This past week, I have had the great fortune to meet with several wonderful
new brides to be. It’s amazing how we start as strangers and within a short time come to know each other as ideas and inspirations are exchanged. I just finished writing a proposal
for a fabulous girl. When we met earlier this week, the first thing she told me was how excited she was to walk down the grassy aisle of her outdoor, Vermont style, wedding, barefoot.
A barefoot bride celebrating her wedding in June…I can feel the grass between my toes!
Why not an anklet of white freesia blooms? Flowers for the bride don’t always have to be
what is expected…. And what a great photograph to symbolize her unique style!

This particular girl went into great detail of describing her farmhouse style venue.
Let’s create a garland of bark wire and ivy to be swaged on the porch railing as a place card holder. She loves old style typewriter letter stamps. Bingo! With a little fun work
at home in front of a movie, I suggested that she create cool tags to be hung from the place card garland for each of her guests. In addition to blue and white garden flowers for her Mason jar centerpieces, we suggested using accents of vibernum berry.

With so many amazing resources for brides, personal touches become the
soul of the celebration. She wasn’t certain of how to present the guest favor of Jordan Almonds.
I suggested packaging them in square corrugated cardboard boxes. Using her love
of stamping…a single letter of the now new couple’s last name could be stamped on each box and placed at each guests seat. No one would forget that subtle detail!

Above is an example of a bride using a party favor
as a guest place card. Check out www.kramerdrive.com for amazing stationary ideas.

I wonder what color is she going to choose for her pedicure?

I am inspired by fashion and the color trends that come with each new season.

Every season the fashion industry publishes their “in style” colors, using the Pantone color system (download here).  Spring 2010 is titled splashes of sunshine. This seasons colors are uplifting and fun, calm and serene and bright and cheery.

Colors range from turquoise, to yellow to tomato red and some more neutral tones.

Some of my favorite spring colors this spring are pink champagne,
eucalyptus, dried herb and turquoise.

Event designers are fortunate to have incredible resources for linens that we can rent for our clients.  I love working with Claudia Himes from Special Occasions and Queen Street Linens. Her philosophy is ” the linen is the dress and the flowers the jewelry”.  makes sense..

The following are some of her linens that would bring my favorite
2010 Pantone colors onto our tabletops

{ images thanks to Special Occasions }

West 28th street is home to the new york flower market; wholesalers line the street and during the winter months, the sidewalks are landscaped with trees that today, were dusted with a new fallen snow;  trays of wheat grass and blooming bulbs are tucked under the awnings of the storefronts.

Inside the doors; i am instantly overwhelmed by the sites and smells; flowers from all over the world are stacked on the wire shelves.

Sweet peas are one of my most favorite wedding flowers and are especially wonderful in bouquets; they have great fragrance, texture and color.

I was so excited to see these sweetpeas; white, pale pink, dark pink, lavender and purple..

I was especialy taken by the wonderful variety of blue, green and purple flowers; the following images are close ups of some of my most favorite flowers; that combined would create a beautiful arrangement; sure to cure the winter blues!

purple anenome; so chic

green ranunculus with pink outer petals.. so beautiful

burgandy scabiosa

rasberrys on the branch from holland,
what great texture and so unexpected this time of year

steel blue vibernum berry

fiddle head ferns