Nate and Christina at Hotel Hershey

Beautiful day, Stunning Bride, Handsome Groom, Hotel Hershey, Planned Perfection,

The Weibners, LaVon films,  Special Occasions,  House of Clarendon candy and dessert bar, Stationary by Designs by Renee + lots and lots of beautiful, colorful flowers =
 Dream Wedding.

Swartzwalder Mini Callas, Uluhe Fern shoots (monkey tails) with sparkle, Black Bacarra Roses that look like velvet and Charlene Rose are what Christina, the bride carried.

Bridesmaids dresses were the color of the stem wrap:  rich, dark red.

Cool Water, Black Bacarra, White Majolika Spray Roses, Osiana Roses, lavendar Sweet Peas,

Swartzwalder mini Callas and Chocolate Cosmos.

The Rock Garden Ceremony Site

White Hydrangea marked the rows and the petals of 300 Roses used to line the aisle.

Purple Dendrobium, Stock and Roses for the high centerpieces designed by Jessie and I.

2 Antique  Silver Candelabra with Roses, Stock and Amaranthus designed by Joyce for the Head Table.

This is only a small part of the Candy and Dessert Bar set up by Martine and his assistant of

 House of Clarendon

Special chocolates from a York Chocolatier were mixed among Christina and Nate's childhood favorites.

This is the epitomy of  'Eye Candy'.  It just can't get any better than this.  Sugar Paradise.

Half of the Guest tables had Compotes with Crimson and Fuschia Stock, Green Hydrangea, red and lavendar Roses.  All placed on perfectly beautiful linens from Special Occasions

Many thanks to the excellent staff at Hotel Hershey for being very accomodating, helpful and friendly.

What a great day!

Best wishes to you Nate and Christina- it's been a delight!!

Color Trend: Purple and Green

 

I can't even begin to count how many weddings we have had this season with these colors.  It seems that green is the color of the decade, and I don't think it's going anywhere for a long time.  This chartruese green makes all the other colors more vibrant and looks great with  purples in shades from lavendar to eggplant.

The bride's bouquet was made of purple Stock, lavendar Hydrangea (which appears blue with my camera),  Cool Water Roses, Hypericum and Pittosporum.

Bridesmaids carried green Hydrangea and Spider Mums.

The couple collected wood frames, sprayed them silver, loaded them with all sorts of votive candles and I added Stock blossoms and green Spider Mums.  A picture of the couple was added to each table.

                                        Cute cupcake display by Flour Power Bakery, Lititz.
                                                       Venue:  Brandywine Manor House

Gorgeous Garden Roses

Beautiful Carmel Antike Garden Roses

Salal garland with Spray Roses and Blizzard Roses

Pink Garden Roses, Lemon Meringue & Akito Roses, Snow on the Mountain and Freesia for bridesmaids.

Sweetheart table.  Linens by Special Occasions

Centerpieces with Hydrangea, Carmel Antike Garden Roses, Blizzard Roses, Cream Stock.

Cocktail tables with Romantic Antike Garden Roses and Blizzard with Snow on the Mountain.

Gift table with Phaelanopsisi Orchids & Roses

Bride's Bouquet with Hydrangea, Patience Garden Roses, Polo Roses, Gardenias and Freesia

I loved working with a few of my favorite colleagues at this beautiful Country Club of York wedding:

  KMPhotography 

 Lavon Films.

Thanks for doing a great job Amy, Jessie and Lynne.

And to Jessie for the blog images.

Best wishes to Alyssa & Caleb for a lifelong very happy marriage.

Like Watermelon and Sunshine

I'm crazy about this bright summery color combination, and this bride wasn't afraid to mix bold colors for her 8 bridesmaids with a pastel palette for her bouquet. The colors and flowers just make me smile.
There are so many beautiful berry and watermelon shades to pick from, and Ashley had Gerberas in mind, so we went for bright, bold Mini Gerbera.  Loops of Bear Grass added some whimsy and texture to the bridesmaids bouquets.  Coral Roses, light pink Freesia and lemon ice mini Gerbera made up the Bride's Bouquet.   Thank you http://www.mattnnat.com/ for kindly sharing some images with me. 
  Reception flowers were cylinder vases that were filled with colorful daisies and a watermelon -colored band of ribbon around it for a finishing touch. ( No pictures yet.)
Beautiful Bride, beautiful attendants, beautiful colors, and a beautiful day for a very, very, very special couple.

Next week we're at Country Club of York and excited to work with KMPhotography, Lavon Films and a gorgeous couple from Texas.

Rainy reception at Lime Spring Farm

Lime Spring Farm's tent site has a solid floor so on this very rainy day this reception was

still nice and dry. 

On the bride's list of favorite flowers were Sunflowers and Hydrangeas.  She came to me with linen samples they had chosen with her uncle Mark, a DC event planner.  My job was to figure out how to make her favorite flowers work with her favorite linen choices.

This linen from Special Occasions, called 'Fiesta' was just right for Sunflowers. We added swirls of gold wire to the vase to replicate the design in the linen.

This linen called 'Indigo Crush' was just right for the Hydrangeas.

The other linen was called 'Ice Blue', which you can see in the background.  It was a silvery blue. With those  we used tall silver Mint Julep vases with Bells of Ireland and cobalt blue Delphinium called Volkenfreiden. 

 (I can't find that image)  Those 3 linens together with green napkins all around made for a very colorful reception, which was enhanced with special lighting by the pros at Shumaker, PDT. 

High- five to Amy, Lindsay G. &  Jessie for doing terrific work in the pouring rain and ankle- deep mud on 2 big weddings, and all with a great positive attitude.

A total of 66 tables between the 2.  Girls, you are the best! 

Photographer for the day was Daniel Mast

Lemon- themed reception at Landis Valley

A rainy Saturday wedding at Landis Valley.  It seems rain is in the sky and mud is on the ground every single time we have a wedding there.   Amy and I in our flip-flops and Jessie and Lindsay in their cute little 'Wellies' came already soaking wet from the first wedding that day at Lime Spring Farm. ( I'll post those pictures next week). The next day Jessie came over with a gift of  my very own cute little pair of  Wellies for any future wet Wandis Walley weddings. 

  Above are a few details of an otherwise very lovely wedding.  The bridesmaids wore blue dresses and carried yellow Mini Callas.  The Bride's bouquet was all white mini Callas. So rainy I forgot to get pictures of bouquets!

-First is the Ring Bearer's box.  We painted a wooden box black and covered it with yellow button Mums and tied it up with black ribbon. 

-The next is 2 buckets of  rain- no just kidding...... it's floating flowers and candles placed at the beginning of the ceremony aisle.  The wedding was to be held in the grove, but because of rain it took place in the barn; therefore the candles couldn't be lit.  You must hire a 'candle-watcher'  from LV because of the historic value of the barn.

- The couple came to Landis Valley from West Chester and brought with them the catering company called appropriately, "Limoncello".  The centerpieces  called for yellow Lilies, and of course Lemon slices. 

We had to get out of the rain before the favors were put out, so we have no pictures, however they were bottles of homemade Limoncello liquer made by the couple themselves. 

- Yellow Gladiolas and Curly Willow branches are set in place for the Bruschetta/ Anitpasta tables, as well as tall footed cylinders of Lemons and Lilies and button Mums for buffet tables in the barn after the wedding.

       Congratulations to Tony and Julia!  I know the rain didn't spoil their wedding day one bit!

Vintage Style

Mixing it up a little bit with reception pictures first.

My assistant Lynne loves the assignment to be on "the hunt" for wedding related items.  This time she was 'head over heels' excited to be hunting down Milk Glass for vintage styled centerpieces.  She found so many beautiful pieces that she just couldn't pass a single one by.... so guess who has a 'boat-load' of great milk glass!?  Centerpiece flowers were South American blue Hydrangea, and local blue Hydrangea with green Hypericum.

                The 'Quilled' table numbers, a vintage art, were handmade by the bride and her mom. 

The Bride's bouquet was designed with green Hydrangea, White Lisianthus, and white Majolika Spray Roses and green Cymbidiums.

Bridesmaids carried bouquets of blue Hydrangea, green Cymbidium, Dendrobium and Hypericum.

3 Beautiful sisters:  Haley, Kelsey and Whitney

         Thank you for the privilege of doing another Brown family wedding.  Always a pleasure!

Another gorgeous cake by Rosie Rohrer