MY Orchid Wedding was GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!

I have been sooooooooooo busy with meetings and wedding prep and weddings and SCHOOL, that I haven't been posting up my wedding like I have.

My Orchid Bride got married to the love of her life today and I was witness to pure love and I was honored to be a part of the day.

I have been to MANY weddings this year, both personal and professionally, and I have teared up once and it was at my OWN wedding! NEVER at a clients weddings. But today I was really inspired and touched not by the words, they were beautiful, but by the gazing into his eyes, and the smiles, and secret words they said to each other during the ceremony that only they could here. Weddings like this make me happy that I have gone into the wedding worlds. I really love weddings! I love my job!!!!

Here are the beginning details.

Okay, so I show up at the flower market the butt crack of dawn and they get my orchids and they are THE WRONG COLOR.

Enter heart attack on the inside, on the outside:
WTF?!?!?!
( ok it's the same reaction, but still)
They gave me some bologna about how they missed their flights.
Again:
WT*?
I finally received them Friday morning. Any other flower and that would be a disaster, but the Orchids come ready to go so I was not too worried.

Here is the Wheatgrass resting and getting ready to shine as centerpieces.

Right after the ceremony I am going to re-use the Orchids from the vases and place them on top of the wheat grass. The brides mom stained the boxes, aren't they wonderful?

These vases with submerged rose petals and curly Willow and Orchids will line her aisle.

Here's the Manzanita Branch with the ribbon and Orchids.
I anchored it down with black river rocks and limes.
There are only two orchids on there in this picture just so I could see what it looks like.

Finally the curly willow.

I wish I could have found my other brown vase like this one but I could only find one in my inventory. Something tells me I let a bride borrow one and I never got it back. :(

Indie Part 2- The Set Up

The Details:

I received an email from the bride that her pro pictures from Emily Heizer over at HeizerPhotography came in and I will share a few here with you.

Aren't they great?

The Reinhardt Alumnae House at Mills College. It was gorgeous and I highly recommend it for a wedding of say 150 or so with a garden look and endless locations to take pictures.
So here is the room when we started. It's the inside of the house that opens up to the lawn. Its separated by floor to ceiling glass on one side.


Here is the Photobooth setting up.


Justin from Photoboof was awesome. Extremely nice and fun, he projected the pictures on to the side of the house for everyone to enjoy as the pictures were taken and it was a big hit. I had to ask him for a business card because he was such a cool guy and very easy to work with!

I walked by a table and had to snap a shot of a corsage, the picture, and the place card.


I have vases that I brought with me to line the walkway to the house. I wanted them to go in a high to low formation. I added dahlias to the highest vases and at night they looked spectacular with the floating candles lit.
Josh did an awesome job setting up, no?



I personally climbed a few trees and stood up on chairs to get these puppies to hang down.
Ribbon, Mason jars, led lights = beautiful



Recognize the house????eh? eh? Its my card box house that I used for my wedding, I just used her engagement photos in the "window slots"

Recognize my manzanita tree? Thnis truly was a GREEN wedding with all the stuff we recycled :)

See the velum lampshades on the wine glasses?

Too, cute. The bride knew it would be chilly in Oakland so she wrapped ribbon around these white blankets that were put to use ASAP.
I have never seen people snatch up blankets that fast!

ACK! I never thought I would fall in love with teacups!



Cupcakes came from Love at First Bite and I heard more than one person commenting on how great they were and I snuck one in(okay two)and they were YUMMY!
The topper was used at his grandfathers wedding in 1947!!!!

Table tops



The final shot with the floral arrangements I made in her lounge area.



I worked from 7am on the finishing touches on the flowers and one arrangement went overboard and had to redone. Flowers delivered at 10:30am. Reception site to meet and direct vendors(catering, photo booth, cake, D.J., servers ect.) from 11:00am -5:15. Cocktail hour from 5:30 -6:30. Greet couple and get them through entrance, dinner, greeting, cake, toasts, and first dance from 6:30 to 8:45pm/ Start to clean up and pack away stuff at 11pm.
Go home, wish I had the energy to blog, but happily go to sleep exhausted at 2am.

{It was awesome}

The happy couple was smiling and kissing all night and they lived happily ever after............