Emily and Aaron - Legacy Fountain & Greystone / Piedmont Park

Emily and Aaron have a great story.  They planned to marry at Piedmont Park's Magnolia Hall with a reception at Greystone on September 24th.  Not long after the papers were signed...Music Midtown was booked and threw a kink in the whole plan.  Because of the concert traffic, noise, etc., the ceremony could not be held as planned. 

Fortunately, the gorgeous Legacy Fountain at the park had just been completed and it's location was far enough away that the noise from the concert wouldn't be that bad.  The concert promoter was held responsible for the all the extra charges involved with moving the ceremony (i.e. chair rentals, speakers, extra floral decor, etc.) including providing shuttles for all the wedding guests as parking would be non-existent.

The upside to all of it was that during the reception at Greystone, wedding guests could sit on the patio and hear Coldplay live!

Now, another kink arose just a week before the wedding.  Emily twisted her ankle and was placed in one of those big, black boots!  Hence the reason for the sparkly Tom's.  Despite the challenges, Emily and Aaron had a fantastic wedding day.

Emily's bouquet was a collection of gorgeous purple hydrangeas, lavender spray roses, lavender and purple carnations, actual lavender stems and dark purple schwartzwalder callas. Now, I know what you are thinking...carnations?  And I somewhat agree - but the purple fancy variety looks SO gorgeous mixed in with other flowers to give the full spectrum of purple shades Emily wanted. 

Lavender stock was used in the girls' bouquets which added a lovely fragrance.

I love this shot of the girls with their bouquets on the grass.  It was a perfect day in the park.

Emily's mom was the sweetest.  Through all the twists and turns this wedding took, she rolled with it and made the best of it.  She looks stunning in her gold gown.

The steps down to the grass of the Legacy Fountain...what an entrance!

Aaron was a happy groom and if you look behind the Judge, you can see the dancing waters of the Legacy Fountain.  I believe that Emily and Aaron's wedding was the first ever at the fountain!



Can you say HUGE wedding party??



Flower balls for the aisle decor.

And large urns for the "altar" area of mixed shades of purple and blue hydrangea, ruscus, lavender roses, delphinium, stock and larkspur.

Centerpieces were low square vases filled with shades of blue and purple hydrangea, lavender roses, stock, carnations and wrapped inside with a green ti leaf to hide the stems.

An obvious groom's cake...

The boys made sure Aaron was up for the evening!!

And here's the mother of the bride - getting down on the dance floor!

The toss bouquet was caught by Josie.  Emily's neighbor and....

bloom's next bride!!!  How cool is that...(Josie's colorful Trolley Barn wedding will be featured soon)

Emily's wedding photos courtesy of The Long Farewell.

Virignia + Robin = Milk Glass Extravaganza

Yahoo! I finally have a chance to blog!

I surprisingly do not have any events/weddings this weekend so I don't know what to do with myself! Actually that's not true - there is a 'to do' list a mile long, and one item is to finally put up on the blog what has been keeping bloom floral design so busy!

Virginia and Robin, both Auburn graduates and hailing from Birmingham, were married at the Pace House in Vinings on May 1st. It was your classic southern wedding - hydrangeas, mason jars, seersucker suits, a rockin' band (somehow connected to Bob Dylan - The Last Waltz was their name, I think?) and the first humid Saturday of the year.

I had a fantastic time collecting milk glass vases to use for the reception centerpieces. Here's a few shots of the collections.

Love the shoe and the vase on the left!

The white and green color palette was perfect for the Vinings humidity. Virginia was very laid back about her flowers and consequently everything came together beautifully. White hydrangeas, snowball mums, bouvardia, vendela' roses, tulips, stock, white lilac, kalanchoe, 'super green' roses, bells of ireland, kermit poms, hypericum berries and glorious amounts of mint.

It was absolute heaven incorporating the mint (and appropriately - it was Derby Day!).

Next post - bouquets/boutonnieres and more details - such as their cool sign-in poster and the sweet etsy cake topper.

First photo above courtesy of Addison Hill Photography.

Carrie + Dan at Emory's Little Chapel and The Carlos Museum

It was truly a pleasure working with Carrie! She and Dan married at Emory's Little Chapel with a reception at The Michael C. Carlos Museum (on the Emory campus). Her request was for soft blush tones and a very romantic and textural look for her bridal party flowers.

Her bouquet was a mix of white and pink peonies, seeded eucalyptus, stock, viburnum, ranunculus, peach roses, lilac, scabiosa, spirea, and lavender.

Corsages for the mothers and grandmothers - Carrie had accents of gold throughout her wedding day so I used a gold-edged ivory ribbon for the pin-ons. (photo taken with iphone - apologies!).

Her gorgeous rosette cake was done by The Flour Shoppe.

Obviously the groom was a graduate of Georgia Tech!

Placecards were printed on gold metallic with architectual design detail.

This was the sign in poster - very vintage and sweet - it may have been an etsy, not sure.

Tablecenters were similar to the bridal party except in bolder hues. Linens were a soft peach and each table was named for a destination which Carrie and Dan had traveled together. Tablecenter flowers were hanging amaranthus, scented geranium, ranunculus, peonies, wax flower, lilac, peach roses, lavender tulips, hydrangea, scabiosa, lavender, viburnum and stock. Their scent was divine!

Again, another iphone photo - sorry! I was tweeting from the set-up!

Inside the peony - that would be an awesome shot to have blown up really large for a wall piece!
(If I do say so myself.)

Lavender scabiosa and peach rose.

Gorgeous day + Easy bride + Lush flowers = Perfect wedding!

Thanks again Carrie - you were a gem!

Now it's on to Ashley, Jackie and Angela this weekend. Ashley at the Decatur Courthouse tonite!

'09 Bride

I met today with Emily and her mother, Linda for a bridal consultation. Emily brought pictures of flower styles she likes but really didn't have a clear vision of what she wanted. My first question to a bride is "Tell me three words that would describe the flowers at your wedding". This always helps me to get an understanding of the bride herself and the emotion she wants expressed through her flowers.

She knew she wanted an all-ivory bouquet but wasn't sure which specific flowers. We discussed using vendela roses, ivory ranunculus, mini callas, hydrangea, lisianthus and stock. She really likes the ruffly, lacy type flowers. I will put together a proposal for her with different flower combinations at different price points.

Her bridesmaids will be wearing a soft yellow silk dress with an elegant bow at the waist. Emily had thought of ivories and greens as a possibility for their bouquets. She mentioned that she liked stock, a very fragrant flower. I suggested perhaps using stock in a soft lavender color for her maids and she really perked up at that color idea. I like when that happens!

We had an enjoyable meeting that lasted about an hour and a half. Her wedding is in August and I hope to be doing it!