Professionals Photos of Windows on the Water at Frogbridge

Click here for the link to the professionals pics....they are submitting them to several blogs and magazines....let's keep our fingers crossed!  

You'll see here that the bride and groom actually had two ceremonies...one was a Zorastrian ceremony...one of the oldest monothiestic religions in the world originating in was is modern day Iran.  And a Christian ceremony.  I didn't include the flowers for the Zorastrian ceremony on my blog...I just ran out of time and didn't get pictures of them.  I must admit though I outsourced on the garlands.  I can make simple ones, but the grooms mother wanted something a little fancier that I was capable of making.  She sent me a few pictures...and funny enough the place that the pictures were from is 10 minutes from my house...so I hired them...Vivek Flowers.  And now I will order all my garlands from them!

Windows on the Water at Frogbridge, Millstone NJ, May 25th

I did a wedding at this location back in October of 2012, and while I was working a bride and her family were checking out the venue...I gave her my card and that's how I ended up back at Windows on the Water.  This venue is beautiful and the staff there is professional and fantastic to work with.  

In fact when the venue revamped their website they included the wedding I designed the flowers for as one of the featured weddings of 2012...take a look!

Over the winter by husband and father renovated our basement...I finally have a proper work room!  And here it is in the midst of making the centerpieces.  

I want to eat these peonies....they look so delicious!

Boutonierres of Orange Spray Roses...

Bouquets ready for transport....

The bridesmaids carried bright bouquets of mint, orange spray roses, pink spray roses, juliet garden roses, yellow craspedia, orange freesia, and succulents.  

The Bride carried a bouquet of pink scabiosa flowers, garden roses, orange protea, succulents, orange freesia, coral pink peonies, pink hypericum berries.

There was debate about if we should make the centerpieces in square boxes or rectangular...I'm glad the final decision was the rectangular boxes...and they were perfect on the table runners that the bride provided...the table numbers were also a DIY endevor taken on by the bride.  She had the most amazing run of the day spreadsheet that she provided.  She plans events for a living, and it clearly showed in how relaxed she was on the day of the wedding and how smoothly everything went.  
Crazily enough there was an unfinished bridal gown she was to wear...it never got finished...the day of the wedding...day of...her bridesmaids ran to David's Bridal picked out 3 dresses...she tried them on about 3 hrs before the ceremony and made her choice.   And through all this...completely relaxed!  I loved it!

There were 4 different color peonies, each centerpiece focused on one color (yellow, coral, light pink, dark pink).....my favorite, the yellow. The blooms were huge!  The unifying elements in each were the mint, garden roses, succulents, and babies breath.

 Dark Pink Peonies...

Coral Pink Peonies...

 The Bridal party sat at a long rectangular table...with each of the different colored centerpieces.  The mason jars were for the bridal party to place their bouquets in when they sat down.

The Rosewood, Edison NJ, May 3rd

This event was a very special one....My mother-in-law celebrated her second wedding to a wonderful man.  It was a Match.com union and both families couldn't be happier for them.  They chose the Rosewood in Edison, NJ for the ceremony and reception.

My Mother-In-Law, not wanting to stress her pregnant daughter-in-law...yes, that would be me...right now I am counting the days with my due date fast approaching (July 3rd).  I have had several discussions with baby that she must, under all circumstances stay put until June 16th...since I have an event on the 15th!  Any way....my Mother-in-Law was just going to use the fake arrangements the site would provide, but I just couldn't allow it...especially when it was the start of peony season....her color was red....and we could use the most perfect red charm peonies.  Nothing too fancy, but something just enough.

The bride carried a bouquet of white spray roses, red and white tulips, red charm peonies, and black magic roses.

The bridesmaids carried a simple bouquet of red charm peonies...simple...but peonies are so amazing when in full bloom they can handle it on their own.

And the centerpieces mirrored the brides bouquet....

The Professional Photographers View, Glen Foerd Mansion.

I just posted my pictures of this wedding from April 28th, at the Glen Foerd Mansion in Philadelphia Pa.....here is a link to Simple Life Portraits and their pictures of the day.   ENJOY!

Glen Foerd Mansion, Philadelphia April 28th

I'm finally getting to posting the most recent weddings, starting with this one from April 28th at the Glen Foerd Mansion in Philadelphia.   This is such a beautiful spot on the Delaware River and usually I don't travel this far south for events, but of course I always make exceptions, and honestly would probably go anywhere!  

In this case the bride and I met at a bridal show in Central Jersey, where she is from, but she hadn't yet found quite the right reception space for her very creatively themed wedding.  It was a mix of Midsummer Nights Dream and Mardi Gras.  There were even masks for the guests to wear, which she originally wanted included in the centerpieces.  She ended up with the masks on the escort card table, it really looked festive.  Right off the bat her guests knew this was not going to be your ordinary run of the mill wedding.

If ever there was a DIY bride Irina was it.  She glued ribbon, that matched the table clothes she found, to each and every votive candle, wine bottles with table numbers and peacock feather, she had an abundance of little this and thats to be placed around the mansion...she was a very busy girl in the days leading up to the wedding and she was so committed to getting the right look for the day.  (I told her with her attention to detail she should become a wedding planner!) That's how she ended up at the Glen Foerd Mansion, as it was the only place that had the grounds to reflect the sprites and fairies of Midsummer Nights Dream, and the big ole historical mansion that could have been transplanted right out of the South, to lend to the Mardi Gras theme.  

The floral designs were no exception, and were created to look a bit ethereal a bit mardi gras.... 

The Bridesmaids carried a bouquet of blue hydrangea, purple allium, fiddle head ferns, and blue delphinium.  A nest of Spanish moss was wrapped around and meant to hang down from the bottom of the bouquet...think of the big southern trees dripping in Spanish moss.  

The Brides Bouquet was fun to make...Purple hydrangea, fiddle head ferns, bells of Ireland, Picasa calla lilies, kangaroo paw, green hypericum berries, and wildflowers....and you can't miss the peacock feathers!

The Boutonnieres....wildflowers, fiddle head fern, Picasa callas, peacock feather, and hypericum berries.  

The Mansion doesn't have space inside for a reception, although the cocktail hr is held there, so there is a very sturdy atrium type tent connected to the building.  The centerpieces were meant to be wild and connect to the gardens and views...although the day of the wedding was overcast, there is a very other worldly look to the pictures where you can see the foggy view.  

The shorter centerpieces had a lantern in the center of a floral wreath of flowers, babies breath, delphinium, red charm peonies, wildflowers, sweet peas, allium, and hypericum berries.  Our first versions of the centerpieces had roses and a much different array of flowers...to stay within budget, but the bride just couldn't part from her original vision...which didn't include a single rose, and so that's the course we took.  

The taller centerpieces were white cherry blossom with dark purple hydrangea at the bottom.  The bride found candle holders that swirled up around the centerpieces.  

 

 

More weddings to come!  

Until I get my latest Weddings posted.....

I was just checking on the address for this weekends wedding and was looking at the venue's website....how happy am I that when they re-vamped the site they featured a wedding I did there earlier this year.  

I really like this place..and not just because I'm on their site.  Their tented area is beautiful and the place is really run by good people, especially Scott...and although I don't know his official title, he's the one to talk to.

Here is a link to the wedding and the website...enjoy!

I'll have my latest event up next week!

    

Just for Fun...

And to show you how the same flowers can create very different arrangements.   A floral designer friend sent me some of the designers she likes to follow and it inspired me to create the arrangements below....these are the 'left over' flowers from the Great Gatsby photo shoot I posted about previously.  Same flowers...much different results!