Lori's Bridal Shower

Yesterday, I helped a friend throw a bridal shower for one of our friends. She's getting married in April on the beach. She's a casual, fun girl so we had a casual fun shower with a nod to the beach. Her colors are malibu blue and yellow. Instead of flowers, I used wheat in sand-filled cylinders to mimic the sea oats that grow on the dunes of our beaches.

Kiera, (who also threw the shower) got this great idea from pinterest. I love the heart idea and the fact that these veggies with ranch are served in glass tea light holders. It's a great way to reuse something you already have instead of finding storage for tea light holders, then buying tasting dishes and trying to find storage for those as well.

I used another wheat sand cylinder at the beverage station and a teal beverage tub for ice. We wanted a fun casual, beachy theme without beating the beach theme to death.

Here are the design elements before I took them to the shower.

This is my favorite one because of the beautiful sand dollar. My brother brought it back from Hilton Head

It was so much fun! I can't wait for the wedding!

February Flowers

I made two arrangements today. One for church and one for the foyer. I decided to simply make one large arrangement for church instead of two on the side as I had for January. I used branches that looked like Spring. The palette was pink, yellow and cream.

For the foyer arrangement, I used deeper colors. The dining room is to the left and is currently a deep sage. It will probably soon become navy so I wanted to go with deep red and creamy white.  The flash washes the colors out, but the colors look great in the foyer.