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!
I am thrilled to announce that Finch & Thistle has been awarded a 2011 Bride’s Choice award by Weddingwire.com!
Here’s the official press release:
Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.
Finch & Thistle Event Design stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.
“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud Finch & Thistle Event Design for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”
We are happy to announce that Finch & Thistle Event Design is among the very best floral and event design companies within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.
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Welcome to Finch & Thistle’s new look! I am so excited to unveil my new website and blog. It’s been a long time coming and I could not be more thrilled with the results. Huge thanks to Iwona and Tomasz for the design and coding.
Please excuse the blog formatting errors. The switch from Blogger to WordPress is going to involve hours of blog editing for me over the next few weeks (thank goodness it’s the slow season!)
Let me know what you all think?
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Monday was one of the hottest days to-date in our bizarre Seattle summer so when I got a chance to style my friend Willi’s book cover shoot over on cooler Bainbridge Island, I jumped at the chance. Willi is a master gardener and expert cook who hosts the website DigginFood.com. She has a weekly gardening show on KUOW (Tuesdays, 10am) and is the West Coast editor for Organic Gardening magazine. The shoot would be the for the cover of her new book, coming out sometime in 2012.
We rode over on the ferry laden down with props and outfits galore – vintage baskets, buckets, wire racks, crates and piles and piles of gorgeous produce – the temperature dropping steadily as we got further and further from the city.
After a quick pit stop at the Winslow market to meet our photographer, Jim Henkens, we headed to the southwest tip of the island to our shoot location, Octavia Chambliss’ beautiful garden. Octavia is a garden designer based on Bainbridge and she had kindly offered up her garden for the shoot even though she herself would be away on vacation. It was a stunning location. Imagine an immaculate perennial garden with a large vegetable garden tucked inside, a weathered picket fence and cottage gate leading to a tiny, vintage soccer field and public beach. The Bremerton ferry made hourly passes through the landscape and the sun dropped gently down behind some trees. It couldn’t have been more idyllic, or more Pacific Northwest, if it tried (although a surfacing Orca would have made for an awesome shot!)
I got busy unpacking the props while Jim and Willi scouted out the best spots in the garden. Then it was time to get to work. Here are some “behind the scenes” shots from that afternoon…
Putting my prop styling (and photography) skills to the test. Conclusion: kind of like flowers, just tastier.
With Jim’s reflective light panels all set up, it was time to begin!
A close up of that fabulous blue table was enough to make anyone hungry.
We picked these herbs and peaches fresh from Octavia’s garden. 
A few head shots for publicity…
And my personal favorite shot – earwigs in the peaches!
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