So many flowers, so little time!
Where to begin? Start with the vision you have for the day and choose a floral designer who understands the feeling you’d like to convey.
Stuck on the details? Talk it out. Oftentimes when you brainstorm with a flower professional, ideas will start to fall into place. Such was the case for the couple who knew they wanted to incorporate their favorite colors (pink for her, and green for him), but didn’t know how to clarify and unify all of their many ideas.
We considered their first date, which began with dinner at a chic Japanese restaurant. The restaurant has since become a tradition with the couple, a place to honor special events and anniversaries. This got the ball rolling and they were both excited to add Asian influences to their flowers.
The date continued with a walk on the beach. Sand and seashell elements would express their interests and be a way to incorporate their Santa Barbara hometown.
They now had two themes to work from. The bridal bouquet was next, but all the bride knew was that she wanted powder pink garden roses and pink peonies. The suggestion of sand colored roses, white ranunculus and white mini calla lilies complemented the pink tones, and clusters of seashells were added to tie in with the theme.
In contrast to the bridal bouquet, simple bouquets of white garden roses, with seashells strung on streamers of ivory ribbon, went to the bridesmaids.
To balance the femininity of the bouquets, masculine boutonnières were created for the men out of single seashells accented with small trimmings of beach grass and framed with a magnolia leaf.
For the mothers: small posies of their favorite flowers to hold during the ceremony. All it took was a couple of phone calls to find out the mother of the bride loves gardenias and the mother of the groom loves cymbidium orchids.
Developing a tablescape for the reception brought everything together, with contemporary centerpieces filled with powder pink roses and green succulents, accented with horsetails, lotus pods and reeds for texture; clean white soup bowls filled with water, stones and floating single white gardenias, encircled by beach stones and sea glass; and a green cymbidium orchid blossom resting on the napkin to liven up each place setting.
Nico Cervantes, owner of Nico Designs, and event manager Courtney Tentler, provide distinctive floral details for every occasion. NicoDesigns@gmail.com. 680-5497.
