- { Saturday, January 14, 2012 }
Published: Seattle Met B&G and Seattle Bride!
- category: Home, press, Seattle Bride, Seattle Metropolitan Bride & Groom
Have you seen the newest issues of Seattle Met Bride & Groom and Seattle Bride magazines? We just got a copy of each and were thrilled to see several mentions of our work. Jennifer and Jerry’s August Palace Ballroom wedding is featured in the real weddings section of Seattle Met with lots of space devoted to the design and floral elements and I am also quoted in the Destination Weddings section about my own wedding at Alderbrook Resort.
As if that wasn’t enough, Seattle Bride features the fabulous apple “tattoo” escort cards from Jamie and Chelsea’s Orcas Island wedding in their local weddings inspiration section.
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…well mostly, give or take a three day layover in London visiting my family and a few days in Mozambique and Mauritius…but yes, we’re taking the next four weeks off to travel to South Africa and visit my husband’s father and brothers. I’ll be back in the office on February 14 complete with a pre-written already scheduled blog post for your enjoyment (how’s that for organization?) So until then, just picture us sipping sun-downers on the back of a Land Rover in the African bush and I’ll see you in February.
I took this picture on my first trip to Madikwe in 2005. Hoping to see lots more of these guys…
- { Thursday, January 12, 2012 }
Lisa & Josh – A Fresh, Modern Wedding at The Edgewater
- category: Home, Modern Decor, Weddings
Let me just say that I absolutely loved working with Lisa. Adored might be more like it. Not that I don’t enjoy working with all my clients, but Lisa hired me a full year before her August 2011 wedding, knew exactly what she wanted and didn’t change
her mind once. Let me repeat that: NOT ONCE. Sure, she let me suggest ideas and decor elements but her vision was unwavering: green, cement and rust with trees and branches incorporated somehow and a clean, modern look. After a summer of vintage weddings, it was a breath of fresh air.
Lisa’s bouquet was white and green with exquisite lady slipper orchids and grasses and her bridesmaids carried green and rust bouquets that popped against their slate grey dresses. Josh and the groomsmen had boutonnieres made of poppy pods, dusty miller and curly willow twigs.
We used cement vases and settled on three styles of centerpieces – a taller one with curly willow branches, a shorter fuller one and a low vessel filled with succulents. To incorporate the tree theme, we purchased birch votive holders from Etsy and used three on each table.
But of all the beautiful images by Angela and Evan Photography, I think this one is my favorite…
- Tagged: eco wedding, edgewater hotel, green, grey and orange, modern wedding, Seattle wedding
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Have you seen the bouquet recipes posted by The Wedding Chicks? Such a fun idea and I was so pleased that one of my 2011 bouquets was chosen for the feature. Take a look here and maybe the peach and yellow flowers will inspire your own Spring wedding or event…
Image courtesy of Angela and Evan Photography
I’m taking the next few days off to spend time with my family and partake in the annual present wrapping/cookie baking/gin and tonic drinking frenzy that is the British/South African Christmas so I wanted to wish you all Happy Holidays and leave you with a few images from a holiday party we did at Benaroya Hall last week. I forgot my proper camera so had to make do with my iphone but I think the cool editing by my Camera+ app makes up for it, don’t you?
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- { Wednesday, December 21, 2011 }
Published: Hand Picked Vendor The Wedding Chicks
Finch & Thistle is featured on The Wedding Chicks today! Please take a look and leave a comment…
- Tagged: event design, Finch & Thistle, floral design, seattle, The Wedding Chicks, WA
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I spent an entire day last week on an icy farm in Snohomish with a team of some of the most creative and enthusiastic folks you’ll ever meet. We alternated between huddling over a tiny campfire (my coat still smells of wood smoke) and styling different scenes for the very talented Chantal Andrea to photograph. I can’t say too much more about it, but will let you know that my newest design partner-in-crime Sally Balt of La Happy, makeup genius Jenny Bowker and a talented chef/manager from Ravish, Luke McKinley, all played a part. Can’t wait to share the images but in the meantime, here’s a preview from Chantal.
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So I’ve been having some computer issues. Sigh. I upgraded my operating system to Lion and now my ancient Adobe suite is incompatible making it very hard for me to edit and resize images for the blog. So if you will all bear with me until I a) manage to beg, borrow or steal a new copy of Photoshop or b) teach myself the terrifyingly complicated Gimp openware, I would so appreciate it! In the meantime, I promised some more images from Erin and Evan’s Woodland Park wedding so here they are….and just wait till you see the seriously gorgeous flower girl.
All images courtesy Starr Photography except the second, third and the centerpiece shots which are mine.
- { Monday, November 28, 2011 }
Sneak Peek Farm Wedding
- category: floral design, Home, Styled Inspiration Shoot
Sorry the posts have been so sporadic lately. It has just been soooo busy around here (but it’s a great problem to have and I’m not complaining too loudly). There are some fun fall weddings and events in the blog lineup so look out for those over the next few weeks. In the meantime, I’m heading out to a farm in Snohomish tomorrow to style an editorial with an amazing creative team that Chantal of Chantal Andrea Photography put together. Grant and I were over in Spokane for Thanksgiving where I found a veritable treasure trove of vintage lovelies and I’m dying to put them into action. I hope the sun will keep on shining but I’ve already loaded up the car with wellies and rain gear just in case. This is the Pacific Northwest in November after all!
Here’s a peek at what else is going into the car…
Yes, those are sweet peas from my garden. I can’t believe they are still blooming!!
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- { Monday, November 28, 2011 }
Published: Seattle Met Bride & Groom Cover
- category: Home, press, Seattle Metropolitan Bride & Groom
Have you seen the new issue of Seattle Metropolitan Bride and Groom? Our bouquet is on the cover!
The gorgeous image was taken by Ryan McVay of Studio Lucile and you can see other details from the shoot here and here.
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