Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Fausel Ranch Rustic Elegance Sola Wood Flowers Wedding / Placerville Lake Tahoe Sacramento flowers for wedding

Shannon + Tommy are married!  I so much enjoyed working with both Shannon and Tommy on their wedding flowers for their Fausel Ranch, Placerville, California wedding.  It was decidedly a vintage elegant rustic decor feel.  Shannon shared to me when I brought her her bouquet...that she wasn't really a big flower person.  She was delighted with her non-fussy, non-frou-frou bouquet. She had definitely wanted a natural, branchy look to her arch, and gave me an inspiration photo to work from...wow!  How could I get that several thousand dollar feeling with a smaller budget???  I'll post that soon and let you decide if it worked or not...keep in mind, that all of these flowers were simple, streamlined, and not fussy, and therefore, not overly expensive.  The headtable centerpieces were petite...and shh...can you believe it?  Mums and carnations, but with a mono-color, they look incredibly modern. Shannon and Tommy trusted in my design skills and allowed me to design...and we came up within budget.  What a wonderful couple to work with - thank you and congratulations Shannon + Tommy!

Without further ado, enjoy the flowers, and enjoy the beauty of Fausel Ranch.   Owner Deanna was very hospitable and fun to work with - I hope to be there again soon! Visit my website at: A Special Day Designs for wedding flowers for Placerville, Lake Tahoe, Sacramento, and surrounding areas.

The Venue - Fausel Ranch     Fausel Ranch, Placerville, California

Fausel Ranch - wedding parking signs

Fausel Ranch is a working ranch - cherries and peaches for sale!


Iris in bloom in May at Fausel Ranch

Use the gazebo as a dance floor...love the paper lanterns friends are hanging, and the white lights over the reception area!


The babbling brook right behind the ceremony arch!

The Fausel Ranch Supervisor - it was a hard day :)


The Ceremony Site

The wedding arch of black wrought iron - I decorated with curly willow, fern, and white dendrobium orchids

Instead of rose petals...Shannon wanted mum flower heads!  I added the rustic rope at the last moment at her request - glad I had it with me!
Reception

I love how Shannon + Tommy's friends helped set up the reception area
Love the rustic bar - it must've looked fab in the dark with those lights!

Great vintage door holds place cards / escort cards
Great table setting of a nude underlay, black lace overlay, with a breakaway centerpiece of a submerged white dendrobium orchid, plant-based candles (no smoky petroleum-based candle wax) and a vintage bud vase

Shannon allowed me freedom with details...I thought this little vintage liqueur glass was a great match to her vintage rustic elegance decor...much better than a modern bud vase would have been
I love details!  Shannon and Tommy's friends set out mason jars, flagged personalized retro stripe straws, and iron-handle flatware wrapped in black napkins

I created petite, modern headtable arrangements for each of the three headtables.  I love the texture, and by using the same color, the texture of the carnations and the mum, with the grey/taupe moss, in the black container, creates modern elegance

Scattering plant-based votives, skeleton leaves, and mum flower heads filled out the headtable decor
Headtable white mum and skeleton leaves detail
I not only love the look of these plant-based votives, they do not smoke like regular petroleum-based wax candles, and are kinder to the environment, and your guests' lungs!

Personal Flowers
Sola wood flower bouquets are different and not mainstream.  Here, they're teamed with white dendrobium orchids, and  carnations and mums!  Keeping it streamlined keeps it all modern

The bridesmaids carried simple but fragrant bouquets of white stock, tied with an elegant rustic rope
Flower girl basket with elegant rustic twine, ivory butterfly, and grey/taupe moss

Groom's bout of sola wood flower moss, and some funky upcycled perforated paper
Groomsmen and father bouts with twigs, berries, moss, and twine 

A pretty, simple, modern collage corsage of of white mum, twine, berries, and velvet leaf
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Wedding Bouquet Sizes / Lake Tahoe Sacramento Placerville wedding flowers florist

White sweet pea and lavender petite vintage rustic bouquet via A Special Day Designs
Rather than calling bouquets by whom I think will be holding them, I much prefer to name them by their size.  After all, would a client choose something named after an attendant?  In the interest of keeping things simple, my hand-tied bouquets (with the stems showing) are based on the approximate number of stems in the bouquet.  Never an exact number, though, because as anyone who designs knows, sometimes you need to add that extra rose or take out a stem to make the design balanced.

And please note this:  size is relative to the type of flower that you are using.  As you will see, 10 very small lavender stems makes a very very petite bouquet, compared to 10 stems of spider mums.

The sweet white sweet pea and lavender bouquet above is an example of a petite bouquet.  My petite bouquets have 10 to 12 stems.  Designer's Choice bouquets are your choice of colors, my choice of seasonal flowers and does not include premium flowers such as (but not limited to) peony, mini posy calla, garden roses, or orchids or other pricey flowers.  This example is tied with sparkling wire, and is embellished with a vintage piece of jewelry (not included in price). The photo below, of simple lavender, and the is also a petite bouquet.

Lavender petite vintage rustic herbal bouquet via A Special Day Designs
 The Mono-Floral (one flower type) bouquets in Petite size is 10 stems as well (excepting, when available, football mums, arctic white callas, green goddess callas, and dahlias which are 5 stems).  An example is shown in green spider mums, and arctic white callas, below. 

Green Spider Mum petite bouquet via A Special Day Designs


White arctic calla petite bouquet via A Special Day Designs
 
Designer's Choice medium size bouquets have 14 to 16 stems.  The bouquet below, of pink peonies and dahlias, surprised a lucky bride!  By allowing me freedom to buy the nicest flowers...sometimes you might be very surprised and get premium flowers if they happen to be on special at the time of your wedding!  See the difference in size compared to the "medium size"  white sweet pea and lavender bouquet.  Because the sweet peas and lavender are smaller stems and smaller heads, the bouquet tends to look smaller.

Pink peony and dahlia and gerbera medium size bouquet via A Special Day Designs

Vintage glam white sweet pea and lavender medium size bouquet via A Special Day Designs
Purple kale and pink tulip eco medium size bouquet via A Special Day Designs

Mono-Floral medium size bouquets are ~15 stems.

Designer's Choice full size bouquets have 22 to 24 stems.  The example below is of white scabiosa, white tulips, white spray roses, and white sweet peas.

White tulip and white scabiosa full-size bouquet via A Special Day Designs
Mono-Floral full size bouquets are ~20 stems.

Please visit my website at http://www.aspecialdaydesigns.com for wedding flowers for Lake Tahoe, Placerville, Shingle Springs, Folsom, Sacramento, and other nearby areas in the Sierra foothills and greater Sacramento area.

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Friday, December 31, 2010

White calla / purple dendrobium / reed / gyp / baby's breath Lake Tahoe wedding

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!

via flickr, Nicole Radtke ("*nike*" photostream)
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.

via A Special Day Designs by Monique Wilber, Shingle Springs, CA -- Lake Tahoe Wedding flowers

 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!



via A Special Day Designs by Monique Wilber, Shingle Springs, CA -- Lake Tahoe Wedding flowers

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!).

via Floral Design by Jacqueline Ahne blog

 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):

via 123RF

via A Special Day Designs by Monique Wilber, Shingle Springs, CA -- Lake Tahoe Wedding flowers
A Just Gyp bouquet for the bridesmaids, imagine with reed dangles and a wrap in your colors, as above.

via Wedding Flowers and Reception Ideas
A reed and gyp bout for the guys, above...

via The Knot
Not quite what I had in mind, but what a calla and gyp could look like together...or, another option:

via The English Garden

Okay, use your imagination:  make that white tulip a white calla, and think of the green dendrobium orchids as purple!

via My Bouquet blog
 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:

via My Bouquet blog
With "sticks", the design will be straighter, not so twisty, like this (but with reeds, not the tall grass) but with dangles:

via A Special Day Designs by Monique Wilber, Shingle Springs, CA -- Lake Tahoe Wedding flowers
With my big tall glass rental cylinders, it will look like this:

via A Special Day Designs by Monique Wilber, Shingle Springs, CA -- Lake Tahoe Wedding flowers