to the table.

I am just loving the matte finish on these containers, and the shape of them are different and unique.

Even just a simple grouping of like vases with the same flower in them can make a great impact.  Here, we lined them up down a long banquet table.

And, the brides rocker bouquet!  Finished off with feathers and all!  Pink miniature calla lilies, purple lisianthus, ‘Moonvista’ carnations, and orchid-purple stock.

We incorporated a little bling into the bouquet with tulle covered jewels.  I think these are just over-the-top!

Hope you enjoy this look, check back tomorrow for our Grey IS the New Black feature!

And, we’re back again with more details from Melissa and Justin’s wedding.  Today, we’re focusing on the reception!  You can read more about this wedding on Style Me Pretty, where it was recently featured.

As guests entered the reception, we cleverly made these escort cards which were attached to craspedia for each of the guests.  It was a beautiful display and fun!

Dinner was served family-style, so centerpieces were kept simple so that platters of food could be shared.

For the main head table, we lined it with flowers and wine bottle candlesticks provided by the bride.  I love how it all came together!

Table numbers were made by the sister of the bride, and were shingles from the groom’s grandmother’s home.

Napkins served a dual-purpose being favors as well.  Each was mis-matched, and made by the mother of the groom.  Tied off with a piece of jute and a tag made by the brother of the bride, what a lovely reminder of this special day!

The set-up at Scribner Bend Vineyards.

And, they lived happily ever-after!

Congratulations Melissa and Justin!

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Photography: Heidi Huber Photography

Flowers: Botanica Floral Designs

Event Planning:  Mindy Shock

Venue:  Scribner Bend Vineyards

DJ: Mr. DJ

Catering: Mulvaney’s B & L

Dress: Liancarlo from Destiny’s Bridal

Make-Up: Reanna Saddoris

Hair: Salon Cuvee

Band: Golden Cadillacs