Kate and Tim

The bride's bouquet with dark purple hydrangea, lavender roses
and sweet pea, red roses with italian ruscus.

The maid's bouquet with vibrant red and pink celosia.

Boutonniere with purple Thai pepers from my garden.

Yep, that's me delivering alter arrangements to the church. :)
You can see a peek of my son, Luc behind me. What a good little helper.

At the Arboretum reception I used containers of purple sage, silver thyme, chartruse lysimachia and purple Thai peppers in a square, metallic silver glaze container. The guests brought them home and were able to plant them in their gardens. Everything except the peppers will grow again next year! Nice! This is my favorite way to do centers for tables.

Thank you Wendy Maybury for the pretty photos!

Tricia and Joel

"Soft, blue and pretty." I am pretty sure those were the exact words Tricia's mom used when we met for our first consultation and Tricia agreed. :)
I loved the maids' ocean color dresses (cool looking in the high heat of July) and Tricia is just beautiful, inside and out. Gotta love her, she is a teacher!

The bride's bouquet was created using: blue South American hydrangea, light blue tweedia, fresia, sweet pea, mini calla lily and deep blue cornflowers

The maids carried blue hydrangea, fresia and white spray roses

The family did a great job with the DIY table centers. A few blue hydrangea blooms in a neat and simple square vase. Clean, fresh and just right. (fyi: So easy to do, a great money saver!)

Thank you, Tricia and Joel and Congratulations!

Lovely photos by (fellow Chaska resident!) Jeffery Stone Photography

Sarah and Sahand

The bride's dress was worn by her mother and grandmother on their wedding days.

the bride's bouquet: black dahlia, black/eggplant mini calla, pink nerines, lilies and roses

front of bride's bouquet

The bride requested I place "something blue" on her bouquet.
I found these antique earrings and placed them on the back of the bouquet,
to face Sarah as she walked down the asile.

maid of honor's bouquet

a maid's bouquet

the reception
James J. Hill Library

handsome photos by Studio 306
Thank you!

Blues and Browns

Alyssa and Matt were married last Friday at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Maple Grove and they wanted brown and cobalt blue flowers with a cottage garden feel. What a beautiful day it was!

I love brown flowers. They seem to add depth to a bouquet and bring out the bright colors and textures of the other flowers around them.






Alyssa is a very petite woman so I made her bouquet small, easy to manage and chock full of beautiful little flowers: tweedia, delphinium, ranunculus, viburnum berries, chocolate cosmos and tiny, cream spray roses.




The bride's bouquet, groom's boutonniere and the 3 year old flower girl's spray rose and eucalyptus wand.


Thank you to Studio Laguna for the beautiful bouquet images!

Here's a quote from the Mother of the Bride sent to me a couple days after the wedding:

"Ashley,
Everything was wonderful! I very much liked the table decorations as they were modern, beautiful, and set the table perfectly. Alyssa's bouquet was exactly what we were looking for. It was great to work with you Ashley. We received many positive comments on the flowers. Thanks! Kathy"

On the cover of Lake Minnetonka Metro Magazine

A big thank you to Lake Minnetonka Metro Magazine for putting my coral peony bouquet on the cover for their September 2010 issue. What an honor! They also showed four other bouquets inside for the magazine's annual weddings issue. This was an incredible, collaboration photo shoot. I will always be grateful to have been a part of it!








Dresses | Grace Bridal Boutique

Photography | Dolce Studios

Stylist | Richard Anderson of HGTV