This Spring season has been filled with many days of grey clouds and stormy weather, but I can always count on past wedding galleries to bring some sunshine to rainy days. Tristin and Andy’s wedding in particular is a favorite filled with a vibrant and joyful color palette of pastel yellows, pinks, and blues and featuring some of our favorite …
The start of a new wedding season is approaching quickly as the weather in central Illinois shifts from gray skies and winter whites to vibrant color beneath a warm blue sky. That same sense of warmth and joy that spring brings was beautifully reflected in Anna and Anthony’s summer wedding—and I expect to see colorful, romantic garden-party styles continue into …
Nothing says summer quite like a design studio overflowing with vibrant, fresh florals. For their warm-weather celebration, Celeste and Jason embraced a striking palette of hot pink, fuchsia, and orange layered against deep saturated greens. Celeste carried a playful, personality-filled bridal bouquet showcasing orange and yellow poppies, lush roses and ranunculus in soft apricot hues, and lively stems of fuchsia …
While we love the timeless elegance of classic designs and all white weddings, there’s something undeniably magical about a spring wedding in full bloom that embraces the season’s natural palette of buttery yellows and soft pinks set beneath a warm, light-blue sky. Alyssa and Charlie’s garden-party inspired wedding felt like stepping into a real-life fairytale, overflowing with fresh, premium, colorful …
May 2024 We love when clients become friends over the process of designing their wedding flowers but, even better is when friends become our clients! Kelsie and Drew’s wedding was especially sweet to design because Kelsie didn’t start out as one of our brides, but as part of our team at J.Blu Design. Kelsie owns her own company called The …
In 2024, J.Blu Design was invited to flower not one, but two pop-up wedding events at Company 421, a local, intimate event space in Mahomet, Illinois. This business was started when Hillary, of Hillary Rae Events, realized a need for a local venue space that could accommodate intimate weddings and smaller events. With simplicity in mind, she created the perfect …
August 2024 It’s 2025 and we are back on the blog! During these frigid, midwest winter days, I dream about the previous summers weddings, full of bright colors and warm tones. Looking back at Kellie and Connor’s late summer wedding at Haven on the Farm almost makes me think I can feel the warm sun on my face with a …
March 2024 We are back again at the beautiful Pear Tree Estate in Champaign to celebrate Rachel and Chris’ romantic spring wedding. After a long winter season, we were excited to work again with a fun mix of spring colors and seasonal flowers to bring this couple’s vision to life, featuring peach garden roses, yellow and pink ranunculus, purple clematis, …
September 2023 Lauren and Trevor described their wedding style as whimsical, simple and natural. I’d add ethereal, airy and garden inspired. One of my favorite things about Lauren’s bouquet is how it looked different from every angle. We designed the bouquets with focals of purple scabiosa, blue-centered anemone, white ranunculus and cosmos with fillers of blue thistle, tweedia, wax flower, …
September 2023 Take two for Blakely and Kristian! If you’ve heard this couple’s amazing story, you know it’s a miracle that they got to have their well deserved, big garden party wedding celebration. After a traumatic medical emergency for the bride, the couple opted for an intimate church ceremony and backyard reception on their original wedding date back in June …
June 2023 Blakely and Kristian’s summer wedding was filled with light and airy white blooms with hints of light blue and textural greenery. After some unexpected health issues, the couple decided on a small and intimate wedding at their catholic church followed by a simple backyard reception for very close family and friends. For Blakely, we created a flowy, all …
April 2023 Amanda and Chase chose a classic white wedding style with ferns for a little bit of whimsy. Amanda’s bouquet was filled with lush white blooms of playa blanca roses, tulips, ranunculus, freesia, hellebore and lisianthus with ruscus, leatherleaf, and sword fern greenery. Bridesmaids bouquets were smaller versions of the bridal but with a touch of quicksand roses to …