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!

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.

Prospect Park Picnic House wedding.

I have a LOT of catching up to do, so forgive me of the multiple blogs in a row. There are five weddings from July that need to go up! This wedding took place on July 10th at the gorgeous Picnic house surrounded by the serene park. The bride wanted a very colorful pallet with and old world, "House of Mirth" feel. We used red charm peonies, straw flowers, blue dephinium, veronica, hydrangea, olive branches, and lavender. My favorite was the brass boot which was perfect to spice up the bathroom (:

Brooklyn Betrothed has launched!

The day has finally come for me to share a extraordinarily special endeavor with you all. A group of us Brooklyn gals have collaborated to form a one stop shop of talented local vendors for many of your wedding needs. Read how we all came together and what we have to share on our web site BROOKLYN BETROTHED. We had our launch celebration last night a wonderful restaurant called Benchmark .

NYC summer wedding.

The wedding took place on June 25 at the Harold Pratt House in NYC. This was a special wedding for me and my team because it was our friends wedding! It was a fun experience because we were there early setting up in our jeans and cloggs by day and then transformed into dresses and heals by night.... and then again for break down. It was like the Cinderella at the stroke of midnight! We danced and had an amazing time at the wedding, and then, as soon as it was over, we ran into the bathroom to rip off dresses and broke down the event.

The flowers we used were a bright combination of blue hydrangeas, yellow peonies, roses, godetia, calla's, ginger root, orchids, bluporum, and vibrunum.

For the ceremony, we strung about 200 orange carnations staggered in lengths across the back wall. It was a sweet and subtle way to frame the ceremony area keeping clean lines and an airy feel.

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.

English garden wedding flowers

This wedding was inspired by English gardens, bird cages and the outdoors. We alternated the tables with bird cages adorned with roses, veronica, lily's, orchids, peonies, and ivy. Around the base were little bird vessels and medicine bottles with mixed blooms. The other tables were using a tall, cast pillar with a romantic mix of blooms as well as bud vases at the base. There were 8 brides maids with all white blooms including roses, peony, and hydrangea. The mom's had a posy of large white callas. The bridal bouquet was made of a mix of soft, muted colors including callas, peony, garden roses, sweet pea and more. The little mini urns were used for the cocktail tables. I LOVE these little things! I found them at the annual Brimfield antique show this past May. The large, vintage, blue bird cage was the main piece for the escort table. Check out those lamps on either side! The professional shot are by the talented PHOTOMUSE STUDIO.