J + D Wedding | Peninsula Golf & Country Club | San Mateo

I love spring weddings.  You get all of the lovely flowers you can imagine in the soft pastel colors.  This wedding had soft pinks, lovely shades of cream, bright coral accented with lime green.  We used vintage gold candelabras for the ceremony and reception which looked amazing in the room.  And did I mention that this room had HUGE windows?  It was a gorgeous backdrop for the ceremony.

Venue: Peninsula Golf and Country Club, San Mateo
Invitations and Paper Goods: Christine with Stella Bella Invitations
Florals: Huckleberry Karen Designs

I also received a very sweet thank you note for the bride just the other day!
"Dear Karen,
Things have finally settled down after the wedding and honeymoon  I just wanted to thank you so much for all your hard work doing my flowers!  They were soooo beautiful and they made the wedding.  So many people have told me how they loved the flowers. I will send you some photos as soon as I get them.  Thanks again."  --Love, Judy

Bride's Bouquet: Patience garden rose, Juliet garden rose, freesia, spray rose, ranunculus

hydrangea, vendela roses, and lisanthus

Mom Posy: spray roses, Pink avalanche rose, peach avalanche rose, sahara rose

green hydrangea, pink ranunculus

 One of the benefits of holding your ceremony and reception in the same place is the ability to re-purpose flowers.  These flowers used for the ceremony were then moved to the reception tables during the cocktail hour.

J+J Wedding | Sir Francis Drake Hotel | San Francisco

Beautiful location, adorable bride with red hair and a wedding dress full of ruffles. This wedding was brimming with personality!  We used shades of orange with purple accents since the Sir Francis Drake Hotel had these colors as part of their decor.
 
Venue: Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco
Chair Covers: Especially Yours Chair Covers
Photographer: Vero Suh Photography

Here a couple of photos I took

Both Jenny and James travel a lot for their work.  They had the most adorable little luggage favors I have ever seen.  They doubled as seating cards too.  Loved them!

T+M Wedding | Portola Valley Presbyterian Church | Sheraton Hotel Palo Alto

When I first met Tristan, I knew that we would get along just fine. First of all, she has a cool name.  Second of all, she brought her mother with her who was so excited about her daughter's wedding that it was infectious.  They came with a pretty good vision - something whimsical and fairy tale like with twinkling lights and butterflies.  Tristan made it clear to me she was not a traditional bride - she wanted something with texture and bright green flowers. And no roses.

Bout: calla lily with curly willow and berry accents

Bridesmaid Bouquet: green hydrangea with white mums, and dahlias

 Cute little green kermit mum bout for the ring bearers

Green dendrobium orchids for the ushers

 Tall Centerpiece: curly willow, bells of ireland, hydrangea, spidermums

dendrobium orchids with silver butterflies and hanging votives

 

Garland for the church with little butterflies

K+D Wedding | Flood Mansion | San Francisco

Here is a gorgeous wedding held at the James Leary Flood Mansion in San Francisco. You never can go wrong with classic colors like white, apple green and silver.  I love the details that Karin worked out for the place card settings.

 Bridesmaid bouquets in shades of green: hydrangea, roses, orchids and kermit mums

Bride's bouquet in shades of white with green accents:

hydrangea, dahlias, roses, orchids and mini calla lilies

Groom and groomsmen bouts:

green cymbidium orchids with hypericum berries and monkey tail

Place card table that Karin designed.

We hung green kermit mum pomanders off of the chairs for the ceremony.

One of the altar arrangements placed at the front.

Love the simple elegance of the large, long stem calla lilies.

D + D Wedding | Presidio Chapel of My Lady | San Francisco

I try to take photos of all my weddings in its entirety but the reality is that I just don't have enough time to do so.  Sometimes I only have a moment to snap shots of the bouquets before I deliver them or I get a couple of minutes at the reception to take photos of the centerpieces.  As much as I like to show weddings with all of the different floral elements including bouquets, bouts, ceremony and reception I don't always get to do that!  But I feel like it would be a shame not to show some pictures of these lovely bouquets and ceremony flowers of a July wedding earlier this year.

Bride's Bouquet with peonies, roses, garden roses, hydrangea, orchids, freesia,

calla lilies and purple crystal spray accents

Bridesmaid Bouquets with a variety of roses and dahilas

Ceremony arrangements with smilax garland strung along the pews

with pew bouquets.

K+C Wedding | Acqua Hotel | Mill Valley

When I first met with Katie the first thing she told me is "no roses."  She wanted something fun and modern that matched the decor of her venue.  She really liked those anemones with the black centers but they were not season.  So we went with the Gerber daisies with dark centers - a pretty good substitute if you like those anemones.  My favorite thing about this wedding?  It was definitely the donut table.  Decorating the table was pure torture.  Looking at the pictures just now makes me want to hit up the nearest donut store (which happens to be called Pyscho Donuts.  Very telling, huh?)
Okay - moving on to the pictures.

Bride's Bouquet: Hydrangea, spidermums, calla lilies, dahlias and freesia

 Bride's bouquet close up.

 Bouts and corsages

Bridesmaid Bouquets: hydrangea, gerber daisies, spidermums and monkey tails.

 Cocktail table arrangement

 

 

 

 

 Ceremony Decor

Branch arrangement for the buffet table.

 Donut Table!