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.

Vintage Modern

This Green Pastures bride chose bold pops of orange to add modern flair to her vintage ivory and Tiffany blue color scheme and elegant Victorian venue. The wedding took place on a beautiful sunny afternoon, and the romantic floral choices complimented the wedding's attention to detail perfectly. (photo courtesy of Chris Caselli)

To achieve the organic hand-tied shape she requested for her bouquet, we mixed ivory peonies, creamy roses, orange ranunculus, orange spray roses, white sweet pea, Italian ruscus, and dark brown fiddlehead ferns. The bouquet was accented with a tiffany blue trailing ribbon to match the invitations, menus, and bridesmaids' shawls. (photo courtesy of Sledd photography)

The bridesmaids carried nosegays of tangerine roses tied with Tiffany-blue ribbon to compliment their pashminas, a gift from the bride. (Photos courtesy of Sledd photography)

The boutonnieres featured tangerine and/or ivory spray roses, Italian ruscus, and fiddlehead ferns with Tiffany blue ribbon accents. (photo courtesy of Sledd photography, left, and Chris Caselli, right)

The guests were greeted by a tall arrangement of green curly willow, white larkspur, blue hydrangea, Italian ruscus, and orange spray roses. (photos courtesy of Chris Caselli, left, and Sledd photography, right)























Table centerpieces alternated between clusters of vintage-style glass bottles and cubes wrapped in Tiffany blue ribbon to compliment the menu cards, which featured the bride and groom's signature color. Cubes featured ivory hydrangea, white sweet pea, tangerine ranunculus and spray roses, Italian ruscus, and ivory Vendela roses. Bottles included Vendela roses, tangerine tulips, spray roses, and ranunculus, and white sweet pea. (Photos courtesy of Chris Caselli)