Josie & Lawrence at The Trolley Barn

Josie & Lawrence married on a gorgeous November Saturday at the Trolley Barn in Inman Park.

Oodles of handmade details made this casual ceremony and reception one of my favorites this year.

 Josie's friend made the altar "arch" of vintage paper flowers and pinwheels as well as the aisle markers.  (She could start her own business!)

Josie's bridesmaids each wore a different dress in a color palette of grey, lavender and taupe.  We added a pop of color with the bouquets of dusty miller, bright blue delphinium, yellow billy balls, purple gomphrena, dark purple asters and bright blue cornflower.

Ok, this is a cool picture but I don't like the idea of my flowers being thrown around!!  :)

Josie's bouquet was similar to the bridesmaids but with some additional flowers - white veronica, lavender scabiosa, and kermit poms.

Lawrence and his boys wore suits with purple ties.  His was the classic necktie and the groomsmen wore plaid bow ties.  A nod to their connection to Charleston, I used sweet grass roses for their boutonnieres.

Centerpieces were collections of found vases filled with a variety of garden flowers.  bloom provided the flowers and Josie's mom and friends put them together.

Catering was provided by Zest.  A wonderful local Decatur vendor.  And the groom's cake was handmade by a family friend in Tennessee!  Gorgeous!

Beautiful wedding shoes.  And apparently Josie is a shoe fanatic!

A handmade wishing tree of japanese maple branches...

Sweet little boys...

Congratulations Josie & Lawrence!

And....if you've been following my blog - you'll recognize Emily and Aaron here with her parents as happy guests.  Emily and Aaron were married at Piedmont Park back in September on the same day as Music Midtown!  It was a challenge but we pulled it off!   

Josie caught the toss bouquet at Emily's wedding and Emily and Josie grew up next door to each other here in Decatur.  And, another neat thing, one of Josie's groomsmen was my son's middle school social studies teacher!  And with Zest doing the catering, it was a great Decatur collaboration.  

The awesome photos are by Anna & Spencer.  

Family Farm Wedding - Morgan & Shane

This is one of my favorites, I must say.  When I met with Morgan and her mom, there was no question that we were going to work together.  We were on the same page from the very beginning and both Morgan and her mom were so sweet and laid back.

When they told me that the location for the wedding was the family's farm in Conyers, I was intrigued.  And I was not disappointed when I arrived for a site visit.  Here's a shot of Morgan in the entry foyer of her mom's house.  You can imagine that the rest of the house was just as interesting and eclectic. 

Bright, colorful, whimsical and natural were the words Morgan chose to describe her flowers.  Above are the mothers' corsages of orange spray rose, pink nerine, lime green button mums, purple asters with an accent of explosion grass (really, it's called that).  Twine finished it nicely.

The pasture that separated Morgan's parents' house from her grandparents' house was the ceremony site.
And to complete the "family compound" feel - Morgan and Shane were moving into the renovated barn after the wedding!

  

I had been dying to use the big round balloons again since I had used them at The Not Wedding and when Morgan mentioned she liked balloons - it was meant to be.  You must be careful though...those balloons require an extreme amount of helium so they are not a budget item. 

The bride and her sister - the maid of honor.  Morgan carried a bouquet of peony, orange spray rose, green button mums, billy balls, pink nerines, fiddlehead fern, and purple aster. 

Morgan and her sweet dad.  You can see the barn in the background which served as the "get ready" area and where Morgan and Shane would move after the wedding.

Bridesmaid dresses were a vibrant purple with flirty little organza flowers over one-shoulder

The reception tables were covered in burlap toppers and the stacks of wood were handcut by Morgan's dad.  We added moss, spanish moss, votives, river rock, butterfly accents and a large allium bloom floating in a bubble bowl.

The favors were big white gumballs that matched the big white balloons!

Signs were handpainted by dad.

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And the sweet little cake topper finished it perfectly! 

Photos courtesy of Jamie Howell photography. 

Anticipating Spring

With the snow melting away, I delivered these great "moss purses" filled with brightly-colored flowers to several ladies from their boss. They had worked hard on a project and flowers are the perfect way to say thank you. Anticipating spring, the purse was filled with snapdragons, tulips, asters, roses, alstromeria, billy balls and purple iris. I wanted to keep one for myself!