Bright Spring Wedding Flowers

These bright pinks and greens make me think of Ms. Piggy and Kermit :) For Tamara and Jacques wedding last weekend.  I was especially proud to use some lacy scented geranium leaf that I have been nurturing as a plant since last October.

Designs also include garden roses, jade dendrobium orchids, spray roses, green trick dianthus, green hydrangea parrot tulips umbrella fern, sweet peas, and ranunculus.

Photographed on my pallet coffee table (thanks dad) love the reclaimed wood look that heirloom adds to my photo shoots :)

I am going to be so sad in a few weeks with parrot tulip season is over our love affair has been so sweet.  I live for spring and fall the availability mid summer is surprisingly dull and since everything bolted this year the time table is way off.  For example Sorry mid May Brides lilacs will be ancient history.

Now Seating Table Number 5

Put together a new tablescape with the ladies of Suite 110 yesterday.  Composed of my grandmothers fine china (Thanks Grandma Jean!) some amazing napkins I sourced from Treasuremart   Gold rimmed juice glasses found at an estate sale in Grosse Pointe (my new stomping grounds).  We tucked sprigs of dried lavender into the napkin with the silverware (goldware in this case)

My favorite part of the whole design is the hardest to photograph.  Hanging above are branches and from the branches drum roll...............7 of the prettiest little air plants that I picked up at English Gardens.  The succulents are from Lowes garden center sorry floral wholesalers but Lowes has them for half the price.

Full confession, after a long winter without much designing I was afraid I wouldn't remember how.  Irrational fears sometimes get the best of me.  The cool part was that it created this nervous excitement like the day before your first high school dance, i couldn't sleep that well and I was waiting by the door for my floral delivery all day like a puppy dog.  Of course my hands remembered how it went thank God!

These two designs were a demo for a May wedding that will be at the Michigan League in Ann Arbor.  The charming bride to be Carmen has such perfect taste! Milk glass compotes filled with viburnum, mini green hydrangea, white anemone, ranunculus, jade dendrobium orchids, hybrid delphinium accented with maidenhair fern and jasmine vine.   The distressed white wood pillar holders are from Pier One .

Don't give in to irrational fears that you can't do something.  I forget this more often than I remember.   Every time I go salsa dancing I think that I will be so out of practice no one will want to dance but as soon as the music starts I prove myself wrong. Speaking of which if you care to dance you should try Sangria Sky Club on a Wednesday night.