Pretty In - Traditional - Pink!

I love pink flowers - all of them - especially gorgeous garden roses and ranuncula! Combine these favorites with one of the most traditional wedding flowers of all time - stephanotis - and you have a truly gorgeous, timeless bridal bouquet.

This beautiful bridesmaids bouquet - in shades of pink - complemented the bride
and the navy blue bridesmaids dresses.

This wedding ceremony featured one of my favorite aisle treatments - ombre petals!

Ceremony/Reception: Villa Antonia
Wedding Planner: Barbara's Brides
Photographer: Anthology - NEED TO CHECK

Friday Photo Spotlight: Gorgeous Four Seasons Ceremony

Nothing is more lovely than the lawn of The Four Seasons in Austin TX - the perfect, romantic spot to say "I Do".
This is one of our favorite ceremony designs from last spring - starting with a beautiful white stage (provided by Townsley Designs) and featuring our 4-post white canopy, aisle runner/petals and suspended pomanders on shepherds hooks all in shades of purples. Just gorgeous!
Ceremony/reception:The Four Seasons, Austin TX
Planner: Pearl Events
Photographer: AJH photography

Fall Flashback

It's May already! And as the summer heat makes its speedy approach, we're turning back the clock to show you some of our favorite pictures from our Fall, 2012 wedding season. Here are just a few that made the cut...


This is one of my favorite events of the season which included an absolutely spectacular 9' cross from Mancino Iron that we completely covered with flowers. Talk about a WOW ceremony piece!
We completed the look with two large, luscious arrangements - in the softest tones of whites, creams, and blush - at the entrance of the aisle. Finally, we lined the aisle with petals and candles for the ultimate romantic space.
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The bridesmaids bouquets were crafted with soft, romantic flowers - sweet and simple to complement the bridal party's rich, indigo blue dresses.

The gorgeous reception - held in the Darrell Royal Ballroom at Barton Creek Resort & Spa - featured gold chiavari chairs, champagne linens, and a combination of gorgeous tall and low centerpieces. Best of all, it featured an adorable bride and groom who were full of smiles - and that's always the best part for us!

Winfield Inn- ceremony

Adorning the aisle.

The gazebo.

The wedding.

Photos- Stacy Cross

Spring weddings : first up Vintage Villas

One of our recent weddings from Vintage Villas-- this is by far one of our favorite and "signature" looks--

yards and yards of ribbon on the last row of ceremony chairs--admittedly so, this doesn't work everywhere, but here it looks great!

Just another gorgeous day at the lake!

The adorable wire cones, this time in shabby chic white--with colorful blooms and my new favorite item--

"the " crystal curtain. So, I saw this recently and absolutely had to have it, I think 3 across the back would be awesome with the soft crystal draping on the front. new. favorite.

Up close and personal with curtain-- I can think of so many places that I want to use this!

The Driskill wedding experience!

A few months ago ( I know, its been a while) we participated in

The Driskill's wedding experience. It was a great afternoon. Along with Barbara from Barbara's brides, we designed all the florals for

The Ballroom. Our other partners in awesomeness included Lauren from The Pink Tulip, Tyler from The Mill Photography Studio, Alexia Gevalia gowns--and I know there were others?

The finished design was absolutely heavenly.

A huge thanks to my design and delivery team for making it look great!

The room featured a beautiful aisle--complete with runner, petals and ribbon draping and finished with these lush floral garlands cascading off the backs of the aisle chairs.

This same garland was repeated on the entry table and the fireplace mantle.

Huge thank you to Tyler--The Mill Photography Studio for the images.

Part 2: Winfield Inn summer garden wedding flowers

Just a few more images... a beautifully dressed aisle waiting for the fun to begin.

One of my favorite images... just a simple floral embellishment to complement the gorgeous draped organza.

Wouldn't you love to know what caused this reaction? Happy times!

Thanks again to Katherine O'Brien.

Shades of summer @ The Winfield Inn: austin wedding flowers

Another gorgeous wedding from last summer--our inbox has literally been filled with gorgeous images. These are from Katherine O'brien.

We designed this wedding on a couple of months notice-- starting with the brides mom before we were able to meet with the bride--their original idea: local wildflowers that they would arrange themselves, after a few challenges they sought out the skills of Bouquets of Austin and we are happy they did!!!

Not exactly wildflowers but gorgeous garden blooms to create the romantic, whimsical look the bride was looking for...

An adorable cake, unfortunately I do not know who created this beautiful cake :(

The aisle and gazebo were high on the priority list--floral embellishments on each chair lining the aisle and the gazebo draped in soft organza.

Summer chuppah--Four Seasons

I just received these images a few weeks ago from a wedding we designed last summer--

we are always happy for an indoor event in the brutal Texas heat.

I loved the soft pastel colors of this event accented with a touch of dark chocolate brown.

Cori and Daniel--

A small world, 12ish or more years ago Daniel was one of our first employees at our pizza place, his sister became an acquaintance from the wedding industry and literally by chance Cori contacted us about wedding flowers.

Who knew?

The entire "stage" and stairs were covered for a very clean, simple ceremony area.

Centerpieces.

One of the benefits of "flipping" a ceremony space into a reception space--the centerpieces can double duty as aisle decor.

This is one of the times that repurposing arrangements can work-- remember there is additional labor involved in this transition but it certainly can be worth it.

Lakeway Resort and Spa- austin wedding flowers

 

Simplicity at its finest-- part of the Vistas ballroom transformed to a ceremony site.

Gold chivari chairs, aisle runner, petals and glass cylinders featuring a floating candle accented a pair of arrangements of green goddess callas, white hydrangea and a touch of fuschia.

 

Overlooking the parched Lake Travis-- one of the great features of this room is the screens that can cover the floor to ceiling windows- helps keep the temperature comfortable.

 

I love these brown metal containers, they are a new addition and will look great with some of our fall weddings.

 

Petals, runner and candles.  I'm always hesitant about the burning candles and water so close to the guests, usually not a problem--we did lose one this time, thank goodness it was as the guests were exiting, it wasn't all that bad.

Outdoor wedding Vintage Villas

 

Not long ago, we spent a summer Sunday afternoon setting up this ceremony and reception at Vintage Villas.  Becky worked with Marisel throughout the process-what started as a small morning wedding with 30 or so guests ended up being an afternoon ceremony with about 100 guests! Funny how things change--Barbara helped with the planning process, as Marisel was out of town and an extremely busy bride.

The tables featured gold chivari chairs, gold rimmed chargers, ivory satin chair ties, tall centperieces with votive candles suspended on crystals.

 

This was one of the hottest days on record! The ceremony area featured hot pink sashes on every chair-hanging roses in the back of the gazebo, a pair of arrangements, flowers studded across the front of the gazeboe, 16 shepherds hook featuring iron lattice cones and flowers and finished with pink petals.

 

A beautiful setting for an afternoon event--how can we get air conditioning out here?

The bridesmaids wore a soft green chiffon dress.

 

These gold branches  were draped with a 100 ft of glass crystals and finished with hanging orchid garlands.

Favorite Summer weddings

 

This wedding was one of our favorites from last year--Becky worked with Amber on all of the details at this ceremony and reception out at  The Horseshoe Bay Resort.  The arbor was accented with hanging crystals, candles and flowers in shades of cream and greens--Amber's gown is a very soft shade of mocha.

 

One of our favorite aisles--pomanders hanging from shepherd's hooks, petals covering the aisleway and  hydrangea and green ribbons on the other chairs--can you tell it is over 95degrees?

 

This aisle was put together very close to the ceremony time due to the heat--mid June=hot!

Heat is definitely something to consider when choosing an outdoor event in Texas in the summer!

Bring on the color

 

Another outdoor ceremony that we designed recently at Vintage Villas gazebo area. We love these new black planters that were placed under the gazebo-they are big enough to have a presence but do not block the view.  The aisle featured shepherds hooks with small bowls of mized flowers in the bright,bold color combo of orange,pink and green!