Ashley’s at home wedding November 1, 2009

Ashley’s wedding was at her father’s house.  What a beautiful location.  Huge oak trees shaded the ceremony area next to the house.  The reception was down in a rented tent in one of the horse rings.  Talked to her father the other day and he said it was one of the best days of his life.  Everyone had a great time.  Here are some pictures of the flowers.

Centerpieces of red and white roses

Aisle of white organza with red and white flowers attached to the chairs

white fabric around the huppa with 3 red & white arrangements

rose in martini glass great idea for belly bars

Andrea’s wedding November 1, 2009

A beautiful day at Wilson Creek Winery.

cake with green cymbidium orchids, monkey tails and dusted pink dendrobium orchids

white dendrobium orchids and curly willow in pilsner vases

white hydrangea dusted with pink with an aisle of white petals

white calla lilies in pilsner vase

green & white hydrangea, garden roses & white lisanthus

Erica & Victor’s wedding October 19, 2009

I have been working on this wedding for almost a year now.   A few months ago we ran into a major snag.  Erica & Victor wanted candle light to be a major part of their reception but Ponte had to change their policy on no flames until after the first of the year.  I met with them after we learned this and tried all different ideas until we found one that they liked.  We used lots of battery operated lights but  masked them with either with colored glass or black water beads and crystals.

They also had a vision for the arbor.  I think I achieved it because after the ceremony Victor commented to me that they really liked everything.   Here are the pictures from their wedding.  I wish that the picture of the arbor came out better but hopefully I will get professional pictures when they have them.

Reusing the rose kissing balls from the arbor for the front center of the head table. Along with tons of rose petals and little votives.

Over all look of the room.

For the entrance to Ponte guest were greeted of things to come.

Another extra were dk red tie backs with black feathers for every other chair.

Some extras that we did were the silver chargers with red roses in the napkins.

Centerpieces were wine bottles with black candle-wine stoppers these had red peg votives with battery flickering lights inside. Rose petals around the base with red stain glass votives and stemless wine glasses with a red rose.

Erica just before she walked down the aisle with her bouquet of Freedom and Black Magic roses with red feathers.

The aisle was draped with dk red fabric. Kissing balls of mini carnations were hung from the sides of the chairs.

Rose kissing balls, E,V, & G letters that the bride provided and black crystal garlands draping in and on the front of the arbor.

Bouquets from Oct. 10th weddings October 19, 2009

purple hydrangea, purple mini calla lilies, green cymbidium orchids and purple feathers around the outside of the bouquet

white calla lilies, stephanotis with black pins and phalenopsis orchid draping out of the bouquet

Bridal Bazaar at Del Mar on Oct. 4th October 6, 2009

Met with a lot of brides on Sunday at the Bridal Bazaar.  I also had an arrangement in the gallery.  Those are always fun because I can do really different things.  Here are some pictures from it.

Tall cylinder vases with bands of black ribbon filled with white dendrobium orchids with candles on top

Candelabras with dk wine dahlias & mini gerberas, red roses, burgundy amaranthus and black eucalyptus

Freedom red roses with bouquet jewelery.

Lavender roses, dk purple lisanthus, dk purple carnations & purple stock in purple wrapped square vase with ribbon wrapped square votives around the arrangement.

Ideas for reusing your bridesmaid’s bouquets as your centerpieces. Bright colored bouquets of orange gerberas, yellow spray roses, roses and bt green mini mums.

Pink ribbon wrapped vase with crystals. Pastel arrangement on top with crystals hanging.

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.