What's Your Wedding Flower Style? DIY Wedding Flower Classes / Sacramento / Folsom / Placerville

DIY Wedding Flower Class, Wedding Bouquets, Sacramento Folsom Placerville Lake Tahoe

Are you wanting to DIY your wedding flowers?  Maybe thinking about a wedding flower business?  A Special Day Designs offers wedding flower classes for the beginner.  My student Joan created a lovely vintage style wedding bouquet of cream roses, pinky peach stock, white lisiathus, queen anne's lace, and pale peach carnations.  This was only her second class....but I think she's well on her way in learning floral design, and with her love of antiques, I see her vintage vibe here!  She even had a lovely cut crystal trumpet vase to display her bouquet in.

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Joan's friend Wave decided to be daring and try a crescent-shape bouquet for her second bouquet.  I think she did a great job!  Quite lovely, and she really liked having more fern showing, maybe she will find she is a naturalistic designer, or maybe modern high-style.  I see the crescent shape, do you??

Vintage wedding bouquet Folsom, Sacramento, Auburn, Foresthill, Garden Valley wedding flowers

One thing about learning floral design is that it is an art, and you are the artist.  You have to find your artistic "voice".  My artistic voice, above, and below, tends to be modern - grouping of flowers (in fashion, it's called color blocking) and not "polka dotty."  I emphasized the dusty miller, and I like a naturalistic look - not a perfect moundy-roundy. What about you?

Vintage wedding bouquet blush tones Shingle Springs, Coloma, Camino, Sacramento wedding flowers florist

Vintage bouquet of queen anne's lace, succulent, cream roses, dusty miller, lisianthus, peach carnations

Pretty in Pink Gerbera / Camino / Apple Hill / Placerville Wedding Flower Florist

Pink Gerbera and pink spray rose wedding bouquet for Apple Hill / Camino wedding near Placerville in El Dorado County

Meredith had a lovely pink and navy wedding at Silverthorne Meadows wedding venue in Apple Hill / Camino.  Her flower choices included shades of pink gerberas, spray roses, carnations, and roses. Carnations are cool!!!

A Special Day Designs designed her personal flowers and headtable flowers; she purchased DIY bulk wedding flowers from us to DIY her centerpieces.  She also DIYed her ceremony arch.  Lovely and fresh!

Shades of pink in gerberas, roses, and spray roses, with a navy stem wrap for an Apple Hill wedding.

Groom's bout with navy ribbon wrap, pale pink rose, bright pink spray rose, and green hypericum for a Camino wedding.

Bout of bright pink spray rose with lemon leaf for Apple Hill wedding.

Low headtable centerpiece of gerbera, roses, spray roses, hypericum, and cool carnations for an Apple Hill wedding near Placerville.

Silverthorne Meadows wedding venue, El Dorado County, in Apple Hill / Camino, near Placerville.  Beautiful!  The client decorated her arch herself.

An Inspiration Board for Cassie in Coral / Sacramento Amador County Wedding Flowers Florist

Cassie is getting married in September in a lovely outdoor Amador County location. She is looking for simple and classic flowers with clean lines in coral and salmon tones. I think that her rose bouquet will be lovely and colorful, and she's chosen chic white carn tight streamlined maids' bouquets (minus the black wrapping in Martha's photo). Mono-color mounded centerpieces of seasonal flowers will be in brown metal rental urns. Prices are based on the Seasonal Flowers Collections. Cassie, this inspiration board is for you!

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How about a pretty little vase? / Sacramento Wedding Flowers Florist DIY Bulk Wedding Flowers

Victoria, for your green and pink wedding flowers, here's another idea: the pretty little vase from cathywraps! The paper covering the little pot is recycled, so it's eco-friendly. And, I like to use these as chair decor or pew decor, so you can get double the use from them, by bringing them into the reception. I just love these! They are very reasonably priced, and don't take a lot of flowers to fill them. Cute for flower girls, too. Let me know if you are interested in them, and I can get them for you (brides not in Sacramento area, I do ship!). They come in different colors, and have different coordinating prints on each side!

Photos by Cathy Skraba, cathyswraps

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Short Centerpiece Ideas for Victoria / Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

Victoria, more centerpiece ideas for you...

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Tall & Breakaway Centerpiece Ideas for Victoria / Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

Victoria, use your imagination here - we can change colors, flowers, etc. Look at shape, texture, flowers, colors, and let me know what makes you feel good...

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Streamlined Bouquet Ideas for Victoria / Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

Victoria, these are not all in green and pink. I'd like you to use your imagination, and see if there is a type of flower you like, the shape/structure of the bouquet you like, etc. We can change the color of the flowers. I really love the carnation bouquets. Who would have thought that carnations could looks so chic?

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Hot Pink August Wedding Flowers / Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

For Victoria, here are some wedding flowers in hot pink available in August.

Photos from ubloom.

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Green Wedding Flowers in August / Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

For Victoria, these are some of the wedding flowers available in August that are green.

Photos from ubloom.

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Follow Me on facebook! Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

Are you on facebook? I just discovered it a couple of weeks ago and I'm so excited! What a great way to connect with friends, family, other professionals, and my brides and prospective brides. Have a question? Feel free to post to my wall, and I usually check it out every evening, and I'll answer your question (chances are, someone else will have the same question!). I'll also be posting photos there, too! And quick snippets of information for my DIY and budget brides (ideas, links to websites, etc.).

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Streamlined Pink & Green / Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

I loved the look of these images that Victoria forwarded to me before we met for our consultation that I had to put them together into an Inspiration Board. I love the mono-floral and duo-floral, streamlined, organic look of them - the grass, the twigs, the rocks, the glass, the moss, the terra cotta, everything. I just wanted to share this great Pink & Green look with you - and this is a great example of how to show your florist the look that you are after. I see the colors, I see the style, and I can offer other suggestions too. This look will definitely fall into the Seasonal Flowers Collection...love your style, Victoria!

Update after the wedding: Victoria DID use those cute little escort carts on the lower left....they were cool!

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What's in Bloom in March / Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers DIY bulk Wedding Flowers

Here's what's blooming and available in March:

Blooming Branches! They are gorgeous! I saw some forsythia at my vendors that was 6 or 7 feet tall - imagine that in some lovely tall glass cylinders for your ceremony. And quince branches, in their unique salmon color, as centerpieces on your tables. Looking for cream, consider some of the other flowering branches available, including dogwood. More branches available now and DIY prices effective March 2009 only:

• Almond Branches, $24/bunch
  
• Apricot Branches, $20.50/bunch
  
• Cherry Branches, Long or Medium, $24 or $20/bunch
  
• Dogwood Branches, Tall or Short, $24 or $14/bunch
  
• Forsythia Branches, Long or Short, $30 or $14/bunch
  
• Peach Branches, $16/bunch
  
• Plum Branches, $16/bunch
  
• Pussy Willow, Short, $14/bunch
  
• Pussy Willow, Tall (10-14 ft), $23/bunch
  
• Quince, Long or Medium, $33 or $26/bunch

If you're DIYing branches, I highly recommend that you check out Gay Smith's article on Blooming Branches over at ubloom. She tells you how to care for flowering branches and how to make them open. You can purchase the supplies she recommends through me.

Also unique and available is Columbine, $14.50/bunch, Campanula $18/bunch, Daffodils $6.50/bunch, ranunculus $12/bunch.

Special through April 15, 2008: Cymbidium sprays for only $39 each! Each spray contains 8 to 10 blooms. This is a great price, I got a special deal and I'm passing those savings on to you. The regular price is usually $60 each.

Forsythia Branches photo by Steve Sisney at http://gallery.pictopia.com/oklahoman/photo/934966/ .

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Welcome to A Special Day Designs / Sacramento Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

Thanks for visiting my blog! I've been collecting a lot of great photos to inspire you, glassware for you to rent, and design and wedding tips galore. I have many years of floral design classes, and previously owned a wedding design business in Southern California. I was a budget bride myself, and I'm looking forward to helping more brides figure out their wedding flowers and be able to afford a beautiful wedding in these tough economic times. I offer DIY brides the following services:

• Bulk wedding flowers - and that means any flowers that are available, not just certain flowers from a big box store;
  
• Glassware rentals for your ceremony and reception, at great prices, to make your wedding even more affordable, in hip, trendy styles;
• Design recipe service - I will make a recipe for you to follow in making your DIY wedding flowers;
• Florist supplies - everything that you can imagine, and some cool hip trendy new stuff;
• Wedding Flower Design classes - everything you need to know to DIY wedding flowers;
• An easy to use, know-your-price-upfront Wedding Flower Calculator for semi-custom flowers;
• A semi-custom budget Value Collection based on roses and seasonal flowers that offers beautiful wedding flowers at an affordable price, like the Black Bacarra roses and seasonal flowers pictured in the monochrome bouquet in this post;
  
• A la carte services - you make some flowers, I make some flowers, it's your choice. Want to DIY wedding flowers, but don't want Aunt Susie to miss your wedding because she's setting up the reception? Hire me to set up your decor!; and
• Full service wedding flowers if you decide you want a full consultation and custom flowers from a professional.

A Special Day Designs provides wedding flowers for El Dorado County and Amador County wine country, Lake Tahoe, Placer County, Sacramento County, Yolo County, and Lodi wine country. Wedding flowers for Placerville, South Lake Tahoe, Pollock Pines, Camino, Apple Hill, Cameron Park, Shingle Springs, Coloma, Lotus, Georgetown, Cool, Grizzly Flats, Somerset, Ione, Rescue, El Dorado Hills, Latrobe, Jackson, Folsom, Granite Bay, Roseville, Lincoln, Auburn, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, City of Sacramento, West Sacramento, Natomas, Elk Grove, Galt, Lodi, Davis, and more.

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