Bouquet for Mary

I have to remember to go to the florist to add a bouquet for Mary to the flowers we're ordering.  Either that, or I'm going to use my toss bouquet...and then toss my actual bouquet...which would be fine with me because I'm probably not going to dry and keep my bouquet forever and ever (more clutter).

Flower Update

Dropped by Redlands Tennessee Florist after school today.  I needed to add 8 mixed flower arrangements and a wreath for the flower girls' hair.

When I first drove up, all the lights were off and the door was closed.  The same thing happened last week when I tried to go by, so I thought she was closed again!  But then I called, and she was there.  While looking up the phone number, I also saw that they had recently won an award for #1 florist based on votes in an IE publication.  Reading the reviews (after almost having a heart attack when I saw there was a 1 star...because we had gone with this florist because we had seen some of her work and she was associated with the venue and the price was right, but then saw that there was only one review that was negative that had been reposted several times at different sites), over and over it was repeated that Sandie had great customer service and really knew her flowers.  This proved to be true especially on this visit.  After talking about gardening and cooking and all kinds of other unrelated topics (as it has happened several times before when I've gone by), we got down to business and changed things up.

Primarily, we switched some flowers around.  We ditched the blue and purple dendrobium orchids.  Instead we're going with the blue-purple delphiniums.  So, now our bouquets are going to be: purple lisianthus, blue/purple delphiniums, white hydrangea, white dendrobium orchids, and lavender tipped white hydrangea in my bouquet.  The boys will have white dendrobium orchids with a peacock feather in their boutonnieres.  We're also adding peacock feathers to the mixed flower arrangements, the bouquets around the dance floor, and the altar arrangements.  I was pretty excited by the time I left Sandie's. 

Yay for bringing in peacock feathers and for Sandie's enthusiasm, which makes me feel more confident in my choices.  :)

Lowe's pit stop

Saw these purple freesia and purple and white calla lilies when we stopped by Lowe's today.

Floral frenzies...

Did you even know there were so many different types of bouquets???

Lisa’s bridal bouquet featured purple lisianthus, lavender and purple calla lilies, blue and green hydrangeas, green spider mums, and hypericum berries. This may be one of my favorite bouquets ever! I’m normally not a huge fan of calla lilies, but the gorgeous purple and white variety shown here really makes the bouquet pop.

Lisa’s bridesmaids carried coordinating bouquets in shades of green and blue with touches of purple.  Flowers included hydrangea, pom flowers, spider mums, and sweet peas. I think these are such sweet and romantic bouquets, and they looked fantastic next to the maid’s purple dresses.  I love how these bouquets coordinate without being too “matchy-matchy.

From http://www.flowersbysnapdragon.com/index.php/blog/

Lavender Bouquet, Lisianthus and Orchid Bouquet,

Kinda feeling the purple calla lily...

Eddie doesn't like the blue from the first two bouquets, and thinks there's too much green in the last two.  I think the green is okay to balance out the other colors.  I'm not really sure what to do with the blues though...maybe just see if she can add teal ribbon to the bouquets some how?

I need to talk to the florist again...  I think I want the purple calla lily, lisianthus, orchid, peacock feathers, and then to ask the florist how to add the hydrangea or the freesia or whatever other flower she may think fits.  I also want to ask her if she's wrapping the bouquets with ribbon and if so what colors she is using etc.

I also wanted to see if she can incorporate peacock feathers into Eddie's boutonniere and the groomsmen boutonnieres.  I still am feeling the white orchid and the peacock feather behind it...

Adding feathers to the bouquets...

Hadn't really found any bouquets with peacock feathers that I liked... Becks posted a link to the site with these pix...  Am tempted to incorporate if possible...

Redlands Tennessee Florist

After putting the deposit on Tennessee Gardens, Eddie's mom, dad, and I went to the on-site florist Sandie White of Redlands Tennessee Florist.  She actually was closing up shop early because it was her 11th wedding anniversary, but she was around long enough to sit with Eddie's mom and I to talk flowers (Eddie's dad took off after being given the go ahead from Eddie's mom as he lumbered bored in the store :) ).

For 12 centerpieces, 2 alter arrangements, 10 pew bouquets, 8 corsages, 10 boutonnieres, a bridal bouquet, three bridesmaids bouquets, one jr bridesmaid bouquet the grand total was $1257.15.

The flowers to be used include: hydrangeas (purple for me, white for the girls), lisianthus (bluish-purple), orchids (dendrobiums and the pink/purple ones, but I want to ask about vandas and phalaenopsis - she didn't seem to know what I was talking about when I asked about them), and freesia.

This vanda orchid looks really cool, but apparently is endangered.

Lisianthus

Freesia

I also want to ask her about this blue/purple orchid:

Not sure if this is natural or painted...but will find out...

I'd rather spend my money on cutlery

Our trip to Moskatels on Friday was semi productive. I was able to look at a prices of a few things like vases, fake flowers, favor stuff, Pris ee ee was a little (lot) appalled at my suggestion to use sandwich baggies with ribbon to hold the favors (at this time, still pineapple tarts and Mexican wedding cookies). I think that's not pretty enough, but for a bag of 25 cellophane wrappers @ $1.99 (approx $20 for 10 sets) vs . $0.28 for those boxes (approx $70 for 250), there's a $50 difference! Maybe we can incorporate the origami box bottom and then the cellophane bags to wrap it up? What color origami paper would we use? And can you buy very specific colors? I eonder if I could find a teal/turquoise and stamp gold swirly designs on it. Buuuuut that might be too much work....

Pris ee ee asked if she didn't spend money on the favors, what would I like her to buy: cutlery? And that became my slogan for the day. I'd rather spend money on something practical like cutlery than on 250 boxes that will be pretty to look at, but thrown away before the night is over. Although, I guess anything that we wrap the cookies in will be tossed.

A centerpiece option that may be reusable, or at least that will make it out of the night without meeting with a dumpster is: Pris ee ee, Joy ee ee, and Mum are pushing for live orchid centerpieces. Wrap them in plant sack material (?) at the bottom or put them in a painted wooden box. Would that be too plain? I guess toss a few votives or such around and you're all set.

I'd be interested in seeing how we could use the hurricane lamps Michelle has, if we have the wedding at TN Gardens.

Flowers and such

Peacock feathers have to be placed at the center and be the tallest part of the arrangements.

What ARE these flowers?


Purple vanda orchids

Centerpieces to fill my time, and yours...

Because I can't sleep... and I'm trying to fill my time... (what in the world am I going to do when I don't have a wedding to plan???)

I love the internet!

Because they have all kinds of discount and buy in bulk stores.

The store I found (www.save-on-crafts.com) has my orchids, vases, floralytes (those things you could submerge in water with the flowers), manzanita trees to my heart's content. All at prices cheaper than Michaels and JoAnns.

I want to buy some sprigs and try my hand at more centerpiece arrangements.

Dresses and Flowers

So I've been scouring The Knot for purple and white ideas... I prefer purple and white to purple and lavendar. I still haven't really found any bouquets that I really love... I do know that I like a purple boquet for myself with some white, and I like the white bouquet with purple accents for the girls.

I like the color of the dresses here, but would want to flip flop the flowers so I'd have purple and the girls would have more white.

This is a little too bright of a purple dress here, but I like the inverse colors. I would not want monochromatic bouquets like these though.

I think the purples in the bouquets are too light here, and I'd like less green in the bouquets.

Oodles of Orchids