Dainty Details - Wedding Winter Wonderland

I'm in winter wedding mode. I'm torn between loving an all white wedding or a winter wedding with fun pops of color such as bright teals and yellows. Dreaming of soft faux fur shrugs and wedding snow boots (is there such a thing you ask? Of course!!) I've also really been into the perfect table setting using multiple textures and colors. Check out this nifty teal winter wedding shot from the talented Jessica Claire and Carissa of JL Designs...


And then I couldn't resist showing you these great ideas and images I found over on Once Wed...



And then speaking of winter wedding boots, I had to share this image from Thayer Allyson Gowdy found over on Martha Stewart Weddings - I also blogged about the entire wedding over on Bay Area Bride Guide today - you should check it out! But first peek at these warm boots and this sassy lil' shrug...
And the image over on the right - yup those are the guest favors - flasks for him and snug boots for her! Wish I had been invited!

Stay warm by the fireplace friends, I am excited to say that my little fam will be headed to Carmel for a few days this week at the stunning Bernardus for some pre-holiday R&R.
xoxo
Trisha

Fav Finds + Flower Friday: Yellow Flower Pots and Berries

Another summer week has flown by! This Flower Friday is a bit different from past Flower Fridays in that I want to showcase this neato idea I found over on Green Wedding Shoes - one of my favorite blogs - and then realized the floral designer was the fabulous Carissa of JL Designs! A win win! This bride was married down south and look what she did! How fun are the maids with their potted bright yellow marigolds instead of traditional bouquets!?

Doesn't it look great?

And I am really lovin' the groom's boutonniere! So darn snazzy with the berries!

My fav finds these week are all real weddings! Take a peek at some fabulousness:

You HAVE to click HERE to this DRESS! And CAKE! This is wedding overload for the eyes in such a GOOD way!

Green Wedding Shoes

Holy archway - I kinda want it in my backyard!

Snippet & Ink

Bagpipes, Treehouses and Kilts oh my!

Style Me Pretty

Musical paper flowers and sparkly Jimmy Choos

The Inspired Bride

Lots of yellowness and a new sweet way to depart the wedding festivities

100 Layer Cake

Happy Weekend! And stay cool out there (as I melt from the heat writing at 12:37am Friday morning, the sun went down hours ago!!!)

xoxo

Trisha

Photo sources: Robert Evans Studio

Flower Friday: Holly Chapple Flowers - Pretty in Pink

The first week of May flew by! My little one turned 4 months old, fab margs were had while celebrating Cinco De Mayo and another sunny Friday is here. I have been wanting to share some of my favorite finds from around the blog world, so I am going to post them at the end of Flower Fridays posts. Hope you enjoy this new little feature! Now on to the loveliness...

I've been checking out Holly Chapple's blog The Full Bouquet lately and am loving her floral design. Her blog is a great read so check it out. She recently did a wedding with a focus on baby's breath - seriously some of the most adorable boutonnieres and an amazing kissing ball. This bouquet jumped out at me and I just had to post. It immediately made me happy with it's full bright pink peonies, roses, ranunculus and sassy hypercium berries.

Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. Enjoy and Happy Weekend!

I do near Half Dome

Loving polaroids

Right in your own backyard

DIY Flower cuteness beyond belief

Just can't resist rocking the yellow with Barbie & Ken

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Photo source: Hollychappleflowers.typepad.com

Flower Friday: Not Your Average Boutonniere

I decided to start a segment on the blog for fantastic flowers and I thought - why not be cutesy and post it on Fridays...and so my friends, today is the first official post of Flower Friday.

And I thought I would not start out with the obvious, but focus on some amazingly different boutonnieres. Here is what I found in my travels:

Herbs, Veggies & Succulents:

This bride and groom used kale, artichokes, succulents and hydrangeas (and to me it looks like some kind of cabbage but it was not listed). The groom had asparagus in his boutonniere.

More succulents with hypericum berries and white roses

Rosemary and mint boutonnieres

Sage and juniper
More rosemary with peppers

Grasses and Feathers:
Wheat grass and hypericum

Thistle and leather

Blue flowers with feathers

Fabric Leaves and Ribbons:

These are from Pixel & Hank on Etsy and they have lots o' colors and are just so darn cool. They also have some snazzy headpieces.

Made from ribbons

Fabric leaves with rosemary, grasses, lilac and monkey's tail

I love lamb's ear it's not a fabric but it feels like fabric - here is one underneath a white orchid.

Trees:

The fun acorns which you saw in an Adore post earlier this week.

And some pine cone boutonnieres

Photo sources: barrmansion.blogspot.com, agardenersforum.com, mdfevent.blogspot.com, countryliving.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, www.weddingbee.com - Mrs. Cherry Pie, jenadevents.blogspot.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, Pixel and Hank shop (Etsy), Martha Stewart Weddings

DIY: Floral Workshop

Last Saturday for four fun filled hours I was an official floral designer. I met up with a group of brides and planners to learn how to make boutonnieres, corsages and bouquets and had a blast! Karen of Huckleberry Karen Designs holds workshops about every 2 or 3 months on how to DIY: Wedding Flowers.

It was a fantastic learning experience - how to process the flowers (roses are a real pain with all of the thorns) how to hydrate them, and when to buy which flowers so they are at the perfect opening state on your wedding day.

I decided knowing how to create these floral pieces would come in handy as a planner. I have had nightmares about the florist forgetting a bridesmaid's bouquet and suddenly I would have to fashion one out of the centerpieces. So I am now ready to roll with my floral tape and ribbon thanks to Karen.

Karen did mention that as a bride, attempting to do flowers yourself for the wedding is definitely do-able but she warned to get more help than you think you'll need! If your wedding is the ultimate DIY wedding or if you are just attempting to make all the personal flowers, you will need lots of hands - especially on the wedding day. This is where us planners come in handy. Not that we will be your stand-in florist, but we can really help with all of the details you envision.

Here are some before and after photos that lead to my creations:

These are the flowers as is from the SF flower mart.

Here we are processing the flowers.

Above the flowers are ready to go. We have 3 types of roses, spider mums, wax flower and something green, round and cool that I can't remember the name of - I show a close up of it a few photos below.

Here is the start of my boutonniere - the sepals are gone and I am using floral wire to support the stem. There is a method to poking the hole - you can't just poke anywhere.

I use floral tape to combine the waxflower and the rose.

Then comes the ribbon - it's starting to look a little snazzier! To be honest, the ribbon was the most difficult part. Wrapping the end of it took many, many tries.

Ta da! And here it is!

Here is a second one I did using an orchid and the cool little green accent flower (if you know what it is called please help me remember!)

Next we made our bouquets - this was 4 million times more difficult than I thought it would be. I thought mine (above) came out pretty darn ok. My new friend Greg is holding it for me so I can snap an aerial shot of it.

Trying to place each flower so that when all together they looked pleasing to the eye and have a round bouquet shape was quite the challenge.

I used roses, freesia, wax flower and calla lilies. I kept the stems long so I could keep it in water when I got home - but if this was a for a real wedding I would have trimmed them a bit more.

And there they are! Such a fun class. If you get the chance you should check out Karen's blog - one of the coolest things she posts on are the different flowers she uses in each bouquet so you know exactly what flower you are seeing.

Photo source: From Trisha Dean's personal collection