A Lancaster Country Club Wedding

Starting with the ceremony site- our bamboo structure is very clean and simple. A few white standard Callas with Curly Willow is all it needs. Set-up just off the patio, overlooking the golf course's gorgeous view. Amy said it's a view that makes her feel like running non-stop. I'd rather fly like a bird to enjoy the view:).

The Bride's bouquet of white Mini Callas and Varigated Monkey Grass. The bridesmaids bouquets are in the background: Hot Princess and Black Bacarra Roses.

Centerpieces lined- up to be loaded in the van for the loooong drive across the street. Exactly .2 miles from our shop to the Country Club's door. Now that's saving fuel!
Guest Tables

The Head Table
Another masterpiece cake by Rosie Rohrer.
Photography by Jessie Steadman-Thanks Jess! You're much better at it than your mother!

This week we have a wedding at a private home in Lititz, and Liberty Place. Receptions will be at Liberty Place and the Hamilton Ballroom.

We're on Style Me Pretty!

Stylemepretty, that is! We have been invited to be listed in the Little Black Book of vendors on http://www.stylemepretty.com/

Abby Larson seriously blogs every single weekday, and I'm a devoted reader, almost every single day! When I was invited to be listed I was honored, as this website is by invitation only, and they only list 3 vendors for each category. I wanted to wait until my new website was finished, so as of Monday the 15th, I am one of the few florists on the list.

So tonite I went to my favorite wedding blog and found that Amanda Kraft, a local photographer has submitted her images from one of my clients' wedding and it was featured today, 9/12 (also my daughter Jessie's birthday!) on Abby's blog. Melissa Banta, the bride listed my name as her florist with several flower images. Thanks Melissa and Amanda!

Other local vendors such as Amanda Kraft, The Weibners, Jeremy Hess photography,

Janell Berte and Bella Manse cakes are also listed in the Little Black Book.

I have listed SMP (for short) for several months on my own blog as my favorite. I honestly think it is the very best one in this business. Any brides that are in the pre-planning or planning stages would benefit immensely from reading it daily.

Spread the word! www.stylemepretty.com is the best wedding inspiration site available.

3 Beautiful Weddings

It's about time I posted some pictures of the three beautiful weddings we had this weekend!

My daughter Jessie just got a professional camera for her birthday and I am so pleased with the shots she took of our 3 weddings this weekend. Once again I didn't get to see the Brides because I have to hurry off to set up the receptions. How disappointing for me! That's why I count on the blogs from the wedding coordinator and photographers. Michelle's bridesmaids wore light blue dresses, so bouquets were all blue, green and white.

Nicole's bridesmaids wore chocolate, so her colors were papaya, pink, white and bright green.

Each bridesmaid's bouquet used different flowers, and the Bride's was a combination of them all.

Lancaster Country Club has been updated with gorgeous warm colors. Claudia at Special Occasions is an amazing color expert. She dresses tables to work perfectly with any venue! These linens are called Mango with an organza overlay.

Laura's bridesmaids wore black, so she chose the colors of chartruese and purple. Stunning!

The Bride's bouquet was the traditional, beautiful all white and green using Hydrangea, roses and Freesia. Perfect for her.
Altar flowers were purple and Limelight Hydrangea
The Hamilton Club is always such a nice place to work. I love their signature china. They have done some very nice renovations to the ballroom. It has been opened up and has new neutral wall and trim colors that allow any wedding color palette to look great. The centerpieces were

green and purple Dendrobium Orchids.

We were at 3 churches as well as Lancaster Country Club, The Hamilton Club and the new ( yet old) Historic Strasburg Inn. I'm so glad the new owners brought back the original name; it just makes more sense.

Another amazingly gorgeous cake by Rosie Rohrer, of Rosie's Creative Cakes. Sooo good too!

Each color palette was different so you can just imagine how our workshop looked with almost 400 Hydrangea in white, blue, purple and green. We also had 500 roses in papaya, 2 pinks and white, as well as Orchids, Carnations and Freesia. It was heavenly! Busy- crazy busy but everything went well despite looking horribly rain soaked as I pinned on boutts. and corsages.

My thanks to my wonderful girls: Amy, Jessie, Lynne, Joyce and Bailey for a job well done.

'Team Beautiful" did a great job in torrential, downpouring rain and never complained. I could never do it without them. They truly are the best there is! I love and appreciate you all!

Inspiration Monday

After catching up on my weekly blog, I took the afternoon to relax on the balcony with my stack of books and magazines and seek some fresh inspiration. Ahhh, so much fun........ and relaxing.





" Bride and Bloom" is the one that should set the standard for all wedding publications. Seriously, it is more than worth it's cost. It has the most gorgeous pictures of bouquets you will ever see. It has a page of bookmarks for you to tear- out and mark all your favorites, and features several
'real weddings'.
Another thing that is so inspiring is the photography. You will find some of the greatest ideas for your wedding. Tear-out your favorite pages and put them in a folder to show your photographer the shots you would love to have. Thoughout the magazine are websites that you can go to for even more inspiration. Even the ad pages are so creative and inspiring.


You can only find this magazine in fine bookstores, or you can subscribe.

Here are couple of my favorite hardback flower books. Page through them at a bookstore and make notes on what you love. That way you can impress your florist with doing a little homework !
I can look at them a million times, and always feel newly inspired. Just looking at them makes me feel happy! It was a good day!

Back to work

After almost a month off to welcome our newest little boy to the family, we were back to work with Chris and Huong's wedding. Boy are we pumped for the fall season! Next week we have 3 weddings; so the work begins tomorrow with preparations for several hundred Hydrangeas and several hundred roses to arrive.

Here are just a few photo highlights from this weekend's wedding.

A beautiful Bella Manse cake.A garland of Marlyse coral roses with Lemon leaves and Baby's Breath for the Head Table.

A large vase of Standard Callas from the altar was then placed on the head bridal table.

More pictures can be seen on Planned Perfections' website. Jonnaysa was the coordinator and was able to get some nice flower shots. Thanks J!!!

www.plannedperfectionpa.com/blog

We've been published in the Knot PA

It's almost Deb and Jay's first anniversary. We had such fun with this couple. Deb has been a family friend for several years and when she came to us for her wedding flowers and decor, she was very open to different and unique designs. We were able to come up with a color combination to work perfectly with her venue; which was changed within just a couple weeks of their wedding! Both wedding and reception were held at Casa di Fiori at the Leola Village Inn. The warm colors of the Casa are perfect for a fall wedding.

Kris McElligott of KMPhotography submitted the images for the Knot and we were so excited that it was chosen for this fall's issue. Kris seriously is the most passionate, energetic and creative photographer I've ever met. We love her!!

Deb's Bouquet was made of red and burgundy mini Callas, Solidago, Statice and Pittosporum.

The bridesmaids were Orange Unique Roses, Mango Mini Callas, Solidago, Red-Seeded Eucalyptus and Statice.

Jay's Boutt. was Safari Sunset Leucadendron and Red Seeded Eucalyptus.

Vendors that also made this all happen were:

Planned Perfection-Jonnaysa Kirkham

KM Photography-Kris McElligott

Byers Butterflake Bakery

After a couple weeks break to welcome the new baby in the family, we are gearing up for a busy and exciting fall wedding season. Plenty of new wedding posts will follow each week!

Another Beautiful Baby Boy!

Kole Andreas Wanberg has arrived! 08/08/08. What a great day for our second little grandson to be born. He weighed in at a healthy 8lb. 13oz. Maybe he will grow up to be an Olympian! Boy would his family love that!

Here are just a couple images for me to show him off. I'll get back to work on weddings as soon as I get my head out of the clouds. Between Hudson and Kole I may never come back down! So much love and joy I can hardly contain it. Life doesn't get any better than this!

Hudson comes to the hospital to meet his cousin Kole for the first time. He's only 4 months old , but next to Kole he looks much older than that. Kole is meeting great-grammy Rosie too.