Brittany and Jody

Had a wedding at the King's Daughter's Inn in Durham this weekend. The inn is a beautiful bed and breakfast that was built in 1925 as a home for ladies. A few years ago it was renovated into a gorgeous bed and breakfast. The bride wanted flowers in varying shades of dark purple. The bride's bouquet was made of white roses, purple caspia, purple stock, matsumoto asters, thistle, and trachelium.

She wanted to acknowledge fall but didn't want a wedding screaming halloween so I used branches, thistle, asters, and white pumpkins. Below is a picture of one of the white pumpkin aisle markers. It is resting on a bed of moss.

There were two large arrangements on the back tables. They were placed in lavender ewers that the bride owned. The flowers were fuji mums, purple liatris, roses, caspia, thistle, white statice, and trachelium. 

Each table also had a small bouquet of rose, ruscus, thistle, caspia, lisanthus, and matsumoto asters. 

The front of the ceremony was marked by two tables with a candlescape. I used different sizes of glass cylinders holding candles, candles with pecans, and water dyed purple. I also had a central large cylinder with dyed water and curly willow branches. Hopefully, I will have some pictures from evening ceremony soon.

UPDATE: I was able to get some photos from the photographer Adam Wamsley. He did a much better job than I did of capturing the beautiful colors.

So happy for them! So happy everything turned out so well. Still loving the purple water!

Bethany and George: The Ceremony

I was honored to be the floral designer for Bethany and George's wedding this past June. The colors were orange and purple. The bride wanted the orange asiatic lilly to be the main flower. It was a vibrant summer wedding!

The bride's bouquet with asiatic lilies, hypericum berries,
white and pink roses, ruscus and merlot button mums.
The bridesmaids' dresses were the same deep purple.

The happy groom with his calla lily and ruscus boutonniere. 

The color of the calla echoed the purple and orange tones 

of the bridal party.

I created two large arrangements in urns for 

the church. They featured asiatic lillies, baker 

fern, white roses, deep purple and white 

hydrangea.

I love using ferns in summer weddings. It makes everything
so lush and alive.

Another shot of one of the urns.

Below are a few of the arrangements I've done for church over the past year and a half (at least the ones I remembered to take photos of.)

One of two identical arrangements I created for church last fall.

For Christmas, I created a cascade of poinsettias and
magnolia branches on either side of the steps.

Also for Christmas I placed white amaryllis in

large bulb-shaped with sparkling red berries and 

willow branches.

I was able to get this picture from a friend.  For Easter I created two vases filled with white lilies, purple bearded iris, eucalyptus, bridal wreath spirea and red knockout roses all in the large bulb vases. All but the lilies, came from the yard.