Empire State South wedding / Sara & Kevin

Empire State South.  Awesome restaurant.  And the perfect spot for an intimate wedding for a couple who appreciates fine food and drink.

This is Sarah and Kevin.

Sarah's goal was "unique, whimsical, industrial, vintage, light, pop"...

Her color scheme of coral, peaches, pinks, ivory and silver was beautifully comprised of peonies, spray roses, stock, astilbe, celosia, godetia, ranunculus, dusty miller, billy balls, mint, and shimmery succulents. 

 The echeveria look so cool lightly sprayed with metallic silver!

Dusty miller, spray rose, an ivory hyacinth bloom and silvered mini echeveria wrapped with silver cord comprised Kevin's boutonniere.  And Sarah rocked the blue shoes.

Guests arrived in the courtyard of the restaurant to homemade bottled lemonade and grey stripey straws!  A little refreshment is nice to have prior to the ceremony.

Sarah partnered with Four Inch Fold, a vintage rental company, to provide special seating for those in the front row.

The bocce court served as the aisle leading up to the ceremony site.  Four Inch Fold hung a spectacular sparkly chandelier and a billowy peach ribbon backdrop.  It was a breezy evening and the ribbons danced all night.

I'll leave you here.  There are so many fantastic photos (thanks Julia, from Our Labor of Love) from this wedding that it requires multiple blog entries...

Debbie & Jason - The Gardens at Great Oaks

Here's a dreamy sneak peek set of images from Debbie and Jason's wedding at The Gardens at Greak Oaks.  The beautiful manor house of an old sorghum, corn and wheat plantation in Roswell, this venue is the perfect backdrop for an intimate and nostalgic wedding.

 Debbie provided most of the vessels for her centerpiece collections.  Borrowed from family and friends along with some lovely antique shop discoveries, the vintage vases held bright and textural flowers.  Red garden roses, orange ranunculus, dahlias, berries, sea thistle, celosia, and scabiosa combined for a bright and bold color palette.

Stay tuned for more of these beautiful images courtesy of Hollie Lytle Photography.

Halloween Wedding!

The wedding of Christine and Phil was so much fun! They were married on Halloween at The Solarium in Oakhurst. There were so many cool things about the wedding, I don't know where to begin. And, of course, these photos are my own for the sneak peek. I can't wait to see the professional shots!

All kinds of flowers were used to top the jack-o-lantern centerpieces. The pumpkins were carved by all their friends at the rehearsal dinner. Pincushion protea, seeded eucalyptus, sea thistle, kangaroo paw, spray roses, dahlias, waxflower, hocus pocus roses, scabiosa and celosia were some of the flowers used.

And I tucked in tiny skulls to add a bit of sinister-ness!

Phil's boutonniere was a schwartzwalder calla - a purple so deep it is almost black.

The mom's corsages were black magic roses.

The bridal bouquet wouldn't have been complete without a spider...

Sea thistle - one of my favorite flowers to use.

Bridesmaids held chocolate dahlias, sea thistle, wax flower and schwartzwalder callas wrapped in platinum ribbon.

Now, Christine and Phil were married in the traditional gown and tuxedo, but after the ceremony they transformed into Morticia and Gomez! Their guests attended in costume and I saw a 70's basketball player complete with knee-high socks and short shorts, a tennis player, a renaissance couple, some hawaiian tourists with zinc on their noses, and some guy in the traditional "bear/gorilla" suit. It was hilarious!

They had a dj spinning vinyl, a giant cardboard tree with spanish moss and pinatas for later in the evening. The guest's favors were tiny ghost pinatas which lined the windowsills. It seemed like every detail was turned on end - I even think the guest book was a coloring book to be signed with crayons!

Certainly, not your typical wedding. Happy Halloween!

May Madness - begins...

It's busy, busy, busy here at bloom. Here's a little peek at what's going on...

Some wedding work - sweetpeas, cymbidium orchids, maidenhair fern

The GBAA (Ga. Business Aviation Assoc.) dinner at Evergreen Resort. Hydrangea, hanging amaranthus, sea thistle

And a rehearsal dinner at Wahoo - (a Decatur favorite)

Pincushion protea, sea thistle, euforia roses, white boronia (a type of heather), celosia, myrtle and bear grass.

The studio is full! (and yet, I found a little time to blog...imagine.)

Cymbidium Orchids

Here's a gorgeous bride with a beautiful bouquet of green cymbidium orchids, white freesia and deep pink celosia. Her bridesmaids carried white cymbidum orchids with deep pink celosia. Very simple, yet dramatic. (The bride was my son's third grade teacher! He loved her!)