Category — flowers

So…  I am SUPER excited about how our wedding is turning out. 

However. I am in love with this one, and it is super similar, but a little more chic. But then again, chic is not what we are going for. We are going for simple, fun, clean, bright and happy. But if we wanted chic, this entire wedding would be in my inspiration folder!  

I saw it first here, and then saw the rest of it here

get your head out of the gutter!  I am talking about flowers here ladies. sheesh.

The other day I ran into my florist at Bagel Shack and she said she had a certain flower she wanted to add to our hydrangeas and dahlias.  The next day I got an email with this attached.

See those flower balls (craspedia, or Billy Balls) in the back? We will be adding those to our arrangements and I am pretty darn excited. Bryan says he thinks they look weird but that if I like them, he likes them (gotta love him) so they are in  Here are some more pictures I found using these flowers beautifully:

(first here second and third here)

Some of my favorite things around the blogging world right now.

These gorgeous photos, but even more so the letters LOVE on the guestbook table  

This awesome shot by Hugh Forte.

These bright beautiful spring flowers from The Brides Cafe.

And this. Only because I love Swiss Family Robinson and as a kid (who am i kidding… still as an adult) wished I would get stranded on an island so that I could live in the trees

What. a. week.  Sorry for the lack of posts at the end of last week. Wednesday night I went straight from work to an Angel’s game to see my man get presented an award on the field (!), Thursday was dinner with the family and Friday night was the rehearsal dinner for my friends Saturday wedding! The wedding turned out gorgeous, and was so much fun!  Two things I took away from it though: 1. Hire at least a day of coordinator.  The groom produces events for a living so they had most of it under control, but for things like getting the ceremony started and doing the grand entrance, having one person in charge would have smoothed thing along a bit. and 2. bring a dress to change into, even if you don’t plan on changing. Lauren’s bustle broke halfway through the ceremony and if it wasn’t for the little dress she had brought to drive away in I think she might have ripped off her own train!!!  And with that, a few pictures form the event

First, the guestbook I made for her wedding shower, finally completed with images from the shower and a few from Vegas

Lauren getting dressed. Her photographer wasn’t going to be there while she got dressed so I kind of took over and did the best I could

Driving to the site with her dad in an awesome car.

Both the ceremony and the reception were held at the Ole Hanson Beach Club in San Clemente and it was just gorgeous! The grooms company, TGIS, put everything together, including this lounge that they had set up at the reception.

An awesome ‘tree’ on one of the food station tables.  Rather than a sit down dinner they had a kind of glorified cocktail party with food stations serving things like mini pot roast in a martini glass. Delicious! The best food by far though were the chicken enchilada popsicles. Mmmmmmm.

I spent the day with a slight headache (open bar+another bar on the way home= trouble) but we did manage to buy ourselves a little travel book for our honeymoon  We thought we were going to go to Vancouver but changed our minds… I will reveal the destination this week because I will need some advice on things!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

It looks like it will be a beautiful day leading into a beautiful weekend here in southern california and I thought it would be fitting to share some gorgeous bright sunshiney ranunculus! Aren’t they lovely?

(from here)

I just mailed off the florist deposit, wooohoooo!  Another thing on my mind…  fresh flowers on our cakes.  Since we won’t be having the traditional wedding cake, all decorated with sugary goodness, I am thinking a few fresh dahlias on each cake might really spruce things up

(cake from martha)

Broken Saucer is a new blog I read backwards from now to post #1 (you know it is a good blog when you can do that ) She introduced me to this image, which is PERFECT. I am sending it to my florist right now to say that those are the dahlias I want added in to our current white and marigold colored flowers

(image from here, via here)

I love this brides dress:

and the colors in her bouquet:

I love that my photographer shot this surprise wedding:

And I love Bryan

I had the itch to add a little kick to our wedding colors. And because Bryan is the best fiance ever, he is letting me add them Check out the new color scheme:

We will just be adding some pinks, corals, salmons,just a range of prettiness! Some inspiration I have found around the blogosphere:

The range of pinks and reds will be mixed into the bridesmaids currently marigold and white bouquets, into the mason jar centerpieces, into the Pom Pom decorations, and I am contemplating a fuchsia RSVP envelope to go inside the current grey outer envelope and white paper invites.   I am super duper excited. Yes, super duper. 

Images: Mine, snippet and ink, snippet and ink, careykirk, the knot, the knot, snippet and ink.

So as I sat here printing 175 save the dates (which came out great if I might add, Meghan I am talking to you!) I caught up on all of my blogging. Oh how I have missed the inspiration!!! So for todays post, bringing us into the weekend, I will post some of my thoughts and inspirations  In no particular order, here we go.

1. This girl has my dress well, the original that davids bridal kindly copied and sold to me at a much lower price You can go here to see more pictures of it in full (bryan hasn’t seen it yet) and to admire the amazing work of amelia lyon!

2.  My current favorites at J. Crew.  I went in today holding a gift card from my dear Natalie and walked out with the most perfect black work pants ever. ever. Clockwise form left: Mom, I think you would look good in this for the wedding .  I think this would look great on me at the wedding. I need a new pair of Jack Purcells because mine died. Those pants look comfy. 

3. I can’t stop looking at this. The colors are amazing. Seen here.

4. These flowers are gorgeous too. I may just have to add pink to our color palette (Update, Bryan says no… hmm…) . From here.

5. I think this is the perfect thing to go in my hair. Love it. Love the pearls, the feather, everything. 

There you go, my thoughts for the day. More like my thoughts for the week. Next week I promise to have pictures of my finished kids activity books and the save the dates I just finished. Promise. Have a happy weekend