wedding flower donation

I wouldn't normally post photos of centerpieces after the wedding, but... these had so much good life left in them and so much joy left to share!  It was so generous of Emily and Aniket to donate their wedding flowers and Arbor Hospice was so thrilled to receive these!  It's one of my favorite places to go on the Monday after a wedding weekend, they have flower volunteers, and I can bring them any left over flowers or in this case whole arrangements!, and they share the flowers around.  Thank you all - so happy to be a part of sharing this joy around!  

The day after the wedding, these centerpieces still were lovely!

Car FULL of flowers to donate to Arbor Hospice!

Intimate and sweet downtown ann arbor wedding

This was such a lovely intimate, cozy, warm, sophisticated celebration in downtown Ann Arbor - so loved getting to be a part of this!  Vinology was a perfect spot - it felt so cozy and a special place to celebrate with  friends and family!  I loved getting to create the arch design for the ceremony with curly willow branches and white orchids - adding a touch of nature and designating the ceremony space.  And it was my first time to visit the new Residence Inn Downtown Ann Arbor  - such a lovely spot to get ready for an Ann Arbor wedding, and perfect for guests to be able to walk to downtown activities!  So many great images from The Billings - thank you so much, beaming bride and groom so beautifully captured!  

For Jenn's bouquet, we used amnesia, little silver, earl grey, and pink O'Hara garden roses, together with white freesia, white majolica spray roses, seeded eucalyptus and mini pittosporum foliages.

President's house flowers

It is such a privilege to create flowers for the UM President's House.  Living in Ann Arbor, my husband and I always explain to friends and family how this place seems so special because it has the ease of a small town but a disproportionate amount of neat things going on - art, culture, sport - amazing people from around the world thinking and doing amazing things - it's really quite special.  And I love getting to feel like I'm a part of those special things going on in Ann Arbor when I get to bring flowers for events at the President's House.  Here are just a few recent favorites!  

This bouquet of parrot tulips and orchids was for the dinner guest of honor.

This dinner centerpiece featured burgundy, gold, yellow and deep purple.

Cornman Farms Winter wedding

Zingerman's Cornman Farms is a treat anytime of year.  This was my first time arriving for a winter wedding, and it was just magical.  It was a clear, chilly, January day with blue skies and fresh snow, and it just felt so cozy everywhere.   The smell of fresh coffee and pastries wafted through the main house where everyone was getting ready.  The fireplace was being prepared for the reception in the barn.  As we were setting up I just kept thinking how perfect this seems - there was no where else in the world I would want to be - a perfect cozy January day.  I felt really charmed by the idea of a January wedding all of a sudden, and I think with these gorgeous photos by Curtis Wicklund, you will too!  Congratulations and thank you Mathangi and Charlie for letting me be a part of your very special day - I truly enjoyed every minute of it!  

 

Baby shower flowers

Some sweet baby shower flowers this past weekend to welcome a very special baby boy this summer!  Can't wait to meet Baby G!  

January City club wedding

This wedding made me love January weddings.  Everything about this was lovely and romantic, and it just felt so special to have family and friends gathering on a chilly snowy day in January. The first thing bride Hillary told me about her wedding style "it's very Rifle Paper Co.!"  And that totally clicked for the flower style for me.  She sent me an image of her gorgeous floral stationery (love these invitations so much!) and we put together a recipe of burgundy, pink, peach, ivory garden roses with lovely pink pepperberries and seeded and silver dollar eucalyptus foliages.

For the centerpieces, Hillary suggested all eucalyptus in gold compotes - and I just so loved how this came together.  We added a eucalyptus table runner with gold votive candle accents down the head table, and it all looked so warm and colorful.   The Ann Arbor City Club was lovely and cozy for getting ready and so convenient for the ceremony at First Presbyterian Church, and then back to the City Club for the reception.  It was all so lovely.

Thank you so much to Laurie Wilson Photography for these beautiful images!  I really did love these so much I could not be more excited about them.

Most of all, congratulations to Hillary and Craig, and thank you so much for entrusting me with these flowers for your wedding.  I truly loved it - I had really been looking forward to this wedding!  Hillary - you have such fabulous design ideas, I just hope I was able to keep up and create pieces you loved!  I loved creating them!

Zinnias and peppers!

Throwback to when these were all in season, and we created these bright and colorful arrangements for a joy-filled wedding shower.  I loved creating these arrangements with local zinnias of so many colors, sunflowers, mini ornamental peppers on the vine, and a host of local foliages.  It is so wonderful to be able to work with fantastic local farmers to get beautiful blooms like these!

Whitney & Jake: Autumn at Zingerman's Cornman Farm

There is so much to love about this sweet autumn wedding, and the first thing I can think of as I sit to write about it is how grateful I am to Whitney and Jake that I got to be a part of it.  I just genuinely enjoyed every part of talking with Whitney, planning the flowers, receiving their lovely stationery in the mail that Jake made himself, arriving at Zingerman's Cornman Farms in Dexter and seeing how much fun this wedding party was having getting ready.  It was all such a treat, and then after I saw a few teaser photos from First Comes Love Photo, featuring some adorable goats, I could not wait to see Alison's photos, and they are seriously amazing.  I am so, so grateful to her for sharing these, and so thrilled for Whitney and Jake to have such a lovely capture of their day.  For more of the details and story, visit First Comes Love Photo's blog - thank you, Alison!  Warmest congratulations and thanks to Whitney and Jake!  

Whitney's bouquet was a bit natural, a bit romantic, a bit autumnal... lots of lovely textures and foliages and blooms in blush, raspberry, cranberry, and ivory.

Whitney's bouquet featured peach juliet garden roses, burgundy dahlia, hot majolica spray roses, seeded eucalyptus, blue viburnum berries, and a mix of textured foliages

Groom and groomsmen's boutonniere's featured ranunculus, majolica roses, and dahlia with foliage and berry accents

Petite bouquets decorated the aisles on the intimate round seating for the ceremony in front of the lovely white house at cornman farms.

And there were goats!!

Centerpieces for the guest tables featured compotes in a white marble design and a clear glass design, filled with blush, pink, burgundy and ivory blooms with textured foliages and berries.

The head table had a foliage garland down the center, with vases to add the bridal party's bouquets for a pop of color.

Intimate Matthaei Botanical Garden Wedding

When I was emailing with Carrie about her bridal bouquet, I mentioned using seeded eucalyptus, and she said "That sounds great!  I work with eucalyptus trees!"  How neat is that?! Carrie was planning her winter Ann Arbor wedding from Australia, and I was so pleased to get to create this natural, textural bouquet for her.  And I was even more excited to receive these lovely photos from Nicole Haley Photography, who captured this lovely, intimate, joyful celebration so naturally.  Nicole captured such beautiful images at the wedding ceremony at Matthaei Botanical Garden, and I love the really lovely modern spots she found on the grounds there.  And I love that with an intimate group, they were able to have their reception seated at one long table at Aventura downtown - sounds like a fantastic evening out!

Carrie's bouquet featured lots of textured foliages - seeded eucalyptus and bay leaf as well as green mini cymbidium orchids, blush majolica spray roses, pink protea (from Australia!) and fern curls.  Congratulations!

Cozy Ann Arbor winter wedding

Nothing like a little (or a lot!) of spontaneous snow to make for a memorable celebration and some really gorgeous and fun wedding photos!  Alexa and Ryan were married in November, on that one day where it poured snow.  Rather surprising!  And they clearly had so much fun wading out into the snow for some amazing (and brave!) images with Melanie Reyes.   The reception at Zingerman's Events on Fourth looks like the perfect cozy spot to hunker down in the storm with your friends and family - what a lovely and memorable way to celebrate. Alexa's bouquet featured blush quicksand and ivory roses, white O'Hara garden roses, burgundy dahlias, dusty miller and silver dollar eucalyptus foliages, silver brunia berries and blue denatum berries.  The lush foliage garlands on the long rectangular tables at Zingerman's added just a splash of color - sophisticated, and a little something special!

Congratulations Alexa and Ryan and thank you Melanie for these beautiful images!