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!

Wild Flower

Ever since I've made floral bouquets, I've wanted an endless supply of flowers. I want to go out pick flowers from my garden and make a bouquet; because I wanted too. Fortunately, I have a Grandmother (Moni) who has that kind of a garden and desire. I went over to my Mom's one day and she had buckets of flowers from Moni's garden. "Have at it," said my Mom.

Moni has so many flowers in her garden, here are some that I used: stock, dasies, queens anne lace, roses, and more. Oh I had so much fun making these three bouquets. Yes, she has enough flowers to make three full bouquets. I love it!

I love the combination of colors! If I could re-do my wedding I'd do it like this! I absolutely love these wild flower bouquets!

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." -Audrey Hepburn

Prom! 2015

When Spring comes around, high schooler's thoughts are turned to Prom! Yay! 

I was never asked to Prom, but I've been to several Prom dinners. I was asked to help with my brother-in-law's, Josh, Prom dinner. He was hosting the dinner at my in-laws. He decorated the TV room with lights and candles. It looked better than any restaurant. He asked me for help with the centerpieces for the dinner. I was happy to help!

Josh has an eye for design. He used tons of white candles as decoration for around the room. During the dinner the candles would be lit and create a romantic ambiance. To add to the feel, only white flowers were used. For the main table, two arrangements were needed. I tried to make them as similar as possible: same shape, size, and flowers.

Flowers used were: hydrangea, carnations, spider mums, queen anne's lace, chrysanthemums, and greens. I want to say when you have big flowers, like hydrangeas, use them to your advantage. They are big and beautiful flowers. They take a lot of space in the arrangement. Always remember hydrangeas need water. If they don't get enough water they begin to droop, and they droop fast.

With Josh's consent, I used some of the same flowers, as the main centerpieces, to make smaller arrangements to put around the room with the candles.  

These were smaller arrangements were put with the candles around the room. I loved seeing the look the smaller arrangements gave to the rest of the room, by using them with the room decor.

They really added to the beautifully designed room.

On the mantelpiece in the room, Josh put two groups of candles. I thought that some arrangements of just greens would help add color and dynamic to mantelpiece. I thought it turned out great! It's actually my favorite part of the room.

I had a really great time making these arrangements and assisting Josh in designing the room. He really is a fantastic and very talented young man. I'm so thankful he is my brother. 

I also made a corsage for a cousin's Prom. 

 The date's dress was bright purple. I choose to make a corsage with white roses, withe wax flower, and babies breath with bright purple ribbon. I thought it turned out beautifully.

I love to see how flowers add to an event. They add a feeling of elegance and dignity to any event. Bringing the natural beauty of the earth into our homes will always add a "magical" feeling. I'm so glad I was asked to help with Prom this year! 

The corsage pictures were taken by me, but the amazing photo's of the centerpieces were taken by the talented Hannah Christensen Photography! Thank you again!

Jetta and Griffin (Wedding)

A while ago, I was searching for answers in my life. I naturally turned to my husband for help. His answer - "Life Happens." With that in mind, please excuse the gap between my posts. :D

I was hired by Jetta to do her wedding flowers. The previous post is her bridal pictures. Wonderful photos. I suggest to my clients to have a practice bouquet/boutonniere for their bridals/groomals. That way, they have a prop, and can request changes for their wedding. So, changes were made to Jetta's wedding bouquet.

The style was a little changed and some of the flowers. The white and twine remained. 

Here is a close up of the twine. To help fill in the gaps between the rows of twine I put a ribbon behind it with the same color.

The flowers used where roses, carnations, stock, baby's breath, green hypericum berries, and succulents. Besides the berries and succulents the flowers are all white.

A more wild flower look was preferred. Flowers that have more than one flower on the stem really help give the wild flower look. You are able to see the green between the blossoms which creates the wild flower look.

For the bridesmaids bouquets, the grooms boutonniere, and the groomsmen boutonnieres were all the same, baby's breath wrapped in twine. I personally love this simple look. First, the white and tan are a great color combination; and it adds a great look to the wedding party.

A white ball of tiny blossoms? Beautiful!

I really enjoyed doing Jetta's bridals and wedding. I love how these flowers turned out. My own sister told me she wants to use the baby's breath bouquets for her wedding.
These wonderful pictures were taken by Hannah Christensen Photography. Thank you! The pictures turned out great!