Posts Tagged ‘Feature Weddings’

Summer Wedding Flowers at Whiteface Lodge

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

It is officially summertime and Sarah & Andy had a summery June wedding at The Whiteface Lodge in Lake Placid.  The colors were vibrant and the main instruction I got from the bride was “no muted tones” so you’ll find super bright, fun blooms in this wedding.  I started taking pictures when we were still in the car!

The van was completely loaded with flowers without an inch to spare!

I took a couple of shots of the bouquets before we headed to the ferry.

The attendants wore Bright Dahlia dresses from J. Crew so their bouquets brought color.

I seriously dig this red and pink color combo the bride carried.  I think it’s both romantic and modern.  Her bouquet included pink peonies, dahlias, Tiega roses, red tulips and spray roses.

Here’s a shot of the 6 attendants’ bouquets with the bride’s bouquet.

The bridesmaids carried orange ranunculus, yellow freesia, red spray roses, pink roses and fresh herbs I cut from my garden including oregano, mint and ladies’ mantle.

The bride liked this wedding I did at the Whiteface Club so it was inspiration for their designs.

The centerpieces were labelled with trail markers and included orange gerberas, VT grown Asiatic lilies, pink peonies, dahlias, delphinium, red and orange spray roses, sweet William and fresh rosemary.

The rainy day called for an indoor ceremony and our birch chuppah was the perfect touch for the Adirondack style of the lodge.  The officiant was the bride’s sister!

Large sap bucket arrangements marked each side of the chuppah.

Mini sap buckets tied to the chairs down the aisle completed the look!

Congratulations to Sarah and Andy on your beautiful wedding day!…a Brooklyn couple with a Vermont floral designer and an Adirondack-style wedding!  We could hear the guests buzzing during the cocktail hour and I can tell you it sounded like quite a party. 

June Wedding at The Round Barn

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Every couple is unique, but when I met Krystal and Keith I knew these two were clearly a great match.  They way they interacted with each other; the way Keith looked at Krystal as she talked about their big day–I could just feel the love.  When I found out how they met it just completed the picture…they work in the same building in NYC and one day as Keith saw Krystal on the elevator he realized he knew someone who worked on her floor and he had to find out who she was.  So, for real, isn’t that romantic?  It could be the beginning scene of a movie if you ask me.

They weren’t planning a huge wedding, but they were focused on decor and details to be remembered.  Krystal was originally thinking “shabby chic”, but she ended up more on the “elegant chic” side in my opinion.  A color palette of whites with a few very pale yellow accents created a clean, classic early summertime feeling.  Daria Bishop Photographers were on the scene to shoot all the details so I’ll just share a few shots with you today.  Stay tuned for pics from the pros!

The bride wanted a bouquet that was nicely sized so she carried a bouquet that is slightly larger than I usually make.  Included in the bride’s bouquet were white peonies, hydrangea, Tibet roses and lisianthus.  It was a classic, fluffy, rounded style that never goes out of fashion.  The groom’s boutonniere included a white spray rose, a lisianthus bud and a small accent of waxflower.

The groom’s sister was the maid of honor and she was absolutely lovely (and SO happy for the couple!).  Here’s a look at both bouquets.

It was a beautiful day for an outdoor ceremony!  Rose petals lined the aisle and large urns filled with bells of Ireland, French tulips, snapdragons, roses, hydrangea and lysmachia marked the altar.

Table linens were a chocolate brown and the all white centerpieces were designed in ceramic vessels with votive candles for ambiance.

Vermont Sweet Tooth set up an elaborate display (the desserts were not in place yet, but I read the descriptions and they sounded delish!) and we added some floral details  and candles to the mix.  Guests were greeted with mason jars to fill with the libations of their choice!

Here’s one final shot of the bride’s bouquet.  It’s classic, white wedding all the way.

When I met family & friends awaiting the arrival of the bride and groom at The Round Barn the joy and excitement was nothing short of heartwarming.  It was so touching it was downright “whelming” (’cause overwhelming doesn’t quite fit the bill here).  Congratulations to Krystal and Keith!   I am SO looking forward to seeing your professional photos–I know you both were stunning!

Purple, White and Blue Wedding At The Round Barn Farm

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

I often work with couples for 7-12 months before their wedding day, but this bride and groom started planning their wedding only 4 months ago–Kelly and Fred didn’t want to waste any time once they got engaged!  They knew they wanted to get married in Vermont and since they travelled from Mississippi for their nuptials they definitely fall into the “destination wedding” category.  The distance did not stop them from having lots of personalized details that made the day extra special.

You may recall seeing these hand wrapped milk bottles a few weeks ago, but that was just the beginning of their DIY awesomeness.  There were homemade mad-libs where guests could fill-in-the-blanks with wedding advice; match sticks in lieu of seating cards with a sign that read, “We found our perfect match, now find yours”; and since the groom’s last name is Olive, well, “Olive You” candy favors finished off the night.

Here is a look at the bride and attendant’s bouquets.  The overall feeling was a Vermont country style and the only serious instruction I got from Kelly was NO ROSES.  Not only no roses, but nothing that even resembled a rose…like, seriously, she didn’t even like ranunculus which is a floral darling of many brides!  Her bouquet included lilacs, lily of the valley, muscari, anemones, sweet peas, dahlias, tulips and dusty miller.  When I delivered her bouquet she looked at her maid of honor and said, “Remember when we used to pick this as kids?”, referring to the silver foliage.  Needless to say that made me happy.

Here is another look at the bouquets.

We prepared for both an indoor and outdoor ceremony, but once the sky opened up and started dumping buckets of water on us it seemed like inside was the best decision!  Mini-sap buckets donned the table numbers (another cute idea from The MOB).  Cuisine Lucette created the lovely cakes.

Here are those super cute favors I told you about.  We also added some mason jar and curly willow “chandeliers” to the barn.

Both the bride and groom’s last names start with “O” so there were a lot of O-names on the match sticks!

Despite the distance they travelled Kelly and Fred made The Round Barn feel like home and I am sure their guests could feel that at every turn.  Congratulations on your beautiful day!  It was a pleasure to work with Kelly and her mom, Pat, on the details of this wedding.  Kelly is an absolute hoot–really, laugh out loud funny e-mails a-plenty–and I think I’m kinda gonna miss her!

DIY Wedding with Homespun Details

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

It’s the last day of March and we are expecting nearly a foot of snow in Vermont so it’s the perfect time to share this DIY winter wedding with homespun details.  Seriously homespun details–the bride and her mother designed the bride’s wedding attire from the dress to the headpiece to the adorable handwarmer the bride carried instead of a traditional bouquet.

I love the authentic vintage feeling of their wedding pics.  The photo credit on these beauties goes to  Brandon Vick Weddings.

Melissa is an artist so her vintage-glam inspired vision was brought to life beautifully!  Shawn’s white orchid boutonniere is finished with a grey velvet ribbon and a shiny little button to match the bride’s velvet muff.  These are some of my favorite corsage & boutonniere details

I first met Melissa when I started teaching a Fresh Flower Design class at Burlington City Arts and when she told me she was getting married I knew it would be awesome.  As far as DIY details go this couple hit it out of the park!  Are you a DIY Bride?  If so, what do-it-yourself projects are you planning for your wedding?

Featured Wedding in Vermont Vows Magazine

Monday, January 31st, 2011

The release of the newest issue of Vermont Vows magazine is a semi-annual event up here.  When the newest issue comes out we all go a little ga-ga over the color palettes, feature weddings and details.  As wedding professionals we get to see what our fellow vendors have been up to and it’s always fantastic to hear what our couples think as they scour the pages for inspiration.

Check out pages 79-82 to see images from our feature wedding of Becca & Blain’s June wedding in Stowe, Vermont.

You can flip through more fabulous images from the 2011 Spring/Summer issue of Vermont Vows in an online sneak peek here!

November Wedding at Sleepy Hollow Inn

Friday, November 19th, 2010

It was an unbelievably beautiful (like mid-50′s and sunny kinda beautiful) November day for Annie and Andrew’s wedding at Sleepy Hollow Inn in Huntington, Vermont.  Perhaps the weather took a cue from Annie’s floral choices of irises for a spring-like minimalistic feeling–an unexpected palette for a “fall wedding”.

The bride’s color choices were rooted with her love of the color of blue irises and her bouquet included both blue and white irises, yellow spray roses, lisianthus, yellow callas, delphinium, freesia, green gladiolus and bupleurum with a green silk dupioni ribbon.

The bridesmaids (including the bride’s sister who was one of my brides 2 years ago!) wore black and carried bouquets similar to the bride.  I love bridesmaids in black dresses.

The barn at Sleepy Hollow has huge windows and a great view!

It was mid-November, but the weather was warm and beautiful.  This is what Camel’s Hump looked like from inside the barn at Sleep Hollow.  A great backdrop for an indoor ceremony!

The air was warm, but you could still find snow on the ground where it was shaded from the sun.  I snapped this shot of the bouquet just before bringing it to Annie.

The wooden chairs in the barn have a rustic and clean feeling.  Potted rosemary in little galvanized sap buckets lined the aisle and also served as centerpieces.

The bride and groom grew the rosemary themselves…a truly noble DIY effort!

Customized pint glasses designed by the groom were their favors.  I Love ‘em!  They also made homemade peppermint bark.  Yum.

Here are a few more details from Andrew & Annie’s big day.

Susanna’s Catering created a serious sushi display which we accented with submerged irises.

Congratulations to Annie and Andrew!  No one could have predicted what a perfect day you’d have for your wedding.  I hope it was all you dreamed it would be.  Your DIY details and minimalistic, yet elegant touches complimented the rustic setting perfectly.  It is always a special privilege to work with more than one sibling in a family and I am so glad we worked together on your big day!

Fall Wedding at The Lilac Inn

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

October is a very popular month for a Vermont wedding…and with good reason!  This season of stunning foliage did not disappoint leaf peepers or happy couples and provided some amazing backdrops and scenery for photos.  If I had to pick one season for a quintessential Vermont wedding it would have to be fall.

Kellie and Joe were wed at The Lilac Inn in Brandon, VT and their color palette of purples, oranges and whites is certainly a step slightly out of the traditional autumnal palette.  When I first met this couple they had slected their colors, they knew the overall style for the flowers should be ruled by texture and the most important element for them was to incorporate bittersweet which grows abundantly in their home state of Rhode Island!

These bouquets are made up of mango callas, dahlias, gladiolus, spray roses, freesia, scabiosa (both flowers & pods), hypericum berries, rosemary, seeded eucalyptus & crocosmia.

When I saw Kellie at The Inn I added her lace bookmark and a broach as a finishing touch.

love their wedding logo and the book-theme at the reception.  Tables were named for authors and table cards sat atop books representing a few popular titles from each writer.  

Their ceremony in the garden was complete with petals at the altar and chair flower details. 

Their “novel approach” to a place card table was this super sweet card catalog! 

Congratulations to Kellie & Joe!  You had perfect fall weather for your big day and with so many great DIY details your day was so personalized and special.  I look forward to seeing professional pictures of your smiling faces from Kathleen Landwehrle!

October Wedding at The Round Barn

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Carolyn and Jason had their destination Vermont wedding at The Round Barn in Waitsfield during some gorgeous peak foliage this October.  When I met with Carolyn and her aunt I loved her laid back approach to planning the wedding.  Perhaps that’s due in part to the fact that she and her groom were so focused on training for Ironman!  Needless to say I was very impressed.

Carolyn wanted persimmon, brown, yellow, orange and red to comprise the color palette so true reds, oranges and peaches are featured in most of the flower combos.  They had gorgeous gold overlays on the tables from Occasions.  While it was clearly a fall wedding, their overall style felt more elegant & romantic than autumnal.

The bride wore a beautiful white dress and carried white dahlias, green & white roses, freesia and touches of bupleurum, dusty miller & apricot colored cymbidium orchids.  The bouquet was finished with a blue silk dupioni ribbon for a little punch of color.

Her bridesmaids wore brown dresses with persimmon colored pashminas and carried bouquets of yellow, orange & peach roses with yellow freesia, orange dahlias and apricot orchids.

The adorable little flower girl carried this birch basket.

Below is a centerpiece design that includes orchids, dahlias, roses, gerbera daisies, red gladiolus, bupleurum and bittersweet.

We lined the aisle for the outdoor ceremony with shepherd’s hooks and hanging mason jars.

Two urns marked the ceremony location under the tree.

Carolyn posed on the bridge for Dennis Curran.

The Round Barn is a great venue for an authentic Vermont wedding experience.

I love, love, love their place card display of tiny white pumpkins with cows on wooden picks.

Perrin from Vermont Cake Studio made a chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and chocolate icing.  The smell was amazing.

Congratulations to Carolyn & Jason!  You had one of the most beautiful fall days for your Vermont wedding and the red, orange & peach tones are now one of my favorite color palettes ever!  It was such an elegant and unique way to do fall.

Real Wedding at Sleepy Hollow

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Vermont Vows Magazine features Real Weddings on their website and thanks to a recent post by Kathleen Landwehrle I realized that one of my favorite couples, Matt and Yael, have a spotlight on the site.  I posted a few photos of the bouquets on my blog last December (back when I was a babe in the blogging woods!), but you can check out more details captured by Landwehrle Photography on vtvows.com right here!

Even though they were married last September I still have the shot below of Yael’s bridal bouquet as my screensaver.  I love the color palette she chose…and Matt designed my website so I think he’s pretty awesome, too!  They have a great story about their engagement on vtvows.com so check it out and enjoy the fun details they created for their guests.  By the way, the groom’s mom made the wedding cake (twice, due to a melting issue!) and she was amazingly calm throughout what could have been perceived as a disaster.  Ah, the memories!  It was a beautiful day and you can see they had a great wedding day!

Bridal bouquet of orchids, callas, roses, scabiosa and ivy

September Wedding at The Round Barn

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Katherine and Evan were married at The Inn at the Round Barn Farm on Saturday.  It was a lovely autumn day in Vermont for their destination wedding with the fall foliage just starting to show its peak colors.

The bride was very clear about wanting a fall inspired wedding that had a modern feeling with natural elements and “saturated colors” (Yes, her words and I love them!) like burgundys and oranges.  Other than that they were both very open to letting me just roll with the designs and I really love the way things came together.  Thanks to some gorgeous orchids which were a showstopper the flowers and colors came together beautifully.

The bride carried a cascading bouquet of burgundy & mango callas with orange mokara orchids and burgundy striped cymbidium orchids with a few touches of agonis.  Katherine looked stunning in her gorgeous dress which made the bouquet even more lovely. 

Below (left) is a bridesmaid’s bouquet and a corsage for the grandmothers.

The nine bridesmaids wore black cocktail dresses with orange orchids in their hair.  Their bouquets included burgundy callas, orange orchids & burgundy dahlias.

I noticed one lone cow had wondered over as we were setting up so Dave snapped this shot.

The chuppah was adorned with orange mokara orchids and a few touches of burgundy.

A floral detail we added to the bridge leading to the ceremony and the place card display. 

Mossy centerpieces featured mokara and cymbidium orchids, dahlias, artichokes and ornamental kale with lilies, berries and agonis.  Maple leaf bottle stoppers were their favors.

The Round Barn was all dressed and ready to impress.  It is such a great space!

Although it was a busy day with lots of faces I can remember meeting the bride’s mom at The Vermont Wedding Affair last November and when I learned that they won my gift certificate in the silent auction (as always the proceeds benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation) I was especially happy to be working on their big day.  After meeting with Katherine and Evan several months later and finding out more about their personal style I was even more thrilled to work with them.

Congratulations to Katherine and Evan and your families on a wonderfully executed day!  I am looking forward to seeing professional photos from Kristina of Vrai in Chicago as well as the wedding film by Marion of Tweed River Video.  Speaking of filmmakers…check out the groom’s website at dryspellproductions.com.