flowers and bridesmaids update

i seriously wished i some awesome stuff to report, or proclaim i checked off a million things on my ever growing wedding list...but alas, i do not haha...not only are we still florist-less, i think i discovered even MORE things i'm supposed to get done...like say oh i don't know, secure an officiant? it's not too late to find one now right?

after much pondering, i've decided against the green flowers for my bridesmaids, the reasoning behind this is 2 fold, 1) chris hates green flowers, he thinks they look unnatural (he's weird yes i know) and 2) i think it will save me stress and headache on deciding what flowers they will include if i just simple said to the florist, what my bouquet looks like, cept the smaller sister version...this works for me everyone will match and everyone is happy with the choices...the centerpieces are a whole other animal...that has also evolved from the tree to something more low key like this:

my how has wedding planning evolved eh?

but i can very happily say that all my girls have been measured and the dresses are due for delivery in early october, which means there should be plenty of buffer time for alterations for the big day.

because i got flowers on the brain

here's another stunning bouquet i love

monkeys off my back - flowers

i really have nothing exciting to report on the whole wedding planning front, i mean 4 months out and i still didn't secure my florist, i think i was supposed to have done this like 3 months ago haha. but que sera sera!

with the encouragement of faithers, i made an appointment to meet with richard who is the in house florist for fox hollow for this saturday and he asked me to do the research on what i wanna do about florals...i have a big fat question mark here ladies...i have no real idea what to do haha...centerpieces you might recall from our last post we wanted to do hanging votives off of tree branches but since its a day time wedding in a ballroom with a lot of natural lighting, this might not be the best idea.. so richard suggested blossoming branches...something like this i'd imagine
the colors will work perfectly with our wedding scheme and i kinda like it, i wonder what chris' thoughts are on this? the branches and votives were originally his pick.

next to contemplate are bridal bouquet and bridesmaids...generally speaking, white and ivory roses are my absolute favorite flowers of all time... so i was thinking of something like this:
i like the green berries so i'll make a point to have the florist incorporate some of that into the bouquet

for the bridesmaids, i was leaning towards green florals like this:
this will really pop against their sapphire blue dresses.

boutonnieres and corsages will just coordinate, have the florist figure that one out, i can't be bothered with it anymore at this point...

and lastly for today, i was thinking about putting a fresh flower in my hair instead of a headpiece ala:
but not sure if the green will work with my wedding look so the alternative might be something like this:


until next time! peas out!

flowers flowers and more flowers

the one thing that my ever loving fiance really cared about in terms of wedding "florals" were the centerpieces...when we signed out contract with fox hollow and did a final walkthrough of the ballroom, they were setting it up for a wedding and these guys were being put into place

(from tina's wedding at fox hollow, picture courtesy of her liweddings.com review)

we have been trying to get quotes for this guy and it's EXPENSIVE!!!! UBER DUPER EXPENSIVE, the fairest price we got so far was actually from our in house florist, which is fantastic but still a bit over budget for us, so i don't know if we really wanna suck it up or if we want to look for something else...chris really loves it and i can care less what the centerpieces look like really (i know, ::GASP::), but when it comes to our personal flowers, THAT my friends are another story...so we all know my girls will be wearing sapphire, so i started brainstorming what would work great with the dresses, and i came across this:

(images from theknot.com)

Doesn't this look sharp? the flowers bring out the color of the blue dresses and the dress really makes the green stand out i thought... i love it! the best part is, i love white roses, the cream ones with a hint of green are also a favorite and to top it all off i love green orchids! its like harmony!

i also saw this which i thought was kinda interesting and would possibly work very well too, let me know what you think:

(image from theknot.com)

the bouts and corsages will obviously also echo these same flowers roses and orchids...flower girl will most likely be throwing the standard rose petals..

i also had a vision of a petal lined aisle like this instead of an aisle runner

(image from brides.com)

but that will probably be overkill :)