Allie and John at Waldenwoods

Such a beautiful celebration at Waldenwoods for Allie and John this autumn!  Thank you so much to Ray Anthony Photography for capturing these lovely images and sharing so generously! We had a great time working with rich autumnal colors and textures as the weather and mood were shifting from summer to autumn.   We had beautiful burgundy dahlias, blush garden roses, lush foliages with berries and great textures - Allie picked such beautiful elements and we just love how it came together for a natural, colorful, sophisticated look.

We loved decorating the large pergola for Allie & John's ceremony, and were so thrilled that the weather cleared in time to get outside for a blue sky ceremony!  It was still raining outside when we set it up with fingers crossed, and we were so thrilled it worked out so beautifully!  Congratulations Allie and John!

And here we are in action setting up the floral decor for the arch in the rain, gotta love everyone keeping the positivity and ending up with a gorgeous ceremony under blue skies!!

autumn flowers

There's something special about the colors of autumn in Ann Arbor and the special tones of autumnal flowers that excites me every year.  Autumn brings in the most amazing dahlias and knock-out chrysanthemums, berries and textures and foliages and it's just a special time to be designing. I loved creating these pieces for a wedding celebration at the Gandy Dancer in downtown Ann Arbor, coordinated by Twofoot Creative.  These centerpieces and accent pieces featured golden chrysanthemums, orange ranunculus, burgundy snapdragons, blush spray roses, campanella peach roses, seeded eucalyptus, olive branches (with olives!), burgundy dahlias, blue privet berries, and a gold succulents, in a gold compote dish.  So thankful for this autumn abundance!

Cottonwood Barn Autumn wedding

It's so wonderful to receive these images from a gorgeous wedding at Cottonwood Barn in Dexter.  It was such a pleasure working with this bride and her vision for a lovely but not too traditional mix of autumnal colors and textures in her wedding flowers.  We used a mix of burgundy cymbidium orchids, orange pincushion protea, mango and plum calla lilies, yellow chrysanthemums, and a mix of textured foliages to create a seasonal look with texture and warmth.  Photo credit to Emily Alt, Watassa Wedding Photography for these lovely images!

Autumn Misty Farm Wedding

Happy New Year! So looking forward to 2015, and also loving getting in gorgeous photos from 2014 weddings - it's a great way to start things off with beautiful flowers - or at least memories - while everything is covered in snow!  

Loved working with this delightful couple and their gorgeous autumn wedding at Misty Farm!  For the bride's bouquet, we went with a mix of tones that for a seasonal look that was subtle - not such a traditional take on autumn, but still a classic garden-style design.  I'm so pleased with the result (and so pleased the bride loved it!), something sophisticated and stylish but also natural and relaxed.  The bouquet includes peachy-orange free spirit roses, pink fado roses, burgundy scabiosa, cream majolica spray roses, burgundy astrantia, and peach campanella roses together with a mix of textured foliage.  Thank you Kelly Braman for the beautiful image!  

Autumn wedding at Cobblestone Farm

Barn weddings feel especially perfect in the autumn! It was such a pleasure designing these yellow, burgundy and cream bouquets with seasonal accents and foliage for a sophisticated wedding at Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor.  We wanted these flowers to be light and looking more like a fresh garden feel than a tightly designed feel - love how they go with this gorgeous wedding dress!  Thank you Hilary Nichols Photography for these beautiful images!  

The bride's bouquet featured yellow zinnias, roses and matthiola, chamomile daisies, cream dahlias, and burgundy scabiosa.

Autumn wedding at the Gem Theater

Loved setting up for this warm and gorgeous autumn wedding reception at the Gem Theater in Detroit!  The flower designs here added a natural, textured feel to complement the rich autumnal tones and soft light in the Gem Theater.  The space was full of charm and character, and it was such a pleasure working with this loving family!  

Cottonwood Barn Styled Shoot

I am so, so excited to share this styled shoot at Cottonwood Barn this past autumn, with a vintage to vogue theme, reflecting Cottonwood's amazing renovation.  Cottonwood Barn is truly amazing and unique - it has the vintage feel of a loved and used barn, and its renovation is incredible.  The gorgeous chandelier in the main reception space is truly jaw-dropping (even for us wedding pros, we couldn't stop talking about it!), and everything has been finished beautifully and thoughtfully.   It's modern and practical in the right spaces (beautiful bride's suite with floor-length mirrors and adjacent to the modern ladies' room) and vintage and charming in the right ways, too (bar in a silo - how neat!).  I can't say enough about how impressed I was with Cottonwood! Melanie Reyes and Dayna Mae did such an AMAZING job capturing every thing, and it was a wonderful team of vendors lead by Luna Soiree, including a fabulous vintage ice cream truck by Hello Ice Cream!   Melanie captured all the highlights and vendors in a full blog here - I just wanted to post a few more of the flower photos here because there were so many I loved!  Thank you so much to everyone involved - so great to be a part of this!

What an incredible image!

There were a couple of different bouquets for this shoot, each featuring blush and peach tones with a few highlights of blue or purple and lush foliages and textures.  This bouquet featured  peach juliet garden roses, seeded eucalyptus, cafe au lait dahlias, lotus pods, blue viburnum berries, queen anne's lace and white avalanche roses.

The centerpieces for the shoot also included ornamental kale, larkspur and purple mathiola atop a gold-colored glass compote to compliment the gold candelabra.

Colorful autumn wedding at the Gandy Dancer

I am so grateful for these beautiful images from Heather Jowett - this was such a lovely wedding, wonderful families to work with, and it just makes me smile so much to post these images.  The ceremony was at beautiful St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and the reception at the lovely and historic Gandy Dancer in Ann Arbor.  Gorgeous hair and make-up by the talented ladies of Imagine Three.  It was a perfect autumn day for these two! Pure joy!  And I love these adorable handbags!

The wedding flowers were a bright jewel-toned palate that was both seasonal and sophisticated.  The bride's bouquet featured orange, burgundy and fuchsia dahlias (sourced locally), white ranunculus, blue anemone, peach juliet garden roses, blue viburnum berries and green viburnum opulus.

It's always so lovely working with the Gandy Dancer - lovely, elegant cake!

November wedding flowers in burgundy, lavender, peach, silver grey

Here's just a quick snap of this weekend's autumnal wedding bouquet!  I loved the colors and textures that this bride chose - seasonal and autumnal, but also sophisticated and creative - the bouquet featured a handmade paper flower made by a friend of the couple!  The bouquet also included burgundy dahlias, peach juliet garden roses, silver brunia, lavender ocean song roses, white matthiola, and alchemilla mollis.  It was a pleasure as always to work with Luna Soiree at Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor for this wedding!  

Autumn Dahlias and Orchids

Thank you Patrick Hadley Photography for these beautiful images of M & B's autumn wedding (and for more, see their blog).  For this sophisticated, modern, autumnal mix, the bouquets included magenta phalaenopsis orchids, purple dahlias, peach juliet garden roses, blue eryngium, and orange pincushion protea together with textured foliage.  M & B were married at Temple Shir Shalom in Bloomfield Hills and their lovely reception was at The Inn at St. Johns in Plymouth.  Such a beautiful celebration - congratulations!