Pineapples and Orchids

I'm finishing up another big order. This one comes from my client Laurie in Michigan. She and her husband are doing a vow renewal at the Hilton Waikoloa Village & Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii. She contacted me via the hotel's wedding atelier and asked if I could do her centerpieces, hair flowers, favors, table cards, place cards and thank you notes. Her basic theme was greens and pinks and she really liked the pineapple design I did for another client and fell in love with the green cymbidiums. We modified the color pink as she wanted it a bit darker and more vibrant than the original one I made for a previous Hilton client. This was a fun one since the wedding was small, but each piece really works well together. These are just a few of the images that I took of the items I made for Laurie and John.

Laurie decided on Big Island Candies dark chocolate dipped shortbread cookies to fill her favor boxes. If you have never tried these delightful shortbread cookies, TRY IT! They are really delicious - you can never just eat one, it's hard not to want to eat the whole box! On another note, if you love everything pineapple, try Honolulu Cookie Company cookies - another great shortbread cookie company out of Oahu. They make shortbread cookies in the shapes of pineapples and have these great fruit flavor shortbread cookies. I LOVE the lilikoi (passionfruit) and pineapple ones!

Pineapple Motif Revisited

My clients Mari and Nick are getting married next month at the Kahala Hotel and Resort. A beautiful hotel on the east side right on the ocean with beautiful dolphins in their lagoons! At any rate, Mari asked me after the Martha Stewart Show if I would have the time to design her table cards and also her ring pillow.

Here's a recap of her invitations and how the design of the table cards was worked in as well as her ring pillow. She sent me a swatch of her bridesmaid dresses so that I could match the pink. I think it came out to be pretty darn close! She wanted pink roses to match her bridesmaid dresses and then a green cymbidium orchid to tie the green back in. I hope she'll be happy with the way things turned out. We used the pineapple illustration that my brother created for me a couple of years ago as the backdrop and she wanted Hawaiian words and the English translation instead of the standard table numbers. We put mini brass pineapple charms in the corners to tie the brass pineapple charms from her invitations. The cardstocks used all matched the ones used in her invitations!