Beautiful Bouquets

Bridal bouquets from two recent small weddings:

This bright yellow bouquet was composed of rich yellow roses, buttery stock, ivory spray roses, and yellow calla lilies, ranunculus, and crespedia with curly willow accents and a navy blue satin wrap.



This bouquet featured white asiatic lilies, red calla lilies, red ranunculus, and white sweet pea.

Star Hill Nostalgia

This Labor Day weekend destination wedding was inspired by the vintage venue, a spectrum of sunset colors, and the bride's love of ribbon. The Bay Area bride and her wedding party designed wonderful reception decor that included fortune cookie favors, paper lanterns, and stacks of lemons accented with sky blue ribbon.

For her bouquets the bride chose a mix coral, pink, pale yellow, peach, and ivory antique roses, spray roses, Swan Island dahlias, sweet pea, ranunculus, and stock. Each bouquet was tied with a cascade of ribbons in the same colors. The bridesmaids, who wore black dresses, each had a different-colored stem wrap to their bouquet.










The ceremony space, with its simple white clapboard walls and sky blue ceiling, was marked with a grapevine wreath decorated with snapdragons and ivory garden roses. An array of candles adorned the simple altar, which was flanked by pillars with tall vases with a band of sky blue ribbon, filled with snapdragons and Italian ruscus.





















The reception, which took place in the schoolhouse, featured two floral centerpieces in addition to cake stands with stacked lemons: clusters of white bud vases filled with the same flowers as the bouquets, and low glass float bowls with floating candles, ivory button mums, and fluffy ivory and yellow China mums.

Tropical Whimsy

This wedding took place in the bride and groom's front yard on Lake Austin. To create the ceremony space, they chose two large, dramatic arrangements of tropical flowers, foliage, and reeds. The designs featured horsetail reeds, large tropical leaves, green and purple dendrobium orchids in clear glass vessels on dark brown wicker stands.







The bride carried a striking bouquet of bright green cymbidium orchids, purple vanda orchids, and contrasting black privet berries.



The bride's niece, her only attendant, carried a frothy bouquet of grape purple dendrobiums with purple vanda orchid accents.


The groom wore a purple vanda orchid boutonniere on his natural-colored summer suit, while the mothers of the bride and groom wore simple, elegant corsages of white miniature cymbidium orchids.















The guest book table at the ceremony, flanked by glass urns of cucumber and orange water, featured one of the centerpieces that was transferred to the reception. The flowers were a playful mix of tropicals and textures. Centerpiece arrangements featured green hydrangea, fuji mums, cymbidium orchids, celosia, hanging amaranthus, and beargrass. Accents were provided by purple dendrobium orchids, orange ranunculus, and orange and purple pincushion protea.



The intimate wedding dinner took place at Ronnie's Real Food, and the centerpieces were created in medium and large glass cubes and long, low glass rectangles filled with a multi-textured green blooms with purple and orange accents. The different vessels were intespersed on the dining tables, which were dressed in deep purple linens, and connected with black river rocks accented with chartreuse dendrobium orchids and votive candles.














All photographs courtesy of the wonderful Suzi Q of Q Weddings...www.qweddings.com

Summer Textures

This elegant morning wedding took place at the Driskill Hotel. The bride, who wore a vintage-style lace gown, and her maid of honor carried primarily green bouquets, while the brunch tables and guestbook featured arrangements of a variety of ferns in white ceramic and porcelain vessels.



The bouquets were composed of flowers in a variety of textures, including spiky green fuji mums, green and white parrot tulips, miniature chartreuse hydrangea, and white Queen Anne's lace. The bride's bouquet featured a custom wrap with lace from her gown.

The guestbook arrangement contained ming fern, sword fern, and flat fern; miniature chartreuse hydrangea, green button mums, white Queen Anne's lace, and chocolate brown fiddlhead ferns.

Spring Greens

This April bride was married at Twelve Oaks in the Hill Country and chose bright spring greens to compliment the natural setting.



The bride chose a mix of green and ivory for her hand-tied bouquet, which featured chartreuse hydrangea, white ranunculus, white sweet pea, green roses, and green buplerum with a simple white wrap.




The bridesmaids, who wore chartreuse dresses, carried primarily ivory bouquets of hydrangea, sweet pea, ranunculus and vendela roses with green buplerum accents. The bouquets were wrapped with fabric from their gowns. Other wedding flowers included green dendrobium orchids for corsages, boutonnieres, and cake flowers, and white hydrangea to mark the aisle.