Amy Parson's Photography

The last three weddings that we have done recently, Amy Parson's has been the photographer. I've enjoyed getting to know her a little bit more each time I see her at yet another wedding. She has been very generous with sharing her pictures that you see on my website. Her artistic eye and knowledge of how to get that perfect shot is evident in her portfolio. Go to her blog to see pictures from Josh & Kaylee's wedding, Matt & Megan's wedding & Robert & Michelle's wedding. Her pictures show off the flowers better than anything I can post on this blog.

Amy Parsons Photography (website)
Amy Parsons (blog)

Robert & Michelle

Michelle was a classmate of mine from High School & it was fun to catch up again with her. She has such a fun & bubbly personality, I think it reflected in her flowers. Her flowes...OOOH her flowers! First of all she chose a favorite color combination of mine. Second, she let me use one of my favorite flowers! Hot pink gloriosa lillies! They made the bouquets look so rich & elegant.

Catching Up!

I've been so busy nesting at home, I have not spent any time updating my blog. I've forgotton to take my camera several times to recent weddings I have done the floral designs for, but I did manage to remember to take a few pictures at the most recent ones.

Matt & Megan's wedding was a beautiful sunny day & had bright and cheerful flowers. High expectations from the Bride kept me on my toes, making sure every detail was perfect. I was happy with the end result, & thrilled when she said it was exactly what she had pictured!

These wood boxes built by the Bride's brother-in-law were one of my favorite details from Matt & Megan's wedding. (And the simplest detail!) The boxes were planted with grass ahead of time. I added the Gerber Daisies & put them in the windows at the church. After the ceremony, the boxes were re-used to decorate the stage at the reception where the head table was at.

I included this picture because this is a simple, easy & inexpensive way to add color down your ailse without spending a fortune! Can be done with almost any flower, gerber daisies just happended to be Megan's theme flower.

I stole this picture of the flower girl's pomander from Amy Parson's Blog. I hope that's OK Amy! It by far was much cuter than any picture I took that day. To see some more amazing pictures from Matt & Megan's wedding look at Amy Parson Photography's blog: http://amyparsons.wordpress.com/

Landscape with some modern elelements

Some people don't know I design residential landscapes for people in my local area. I really enjoy working with homeowners & hopefully my passion for plants rubs off on some of them! Recently I've scaled back a lot on my landscape work with wedding business expanding, as well as my family. (Currently I am watching my belly expand!)

This week I finished up a landscape plan that was so much fun to create for a couple in Lynden. They wanted touches of some modern elements in their landscape plan. We did this through plant selections, hydrapressed slab pavers & gravels. They will be installing the landscape themselves, so I look forward to driving by their home & seeing things progress! Here is their landscape plan.

Hope of Spring

The wedding that we set up today was such a cheerful wedding. The bride chose daffodils, an early spring flower as one of her main flowers. I'm sure all of their guests from the local area will have spring fever for the next week as we have still not seen spring....and it's March! Enjoy these pictures & if you're planning a wedding of your own, maybe you'll get some ideas.

Congratulations Kevin & Kayla! I really enjoyed designing your flowers & working with you.

Kissing Ball

Arrangements for the windows at the church. The bride's parents built them and grew the grass in them for the Bride & Groom. Tiny detail...notice the initials branded into the side of the container!

Reception at Lynden Fairgrounds Rotary Building

I love how the mantle turned out. Most people want candles and greenery on the mantle, so it was fun to do something a little bit different.

Closeup of the pomanders on the mantle.

They had lots of guests, so we broke up the mass of tables by doing a couple different centerpieces.

Simple, but very cute!

Dave & Shannon

My cousin Dave & his beautiful wife Shannon got married this weekend. They lucked out and had great weather for their wedding & pictures. Shannon chose a classic color theme...white, black & red. You can never go wrong with these great colors.

Bride's Bouquet

Bridesmaids wore black dresses and carried a bouquet of white roses.
All white flowers on some of my black metal rental items. A white runner blanketed with real red rose petals completed the look for the ceremony. Candles in the windows also added to the romantic & elegant theme.
A close up of the unity candles.

Tracy's Elegant Wedding

Photo by Clinton James Photography

This Picture shows my large cylinder vases which are available as a rental item.

The following pictures of Tracy's wedding were emailed to me from her sister Shara (see next post). Tracy chose elegant white & ivory flowers for her wedding with lots of crystal accents. Both Tracy & Shara are lucky to have a florist in their family! Their Aunt Sharron was also involved in Tracy's wedding. Sharron did all of Tracy's personal flowers along with taking care of the reception floral designs.

Tracy's Aunt Sharron did the floral design in this table candelabra. Tracy rented the table candelabras & the crystals hanging from them, from me. To see other items available to rent from The Backyard Gardener, click here.

To see some professional pictures from this wedding, view the below video of pictures taken by Clinton James Photography.