Steampunk inspired, fall wedding in Brooklyn!

With fall approaching, I wanted to dig up one of my favorite weddings from last fall that took place at the Prospect Park Boathouse. I was thrilled to hear from this "off beat" sort of bride. She was looking to me to conjure up some super interesting elements for her fall wedding that incorporated a vintage and steampunk elements. 

To start the bride wanted to make sure of two things. 1.) use lot's of orange. and 2.) use dried chinese lanterns. The task was on! For the centerpieces, we decided to use my serpentine vases that snaked in a semi circle on the tables that have a combination of chinese lanterns and fiddle head ferns. On either side of the serpentine snake, we had a mini bronze urns that had deep red Black Baccara roses, orange protea, scabiosa pods, dahlias, and berries. We chose a finely woven jute table cloth to neutralize the bright oranges, but, keep it warm.

The brides bouquet was one of my favorites. We went with a super rich and over saturated color pallet to contrast her gorgeous vintage inspired lace dress. Her girls were in gorgeous lace and copper satin dresses and also held a rich, autumnal bouquet of flowers. 

Her card table was super fun! We decided to use my vintage tool organizer for the card table display. Each of us spent time collecting old clock keys that became the anchor for the name tags created by the super talented Ruth Irving of Papertopias. Each key was nestled in a cubby hole, resting on top of a vintage napkin. Next to the tool organizer was my gorgeous vintage type writer from the 1920's that was used as the guest book. The paper was also hand crafted by Ruth Irving to feature a customized monogram to signify their special day. 

Professional image by the talented Jason Durnin. 

Happy pre-fall! 

xo

Montauk Club wedding flowers. Pink and chocolate!

This wedding took place on June 11th at the gorgeous Montauk Club in park slope Brooklyn. This venue as some of you know, it one of my fav's. Stained glass, gorgeous wood, and beautiful back drop for outdoor photos.
The bride wanted everything in shades of pink, chocolate, whites and greens. We used hydrangea, peony, freesia, burgundy scabiosa, lisianthus, spray rose geranium and more.

See more images in my floral Facebook page HERE. 

Rebecca Shepherd on The Knot!

I was recently invited to do a live segment on The Knot about my floral and jewelry design. Here is a sweet little blerb posted on the blog today. The video will come soon! See more images from The Knot 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! 

Soho Bookstore, NYC wedding.

This wedding took place on April 21st. The bride wanted a casual, yet pretty mix of whites, pinks, peaches and greens. We used white ranunculus, garden roses, astilbe, parrot tulips, peonies, and dustily miller. Each long table had a burlap runner on top of the white linens to tie the center of the table together. See more on my floral Facebook page HERE! 

Green Building wedding, Brooklyn, NY

Here are the professional pictures from this wedding. I am very late on posting!!! This was a December, 2011 wedding. You can see more images on my floral Facebook page HERE. 

Downton Abby inspired photo shoot.

Read all about this FAB collaboration on Style Me Pretty.

Bowery Hotel wedding flowers.

I almost never post the very next day from a wedding, but, I am excited to share these with you. The colors were white, ivory, sage green, blush, and peach. We used juliet roses, anemone, amaryllis, orchids, spray roses, ranunculus, lisianthus and hydrangea. The reception was at the super cool Bowery Hotel in NYC on February 25th. I also had the pleasure of working with the lovely gals from Firefly Events! Professional images by Elisabeth Millay. Enjoy! You can see more image from this wedding on my floral Facebook page.

Brooklyn Botanic gardens summer wedding flowers.

This was my other July 23rd wedding that took place at one of my favorite places to work, the Brooklyn Botanic gardens. The bride was looking for a whimsical, funky, seasonal flowers using bright colors including cobalt blue, yellows, melons and white. Together we collected the cobalt blue vintage bottles to mix in with the vintage silver bud vases and my mercury bottle tea light holders. She also really wanted to have a natural touch being that we were in the BBG, so we incorporated a natural stump riser which is always a nice way to unite the collection of bottles. She wanted her bridal bouquet to be most sun flowers and her girls to have a seasonal mix as well as wild flowers. We used hydrangea, asters, thistle, crespedia, daisies, and greens. I loved working with this bride. She had a vision, yet, totally let me do my thing too. She was relaxed, happy and totally not worried about her flowers, which is always the best complement (: Enjoy!

Clementine photo shoot at the Brooklyn Pharmacy.

This event was sort of a launching pad for brand spanking new wedding event styling company called Clementine Events . Kathy Malone, producer of the annual Steampunk Day and fashion events is rolling out the red velvet carpet to those brides looking for a unique spin on a once in a life time experience. This evening was chalk full of super talented Brooklyn designers and wedding industry pro's. Our line up included photographer Kristina Hill, Anabel and Dorothee of Belathee photography, Ruth of Papertopias, Betsy of Nine Cakes, Dress designer Melissa Bell, Jeweler Maryanne of Wabisabibibrooklyn, Dance choreographer Beije of mindfuldance, make up by Genavieve of vievemakeup and flowers + jewelry by me!

I also added a picture of me so that my clients can see who I am (: I am the redhead with the hat/veil by Lachinaloca Enjoy!