Purple and Green Wedding Flowers are 2010 Trend! / Sacramento Wedding Flowers Florist

A couple of months ago I met a cousin-to-be (shout out to Stacy!). She's getting married in Massachusetts at an historic inn. The inn offers use of their lanterns for centerpieces, but she wasn't sure whether she should go with those or not...I say, go for it girl! It fits in with the decor of the room (a really great room - I happened to see it decorated up for a banquet when I went to visit the place on vacation). I suggest modernizing it with some callas or tulips or lilacs in water tubes draped over it, maybe with some coordinating design wire. And you could have your florist do 3 or 5 votive holders or small glass cubes on the tables with some coordinating flowers. You've picked a popular combo of purple and green. There are lots of flowers available in April in those colors, as you can see above, and that's not all of them (think iris, stock,vanda orchids, gladiolas, hyacinth, larkspur, lavendar, lisianthus, muscari, and ranunculus - check them all out on ubloom.com). As you can see you can go expensive (orchids and lilacs, luscious lilacs, and those gorgeous bicolor antique hydrangea!) or trendy and less expensive (green spider mums or button mums, green carns, purple carns). I really love the lilacs, and anemones the most.

Most photos from ubloom.com; also bladenewyork.blogspot.com; also florigene.com.

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Wedding Flowers Average Cost for Placerville Area / Sacramento and Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

Here's a neat little tool that calculates the average cost brides spend on wedding flowers in the Placerville area. Wow! Compare that with what I charge - remember, my prices are listed on my website - and I'm a bargain!!



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Spring 2010 Color Forecast / Sacramento Wedding Flowers Florist

I love to find out what the upcoming colors will be. Pantone is of course a leader in color forecasting. So, what do you think about these colors? What is your favorite? I really love them all, but the Tomato Puree (really, you gotta see it!), the Turquoise, and the Aurora (uhhh..not necessarily together,hmmm. maybe?) really call to me as colors. But I love the others as well! Mmm..the Eucalyptus!!! Check it out! And visit MY website at : http://www.aspecialdaydesigns.com/

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Backyard Wedding / Sacramento Wedding Flowers & El Dorado Hills Wedding Flowers

I was so happy to help Mom Kristen with her gift of wedding flowers to Melissa and Chris. She had a definite budget in mind, and I was able to help her afford this wedding arch spray by increasing the foliage (don't you love the lacy plumosa fern, with the organic-looking lemon leaf?) and tucking in some matching sheer ribbon.

Melissa and Chris had a lovely backyard wedding at grandmother's house in El Dorado Hills. The arch was already set up and the moms had decorated it with white tulle. There were about 5 round banquet tables, probably to seat up to 40 people, and Kristen had decorated them with pillar candles, glass hurricanes, and rose petals. The cake was set up indoors, and I decorated it with red roses, stephanotis, and white spray roses. Melissa's bouquet was a classic red rose and stephanotis hand tied. The guys' bouts had an industrial/zen look with fern wrapped in wire. The grandmothers were hip with my new flower brooches instead of corsages - they have an easy to pin brooch back.

My dear readers, weddings don't have to be $20k to be lovely and meaningful. You can have a small wedding with close friends and family and it can be wonderful. Before I left, Texas Back Forty delivered the food...folks, they make seriously delicious food, and I'm sure those guests were happy! If you are on even a smaller budget, do a potluck, or finger foods that are not temperature sensitive, and have friends serve, or hire a couple of servers...

This is a reason to be honest and upfront with your vendors regarding your budget. Kristen told me how much she had to spend and I came up with ideas to fit her budget. When you go to a florist and play games about the budget, nobody wins....the vendor doesn't know what the target is, and may quote a lavish wedding, and you have a $500 budget. By telling your vendor upfront what the budget is, they can get their creative thinking caps on and come up with something lovely for you. Otherwise, you and they have just wasted a lot of time and energy on something that wasn't realistic in the first place. You don't have to worry about that with my new website, however! Get a sneak peak now for Sacramento & El Dorado Hills & Lake Tahoe wedding flowers. It's not completely done, but it IS open for business!

Kristen, thanks for giving me the opportunity to create flowers for Melissa and Chris, and to be your El Dorado Hills Wedding Florist! And visit MY website at : http://www.aspecialdaydesigns.com/


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Do you have a rain plan??? / Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers

Yesterday was Victoria's wedding day! She chose a gorgeous venue, the PlumpJack Inn at Squaw Valley, Olympic Village, California (north Lake Tahoe region). I was anxious all week, watching the weather reports....thunderstorm activity all week! In fact, the Lake Tahoe region has been heavy on regular thunderstorms since May...pretty unusual since I've been in this area, almost a decade now. Victoria's ceremony and DJ area was set up on the patio outside, with the reception seating, bar, and slide show indoors. Apparently, it thunderstormed prior to our delivery arrival...and was just lovely at ceremony time, with a soft breeze, and low 70s weather. After the ceremony, as we were headed out, there was a rumble of thunder and it was getting overcast. Do you have a rain plan?

More photos will be coming...but here is a teaser...pretty little pots all in a row. Look at how they pop! I chose to put different pink flowers and foliage in each pot. They really made a difference for this aisle. You can see your color choices in an earlier post. Spray on the arch in the background. And visit MY website at : http://www.aspecialdaydesigns.com/


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Rose Petal Power! / Lake Tahoe Wedding Flowers Florist

Victoria is deciding whether to choose hot pink rose petals for the base of her venue-provided candelabras, or to go with mixed color rose petals. I charge much less for the mixed color rose petals as my vendor charges me much less. For a specific color, I have to actually buy roses in the color that you want. The bag of mixed rose petals that I buy from my vendor is equal to approximately 75 roses, or three bunches. So Victoria, here is a collage for you. On the top row, first and second on the left, are mixed rose petals on the sand table and on the sweetheart table that I decorated for Beckie's wedding two weeks ago. The other photos are ones I found on the internet with hot pink rose petals.

Collage by Monique Wilber, A Special Day Designs
Mixed flowers petals photos by Monique Wilber, A Special Day Designs

Other photos from:
Vineyard Event Garden
Rhonda Patton Weddings
The Knot
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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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