July 2024 As winter draws close and we near the end of our season, I can’t help but dream about the warm days of summer past. Nothing portrayed summer more than Emily and Jake’s elegant day featuring the warm color palette of peaches, oranges, and buttery yellows full of summer favorite blooms of local zinnias, cosmos, lisianthus, and dahlia at …
May 2024 Another beautiful summer day brings us back to the prairie landscape of The Hesed House Venue in Heyworth, Illinois. Madison and Gavin chose a classic, romantic white and fern greenery color palette with neutral native grasses for textural accents to compliment the picturesque scenery. For Madison, we designed a slightly cascading bridal bouquet of all white blooms featuring …
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 Suzanne and Nick’s florals focused on white and blush blooms to compliment the couples navy and olive green color palette, perfect for their September wedding as Illinois transitioned from summer to fall. For Suzanne, we designed a large and lush bouquet filled with white playa blanca roses, ranunculus, lisianthus, stock, and spray roses with just the slightest touch …
September 2023 Meredith and Hunter’s September wedding boasted earthy natural colors, dried grasses and neutral florals that were a perfect transition from summer to fall. Meredith’s boho bridal bouquet was filled with lush blooms of playa blanca and quicksand roses, caramel colored carnations, and brownie lisianthus with a focus of textural nigella pods, bleached ruscus, dried pennycress, and foraged grasses …
September 2023 Ashton had a very clear vision for her and Corey’s wedding day. When it came to flowers, she wanted sunflowers front and center. For Ashton, we designed a large bouquet featuring the bright yellow blooms and softening their large faces by adding playa blanca roses, stock, feverfew and craspedia with accents of trailing ruscus and eucalyptus greenery to …
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 …
August 2023 Kali and Jake chose a beautiful light and airy summer favorite color palette full of dainty white blooms with touches of light blue accents for their wedding at The Hesed House in Heyworth, Illinois. We designed Kali’s bouquet with white blooms featuring seasonal, locally grown dahlias, cosmo, scabiosa, bachelors buttons, ranunculus, stock, babies breath, and playa blanca roses …
August 2023 Part of a florist’s job is finding the right flowers that reflect the couple and their personal wedding style. For Jessie and Bodee, that meant lots of textural elements and warm neutral blooms for their rustic summer wedding at the Bodee’s family farm. In Jessie’s bridal bouquet, we chose lush quicksand, toffee, and moab roses for the base …
August 2023 Caseelynn and Marshall celebrated their wedding day with lots of summer color for their August Wedding at The Barn at Fairview Acres. We chose to fill Caseelynns lush bridal bouquet with locally grown blooms of dahlias, cosmos, zinnias, lisianthus, scabiosa, ranunculus, calla lilies and globe thistle for hints of dusty blue with eucalyptus greenery to complete a light …
June 2023 Summer al fresco dining, but take it up a notch. When asked to design the tablescape for this rustic, farm-to-table dinner, I knew immediately I wanted to use containers, plants and flowers that had the feeling of being gathered around the farm. Each farmhouse table was lined with different eye-catching creams and greens. A collection of crocks, vintage …
June 2023 Taylor and Nick had a classic summer wedding color palette full of bright whites and touches of blush with deep green accents. Taylor didn’t want to be overpowered with a large bouquet so we designed her and her bridesmaids smaller bouquets of lush peonies, tibet and quicksand roses, ranunculus and stock with deep green ruscus and eucalyptus greenery …