Amy and Wildee

 

This was a personal favorite; Amy was my mission companion in Nauvoo and she married a true gem! A modern-day Brady Bunch, they both have three kids, making 6 total.  Woa!  Amy wanted something simple, elegant, with Yellow and Gray.  Here are a few pics I snapped with my phone as I was making them:

 

The roses I initally bought were much too bright so this is acutally PAINTED white flowers!  I love the paint they make for flowers....it covers very translucent so you can still see the details of the flower and my favorite part is that the roses still smelled gorgeous. 

 

Here's how the day looked.  Amy's friend, Kara Allen, party planner and hostess extraordinaire, did all the decor.  I love that this was "low key" for her. Child knows how to dress up a cultural hall on no budget!  It's a good thing we love Amy or we both would've thrown a mutiny for having to use the cultural hall. 

Cupcakes were used as decor: cute AND delicious!

 Arrangements mirrored the brides' bouquet and you can't see them well, but the pots were a shiny silver-colored gardening pot.

 

 

 Vintage Chic!

 

Lace & Burlap = Feminine and Earthy

 

And of course, the bride and groom are absolutely darling.  Among the six kids, there is only ONE girl with FIVE boys, so Jade held down the flower girl post with style. 

Just before their nuptuals...Amy was already tearing up!

The bouqet consisted of hydrangeas, a large succlent, dusty miler, freesia, roses, and a few billy balls.  I like keeping the bridal bouquet very clean and simple beause I think it makes it stand out.

Jade's bouquet added some scabiosa pod and pink stock to give the hint of champagne tones.

Two of the most positive, happy people in the world, I think!



Congrats you crazy kids!

 

Long Awaited Post

Hey friends! It was a busy summer, and here at Willow and Whimsy we were all about weddings!  But after wedding season, we had other stuff to attend to and what do you know, none of our gorgeous summer weddings are up here.  UNTIL NOW.

The much awaited Becky-Brock wedding is now here for your viewing pleasure. 

Aren't they just DARLINK?  Becky is an absolute doll and Brock turned out to be a perfect match...go figure!  The wedding was at the Salt Lake Temple and the reception was at This is the Place State Park in the new (and very awesome, might I add) log cabin reception center.

The whole feel was very outdoors-y with baby blue & yellow with chocolate brown accents and lots of daisys, which are Becky's favorite flower.  We added a TON of candles which gave the whole thing the most beautiful ambiance. 

We decorated with thoughts of "rustic elegance" and as you can see, it turned out beautifully.  Bistro lights were strung across the large room, and milk bottles in chicken wire baskets donned the tables, along with mason jars wrapped in burlap and twine holding candles of all sizes.  Since Becky is a teacher, we also added some old fashioned books and some welll-placed apple bushel baskets to add to the country feel of the reception. 

Becky's bouquet was blue hydrangea with white freezia and peonies accented with yellow status and wrapped in a long chocolate brown sash. 

Becky and Brock had TONS of family, so there were sisters serving as bridesmaids with their own bouquets, but we really liked her idea for her close friends.  The skirts were made by one of the friends and instead of bouquets, the buddies held bunches of babys' breath wrapped in ribbon.  it really looked darling and made her girlfriends feel special without having to spend lots of money on extra bridesmaids' bouquets! 

 But the biggest hit of all was the CANDY BUFFET!  We had a stamp made that said "Becky & Brock" and the date of their wedding and we stamped regular small brown bags and cut the top with scalloped scissors.  They were a cute personalization!  We hung the "Thank You" sign with paper clips using cute paper in the wedding colors.

Chalkboard-type paper made country-like signs for the candy jars, and tree branches in painted buckets served as our indoor country field. 

Becky ordered candy in the blue, yellow and brown of the wedding, and with a nod to the old fashioned used lemon drops, rootbeer barrels and sixlets.  But the favorite of the night was definitely the grapefruit chews, which were sweet and sour and plain delish!







The Carbajals!

Finally, here are a few photos of Steph and Pablo's wedding day.  The flowers photographed beautifully!

Don't they look awesome?  We thought so, too. 

Keep on Learning

I was lucky enough to attend a floral design class at Trifecta last week, and this is what I made!

Pretty snazzy, huh?  The teacher, Lindsey, was really a champ and gave me some great advice as a rookie; she didn't even mind that she was "training the competition!"  My goal is to not only do lovely, traditional flowers, but to also branch out and do more compositional design like this one.  I'm working on creating "negative space" and I feel like this arrangement really got it.  Thanks Trifecta!

Carnations as "The Comeback Kid?"

Since I can remember I have hated, nay, despised, carnations.  (Anyone see that "Sex in the City" espisode when Burger gives Carrie carnations? yeah.)

This one is from Real Simple and is a DIY!

However, I was perusing our dear old insider-trader Martha's wedding website (nothing says insider trader like a tea rose), and came across these AMAZING ideas for carnations!  Check it out and tell me what you think!

Baby Barber's Balloon Bash!

Helped with cute Sarah Barber's shower.  Her and her hubs, Max, will be expecting baby Georgia in a few weeks! 

The large hot-air-balloon-style arrangement looked amazing, but was hard to capture in pics!

The party had tons of balloons hanging from the ceiling in all pastel colors.  Here were some of the other fun decorations:

It was a fun party, and big congrats to Sarah and Max!  Baby Georgia is a lucky girl! 

Peach is NOT light orange!!!

I was lucky enough to do a boutonniere and a corsage for two of the kids in my Sunday School class who were both going to prom.  They weren't going with each other (although that would be cute) but they both requested PEACH as their main color.

Off to the store I go to find peach flowers.  I find a lovely light peach rose, some peach ranunculus, and some cream roses.  I get them home only to realize that they do NOT match the gorgeous ribbon Mom got!  You see, flowers don't grow in peach color naturally.  They grow in light orange, but not peach.  They are not the same color!  The light orange roses clashed terribly with the ribbon.  I've found that the ribbon makes or breaks a corsage, so back to the store I went for more white roses!  Here's how it turned out:

The ranunculus was still budding so it had a light enough hue to not completely clash with the ribbon.  Also, we like to keep boutonnieres less feminine by using a knot instead of a bow.  The corsage turned out beautiful:

The ribbon had a lovely pattern with light green edges and peach center.  It was accented with both a satin peach and an illusion peach ribbon.  Again, we used a budding ranunculus instead of a fully-bloomed orange one.  The tiny daisies added a bit of texture while still keeping the whole thing very elegant!