Handmade Soap Wedding Favors in fuchsia and tangerine

Just wrapping up some custom soap favors for Karina and Joe's wedding.  At first when Karina sent me her wedding color inspiration I was nervous that the bold pinks and tangerines from the Martha Stewart Weddings Winter 2012 cover would not be a great fit with the natural neutrals of the soaps.

But I set off for Hollanders  looked at drooled on and fondled every paper in the store almost left when I spied this beautiful "Velvet floral" paper near the register.

Because it is textured I learned the hard way that the label wont hold it in place it must be hot glued around the soap (Imagine working for hours wrapping 100 bars of soap then waking up to find they have unwrapped themselves overnight) Oh well :) alls well that ends well. xo ~holly

P.S. you can purchase my completely custom soap favors in my Etsy Shop HERE

Happy 1st Birthday to the Gown Shop

Last night was the fancy first birthday party for The Gown Shop Bridal Boutique of Ann Arbor.  Sweet Pea was thrilled and delighted to design the below pink arrangements in mercury glass vases to add a special touch to the always beautiful Main Street loft that is The Gown Shop

Love those parrot tulips eek!

Succulents and anemone with cymbidium orchids and umbrella ferns

Check out the awesome loft windows that look out over Main Street 

This is my office below in the same building with The Gown Shop (yay!) Thanks to my dear Dad for the new window signage designating our space.  I am office mates with Calynn Berry Photography,  Petals Planning Co. and Custom Paper Works who are all responsible for the lovely table design.

You should smell these garden roses they are amazing!

Everlasting Arrangement in Aged Stone Urn Vase

The ladies at Studio 110 have been asking me for an everlasting arrangement and I finally found the time this week.  I'm pretty tickled with the results, as silks go this one looks pretty organic.  I'm also super psyched for the aged stone urn vases which I have added to my rental inventory for wedding centerpieces EKK!! Also added........ lots and lots of milk glass vases which I will photograph someday soon. ~Pea 

Great flower photos by Calynn Berry Photography

Yesterday Calynn of Calynn Berry Photography gifted me a disk with these photos of our flowers Yay!  Nikki's Bouquet included White anemone, purple lisianthus, purple dendrobium orchids, purple ranunculus, purple ball dahlia, seeded eucalyptus and smoke bush.  Johns boutonniere was an orchid, a ranunculus and seeded eucalyptus wrapped with black grosgrain ribbon. Ta Da!

Oh Summer

Look how sunny it was for Elizabeth and Kellison's wedding, if only it was that sunny right now hrumpf

I was so surprised and delighted when Elizabeth, a former co worker from the flower shop at Plum Market, contacted me to design for her wedding.  The event was spectacular by design (thanks to Courtney McDonald of Petals Planning Co)

Love Love Love these amazing photographs by Alli Mcwhinney Photography

The wedding and reception were both at the Ann Arbor Polo Fields, just look how much natural sunlight pours in those windows!

Elizabeth looked so beautiful with perfect hair adorned with a single dendro orchid. Her bouquet included viburnum berry, white freesia, green trick dianthus, purple hydrangea, and ranunculus.

Misty Farms Herb Bouquet . Congrats Audrey and Paul!

It was such a delight to put Audrey's herb bouquet together featuring white Anemone with black centers, Mint, lavender, nigella, ranunculus, stock, and privet berries in a base of antique green hydrangea.  The mint and lavender and stock made this design smell so sweet, yum.

after wrapping the stems we created lush ribbon loops in several widths for added elegance.  If I could go back in time to my own wedding I would totally carry this!

 Hops Boutonnieres Y'all!! So super fun to make and double fun because it was a great excuse to visit my favorite pub The Corner Brewery in Ypsi the home of my heart (Ypsi not the pub)

Of course the wedding was at Misty Farms (where Justin and I were married too see our wedding blog post here!!) look how gorgeous this preview photo is from Nicole Hayley Photography 
Everything about this wedding just melts me probably because it was planned by my girl Courtney of Petals Planning Company.  Courtney has such an eye for detail and refined sense of design, love her!

For Brittany and Rick's Weller's Carriage House wedding in Saline Michigan :
A silver Grecian urn vase filled with coral, yellow, pink, and ivory flowers
and a 24" tall 8" diameter glass cylinder vase with yellow chrysanthemum pomander hanging from crystal strands and topped with a similar mix of ranunculus, garden roses, zinnia, craspedia, seeded eucalyptus and anemone.

 

I love the rustic feel of the wood walls inside the carriage house at Weller's and they were a perfect fit with the moss table runners and river rocks.  

 

I loved the playfulness of the yellow pomander and the chrysanthemums smelled amazing

Brittany's bouquet was a summery elegant coral design featuring coral zinnia and ranunculus with yellow craspedia, pink anemone and hydrangea, and ivory garden roses.  I took a separate photo of just the coral ranunculus before designing the bouquet because they were so juicy :)

The couple were married under a 10 ft. garland composed of yellow roses.  Two 36" tall black urns were filled with white hydrangea at the back of the aisle.  Just love the long walk under the fall leaves between the carriage house and the pergola.

 

Cocktail tables featured these sweet little moss cylinders filled with yellow ranunculus, and craspedia.  So honored to be part of Brittany and Rick's big day!! ~Sweet Pea