2 1/2 weddings on Saturday July 28, 2009

blue hydrangea, ivory roses, bells of Ireland, white hypericum berries & white lisanthus

green & white cymbidium orchids, orange & ivory roses and stephanotis

orange roses, green cymbidium, green amaranthus with peacock feathers & grapes

glowing vases

I had a pick up wedding those I consider 1/2’s since I don’t have to deliver and set up anything.  Rebecca’s flowers where blue hydrangea & ivory roses.

The wedding that I delivered and set up was at South Coast Winery.  Pretty cool centerpieces with glowing vases with an arrangement on top.  I also took a picture of their cake it was so fun.  I didn’t get any pictures of Lindsay’s wedding I hope to get some from her later.

Hot Hot Weekend July 18-19 July 28, 2009

It was so hot that weekend.  I did a lot of praying that the flowers would survive the heat.  Melissa’s ceremony was on Saturday in a church with her reception in her parent’s backyard.  The bt pink and black looked great together. 

Jennifer’s wedding was Falkner Winery in The Garden, all outside.  I tried not to put out her arrangements too early.  I loved the way that the cake turned out.  I really like the cascade style.

pink lilies, gladiolas and roses

Too hot to put these out in the sun. Lilies, roses, kermits

green cymbidium orchids, circus roses, burnt orange calla lilies

green hydrangea, circus roses, leonidas roses and green gladiola florets

green hydrangea, circus roses and leonida roses

Last wedding for the weekend of July 9-11 July 19, 2009

I didn’t get any pictures of the 3rd wedding because I was so exhusted.  I slmost passed out becuase of the heat and not drinking enough water.  Jessica’s wedding was here in Fallbrook at a private home.  She had 29 centerpieces that I had to create on site out in the heat.  After we got back to the store all the ladies that were helping me that day unloaded the van and packed it up with the flowers for Wendy’s wedding.  I sat down in the air conditioning at something, drank some water and cooled off.  Then I changed helpers and headed out to Callaway Winery for my last wedding.  Set up for this wedding was much cooler in the barrel room at Callaway.  Wendy had 22 arrangements that had to be created on site.  I was in Wendy’s dressing room looking for her mom when she got my attention and told me she loved her bouquet.  That made my very long and hot day all worth while.  Here are some pictures of her centerpieces and arch.

Garland over curly willow with blue and white hydrangea with amaranthus draping.

white dendrobium orchids in pilsner vases

curly willow with white dendrobium orchids and candles hanging off of the curly willow

combination of both centerpieces in the barrel room at Callaway Winery

Whitney’s wedding at The Dana July 19, 2009

What a beautiful day down at Mission Bay.  Everything went up well with only one miss hap.  As we were attaching the garland to the arch we heard a loud thump.  We turned around and one of the large pieces on the stands had fallen.  The ground was kind of uneven and I guess I hadn’t evened out the stand so it fell.  Well it didn’t just kind of fall over it fell out of the container and all over the ground.  Not to panic I just had to put it back together again.  It was just a little different than the other one.  I loved the centerpieces it was my first time doing them.  They were pretty simple but I really liked the look.

Tall calla lilies with pearls centerpiece

The Dana on Mission Bay

Lindsay 1st of 4 wedding weekend July 19, 2009

Lindsay’s wedding was the first of another 4 wedding weekend.  Her wedding was at the Grand Tradition’s Arbor Terrace.  She brought me all of her own vases, containers for the aisle and sheppards hooks for the aisle.  I loved her bright colors.  There were a couple of gliches.  The sheppards hooks that she brought me needed to be put into the ground.  The Arbor Terrace has fake turf so you can’t put anything into it.   Since I live here in Fallbrook I was able to run home and get my free standing hooks and use those instead.  I also received a call from the bakery letting me know that the air conditioning had gone out on their delivery car 1/2 way there and the cake had some issues.  I only saw a couple of things and they were easly covered with at few stratgically placed flowers.  

Cake from Crumbs of Paris. Echeted memorial vase with white hydrangea.

Sq centepiece of dahlias, roses, spider mums, kermits and amaranthus

Arbor Terrace Aisle

4th of July wedding July 8, 2009

What a beautiful day it was down at the Marina Village next to Sea World.  Here are some pictures of the north lawn ceremony site that we did.

Chair bouqet of circus rose, orange alstroemeria and green hydrangea

Garland arch with spray and arrangements

Circus rose petal aisle

Life has been crazy… July 8, 2009

Last Thursday, July 2nd I had a wedding out at Ponte Winery.  I had to drop off some sympathy flowers at a house on my way out to the winery.  When I arrived at the house with the flowers my car lost all of it’s electricity.  I couldn’t even open the back of the car.  My husband came and got the car started but I still couldn’t get into gear.  We had to put all of the flowers into his van and go to my stepmother’s and get one of her cars.  We then transfered all of the flowers again into her car.  I had called the winery right after I called my husband to let them know what was happening.  When I got to the winery I had the BEST bride ever.  As I got out of the car and was appologizing for being late, Christie said “you poor thing”.  WOW what a great bride.  I’m so glad that she was so understanding, since this was something completly out of my control.   We rushed to set up the ceremony site.  Here is a picture of her bridesmaids bouquets.  What a great color combination.

Red-orange dahlias, dk purple lisanthus, bright yellow mini calla lilies and green kermit bouquets.

Beautiful Sample Bouquet July 8, 2009

I did a sample bouquet for Jessica

Dahlia, hydrangea, stock and kermit bouquet.