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.

What a week!

The week started with a request for bouquets for a photo shoot to promote the new Marriott at the Lancaster Convention Center. What a privilege. The fun thing is that I could be creative.
For one bouquet I used Swartzwalder mini Callas, green mini-Cymbidium orchids and Lily grass. The stems are covered with Lily grass and green wire rather than ribbon. Anita and Sean were married at St. Anthony's Church in Lancaster, with the reception at the Hamilton Ballroom at Wheatland Place. Check The Weibner's blog for pictures.
Sean is from an Irish Catholic family, so it was very important for him to have Bells of Ireland on the altar at the church. The boutts. were small pieces of Bells of Ireland. The centerpieces were Bells in a cube vase with lemon and lime slices. We placed lemons and limes across a bed of lemon leaves on the bridal table and lots of candles. Check Hamilton Ballroom's blog for pictures.

The beautiful cake was made by Rosie Rohrer from Rosie's Creative Cakes

Only 12 days until our little grandson Kole will make his entrance into the world. I'll be posting pictures of course!!

Vendors links:
http://hamiltonevent.blogspot.com

www.rosiescreativecakes.com

www.theweibners.com

2 Wedding Weekend

We started on Friday with Meredith and Dan's wedding in Mt. Joy at St. Mark's UM Church. It's a beautiful old church with stained glass windows and curved pews. Here are some details. Spray rose petals fill lacey cones in a white pail for the exit photo. Mini bouquets of green Cymbidium Orchids for the Mothers.Loading up the van with the flowers.....................
Bouquets for the Bridesmaids were blue Hydrangea, peach roses, green Orchids and Hypericum.

Bride's bouquet is white roses, white mini Callas with tiny crystals and white Cymbidium Orchids.
Back at the shop, Amy is preparing the Curly Willow branches with Orchids for centerpieces.

Reception decorating for this wedding was so much fun. It's energizing playing 'beat the clock' to glue hundreds of Orchids on branches and Lily grass before the guests arrive. The bridal table had white Orchids and the guest tables had green Orchids.
Another one of Rene's masterpieces.........always a work of art! (Bella Manse)
WEDDING #2

Nicole and Donny

Hamilton Ballroom

Bride's Bouquet, being held by a bridesmaid, has her late grandmothers tennis bracelet and heart pendant attached to her stems. Nicole misses her grandma very much and wanted to take something of hers with her down the aisle. Her bouquet was simply white Dendrobium Orchids.

Bridesmaids carried bouquets of Purple Hydrangea, Alstromeria, Cymbidium Orchids and Carnations. The colors looked beautiful with their periwinkle dresses.

Just a couple reception pics. before my batteries gave out. No cake pictures, but once again, Rene of Bella Manse made a beautiful cake with purple Hydrangeas on the top and layers.

The delicate Smilax garland is a dainty tropical vine. We added orchids all the way across the long Bridal table with lots of green votive candles.


The popular Pilsner Vase with a submersible light and a Blue Bon Dendrobium Orchid submersed inside the vase of water.

**Thanks to Amy and Lynne for making this a successful 2-wedding weekend.

Caterer: Old Greenfield Inn-always a nice staff and the fare looks and smells wonderful.

Next week features 2 weddings and a bridal shower. Yellow....the new hot color!

A Monday Wedding-Christina and Michael

The day began terribly rainy as I loaded the van full of colorful bouquets, and boutts. for a Monday wedding. Thankfully it cleared up in time for Christina and Michael's wedding at the absolutely beautiful Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Columbia. The gothic architecture is breath-taking. I could just picture the nuns of years past in their black and white habits singing as they processed along the huge stone arched- lined side aisles with beautiful stained glass windows. Such a sacred atmosphere. And I'm sure Christina looked something like Maria Von Trapp in her beautiful princess gown as she walked down the very long aisle to her waiting groom.

The bridesmaids wore navy dresses and carried bouquets of Lilies, Roses, Alstromeria, Larkspur, Carnations and Craspedia (Billy Balls). I didn't mean to post this image twice, but can't figure out how to delete it. If anybody knows an easy way, feel free to email me with instructions. Good thing that blogs are informal formats:)

Pew markers did double -duty. Once at the church, then onto the Bridal table at the Eden.
Jonnaysa and I tag-teamed the set-up at the church and reception. Check her blog for pictures of the bride and groom plus other details at:

www.plannedperfectionpa.com/blog Thanks J. it's always great working with you!!

4 Weddings and a Brand New Website!

Started off with a Friday wedding reception at the Hamilton Ballroom at Wheatland Place. http://www.hamiltoneventsinc.com/ It is so fun to decorate because the black, white and chrome decor wears every color scheme you can come up with. This couple was married in Las Vegas a few weeks earlier. Lea loves red and orange, so we made huge spheres of Carnations and Gerbera on tall cylinders for the buffet tables.
Rettew's was the caterer. http://www.rettewscatering.com/ The fare was elegant and smelled fantastic! Jennifer was tending very precisely to the details of the set up and service. What a nice crew.

Saturday's wedding was held in Ephrata for Michelle and Jeremy. The bridesmaids dresses were sage. They carried green and yellow roses. The Bride's bouquet added white mini-Callas.
Their reception was held at Liberty Place. http://www.libertyplace.net/

Two little flower girls carried these stuffed animals with flowers and little veil. They are only 1yr. and 3 yrs. old. I bet they were adorable. Check http://www.singlexphoto.blogspot.com/ for more images.

Here is a great idea for your Head Table.....if the bridesmaids have shawls that match their dresses but don't want to wear them....use them as table runners. Works perfect!! Adds color and texture. This head table had over 20 sitting around a huge "I" shape. The runners really helped fill space in the middle.

On to Sunday's wedding.......Talk about bright and happy colors! This couple got engaged on a trip to Ireland, so using Bells of Ireland with colorful Gerberas was the order. This wedding and reception took place at the Marion Courtyard Restaurant. The ceremony and reception were under a tent. Tables were dressed in stripes of Hot Pink, Orange and Green. Bowls of Goldfish and Gerberas were the centerpieces. Bright colored Japanese lanterns hung from the tent ceiling. Even the wheelchair for the bride's Grandmother was decorated in the colors of the day. The bridesmaids wore hot pink and orange too and carried handfuls of Gerberas and Yoko Ono button poms with lots of colorful buttons and ribbons.


Amy and I were so excited to see this cake Rene of Bella Manse made to tie it all together! How amazing and fun is that! Her cakes always look so perfect. And scrumptious! Check her website for lots more inspiration. http://www.bellamanse.com/

We had another Sunday wedding at Calvary Church and the Eden Courtyard, however the camera went to Marion Courtyard and I didn't get pictures. Maybe I can get some from the bride to post later. She is a Mary Kay consultant, so guess what her colors were.........PINK!

Next week were doing a "Monday"wedding for a military couple, and back to the Eden Courtyard for the reception.
We get to work with Jonnaysa of Planned Perfection....yay!! http://www.plannedperfectionpa.com/

Check out my brand new website!

Lindsay's Baby Shower

My latest creation: Rubber Duckie made of Flowers.



We at ATB had a couple weeks off to work on the next big event in the Steadman family, which is another baby boy to arrive on 8/8/08. Under a tent in our back yard we had a marvelous baby shower to welcome little Kole Andreas Wanberg. ( His daddy is a Swede, therefore the typical spelling of Cole is changed.) The shower theme used 'rubber duckies' in remembrance of our beloved Grampy who passed away before knowing that Kole was on the way. He would always squeek his rubber -duckie over the phone to his little grand-daughters before he would say good-by on his long distance calls. (sniff-sniff-boy do we miss him!)

Our guests signed a framed poster of colorful rubber-duckies for the nursery with good wishes.

Aunt Amy painted the letters of his name for his nursery shelf.

Decorations included a clothesline with hanging baby clothes . The onesie in the middle says: " Party in my crib :2am." The tiny camo-gear is from his Pop-pop who can't wait to take his grandsons hunting and fishing someday!

One element a little "off-theme" was the cake. The reason being that Erik (daddy) says he just can't wait to buy toys for Kole; like diggers and trucks. So I bought this little digger set and took it to Rosie of Rosie's Creative Cakes and told her to be creative! This was the biggest hit of the shower! She made rocks and boulders of delicious chocolate fondant. She wrote "ground-breaking addition" on the barricade, added grass, and little orange caution-cones made of fondant! Everyone said it was the most delicious chocolate cake ever! Visit her website at http://www.rosiescreativecakes.com/. Her wedding cakes are beyond beautiful and always delicious!

Then as the guests said good-bye, they took a little rubber duckie along home that had a colorful glycerine soap from Bath & Body Works attached. We put them in this antique baby bath tub that I bought at an antique auction. We also had a baby-bottle shaped sugar cookie wrapped to go.

My three lovely daughters- Jessie, Amy and soon-to-be-mommy, Lindsay.

Hugs to our 'other daughter' Erika Hengst for the great photography and for taking care of all the shower games. She should be in the picture above. She's a very special part of our family .

Whether it's showers or weddings, we love the details......and we LOVE our little babies!!

This week we're back to work with 4 weddings and a 25th anniversary bride's bouquet. Some really fun tabletops will be in the next post!

Hudson

This is a wedding blog but I just can't help sharing this picture of my 8 week-old grandson, Hudson. He's the light of my life. He melts my heart when he smiles at me.... and to think that we will be adding another little boy to our family in August. All I can say is that God has been doubly-good to me.