One of my favorite Etsy jewelry designers, Otis B Jewelry came out today with a great necklace that I thought is PERFECT for all my brides & clients who have requested the Tiffany Blue and Orange color palette for their invitations. I always wondered why this color combination is so popular, but it really is. I think it's hands down my most popular one going on 3 years!
Anyway, I'm Darrah's fan on Facebook and she shares her new jewelry creations with us and I saw this and thought to myself, "my brides would die over this and eat them up!" They are great bridesmaid gifts for your bridal party and will match your wedding colors!
My client Amanda is getting married in France in August to her French fiance! She found me via the feature in the In Style Weddings magazine article on my eco-chic floral arrangement. I've been working on her bouquets and will start working on her centerpieces later this week. She asked me to create clutch bouquets for her mother and her brother's fiance instead of going with a traditional corsage. She wanted to go with ivory flowers that matched her bouquet so for her mother, we did closed peony buds and for her sister-in-law to be, we went with the cream colored roses. They are so pretty. They are wrapped with a woad blue Midori satin ribbon and honeydew organza ribbon. I should have her bridal bouquet and bridesmaid bouquets done tomorrow so more photos to follow!
My bride, Ash, came to me via my Etsy site and asked if I could create a custom bouquet for her with closed lotus flowers. I learned how to make fully open lotus flowers a long time ago, but I had never been asked to make them nor to make closed ones. Ash sent me a picture and she gave me her deadline, but asked if I could ship it out earlier as she has bridal portraits a few days before her wedding. So I finally worked on the flowers last night and this morning and they were dry enough to actually put together so I was determined to finish her bouquet so I could start the next order in the queue.
I could not get the lotus flowers to be as closed as the ones she sent me in her picture, but I told her it would be hard based on the material of the peps used and I figured it was much prettier to show more of the detail of the petals and the center so I created more half open lotus flowers. She also requested white roses and white ranunculus. Rather than overpowering the bouquet with too many lotus flowers, I decided to make 5 and they would be the focus flowers with the accents of the roses and the ranunculus. I am quite happy with the way it came out. There was a little experimenting with the center since the way I learned the lotus flower was not using this particular center. I love creating new skills and techniques or taking what I've leanred to figure out how to make the elements of different flowers. Stressful sometimes but fun. Best wishes to Ash and her fiance!I was worried about how the bride would like the bouquet, but she emphatically LOVES it! PHEW! :) Well, tomorrow although be it Father's Day, I will be working on my next order for my destination France bride. Lots to do, 5 bouquets and 14 centerpieces. Hope to finish by next week and ship by Saturday! Wish me luck!
My client Katherine is getting married next Sunday in Napa, she's having a rustic, outdoor wedding in a beautiful winery. I am like a crazed woman making her flowers. I'll have pictures in a couple more days as all the flowers are ready to be arranged. I did however want to share her flower girls' hair flowers. Cute little hyacinth blossoms on tiny hair combs. Sorry this is a short post, but just wanted to share this one photo of the combs!
Gosh, it's almost been a week since I last did a blog post. Sorry for the distance between posts, but lots of stuff going on between trying to crank out orders, taking care of a sick 4 year old, trying to recover from being sick myself and dealing with a lot of other personal matters. The next two weeks will be hectic trying to get wedding bouquet orders, invitations, centerpieces and more out the door plus teaching. Hope I start feeling better soon!At any rate, today's post is about my bride Valerie's order. She asked me to create a bouquet with dark blue hydrangeas, green bells of Ireland, shamrocks and some hints of tuberose. Her inspiration comes from a swatch of Tartan fabric so she wanted to stick with those deep hue colors. She's going to wrap the stems herself.
I've done bells of Ireland before, but I tried something new to make them look more lifelike. I added the little things in the center to make them look even more realistic. Working with hydrangeas is kind of challenging. I've figured out though that if I make each cluster it's own stem, it makes it SO much easier to assemble and get the right shape and look that I'm going for!She also wanted me to make wrist corsages for her mother and her fiance's mother using their favorite flowers. Back to work on my flowers....
I got an email last week from a bride asking if I could create some wedding fans for her wedding & reception that is being held at the Plantation House Restaurant in Kapalua, Mau'i. She sent me some samples that were very simple, and I decided to take what she sent me and create something a little more "island" style. Since she's getting married at the Plantation House, I thought it befitting to use my pineapple design. She wanted it in pinks so this is how it turned out. So cute!
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My bride Tara, came to me via a Long Island wedding forum after she saw my work via another one of my brides. She was intrigued and sent me her vision of what she wanted. Her color palette was ivory, apple green and teal. She asked if I could somehow incorporate the teal.
The flowers we agreed upon were creamy ivory peonies, champagne ivory roses, green cymbidiums and white freesia. To incorporate the teal or in this case really aquamarine, I glued aquamarine Swarovski rhinestones in the centers fo the roses. It's subtle but I think really beautiful. Not too much but just enough.
I finally worked on it last night and today. I must be getting faster because literally I finished her flowers in 4 hours tops and I assembled them this evening which took another hour. I think this is another one of my new favorites. I love the soft colors and since I didn't have rhinestone picks so I decided to take the aquamarine rhinestones I had glued them into the centers of the champagne ivory roses.
