Bold and Bright

Another special wedding for us at the French Estate in Orange. This is the location where I had my wedding reception 7 years ago, and my Dad just got remarried at the same place, only a day before my anniversary! This is his wedding.

The bride carried a lush bouquet of green and white hydrangea, mini mango calla lilies, orange roses and tulips, white freesia, yellow billy balls, orange and yellow ranunculus, and lime green hypericum berries.

The groom wore a simple mini mango calla lilly boutonniere with a detail of bear grass.


The toss bouquet was a smaller version of the bride's bouquet.

This is probably one of my favorite bridesmaid bouquets. It has mini mango calla lilies, amazing multi-hued orange roses, yellow billy balls, kermit chrysanthemums, and ranunculus. Around the edges are large loops of lemon grass.

Fun corsage with a rose, billy balls and bear grass.


The beautiful three-tiered cake made quite an impression with such bold, bright colors. Each tier got it's own dressing of tulips, roses, ranunculus, and billy balls.

Chocolate or Vanilla?

Can't decide between chocolate and vanilla - choose both! A petite bridesmaid bouquet of mini white calla lilies, white tulips, and chocolate cosmos.

Bride's Bouquet

This bride carried a round, hand-tied bouquet of blue hydrangea, white stephanotis with pearl head pins, and white roses. We tied it off with a thick navy blue satin ribbon.

Elegant and Simple Cake

Everything about this bride screamed "simple elegance." This lovely ivory cake with navy satin ribbon banding didn't need a whole lot to dress it up, but also keep it simple. A lush cake topper of blue and white hydrangea, roses, and variegated greens did the trick. The hand-tied toss bouquet on the table added the perfect balance.

High-Impact Centerpieces

For these centerpieces, we used cans in various sizes (coffee cans, soup cans, etc.) and wrapped them with satin ribbon, and then packed them with roses and hydrangea. Placing them on a glass mirror made for a cool visual effect.

Fun Ringbearer Pillow!

Ringbearer pillow, originally uploaded by the_orange_blossom.

Although most ringbearers don't actually have the responsibility of carrying the rings nowadays (I don't think I'd let a little guy run around with expensive jewelry either!), that doesn't mean he shouldn't sport an awesome, stylish pillow! We love that our recent bride Cassie chose to have a cool pillow covered with lime green kermit chrysanthemums and tied up with black & white polka dot ribbon for her ringbearer! Why not let every detail show off your awesome wedding style?!

A Colorful Summer Wedding

This bride was all about color, and lots of it! Her bouquet incorporated 8 colors that made up the color pallet for her wedding, and which were brought out in fun ways throughout the day.

A personal touch was added to the bride's bouquet with a beautiful butterfly pin.

Each bridesmaid wore a different color dress, so to keep the look simple and crisp, we gave each girl a bouquet of white gerbera daisies.

The groom's all white tux was a nice background for his pastel boutonniere, which incorporated many of the colors in our pallet...any more flowers would have made a corsage!

Instead of using a traditional aisle runner, we placed generous handfuls of white rose petals down each side of the aisle, and then "planted" colorful gerbera daisies.

This colorful arrangement hung from the arch where the bride and groom said "I Do." It's packed full of roses, gerbera daisies, stock, delphinium, various greens, and ivy.

25th Wedding Anniversary

The theme for this 25th wedding anniversary was wine. Held at a lovely country club, the hosts provided special bottles of wine for each table. They wanted a lively color pallet, and we wanted to incorporate the feeling of a winery in some way, so we included fantastic bunches of grapes in each piece.

The inside centerpieces were rectangular glass vases wrapped in a deep purple ribbon and filled with hydrangea, gerbera daisies, roses, delphinium; with ivy and grapes hanging from one side.

The outside centerpieces were smaller versions of the main centerpieces.

The cake and gift table arrangements matched the inside centerpieces, except they were larger and had more greens.

This large arrangement sat at the buffet station. It's full of large white hydrangea, roses, gerbera daisies, delphinium, ivy, and grapes. It's topped off with some curly willow.

Bride and Cake

This bride carried a bouquet of orange tiger lilies, bright pink gerbera daisies, white spider mums, green coffee berries, stephanotis with jewels, and turquoise hydrangeas. The bride wanted the hydrangeas to match some ribbon she bought, so after testing a few different spay paints (safe for flowers) we got a perfect match!



The cake was dressed with more of that fun turquoise hydrangea, roses in various colors, orange wax flower, and white spider mums.

A Spring Wedding

This wedding was extra special because it was my sister who was getting married. She chose to use pinks and greens throughout her wedding - what a fun color combo!

The bride carried a round hand-tied bouquet that was packed full of green and pink hydrangeas, gerbera daisies, freesia, calla lilies, peonies, dog-eyed euphorbia, and green spider mums...just to name a few!

Even though the bridesmaids had patterned dresses, we went with a multi-colored bouquet, which added some spunk.

Pomanders of green kermit chrysanthemums hung from wrought iron shepherd hooks along the aisle.

The flower girls carried pomanders of kermit chrysanthemums and pink spray roses, and the ring bearer carried a pillow made of kermit chrysanthemums tied with pink ribbon.

A simple toss bouquet, which matched the others, sat on the cake table.