It’s getting very busy around here and I’ve been neglecting the blog, but here’s a quick snapshot from last weekend’s wedding. Churches are not always my favorite venues to decorate but there’s no denying how stunning this one is with the sun streaming through those windows…
…are the buzz words of the moment and hopefully the way the flower market is moving on a global scale. A new wholesale market in Seattle consisting entirely of farmers from Washington and Oregon made its official debut today and it was just delightful. Think flea market meets indie flower shop. Local, organic in-season flowers just became 100 times easier to source and I am so excited to share them with my eco-conscious brides and clients.
{via Rosemary Washington}
I got pretty caught up in all the Royal Wedding coverage last week, in part due to the fact that I was working on the design of a Royal Wedding Viewing Brunch for Seattle Metropolitan Bride and Groom magazine. Working with Seattle Met B&G editor Laura Cassidy and publisher Nicole Vogel, we devised a plan to turn Nicole’s gorgeous new South Lake Union condo into an English tea party for the day.
Lisa Dupar catered with inventive tea sandwiches (mint and cucumber!), blood orange mimosas, pots and pots of tea, and at my request, Wills and Kate cookies and Union Jack shortbread. I used vintage tea tins, teapots and apothecary jars to display the candy buffet and decorated the space with stacks of teacups, postcards from Charles and Diana’s wedding and antique fairy tale books. Guests arrived in elaborate hats and fascinators and had their picture taken with Wills and Kate in the photo booth. King Arthur even made an appearance!
It’s hard to even imagine the amount of work that goes into a wedding of this size but Clarence House kindly posted behind the scenes pictures of the flowers and foliage used to decorate Westminster Abbey on Friday. You can check them out here and all the other behind the scenes details by following @clarencehouse on twitter.
In the meantime, I am off to set up and get ready for a Royal Wedding viewing party with Seattle Met Bride & Groom. Time to dust off that fascinator…
they’d look something like this…
