Bouquet Breakdown

This bouquet was from Yulia and Igor's wedding I posted about earlier here.  One of my favorite things about this bouquet were the tweedia accents.  There are not that many blue flowers out there - and tweedia has such a sweet and delicate look to them.

Bouquet Breakdown

I haven't done a bouquet breakdown in a while so I thought I would breakdown Misty's bridal bouquet from the wedding that was featured in the previous post.

I also included the names of the roses but keep in mind that each grower has different names for their rose colors. For those who live in the bay area then you would find these roses at the San Francisco Flower Mart.

Bouquet Breakdown

A funky and fun bouquet without using any roses, dahlias or peonies (the most popular weddings flowers in my opinion)!

A+M Wedding | Shakespeare Gardens Golden Gate Park | San Francisco

I think I have mentioned it before but I'll say it again.  One of my favorite ceremony locations in San Francisco is the Shakespeare Garden in Golden Gate Park.  We lucked out and got some beautiful weather in May.  There was a slight breeze but the garden is protected so you didn't feel the breeze that much and the sun was shining brightly that day.

Bride's Bouquet: Peonies, roses, calla lilies and freesia

Bridesmaid Bouquets: Dark pink peonies, roses and freesia

Wreath I made for the Iron gate at the Shakespeare Garden

Bouquet Breakdown

This was the bridal bouquet I made for the Hotel Whitcomb photoshoot I posted here.  I knew for the bouquet that I really wanted to use these feathers - and I wanted to avoid roses.  I have nothing against roses.  I just didn't want to buy 25 of them and deal with the thorns when I would most likely end up using only 5 stems.  Anyway, I used the spotted feathers as inspiration and chose flowers that I thought would compliment them well.   I was going for something soft and vintage looking.

And here is the cute little Groom's bout I made to match the bouquet:

Bouquet Breakdown

Here's a breakdown of the bouquet I made for the Bridal Faire I was a part a couple of weeks ago.  I wanted to add some fun to the "traditional" bouquet so I used some pink feathers as accent.

Here's another image of the bouquet at a different angle.

Bouquet Breakdown

One of my favorite bouquets from 2009 from Kim & Matt's Wedding. Kim wanted something fun and fluffy and she loved craspedia (also known as billy buttons)!


I usually only breakdown bouquets but I thought it would be nice to include the matching groom's boutonierre from this wedding. It was so cute!

Bouquet Break

I had a few people ask me about Jessica's bouquet from Jessica and Alex's wedding I posted about here. There were a lot of flowers in this bouquet!

Bouquet Breakdown

One of my favorite bouquets I made a couple of years back.

Special thanks to Perspecta Photography for this image.

Bouquet Breakdown

This is one of my favorite bouquets I made last year! The pink colors and variety of textures really popped from the bride's dress.

Bouquet Breakdown

Hi! Sorry for the delay between posts - I took a little vacation down in Southern California to visit my family and to celebrate my son's 1st birthday! I can't believe that he's one. Anyway - I'm back now and getting ready for the next 6 weddings coming up in October and November. It's good to be busy!

I love this all green bouquet. One of my bride's found this on The Knot and sent it to me as inspiration for her green and white wedding last year.

Bouquet Breakdown

Bouquet Breakdown

After I introduced my blog series Bouquet Breakdown, one of my readers Lia sent me some pictures she wanted me to breakdown. I was very excited! So here is one of the pictures she sent.

Hope this helps Lia. I'll post another one next week!

Bouquet Breakdown

Many times I have brides (and people in general) ask me, "What is that flower?" There are so many photos of beautiful bouquets and arrangements in magazines, blogs and websites but they don't always go into the detail of describing what flowers are in it. And if they do - they just name the flower, and if you don't know what that flower looks like - you have no idea what they are talking about!

So I thought I would start a blog series called Bouquet Breakdown. Anytime I come across a beautiful bouquet that contains a variety of flowers I'll break it down for you so you know what flowers are in there.

So first up is one of my favorite bouquets that my friend Sara from Stinkerpants Designs carried at her wedding. It was bright and colorful that really popped against her white dress. The bouquet was designed my Calla Lily Wedding Flowers and the photo taken by Jennifer Kloss Photography.


So if you see a bouquet or centerpiece that you want me to break down - just email me the picture and I'll post it in the series!