Ann Arbor, Michigan wedding and event flowers Red Poppy Floral Design florist
This was such a beautiful wedding, and one if my last of 2013! The bride's bouquet had an elegant, seasonal, winter touch and beautiful textures featuring succulents, burgundy dahlias, and ivory roses.
The coordinating bridesmaids flowers featured silver brunia berries, burgundy carnations, lavender roses, and dusty miller foliage, finished with a burlap wrap.
Happy New Year! I love the festive holiday season, for lots of reasons!, and I always look forward to going to the floral wholesaler with all kinds of foliages and textures and blooms that we don;t see the rest of the year. Silver and gold gilded branches - check! Wonderfully fragrant juniper with festive blue berries - check! There's a lot of sniffing and touching and it's very much a kind in the candy store type experience.
I'm so grateful to the warm and talented Melanie Reyes of Melanie Reyes Photography for entrusting me to create two arrangements as gifts, and also for photographing them for me so I can share these gorgeous images. This is such a gift for me - thank you Melanie!
These arrangements featured gorgeous protea in several sizes and colors, cymbidium orchids, blue eryngium, lotus pods, burgundy peonies, hypericum berries, snowberry foliage
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.
Just a little holiday thank you arrangement featuring protea, cymbidium orchid, snapdragons, leucadendron, hypericum berries and festive foliages in a whitewashed wood box. I hope this makes someone's day!
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!
Here are the last wedding bouquets of 2013! And we just got a perfect dusting of snow, just in time! The bride's bouquet featured huge white polar star roses, burgundy dahlias, and green succulents. The bridesmaids' flowers included silver brunia berries, lavender ocean song roses, dusty miller foliage and burgundy carnations. Yes, bringing carnations back! These were the perfect shade of burgundy and give it almost the soft look of a peony, but a fraction of the cost. The right tones, used in the right way, carnations are winning me over!
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!
Just a quick post today with a snapshot from a sweet centerpiece for a wedding reception at the Baronette Renaissance hotel in Novi. This lovely couple wanted a jewel-toned, contemporary splash of color to add to the modern and sophisticated ballroom at the Baronette Renaissance. I just snapped the quick photo before delivery - can't wait for the pro photos from Precious Memories Photography! The arrangement included blue anemone, purple hydrangea, white polar star roses, geranium foliage and ruscus foliage
This delivery was awesome! These centerpieces were for a corporate dinner in the boxes above Michigan Stadium, in the Jack Roth Stadium Club. It was a fantastic view - what an amazing space! I can see how this would be a fun and memorable, and at the same time very elegant spot for a special party or wedding reception. Let alone how neat it would be to see a game from up there! For this corporate event, I used the businesses' colors of silver and white, and we wanted to keep the flowers from being too feminine. The rectangular vase is a painted silver ceramic, and the arrangement includes white hydrangea, green succulents, blue eryngium, and green geranium foliage arranged neatly for a professional feel. Thank you to Katherine's Catering for including me in this event - it was beautiful, delicious, and well-organized, as always!
Lovely dusty lavender, deep amethyst purple and white centerpieces for a wedding reception at the Michigan League Ballroom. These centerpieces included ocean song and little silver roses, white hydrangea, purple lisianthus, and white polar star roses. I am so looking forward to the pro photos by Linda Wan - I know they will be gorgeous (and so much better than my quick snaps!)
I couldn't believe these 'little silver' roses - mere spray roses - each stem had several blooms nearly 2" across and fully open. They looked fresh from an English Garden!
