Ukiah Wedding Faire

What a blast I had at the Ukiah Wedding Faire yesterday! Met beautiful glowing brides, reconnected with the always wonderful vendors in Mendocino County and surrounding areas, even met some new vendors this time around! Here's a few snapshots of the show if you didn't get the chance to attend...
A big Thank You to Larsens Photography for the awesome shots!
(the blurry ones are mine hehe!)

 Aren't they gorgeous photos? The littlest photographer got to take the bridal bouquet home after the show, it matched her dress perfectly. She's to cute! 

I was SO excited about using the black and white striped ribbon this year for the display bouquets, I think it added more pzazz to bright pinks reds and oranges in the bouquets <3

LOVED playing with the more "natural" woodland look in this arrangement, who doesn't want artichokes for a vase? The Rosemary was a nice aromatic addition too.

It was a lot of fun, but it sure was nice to sit down afterwards! Now for the wedding season...

Cheers,

Isabella

Jen & Eamon

I met Jen and Eamon at a wedding faire in January of this year, and they were looking for simple floral touches for their wedding party. They chose to have an intimate garden wedding at the grooms parents house, the spot was perfect for an August wedding with a green carpet of grass and Eucalyptus shading the ceremony and reception areas. Jen wanted a mainly green bouquet to go along with the variety of greens they had chose as the colors. She loved the idea of having a lot of texture in her bouquet, it was a wonderful piece to get to design for her.

Jen's bouquet consisted of lime Button Mums, white Mini Callas, white Tulips, white and yellow Freesia, Tuberose, Equisetum, Hosta and Ti leaves, and touches of Scabiosa pods and white Veronica. The stems were to be wrapped in lace from her mothers dress, so I suggested an underwrapping of gold satin ribbon with gold pearl pins to enhance the lace and accent her gold jewelry. Love!

Jen's mother requested a type of decoration for the reserved family seats, the result was simple bunches of Boxwood greenery with white and green satin ribbons.

The bridesmaids bouquets were sweet arrangements of white Mini Callas and Tulips and wrapped in white satin ribbon. The boutonnieres were a matching white Mini Calla, while the Eamon's boutonniere had the addition of a Scabiosa pod, Freesia blooms and a touch of gold satin ribbon to coordinate with Jen's bouquet.

Best of wishes to both of you, Jen and Eamon!


A big Thank You to Melissa Cramer for the beautiful photos!
You can check out her other work at www.melissacramerphotography.com

Annie & Mario

A few weekends ago I had the privilege of designing the flowers for Annie and Mario's outdoor wedding at the Nelson Family Vineyards. I really enjoyed working with Annie and her wonderful mother-in-law in coming up with ideas for her theme of yellow and brown. The end result was an Italian countryside look that suited the bride and groom perfectly, both being Italian.

Annie's bouquet was a lovely combination of roses, button chrysanthemums, sunflowers, freesia, chocolate cosmos and rosemary. (one of my favorite bouquets!) 

Mario's boutonniere was three sprigs of golden wheat paired with button chrysanthemums and freesia, and wrapped in chocolate velvet.

This is the custom ring bearer's pillow I made for the wedding, it is white silk with a chocolate velvet ribbon and bow. Too cute!

The ceremony arrangements were a combination of the signature sunflowers, paired with spider mums, bells of ireland, hanging millet and curly willow branches to add some height. I loved the country look the galvanized tin market vases gave the arrangements. They were set on either side of the ceremony area on wine barrels and later used at the reception. 

The head table spray arrangement included the above flowers along with roses, yellow and white button chrysanthemums, rosemary, italian oregano and chocolate cosmos. 

(Photos taken by a friend of Annie and Mario.)

Birchwood Floral

Catering by The Bluebird Cafe in Hopland - (707) 744-1633 ‎(amazing food!)

Black, White and Gold!

An arrangement I did for a photographer friend of mine for her grand opening of the new studio in downtown Ukiah. Her theme was black and white, with a touch of gold which I was unaware of while putting this together. It just so happened that I chose to put Craspedia in the arrangement along with the lush combination of Star of Bethlehem and Black Knight Scabiosa, Perfection!
You can visit Fantasy Stills Photography at 101 South School Street, Ukiah Ca.

Birchwood Floral