Summer wedding in Brooklyn.

This wedding was all about bright, bold, happy colors. The bride and groom wanted "the unexpected" at their wedding! We used chocolate cosmo's, bright red dahlias, white and tan scabiosa, tansy, gomphrena, pannisetum, panicum, raspberries, and more! Perfect for a summer wedding.... See more on my floral Facebook page HERE. 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden wedding/summer!

This May 5th wedding at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, was chock-full of bright colors including reds, peaches, pinks and greens. PERFECT for the impending warmth that is now here to stay for the summer. The centerpieces were made up of red charm peonies, pink ranunculus, goditia, red tulips, peach hypericum berries, lisianthus, dusty miller, peach amaryllis, geranium and jasmine. Each centerpiece was placed on top of the couples sci-fi books (part of their theme) as well as on top a bunch of criss crossed ribbons. The card table was a structure of birch poles with rows and rows of lace, bakers twine, peach and red ribbons to hang the escort cards from. We had lots of fun chochques for the card table including mini bell jars with little ranunculus, berries and jasmine tin-a-le (new word) arranged inside (:

The ceremony was in the breath-taking blue bell field which is a dream come true for any bride to have in full bloom on her wedding day. See more pictures from this wedding on my floral Facebook page HERE! 

Summer wedding at the Foundry, L.I.C.

This August 26th wedding was super fun to design and was held at one of my favorite places to work; The Foundry, L.I.C. Rich in colors and tons of texture, we used a blend of oranges, purples, greens and pinks. I loved the greenhouse room where we used emerald green wine bottles with taper candle sticks along side bud vases stuffed with thistle, dahlias and dianthus. The ceremony arrangements were some of my fav's with the dramatic paper ferns, hydrangeas, thistle, greens, and branches.

Pink & Purple Brooklyn wedding.

This August 20th wedding was held in the back yard of Brooklyn brownstone steps form where I live. I love when my neighbors email me to do their flowers and we realize we sort of know each other (: Her colors were bright pink's and purples. We used fluffy, bright blooms including Dahlias, lisianthus with more modern flowers like Picasa callas and dendrobium orchids. The boutonniere was made of purple lisianthus and jasmine.

Morningside castle, summer wedding.

I've got a few back to back posted because I am playing catch up from this summer's weddings. This was an August 13th wedding.

I LOVED this bridal bouquet. It was a small/medium scale using the sought after David Austin garden roses, red Piano roses, spray roses, dahlias, ranunculous, and coxcomb. We used a Daffy blue ribbon and a butterfly memento pined on to the handle. The centers incorporated hydrangea, hypericum berries, white lisianthus, red piano roses and stock.

The chuppah for the ceremony had lots of thin birch poles attached to steel structure, red berries and greens in the upper corners and white delphinium coming up from the base.

Bicycle love, summer wedding.

This was an August 5th wedding for two lovely fellow Irish folk that loved to bike. The bride requested her flowers to incorporate lots of herbs and wild flowers in addition to any sort of Irish element we could think of. As I scratched my head.... it came to me to use Jameson, Tullermordue, and Guinness beer cans as the containers! I carefully ripped off the tops o the cans, foamed them up and popped in the flowers. They were super fun and great for guests to take home.

Queens County Farm wedding.

Promoting the old school way (leaving business cards at your local wine store) really can bring you together with a new client as well as introduce you to a new neighbor/friend. This is sort of how I met my clients Ashley and Mike. In addition to her finding my card, her friend who is the editor of a large bridal magazine, met me at a wedding industry gathering months ago. Lucky for me, I stuck in her mind and came recommended to this couple's wedding.

This was one of my dream come true weddings to design. Being the ex- farm girl that I am, designing this wedding came very naturally and automatically. Asley and Mike were a complete joy to work with and were full of ideas, yet, gave me the reins to do what I do. Her bouquet was super fun to make. All she told me was "make it look like it's from the land." That's it! There were countless flowers used in her bouquet from fancy juliette roses and chocolate cosmos to the casual ornamental cale and shaker grass. She had NINE brides maids. She asked me "what do you expect?! I am from Texas!"

Ashley and Mike did a lot of work (and drinking) on their own to prepare for their wedding. Ashley drank an unbelievable number of the healthy Kambucha drinks in order to use the lovely glass bottles as one of the vessels for the flowers. She described the amount she drank as "almost gross"! The bottles ended up being perfect for our use. The other vessels we used were Weck jars and whiskey bottles! My husband owns a bar, hence my ability to collect an obscene number empty of Jack Daniels, Jameson, and Tullamouredew. We wanted to come up with something extra affordable to put in the mix of flowers. I tested out some ideas by submerging ferns, orchids and lavender into the whisky bottles, which turned out so pretty as well as unique and affordable.

At the end of the night, as we were packing up my van, and I got lucky enough to watch the now bride and groom walk out of the barn glowing, laughing and beaming with happiness as their guests waved sparklers and cheered. She then came up to me with arms wide open and tears of happiness in her eyes as she held me tight telling me how much she loved her bouquet and couldn't believe how amazing and perfect it was. This is what propels me forward. This is what makes the countless hours work, the 100's of emails, and the nit picking each flower worth it. This is why I do flowers.

The talented Labor of Love made these pictures classic, timeless and so so beautiful. ENJOY!

Pretty in pink summer wedding flowers.

I met this couple just a few weeks before their August 5th wedding in NYC. They were very excited to bring in some local Brooklyn people to collaborate on their wedding. The bride was so sweet and had no shame admitting that pink is her very very favorite color! The style we went for was sort of a mash of shappy chic meets the Hamptons. We used garden roses, jasmine, stephanotis, orchids, hydrangea, calla, tulips, and white and pink gomphrena and more.

Bright bouquet for a Brooklyn bride.

My lovely client contacted me months ago for the personal flowers for her July 30th wedding at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. She wanted all brightly colored, happy flowers including calla's, gerbera daisies, crespedia, spray roses and seeded euch. We also added some vintage red button's down the front of the bouquet for extra cuteness (:

Housing works, SoHo bookstore wedding.

This sweet lil wedding took place on July 23th at the charming Housing Works bookstore in NYC. The bride wanted fluffy, soft, "whip cream" looking flowers. We wanted to use peonies, but, they just ended! We trickled some bud vases along the long tables (professional photos to come) as well as something tall and interesting for the buffet area. The bride had a lovely purple bird cage vail with a flower, so, I tied in that color into the bridal bouquet by using mini Aluim flowers. We used Juliette roses, hydrangea, delphinium, pale pink roses, lavender, brunia, super pale pink celosia, queen ann lace, papyrus, chamomile, jasmine, and scabiosa pods.

Summery blooms

This July 18th wedding had one my favorite summer bouquets filled with yellow celosia, coral peony, blue tweedia, dahlia, status, spray rose and protea greens. The bout's were made of crespedia, hypericum berries, and blue tweedia.