Be sure to check out the Sandy Springs Festival this weekend! Here are the details for the event:
Hours - Saturday: 9:00 am to 7:00pm and Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00 pm
Where - Right near CityWalk
What - community fun! Don't miss the pet parade at 11:00 am on Saturday. And you can register early tomorrow morning for the Doug Kessler Lightning 10k.
Click here for more information.
[The picture on the right is from last year's festival.]
Flowers do not have to be limited to bouquets, centerpieces, and ceremony decorations. There are tons of ways of bringing flowers into other elements of your wedding. Below are just some random ideas I have run across recently.
I love the idea of using a flower to accent each place setting. And I adore the little ranunculus cuff in the first picture below!
[pictures via In Style Weddings and brides.com]
Another unique idea is to use a little bud vase with a single flower for your place cards, which could double as a favor. I especially like this idea for bridal showers, which are often smaller, making the idea more budget friendly! Or just add a creative flower arrangement near your escort cards to add some more color.
[In Style Weddings and brides]
And I love this idea of using mums to decorate the swizzle sticks for these lemonade drinks!
 | After the post last week about different corsage ideas, I found a few more wrist corsages (on the left) that were interesting. I think they could help spark some creative thinking about how to design some wrist corsages. They remind you that are not so limited to just selecting which flowers to use, but how to accent the corsage and how to use leaves, other flowers, and materials for the band. Any of these could work for a wedding or for prom. The first and last ones are definitely an out-of-the-box designs. I love the idea of using the craspedia (also know as billy buttons or woollyheads) as the band and the use of the anthurium for focal point. For more information click here. On the right you can see some recent prom corsages that we have made up. They are made with roses and dendrobium orchids and sprinkled with succulents, grape hyacinth, wax flowers, and greens. The band on the first corsage is made from a strand of pearls! The band for the middle corsage is a "diamond" band - really Austrian crystals! |  |
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Even though this year's Dogwood Festival is not at Piedmont Park, due to the drought, it is still a great opportunity to check out some artwork and hear some live music. So take Marta down to Lenox Square this weekend and walk around a bit. Hey, you can even do some shopping while your at it!
Lenox Square
3393 Peachtree Road N.E.
Atlanta GA 30326
Friday, April 4, 12:00 - 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 5, 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Sunday, April 6, 12:00 - 6:00 PM
Click here for more information.
Have a great weekend!
For a bridal shower a few months back, we created monochromatic gerbera hand-tied bouquets. The mini-bouquets were placed throughout the entire room. I loved the bold, bright colors of the flowers. I think overall it was modern and simple. Plus, with the gerberas, it looked super cute! Check out a few of the arrangements. We got lots of complements on them!
In San Francisco this week, the de Young Museum is featuring "Bouquets to Art," which is a fundraiser for the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. This annual event features around 150 floral arrangements from outstanding floral designers in the local area. The floral designers are challenged to make floral arrangements that depict the artwork in the gallery.
[picture from San Francisco Gate]
Click here for more information. And click here for some more pictures from last year's event.
On Monday, we showed you one of Jane Packer's floral arrangements. She is tops when it comes to floral designers. Packer has a few schools dedicated to teaching floral design, has authored numerous books about flowers, and has designed the florals for some famous weddings. Brides Magazine featured an event with some of her floral designs (she partnered with Donna Stain, for this). I love the gift boxes and the flower garland for the escort cards. It is all really cute!
For more pictures of the event, click here.
Although these floral arrangements were created for a wedding reception, the ideas, especially the gift box idea, could be used for any number of occasions, including birthdays, baby showers, and bridal showers.
With the Academy Awards Presentation on Sunday, Hollywood is busy preparing for the all the parties. One of the biggest parties following the Oscar Ceremony is the Governors Ball. This year, the color theme is red with gold accents as a tribute to the Oscars' 80th anniversary: think red carpet, gold statues. Some 15,000 roses will be used in the arrangements! James Storie orchids will add the splash of gold to compliment the red. The overall look is stunning!
YumSugar was lucky enough to check out the preview of the event and posted some wonderful pictures of the flower arrangements. Click here for more details and more pictures. At the end of YumSugar's post, you can watch a short video clip from the "flower guy" Mark Held of Mark's Garden. Here is a preview:
[pictures from YumSugar]
On another note - Pink Martini, a 12-member pop orchestra group from Portland, Oregon, will headline the entertainment at the Ball. I saw them in concert last year and really enjoyed their fun, eclectic, and worldly music. The lead singer sings beautifully in at least 4 different languages.
Enjoy the Oscars!
