Aqua and Yellow=DROOL

Last year I made the flowers for my dear friend Jen of Green Quince. Check out her shop when you get a chance you will LOVE her. My post is called the Indie Wedding.

So I got a taste of what the colors yellow and aqua would look like.

FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!

I really think it's been on my brain to get my hands on another bride who
wants these colors put together.

Any takers?

I made this arrangement with horsetail that I fenced together to create a peep box. The inside is filled with flowers, one yellow mums, one with white mums. The base is a pave of roses, bear grass, rocks, mini carnations, melveccia, bells of Ireland, and some kermit mums.

Hope you like it!

Indie Part 2- The Set Up

The Details:

I received an email from the bride that her pro pictures from Emily Heizer over at HeizerPhotography came in and I will share a few here with you.

Aren't they great?

The Reinhardt Alumnae House at Mills College. It was gorgeous and I highly recommend it for a wedding of say 150 or so with a garden look and endless locations to take pictures.
So here is the room when we started. It's the inside of the house that opens up to the lawn. Its separated by floor to ceiling glass on one side.


Here is the Photobooth setting up.


Justin from Photoboof was awesome. Extremely nice and fun, he projected the pictures on to the side of the house for everyone to enjoy as the pictures were taken and it was a big hit. I had to ask him for a business card because he was such a cool guy and very easy to work with!

I walked by a table and had to snap a shot of a corsage, the picture, and the place card.


I have vases that I brought with me to line the walkway to the house. I wanted them to go in a high to low formation. I added dahlias to the highest vases and at night they looked spectacular with the floating candles lit.
Josh did an awesome job setting up, no?



I personally climbed a few trees and stood up on chairs to get these puppies to hang down.
Ribbon, Mason jars, led lights = beautiful



Recognize the house????eh? eh? Its my card box house that I used for my wedding, I just used her engagement photos in the "window slots"

Recognize my manzanita tree? Thnis truly was a GREEN wedding with all the stuff we recycled :)

See the velum lampshades on the wine glasses?

Too, cute. The bride knew it would be chilly in Oakland so she wrapped ribbon around these white blankets that were put to use ASAP.
I have never seen people snatch up blankets that fast!

ACK! I never thought I would fall in love with teacups!



Cupcakes came from Love at First Bite and I heard more than one person commenting on how great they were and I snuck one in(okay two)and they were YUMMY!
The topper was used at his grandfathers wedding in 1947!!!!

Table tops



The final shot with the floral arrangements I made in her lounge area.



I worked from 7am on the finishing touches on the flowers and one arrangement went overboard and had to redone. Flowers delivered at 10:30am. Reception site to meet and direct vendors(catering, photo booth, cake, D.J., servers ect.) from 11:00am -5:15. Cocktail hour from 5:30 -6:30. Greet couple and get them through entrance, dinner, greeting, cake, toasts, and first dance from 6:30 to 8:45pm/ Start to clean up and pack away stuff at 11pm.
Go home, wish I had the energy to blog, but happily go to sleep exhausted at 2am.

{It was awesome}

The happy couple was smiling and kissing all night and they lived happily ever after............

The Indie Wedding-Part One-{The Flowers}

I want a do over..........

I want a garden wedding and I want it to look like my Indie Couple's wedding.

It was GORGEOUS!!!

I loved it, the couple was the BEST, the photo booth was off the hook, the food was great, haikus for kisses and SOOOO many people participated, the cupcakes were delish, the Wai-Ching dress was fabulous, the scrapbook/guest book was fun, and the teacups that she has collected for I don't know how long had the kitschy factor that everyone loved, and I will shut up now and show pictures!

So there is always a beginning right? I went to the flower market to pick up the flowers at 5am(which FYI is late, the best stuff available is between 2-3am) I hunted down some white peonies and yellow rununculas(which are out of season) and all the other funky, textured, garden-y type flowers I could find, keeping in mind what we had discussed and then putting it all together with what was available and fresh at the market.
Here they are sitting drinking water.

When I make my bouquets I separate my materials to make it easier to pick out. Call me crazy but I took a look at them and decided I rather liked the look of the clusters of the same flowers in blue vases. Plus the colors of the bride were various shades of blues, turquoise, aqua, green and yellow so they worked out great.



My sister came to keep me company and referred to these as my
Horton Hears a WHO flower! LOL! It's true!



Here are pictures of the BM's bouquets. She was pretty clear she wanted an unstructured-fresh-from-the-garden look.

The boutonnières

The two on the right are the groomsman and the right are the Lucky Groom's

The Corsages and Ring bearer Bouts.

Here are the left over materials and so I made arrangements to go in the lounge area. They went on several little tables that were sprinkled throughout the room.

Here is the Brides Bouquet that I absolutely loved. I really was eager to see if she liked them as much as I did and when she saw them she got this huge smile on her face
and I thought at that moment:
yeah, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I leave you with one last shot of the head table. I must sift through about 200 pictures, I just kept snapping away because everything was so gorgeous. So stay tuned..................

*These are all my pictures with permission from the bride to use on my blog, please credit KUGAB.blogspot if you use them, thanks!*