Summer seems a long way away now!  These images make me so look forward to sunny days, green grass, and summer blooms!  I loved creating this combination of purples with soft peaches to add depth and texture to the arrangements.  It was a beautiful wedding on a beautiful day at Stonebridge Golf Club.

The bride's bouquet featured peach juliet garden roses, purple dendrobium orchids, purple coolwater roses, purple lisianthus and accents of seeded eucalyptus.

Vases of purple mokara orchids added a bright pop of color to the tables combined with the bride's beautiful hand-made watercolor prints

  This was one fun couple!  A wedding in December at Cobblestone Farm on the Mayan Apocalypse - and we put together bright, but still winter-seasonal flowers to add a pop of color.  These beautiful images were captured by Jana Benjamin.

These bright bouquets included burgundy peonies,red roses, yellow craspedia, purple mathiola,blue eryngium, and orange mokara orchids, blue hydrangeas and succulents for the bride.

 

It was such a pleasure doing the flowers for this California couple's autumn wedding at Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor.  What a beautiful group!  The bride's bouquet featured soft white hydrangea and garden roses, light blue delphinium, dark blue eryngium, green hypericum berries and succulents.  For the bridesmaids, we added a little extra color with fuchsia snapdragons and purple veronica. This couple celebrated their ceremony in Grosse Pointe, had an amazing photo session in Downtown Detroit with Argyle Photography, and then the reception in Ann Arbor - it was a great way to get out and enjoy a gorgeous November day in southeast Michigan!  

This was a whirlwind floral design!  Bride R was not really a flower person, so she had had not been planning on any flowers for her sumptuous wedding and reception at the Henry Ford museum.  But at the last minute she changed her mind and came to me one week before her wedding in search of a luxurious, cascading floral design to highlight the front of the sweetheart table.  R wanted bold orange orchids (the groom's favorite color!), and we also chose peach garden roses and white hydrangea and orchids to soften the overall look.  How cool to have the reception under a vintage airplane - awesome!  

This was a first for me - I entered a floral design contest held by Mayesh - my main wholesale flower provider.  It's a little intimidating - designing for other florists - but also really neat to see how everyone takes the same box of flowers and does something very different with them!  This year's theme was 'everyday' floral design, so I wanted to use a container from around my house.  I grabbed the purple footed glass candy dish (from ikea) right off my dining table and - voila!  It was neat to use different materials than I usually choose - I really liked how the antique hydrangeas and the kale created a nice casual spin on the compote-style dish.  As I write this, you can view the winners from each Mayesh region and vote on the national winner here.

A few quick snapshots of the floral crown and cute bouts from this winter wedding at Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor.  I love to let my inner 6-year-old create the flower crown I would have loved at that age!

Boutonnieres featured yellow craspedia, red spray roses, silver brunia, seeded eucalyptus foliage, and blue eryngium.  Love this mix of colors with a pop of silver for a winter wedding!

It was such a pleasure to work with Aisha at Dooby Design Group on the flowers for this modern, elegant wedding at the Rattlesnake Club in Detroit.  Aisha has so many great ideas and a fresh, modern approach to styling.  The flowers feature an all-ivory bouquet for the bride with garden roses and astilbe and bright, textured bouquets for the bridesmaids with huge, locally-sourced raspberry pink peonies, purple dahlias, blue eryngium and purple waxflower.  I loved how the mix of fluffy peonies and striking textured elements popped with the teal bridesmaids dresses.  What a stunning bridal party!  All captured so elegantly by Jean Smith Photography.

Happy Holidays everyone!  It's been a great busy time of holiday and wedding arrangements, and I whipped up these eclectic arrangements with the left-over flowers.  Off to find a nursing home where I hope these will make someone's day!   What a pleasure this is - thank you all for your support this year, and all the best to you and your families this holiday season!

It was such a pleasure to work with Giselle and John on the flowers for their reception at the beautiful University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in Ann Arbor.  It was even more fun when my husband peeked at the order and said "Hey, I know him - he was one of my professors in grad school!"  It's nice to be part of a small world! Thank you, Nicole Haley Photography for these gorgeous images!  

In these centerpieces:  white hydrangea, peach juliet garden roses, white eskimo roses and ivory spray roses

Sweet garden rose and spray rose accent to the lovely cake by Moveable Feast

We have two great holiday-themed classes with Bloom Florist Collective!  Join us TONIGHT making pomanders at Downtown Home & Garden ($15 advance registration; $20 walk-up), and on Tuesday, Dec. 4, I'll be teaching a wreath and bow making class.  See Bloom's website for more information and to register.  Looking forward to seeing you there!