Friday Wedding!

Hand tied gerberas with blue gem accents for the flower girl!

Three little grandmother clutches ready to go!

The Bridal bouquet, a combination of hydrangea, lisianthus, freesia, ranunculus, tulips, euryngium and hypericum berry.  All the textures put this bouquet over the top!



This is for a small and simple wedding at Heritage Hill.  I absolutely love the chapel there, it is so quaint and beautiful!

Pussy Willlow Tree

These little beauties just came in I am in love, deep, serious love.  I have never seen a pussy willow tree before and it may just be the sweetest little thing ever!

Here the story of the Salix Caprea Pendula

The weeping pussy willow is among the most graceful of trees.  It is connected with all that is feminine-dreaming, intuition, emotion, enchantment, healing and revitilization.  The willow has long since been recognized as a scred tree by poets, philosphers and religious leaders because of the flexibility of its twigs.  The willows flexibility symbolizes resilience and inspires us to move with life rather than resist what we are feeling.

Legend has it that willow is bestowed with magical power capable of fulfilling wishes. (Awesome!)  For a wish granted, ask permission of the willow explaining your desire.  Select a pliable shoot and tie a loose knot in it expressing your wish.  When your wish is fulfilled, return and untie the knot.  Remember to thank the willow for your gift.

Now how cool is that?!?!? Who couldn't use a wish fulfilling tree of adorableness?

Look at those blooms!

For care keep well watered indoors for first winter.  Silvery white catskins will appear followed by yellow stamens later in the season.  After flowering, cut back to within twi inches of the stem allowing new branches to come for the following year,  Plant outside in spring and keep well watered for the first year. 

I'm off to tie some knots in Persephone the pussy willow tree!

Flower Power {Meaning}

{Photo courtesy of Adam LeSage}

Incorporating flowers with meaning is a great way to add a little something special to your wedding.  If your mom always grew gladiolas maybe you would want to incorporate those in your alter pieces, did your fiance bring you tulips for your first date? Why not include some in your bouquet?

Here are some hidden meaning of flowers:

Allium - good fortune

Amaryllis- pride

Anemone- abandonment (surpsing for such a cutie!)

Anthuruim- attraction (hmmmm)

Aster- beginnings

Chrysanthemum- hope

Crocus- youthful

Daffodil- chivalry

Daisy- innocence

Delphinium- swiftness

Dogwood- endurance

Freesia- calm

Gardenia- grace

Gerbera- purity

Hyacinth- young love

Hydrangea- boastful

Lily- virtue

Orchid- ecstasy (40 days and 40 nights comes to mind!)

Poppy- dreams

Ranunculus- charm (I must agree!)

Rosemary- rememberance

Tulip- hopeless love (tell me about it)

So that above bouquet- turns out it's erotcially boastful! Who knew!?!

Flower Power {Color}

{Photo courtesy of Adam LeSage}

In today's Flower Power lesson we are going to focus on Color.

Color is probably the most influential aspects of design.  Sure line and composition have a  lot to do with it but color is the best at communicating emotion, in my humble opinion.  My husband and I have a very dark bedroom, deep eggplant and chocolate brown, it's perfect for sleeping, not so great for waking up! I only wish I could change it to yellow and orange for morning! ;)

When it comes to planning a wedding, or any event for that matter, color is key.  Think of the emotion you want to portray, zen (green and purple), fun (orange and red), serene (sage and blue), fresh (yellow and white), elegant (plum and rum). 

Are you drawn to high contrast (black/white/red) or monochromatic (ivory/rum/pink).

Blue~ trustworthy, dependable and comitted, perceived as constant.

Green~ fertility and life, rest, wellness.

Yellow~ optimism, enlightenment and happiness.

Orange~ fun, flamboyant, warmth and energy.

Red~ passion, commands attention.

Pink~ youthful, fun, happiness and light hearted.

White~ purity, cleanliness, innocence and simplicity.

Purple~ mystical, royal, favored by eccentrics and creative types.

What's your favorite color and why?

~Angie

*color information taken from http://www.weddingmagazine.co.uk/*

Welcome!

 Hello fine readers and welcome to the buds n bloom design studio blog.  We look forward to sharing what's going on in the shop and other tidbits of interest. 

The above arrangement is tulips and mimosa with a silver wire sphere accent and will be going to Plae Bistro tonight to grace a dinner table full of mommas!

Tulips happen to be one of my favorite flowers.  They come in a variety of colors and you can't help but thinks spring when you see them! Little known fact is that they come available to us in January! Right when the snow and cold really starts to wear on you- voila- tulips! (Be sure to take your vitamin D too!)

These little lovelies aren't too shabby either.  Amnesia roses, a khaki/lavendar color that is just amazing and would pair beautifully with all the eggplant and oyester we've been seeing for weddings!

  

The real stars here are the anemones! Look at them reaching and sprawling out.  These anemones could not have been a more vibrant purple- totally knock your socks off!

Tiptoeing though the tulips!

~Angie