i love the geometry and the details in this collection by erik gutter via artiflor. reason enough to tear some attention away from the flowers and shower it on the vessels that hold them. click through and browse some more, there are some beautifully understated and utilitarian pieces waiting for you.
i can’t decide if it’s really awesome or really frustrating that i just found these on the data card this morning. i’d totally forgotten about them, and could have blogged them before. oh well. i bet this won’t be the last time you get pics from this wedding~
all of this ado with pictures, and still i have no great shot of the way the color of the table arrangements faded down the length of it. the bride brought over boxes full of all this lovely milk glass for her one long table. once i figured out which vessels would get used there, it was time to number everything. the center arrangement was the deepest coral shade, numbered 0. everything else was labeled from the origin, 1 and -1 had the same ingredients, 2 and -2, and so on. flower friends, if a couple ever wants ombre flowers…do this. so helpful. i stuck the number tags in the arrangements on cardettes when everything was done and it made set up a snap too.
these guys are actually not part of the great table fade, used as accents around the amazing reception site. the top piece was placed right at the entrance, a little introduction to what was to come. i love those tulips winging out the side.
if you’re like me and you can’t get enough of this wedding, anne’s posted some pretty spectacular pictures on her facebook page, which you should of course like while you’re there.
oh i wish i had a fancier camera on hand for these. but you just don’t take a $$$ camera with you into the desert in the middle of nowhere while you’re camping at a rock concert. especially a camera that isn’t technically yours.
we trekked up to the gorge amphitheater for soundgarden and queens of the stone age over the weekend. the columbia river gorge is pretty famous for its high winds, so it makes sense to have fields of windmills “harvesting” it for power. it’s hard to judge their size from 70mph, but i feel like at the base, they’re probably as wide as my car is long. at least. i wanted to so bad to pull over and see one up close, but there were fences and barbed wire and i am a sissy-la-la rule follower by nature. the windmills are massive, beautiful, and a little haunting, in a the-future-is-now sort of way. i’d love to know how they decide where to plunk them down, since they seem to be scattered haphazardly across the ridges. i like this better than the neat rows that i always expected.
the concert was incredible. you know it’s good when your neck is still sore–days later–from whipping your hair around and generally rocking out. listen to queens of the stone age. see them live. i dare you to tell me that josh homme is not destined to be another legendary rockstar sex icon. seriously, it’s in the hips…
back to flowers tomorrow. :)
i was going to blog about lilies today, and what a pain in the patella it is to get them to open *just so* so you can use them. meh, later.
instead, you get mario and peach. maybe you already know that i’m a hopeless nerd. so when i saw this super mario wedding inspiration feature on green wedding shoes (late, it looks like it first went up last friday when i was up to neck in flowers), i squeed and had to share it.
omigoshthefloristusedwaterpicksforthepipes!!!
ahem. anyway.
the shoot was planned and styled by samantha santana of primary petals, whom i now have a serious crush on. please head over to green wedding shoes or her site and ogle the rest of the photos by lehua noelle. maybe we can all team up and do zelda together next. or metroid. that’d be rad. in the meantime, if you hear somebody whistling the mario theme today, that’d be me.
over the weekend, i had the pleasure of designing flowers for the most stylish wedding i’ve ever worked or been to. seriously, every detail was thoughtfully and beautifully planned out. perfect example: the napkins were custom screen printed by the bride’s sister, who just happens to be one of the creative forces behind poppy & moe. brianna came to me with a love of the most fluffy flowers and a palette that faded from one color to the next, so the rest was easy: ombre flowers in a gradient of coral, peach, and ivory.
as usual, there was no time for snapping photos during set up, but this time i was lucky enough to be able to come back and enjoy brianna and doug’s celebration as a guest.
the cake was created by carla of honey crumb cake studio, and it was every bit as delicious as it was gorgeous. washington couples, you lucky lovers, she’s taking her business your direction at the end of the summer. we tag-teamed this glorious cascade of flowers; i snipped, she stuck. *high-five*
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what a whirlwind. new (to me) cooler, deftly driven across town in the best pick ‘em up truck on the road. phew. another wedding down, gone by in a complete blur. onward and upward, this weekend’s event is going to be a serious show stopper.
there’s no way to do this without the incredible support of the best friends anybody could ask for. to oly, andy, tim, chelsea, jeannette, elisa, yia yia, jayme, anne, suzanne, carla, and laura, thank you for all your help and for believing in me. for mom, there’s no way i could do this without you. and most of all, thanks to robbie, for putting up with piles of flower boxes, learning what hydrangeas and orchids are, and for always saying “i don’t see why it wouldn’t work.” i love you.p.s. oddly enough, i started this blog just over a year ago, with a similar topic. i didn’t mean to repeat it, i swear. i guess this makes it a tradition now. (ask me about yokel easter some time).
please excuse my blogging absence. once again, here i am, making it up to you with peonies. i suspect that if i offered peonies by way of apology every time, you lot would have me slacking off more often. there’s more fluffy goodness over on facebook, hint hint.
the holiday weekend was wonderful, a big gulp of air before i dive in to the next few weeks. every weekend has some event or another attached to it from here til labor day; weddings, concerts, remodeling, vacations, festivals. whew.
vases are here, and so is my new (to me) cooler. i’ll tell you all about the cooler next week, once i get the camera/data card/photos back so i can upload them.
go get out there and get some sunshine!
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| clockwise from top right: sweetapolita, ann taylor, elements in bloom, sylviahelen, the knot, the disaster that is tumblr. inset: succulent favors/escort cards by kelly via the knotty bride |
it’s been a little while since i shared an inspiration board, hasn’t it? i actually put this board and another one together for an upcoming wedding. the other board won out, but miss bride said something along the lines lines of “anastasia, you jerk, now i have to drop everything and go on a quest for lemon bars!” (forgive my paraphrasing if you’re reading this, jenn).
if this inspires you to make a batch of lemon bars, i know two women who would certainly help you eat them. if it inspires you to design a wedding, that’s cool too.
