Kerri and Colby (Wedding)

 This past August I had the great opportunity to do the flowers for Kerri and Colby's wedding.

Just as everyone has their own beauty, everyone has their own vision, their own ideal. I feel like it's my job, with my clients, to help create their visionary, their ideal wedding.  My soul sings when I'm told that I did just that. 

Kerri wanted dark purple as her color with white as a complementary. I love the natural harmony that is created with a dark color and white. Needless to say, I love the colors Kerri picked. 

The flowers used in Kerri's bouquet were white roses, dark purple calla lilies, white and purple pixie carnations, with lemon leaf surrounding the bottom. I love the look of flowers in a tight cluster. It gives the whole bouquet a very elegant feel. Which was how the whole wedding felt. 

Everyone should look and feel beautiful on the wedding day, and Kerri certainly did!

Here are some close ups of the groom's boutonniere, and how the bouquet was wrapped. A single white rose with leather leaf and jewels (to add some bedazzle) wrapped in purple floral tape. Kerri's bouquet was wrapped with a wide white ribbon with crossed dark purple ribbon.

The groomsmen boutonnieres were the same style as the grooms, but without the jewels.

Here are the bridesmaids wrist corsages. The flower used was dark purple pixie carnations with some of the same jewels added, to make them stand out from the other wrist corsages.

Even without the jewels, the corsages were still beautiful! The bracelet for the wrist corsage was made of small white pearl beads. Which goes with the dark purple and white very well.

If the bride is on a budget and wants to know where she can cut back some money, I always suggest doing wrist corsages for the bridesmaids, the mothers, and any of the other women in the wedding party. That way they still have a flowers, but the arrangement isn't so big (so less money); then they are able to use their hands throughout the evening.

A beautiful part of Kerri and Colby's wedding day was their ring ceremony, which was separate from their wedding ceremony which took place at a beautiful LDS Temple.

Kerri wanted their to be aisle flowers on the chairs at the ring ceremony. So the flowers used were a single white rose complemented by baby's breath and a leather leaf. Each arrangement was wrapped in either a silver ribbon or dark purple ribbon. The ribbons alternated each row. Then each arrangement was attached to the chair with a dark purple sheer sash. 

At the end of the aisle, by the arch, were two pedestals with an arrangement on each. I got super excited when Kerri told me she wanted arrangements like this! I was super eager to see how they would look when they were completed. I am very pleased with how they turned out!

The flowers used in these arrangements were white roses, dark purple calla lilies, purple and white pixie carnations, with some leather leaf and moss at the bottom. I loved how these arrangements added elegance to the room and made the whole event unique. It is possible to bottle beauty and capture all the beauty, love, and excitement of the day into one arrangement!

For the reception, there were to be similar yet different centerpieces. Each centerpiece had a small vase of baby's breath and a ball shaped vase with Peruvian lilies.

This is where the centerpieces changed. On half of the tables were an arrangement of roses (purple and white) with baby's breath. 

On the other half, the third vase had submerged purple pixie carnations, with a light at the bottom and a candle on top.  

Here are the centerpieces while all put together. I loved the variety of the arrangements and how well the colors went together.

I also did the flowers for the cake! The flowers used were dark purple carnations and pixie carnations. Kerri wanted a cluster of flowers on top with flowers cascading down the cake. I loved how the cake turned out! I really love the details put on the cake, I believe that is what made the cake gorgeous!

Here are some pictures of the beautiful couple on their day :)

"From the moment I first met with Hannah to my wedding day, Hannah made sure all of my floral needs and wants were met. She was very informative on the many options available, and even helped me lower the price by suggesting some slight modifications to some of my decisions.

Hannah went above and beyond to make sure all the arrangements were just the way I envisioned them. She regularly emailed a floral design board that she updated as I made decisions for each arrangement. On the day of the wedding, Hannah ensured that every arrangement arrived on time, fresh and well-preserved throughout the day. All the arrangements turned out dazzlingly beautiful and strongly enhanced the ring ceremony, the reception, and the wedding pictures.

Associating with Hannah was truly a joy and a pleasure. I would recommend her 100% to every bride that wants a wonderful, custom made experience." -Kerri

I love weddings! Months and months of work finally coming together for that big day! It is wonderful to actually see the finished result. It is satisfying and beautiful! I'm so grateful to my clients for letting me be apart of their big day! 

These beautiful and amazing pictures were taken by Hannah Christensen Photography! Please like and share her page! She does a great job!

Bethany and Dan (Bridals)

I love testing my hand at new things! For Bethany and Dan I get to try several new things! Yay!

To start, I got to try, again, a cascading bouquet and a flower crown with real flowers. :) 

Oh how grateful I am for the kindness of others. When I dropped off the flowers for the bridals, I brought my own camera to take pictures for my blog. When I tried to download the photos the sd card broke. I quickly contacted Bethany and asked if I could get copies. She was super quick to send me some! Oh thank you Bethany!!!

What a good lookin' couple!!!

Here is a close up of Bethany's bouquet. There are roses, carnations, baby's breath, wax flower, aspen leaves, seeded eucalyptus, and rosemary (it made the bouquet smell really good). 

These pictures show the full cascading bouquet. Bethany wanted to add gold to the flowers, so I added a few gold ribbons to the cascading part of the bouquet. I loved how this bouquet looks! I also love how the gold adds some pizzazz!

I know I've said this before, but I always recommend to my clients to have flowers at their bridals so the bride can see what the flowers will look like for the wedding. Then she can decide to make changes if she wants too. The only change that was decided on was a different look for the crown, but there is still going to be a flower crown for Bethany. Which I'm super excited about.

Even though the style of the flower crown will change I still really like this one. It just adds a natural beauty to the bride. The flowers used in the crown are roses, baby's breath, and wax flower. I'm so pleased to find out that flower crowns are easier to make with real flowers! Oh I'm so excited I get to make a flower crown!

Here is Dan's boutonniere. The flowers are roses and baby's breath wrapped in gold floral tape! It matches his bow tie perfectly! My favorite boutonniere is always a simple elegant one.

The main thing I love about these pictures are the colors! They just go together so well! This is such a cute couple who are so cute together! Thank you guys so much for letting me do the flowers for you! I'm super excited for the wedding! 

Alan Williams was their photographer and he did a fabulous job!

Boho Floral Crown Photo Shoot

My family is full of photogenic people. They could all seriously be models. This is way nice when one needs a model to show off something.

I need to practice my hand at floral crowns for future brides; because floral crowns are becoming more and more popular. I spend the last week making floral crowns of all kinds, and yesterday I had my sister and my two teenage cousins help me model the crowns I've made.

When I approached my sister, Heather, with this idea we wanted to have fun with this photo shoot so we decided to make the photo shoot a bohemian theme or feel. We also got a little dramatic with our poses, but we had a lot of fun!

The first crown is what I called the "Wild Crown". The colors in this crown are a purple and mint. It went beautifully with Heather's new kimono.

I normally don't like to use fake flowers in any of the arrangements that I do; however, since I was just practicing with these I used fake ones in case I had to start any of the crowns all over again. So, I'm not going to say which flowers I used, because I just used the fake flowers I had. I mainly wanted certain looks; hence the "Wild Crown".

Here is a close up of the Wild Crown and the pink crown Heather is wearing. 

This pink crown is a little more calm. I love how it adds a pop of color to Heather's outfit. 

This is my sweet cousin Lucy who is also modeling the pink crown. 

Lucy is modeling this next crown, that goes on the side of the head. It is a very simple crown and there is only one cluster of flowers instead of flowers completely covering the entire crown. 

Here Lucy is wearing a purple and yellow crown. Before the shoot we all kept complementing Lucy on how beautiful her hair is. She has a natural golden tone and beautiful natural curly waves. I'm so jealous of her gorgeous hair! So, I really wanted to see her hair, so we only put a few braids in her hair to hold some of it back.

In the pictures above the girls are wearing the white crown. I actually made this crown two sided, because I wanted to try two different looks. The last picture is my cousin Naomi, and she is modeling the side of the white crown that is made of small white flowers. I love the simple and casual look.

I'm glad Naomi modeled for me! She has very good bone structure in her face, to emphasis that we wanted to a side ponytail with a hint of curl to show off her natural beauty! I told you, natural models who are very photogenic!

In this one Heather is modeling the side of the whiter crown with the white rose clusters. I love the elegant and fancy look of this side. I also just love this picture! Her eyes!

I actually love all of these pictures! I love having models in my family, especially when we do photo shoots. I also am falling in love with floral crowns! I'm excited to make more of these! 

This is me, not wearing a crown, and trying to be dramatic. I actually like how this picture turned out. Thanks girls for helping me out! Love you!