…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}
- { Monday, May 2, 2011 }
Seattle Met Royal Wedding Brunch
- category: event design, floral design, Home, Weddings
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!
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- { Friday, April 29, 2011 }
Behind the Scenes: Westminster Abbey
- category: event design, Home, inspiration
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…
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- { Thursday, April 28, 2011 }
If I was designing flowers for the Royal Wedding…
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they’d look something like this…
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It’s been a long time coming, but here are some pictures of my newly installed studio complete with some preview shots of the flowers for Saturday’s wedding. I still have some tweaking and a little decorating to do (read: estate scale scouring) but the hard part is finished. Special thanks to my lovely husband for doing most of the work. I’m feeling much happier about spending the summer in my basement this year!
As I mentioned last week, the UK will enjoy a four day weekend in order to properly celebrate William and Kate’s nuptials on Friday and many will be throwing street parties to celebrate. My favorite English floral designer, Miss Pickering, was asked to give Daily Telegraph readers some inspiration for decorating their own parties. Her idea was to take all the glitz and glamor outside – an idea I recently put into practice for one of my own inspiration shoots.
I love all the red and pink roses with pops of chartreuse amongst the formal china and silver plate. I also love the plethora of Union Jacks, the old fashioned living room setup outside with old sconces hung in the trees and patriotic bunting framing the table. And don’t even get me started on the “made in England” tag on the boutonniere…genius!
All images courtesy of Miss P and to view more behind the scenes details from the Telegraph shoot, check out her blog post here.
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For my birthday last week, my grandmother sent me a thick packet of clippings about the fast approaching Royal Wedding. The British press has (per usual) whipped itself up into a frenzy over the day and I think my grandmother assumes we are starved for information about William and Kate on this side of the pond when in truth, the entire world seems to be equally fascinated. So now I have the Daily Mail’s recipe for Will and Kate’s Chocolate Biscuit Cake (sounds delish actually), a string of reports on the Princess-to-be’s proclivity for high street brands and pages of speculation from various Royal watchers about the details of the big day.
While I’m sure the biggest attraction of the wedding to the majority of the British public is the extra four day Bank holiday weekend (closely following their four days holiday for Easter this weekend – tough hmmm?), there is a mounting excitement to see what kind of show the Royal family will put on and I am quite keen to see the details myself. I’ve noticed an increasing number of Royal Wedding inspiration shoots around the blogosphere and in honor of the big day and as a nod to my British passport, I’m going to post my favorites over the next week.
Let Them Eat Cake!
The Caketress (as Lori Hutchinson is known in Toronto) has to be one of the most talented bakers EVER. Seriously. Check out this cake she designed for Wed Luxe magazine before William and Kate announced their engagement.
And then here are a few more examples of her work that would most definitely be fit for a princess…
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Our first week back from Panama was a whirlwind of activity centered around two different photoshoots with two very different themes. While I can’t reveal too much now, in honor of this gorgeous Spring day, here’s a sneak peek from the second one…
Stay tuned for more in a few weeks!
I absolutely love these gorgeous seed packets from The Balcony Gardener, a UK based garden shop. Available by mail order to the US, these seed packets would make a sweet gift for Mother’s Day or a Spring birthday…(hint, hint).
{via Lobster and Swan}
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to a newsstand near you…
