6/5/2010 Ryan & Gretchen

I've been getting some beautiful images lately from photographers as I am working on updating my website with new photos. I am always appreciative of many photographers generosity!

Gretchen & Ryan's wedding was located at Evergreen Gardens last June. The type of flowers & greenery chosen for their flowers added to the garden feel they wanted for their wedding. They grew lots of herbs that we used for some of the centerpieces & placed in random locations. It turned out to be such a fun wedding to work on.

These beautiful images were taken by the bride & grooms relative! All images courtesy of Timothy at luskSHOT Photography. Thanks Timothy!

"What a pleasure to have you arrange our flowers on our special day! Everything looked wonderful - from the ceremony jars to my bouquet. We received countless comments on how beautiful the flowers were. Thank you for all your hard work!"

Gretchen & Ryan

8/22/10 Dan & Leea

A few more images to share with you from Dan & Leea's wedding. An article was recently published about their wedding in Northsound Couture Magazine. These are beautiful images of their wedding courtesy of Stephanie Stremler Photography.

Leea was a lot of fun to work with and has such a sweet & genuine personality. She has a huge love for flowers & from the get go she had a clear vision of how she wanted her wedding flowers. I enjoyed working with her to achieve her vision. She recently sent me a thank you card.

"Kim, Thank you so much for all your hard work with the flowers. They were absolutely beautiful!

I will recommend you every chance I get, your work is truely amazing!

Thank you for all your help."

What a cute idea to shoot rose petals in the air with rose cannons!

Beautiful cake by Mechealle's Cakes. This picture was one of the two covers of the current issue of Northsound Couture Magazine.

9/26/10 Katherine & Jonathan

Another early fall wedding at Lairmont Manor. The bright apricot colored flowers looked beautiful on the grounds & really "popped", despite the clouds & drizzly rain. Katherine & Jonathan's color scheme consisted of brown, apricot, white & accents of bright green.

Professional pictures provided by Martin, a local photographer. Look for more of his work on his website: Photos by Martin.

White mini calla lilies, green mini cymbidium orchids, apricot colored dahlias &roses. A touch of seeded eucalyptus & sage added the blueish green foliage for Katherine's bridal bouquet.

Single white mini calla lilly, light pink/peach spray roses, green hypericum berry & a touch of fragrant rosemary for greenery.

Don't these bouquets look great with the chocolate brown dresses! I love this photograph too!! Bridesmaids carried a smaller version of the bride's bouquet only with white hydrangea instead of the mini calla lilies.

All of the dahlias for this wedding I picked at a local dahlia farm just a mile from my shop. I always enjoy trucking around the 5 acres to find the perfect dahlia variety to use. For Katherine's aisle, I made small clusters of bright apricot dahlias, green hypericum berry & seeded eucalyptus. I then attached them to a few of the chairs down the aisle. Above & below pictures are a work in progress. The final product had brown ribbon trailing down to cover my mechanics of the bouquets & to bring in the brown accent color into the ceremony flowers.

If you look closely you can see how wet the chairs were...hence the bad hair :)

9/25/10 Serena & Taylor

Fall is my favorite season here in the Pacific Northwest which is probably why I love fall weddings! This small wedding at Lairmont Manor included all the rich fall colors. Red, burgundy, oranges, purple...OH, I can't wait to start meeting soon with some of my Fall 2011 brides! For Serena & Taylor's wedding dahlias, roses, & hydrangeas were the main flowers. There were touches of fall nandina foliage, mini cymbidium orchids & fern curls as well.

These beautiful photographs are from Kristen Honeycutt Photographer. They are amazing photos. Thanks Kristen!

The aisle in the courtyard at Lairmont Manor consisted of small clusters of dahlias & a light touch of red rose petals.

Calla lilies, dahlias, roses, mini cymbidium orchids, fern curls, aranda orchids and a touch of pittosporum greenry made up Serena's fall bridal bouquet.

Northsound Couture Weddings

I am thankful Stephanie from Stephanie Stremler Photography submitted photos from Dan & Leeah's wedding last summer to Northsound Couture Weddings magazine. I am excited to finally see them published & in print! I am very happy to see so many of the florals displayed on the pages. You can read the article online http://www.coutureweddingsmag.com/nsbandg_rw.html#

I also noticed in the magazine that Leeah's bouquet was pictured on the same page as a Vera Wang gown & Nordstrom items.

One add by Homestead Golf & Country Club also included a bride from last summer as well! Look at the add on the bottom.

2010 was a great year & I'm looking forward to my 2011 weddings!

Classic Look

Although this wedding was last summer, I never did get around to posting the professional pictures on this blog. The amazing photographs are from Ean Perkins Photography located in Oregon. In the ten years I have been running my own floral design business, red floral arrangements & white floral arrangements NEVER go out of style. Truly a classic look. I had so many fun weddings in 2010, this was one of them!