Jumping Back to Spring! Cindy's Cherry Blossom Wedding!

GORGEOUS photos by Toni from Shutterbox Photography in Woodstown, NJ. Cindy's Wedding took place at The Rushes, in Woodstown, NJ. I LOVED this wedding, which was about 2 years ago. But it's never too late to blog a pretty wedding!

Cindy's bouquet was designed with peonies, hyacinths, and parrot tulips.

The flowergirl carried a kissing ball with garden spray roses, hyacinths, calcynia, and waxflower.

The centerpieces were small fish bowls filled with curly willow, cherry blossoms, peonies, tulips and parrot tulips.

They looked so pretty along a long dining table!

I love my job :)

The groom wore this adorable grouping of hyacinth blooms and eriostomen. It was a perfect spring wedding that brought the outdoors, indoors. So happy to finally share it with you all :)

Shannon and Jason's Wedding at Congress Hall in Cape May April 23, 2011

Shannon and Jason's wedding was a BLAST! Check out these gorgeous photos by Tina Markoe Photography! We did bright, bold yellow flowers to pop in front of the girl's navy dresses. We used ranunculus, spray roses, cymbidium orchids, hydrangeas, blue tweedia, and forsythia loops tucked into the flowers.

Shannon's bouquet was created with white ranunculus, roses, spray roses, hydrangeas, and blue tweedia.

These bouquets turned out fabulous! The yellow pins contrast in front of the navy ribbon over the stems.

Jason wore a tight white peony bloom with forsythia loops. The groomsmen wore a yellow cymbidium orchid with blue tweedia.

The happy couple before the ceremony!

Everyone looks awesome! I love these colors!

The flowers turned out amazing!

The ceremony took place on the Congress Hall lawn. My awesome brother was with me to set up this wedding and it was great! We had two tall vases full of forsythia branches and also I made their monogram with petals.

I always like to do something extra as a surprise and this was it!

It was the perfect spring ceremony.

We adorned the chairs with forsythia and navy ribbon.

We did two styles of centerpieces in the Ballroom at Congress Hall. The high centerpieces were a smaller version of the ceremony decor. This was my first forsythia wedding, and I absolutely loved it!

The cake was beautiful! I just added hints of bright yellow spray roses and cymbidium orchids. I then set a bed of thick yellow rose petals at the base of the cake. I thought the table turned out amazing!

Super simple and clean.

I love the aqua walls with the yellow flowers!

The low centerpieces were created with a white shabby candelabra  with a bed of petals at the base, along with two votive cups and an open white peony.

Congratulations guys! I had a blast working with you! I had to add this sparkler shot. Tina is an amazing photographer and you have to check her out if you need a photographer!

Katherine's Wedding at The Mansion of Voorhees on May 29, 2011

Katherine's wedding was the final wedding on May, the busiest month of the year, next to September of course. What better way to say goodbye to spring than having a hot pink and lime wedding when it's 90 degrees outside? It felt like July 4th Weekend, not Memorial Day Weekend! I am really looking forward to her photos from Artistic Images by Bruce and Marge! Katherine's bouquet had lime button mums, lime cymbidium orchids, green antique hydrangeas, light and dark pink peonies, and Explorer hot pink gerberas. I love these colors!

She had just a touch of bling with a few diamond hair pins tucked into her flowers.

The ceremony was decorated in all shades of pink and lime. The ceremony took place inside the Terrarium at The Mansion on Main Street in Voorhees.

Hot pink gerberas lined the chairs.

Her centerpieces were simple, compact cubes filled with thai leaves, and loaded with all the same flowers as the bouquets. It was so pretty! She was so happy when I delivered her flowers, baby in tow. Congratulations!

                               

Christina's Wedding on April 30, 2011

I absolutely loved working with these bright colors for Christina's wedding, which took place in Newfield and Buena, NJ. I went to high school with the bride's older brother so it was fun to catch up and see how everyone is doing. The flowers turned out amazing! Check them out!

Her bridal bouquet was designed with orange lilies, Baroness garden roses, lime spider mums, deep purple stock, stephanotis, and lily of the valley. I was fortunate in that my mom-in-law has a huge patch of this stuff and many of my brides got a nice surprise when they realized what that extra little touch was in their bouquets! Most of my brides for a 3 week span got lily of the valley as my gift :) I love adding in little touches to make it special.

A close up of the beautiful lily of the valley blooms.

It was a pleasure working with you! I hope you both have a wonderful and happy life together!

Matt and Melissa Are Married!

So I was super giddy when I saw these photos, because I KNEW Laura Perry would take fabulous photos! I was right! She always takes amazing photos! Matt and Melissa were married at Union Grove Methodist Church in Pittsgrove, NJ. This is the church where my husband grew up. Melissa made adorable signs for the Ceremony and Reception and hand painted them.

The church was adorned with loads of sunflowers and lots of accenting flowers. I placed flowers in both aisles of the church and also two huge arrangements in the front of the sanctuary. I LOVE this close up shot!

I think this was the happiest wedding I've possibly ever been to, well, besides my own of course! Matt and Melissa grabbed some quick pics with the bridal party at Parvin State Park, right down the street from Parvin Farms, where the reception was held.

The photo on the left may end up being a big canvas in someone's home!

The bar was so awesome! My husband and Matt created these bars using old doors that were left in our 1800's Victorian home. Melissa and Matt collected photos and placed them underneath plexiglass. The tent was decorated with saplings and long thick vines from a local swamp. Then these bottles were hung everywhere. I added green trick, viking mums, and crespedia "Billy Balls" all over the place!

I used my set of bark covered tables to mark a walkway and the church flowers were set on top to add more color. I had my gray shabby lanterns all over the place to add more candlelight once the sun went down.

What else can I say? I love my job! Darren,  from The Cake Studio of Ocean City, and I built this cake tier by tier. Matt cut tree trunks and placed them at the base of the cake, and also on all the guest tables. I added a moss table runner and river rocks to the base of the cake and accented the entire space with kelly green votives. I used a massive amount of wildflowers including sunflowers, tulips, astilbe, crespedia, roses, sweet peas, wheat, ranunculus, asters, green trick, solidaster, buplerum, lady's mantle, freesia, and the list truly went on and on. Every place setting had a viking mum and the grouped centerpieces were all created in bark covered tin containers. I used sand blasted manzanita from an awesome California source and anchored them with more river rock. A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped me set up during the rehearsal and the day of the wedding, you saved me loads of time and quite a bit of lost sleep!

I like to think of my husband and I as an creative team. My husband built the doorway on the left using salvaged doors from an old farmhouse that was demolished from the property before his time. Matt made the grapevine wreaths for the church and I wired in sunflowers. They created the perfect touch of color for these doors! The church pews are a prized find Eric discovered from an old church in Brooklyn, New York! We proudly rent these for ceremonies in a "easily accessible" outdoor setting ( the beach, the park, a farmer's field!).

The gorgeous bride and her beautiful bridesmaids. The girls carried bouquets to mimic Melissa's and everyone had a handmade crocheted sleeve created by a friend of the bride and groom's. The flower girls wore halo's of mini viking mums.

My brother-in-law Chris, my brother-in-law Matt, and my hubby. I made the guys a boutonniere with viking mums, green trick, crespedia, and curly willow loops. Matt and Melissa were the only ones with wheat accents :)

I LOVE this photo!

A close up of Melissa's bouquet :)

Matt made this card holder !

The barn looked so cool!

This is one of my personal favorites! I knew Laura would do a great job, but her creativity blows me away! This is why you just never want to let a family friend do your photos, hire a pro and have no regrets! What an amazing pleasure it was to have the creative freedom that I was able to have and help make their wedding look amazing. Thank you guys for trusting me and allowing me to "play and do my thing". LOVE YOU GUYS!