Here's a inspiration design post for Erica, who is getting married next summer at South Lake Tahoe. She is out of state and planning a Lake Tahoe destination wedding, so we are doing a wedding flower consultation by email. She loves a clean and sophisticated look, but needs to consider her budget. She also likes the simple look of my Just Gyp bouquets. Her colors are royal purple and sage green, a great color combination!
This horsetail reed has a similar look to bamboo....I love how it is kind of rough looking next to the delicate gyp (baby's breath) - rather ying and yang, masculine and feminine, edgy and ethereal.
The bouquet above has a modern look as it doesn't have a lot of different flowers in it. The gardenias are not in the budget, but other white flowers could substitute. I love the green sisal sphere and the explosion grass!
Here are some callas, not many, but stylized and chic (above). The budget won't allow gardenias, and Erica is not a fan of roses, so we can substitute there. I love the green sisal wrap (also comes in purple!).
The photo above is my inspiration for the reed and dendrobium orchid dangles...love love love Jacqueline Ahne's design work!
Now, imagine the dangling dendrobium orchids in purple (they won't be this pink-ish):
A Just Gyp bouquet for the bridesmaids, imagine with reed dangles and a wrap in your colors, as above.
A reed and gyp bout for the guys, above...
Not quite what I had in mind, but what a calla and gyp could look like together...or, another option:
Okay, use your imagination: make that white tulip a white calla, and think of the green dendrobium orchids as purple!
For the ceremony marker arrangements, I was thinking curly willow as above, or straight sticks with horsetail reed (the reed is the first photo in the post), in a solid green or brown eco mache container, with dangling blooms.
These are the eco mache containers....they can be colored to match your wedding colors, or used as-is.
Another option is the photo below, which has the curly willow (or straight sticks and reed) in a clear glass cylinder:
With "sticks", the design will be straighter, not so twisty, like this (but with reeds, not the tall grass) but with dangles:
With my big tall glass rental cylinders, it will look like this:
