Loving the new cake designs

How pretty is this cake? such great design and the green flowers are to die for~

I love that the brides are picking simple cakes with not a lot of fuss. simple elegant white cakes with very little details just wonderful flowers added to them~

Details, details,

Most of my readers know I love details, (I think that's my calling)Just look at the fun details I got to do for this wedding~ From the great fall wicker pomanders, to the monogram's on the wall! Everything just blending well with the country club.
Audrey, wanted an all white wedding bouquet so for her I designed an all Eskimo white rose with mini calla bouquet. I used seeded euq. for the greens. very stunning

Gull Lake Country Club fall wedding~

What an awesome weekend for a fall wedding sunny warm Breezy by Gull Lake. What a fun and pretty wedding. Audrey was a fun and really exciting bride to work with. Her and her mom were wonderful I look forward to working with them again on her brothers wedding~ also her Friend who stood up with her will be getting married in July 2010 and I will be working with her too.
We used Leonidas roses, seeded eucalyptus, Charlie Brown Orchids, green mini cymbidium orchids and red berries for the maids bouquets~

more of a busy weekend wedding

Two great brides this weekend! this is a bitter sweet time for designer in the cold state of MI. These two wedding wrap up my season, and boy it was a great weekend in Nov. for a wedding.
Katie is a friend to a Bride I did last year in Oct. Thanks Melinda for sending her to me!

More pro pics

Non floral pics... I just got theses from the photographer! How cool are they. This wedding was so cute.Photos by www.rmichaelimages.com

1552 Adams St SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
(616) 696-3215

Just have to post!

I have already posted a few pics I took at this wedding about a month ago. But I just got this one! LOVE IT not a lot of my flower design in it but just look at the bride and her fancy, fancy umbrella OHHH I love it with all the feathers. How cute. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Mellisa was a bride I got from the Hastings show in January here are a few of the yummy pictures I got of her and her flowers. I also have talked to her husbands cousin about her Aug. 2010 wedding.
Melissa's bouquet was all black magic roses. I used 24 of them for her all round mound bouquet. The maids bouquets are circus rose with Italian ruscus.. Simple but very pretty~

Pro shots

Fun, Bright, Trendy Flowers!

Here are some new photos I received from one of my June brides~ I just love the way the photographer captured my flowers. This was a very simple outside wedding in fact is was going to rain all day and when I left the site the sun was shining.

Cute details

I was so glad I got to make theses cute little "belly Bar" arrangement's they really set the table's off.I love using wheat grass. I also feed it to our pet bunny!! The guest card table was really pretty too. I love green dendros, and willow
The maids dress's were a pretty shade of brown, it's really funny I did a wedding one year ago almost to the date with the same dress's and the same fall flowers.

Friday wedding~

Here are a few photos from tonight's wedding. It was a nice wedding at St. Philip Church and at down town Macammly Plaza Hotel Battle Creek. Andrea the bride was fun, easy and had a lot of good ideas about her wedding flowers. Now I have to stay awake and go back at 12:00 tonight and get my rentals.. All that work then wham I get to throw it all away~ enjoy theses photos.

DETAILS!!

I love to get detailed shots of the weddings I do. I was sent theses and I just love them. I love the pew markers This was the first time I made these using the wicker spheres and I think the turned out so cute!! cant wait to make them again~
Looks at this church door wreath! it's screams fall, I have made some great door wreaths this year...

September Pro Shots

This week I received these cute photos in my email I love the simplicity of this wedding. Beth booked me a year out! she was a bride who knew just what she wanted and I delivered it~

Saturdays fall wedding

Saturday I got to design a old friend from High school daughters wedding in Hastings. Hard to believe that I am old enough to have kids and grands kids at this age!! Anyways Luann's daughter Nickie had been planning this wedding for well over a year~ She knew she wanted to booked me about 14 months ago~ This was a simple wedding I just designed the wedding party's flowers. They were stunning Nickie dress was amazing.We ended up with no rain and a little bit of sun shine..It had rained all week. Here she is.....

I choose to use Black magic roses,billy balls, yarrow, orange roses, kangaroo paws, seeded eucalyptus, fall leaves,berries,pods flame callas.

More of Saturdays wedding..

A simple fall wedding~ Great colors for this time of year..

Feathers and more Feathers

Great Table pc. at Brook Lodge! I sure am going to miss the girls at the lodge they are so sweet and helpful.
This wedding I had 24 days to get the flowers and the feathers around. Nothing like giving a designers some time !!!

Fabu Wedding this weekend~

This wedding was amazing what a FUN bride and wonderful wedding designs. Jessica knew what she wanted LOT'S of feathers and flowers!! Well Park Place Design held her up to it. Just look at these awesome designs!

More yummy photos..

More from saturdays wedding

Here are more photos from the wedding at Gull Lake. I use the pomanders from the wedding and placed them on the tables at the hall.
You can really get a lot of uses out of the flowers you choose. Make sure you work with a designer that can utilize all your flowers..

mens flowers

I really hate to admit this s a wedding designer, BUT mens lapel flowers and corsages are my least favorite part of a wedding to design. If I can avoid it I DO!! BUT here are some great example of my lapel flowers~enjoy

men's Flowers

Gull Lake Country Club

Saturdays wedding went very well despite it looked like rain all morning and into the afternoon! As I drove to the event was hoping the rain would stay away knowing I had an arch to decorate and outside flowers to get up. But low and behold the rain stayed away and a little bit of sun came out while the wedding was going on. What a wonderful day it turned out to be~
My bride was radiant and so calm and cool.. She was so happy with her flowers too. They were simple but very cute. Happy wedding Alisha~

More Pro pics~

Pro Pics.

This past weekend I got to work with a photographer that I had also got the pleasure of meeting at a wedding we both did at Brook Lodge In May. We meet again at Brook Lodge in Sept. She gave me theses awesome photos of her's and my work. I cant thank you enough Tiffany~Francisco Photography
www.franciscophoto.com

congrats to my 09/19/09 bride and groom

How cute are theses chair designs??

always a brides maid~

I am so loving theses maids bouquets they really popped out with the cute short gowns.

Check out the cute grooms men bout's...

awesome Blooms~

My favorite venue once again Brook Lodge there is no going wrong with some great photos out there and today was so warm and sunny too.
My bride Camille and her mother I only meant with one time.. She booked me right out of Brook Lodges vendor list. She choose the most aw some color for maids dresses!
the brides dress was amazing too. Her flowers were Samura lily's,berries, curly fern, dahlias,swartz calla lily's. lily grass, orchids,vanda orchids.ti leaves wrapped around the base. STUNNING~

More of Saturdays Bride

The great thing about "networking" is that you get to see other peoples wedding photos, I took theses of one of my Saturdays brides post!
Elizabeth choose simple sunflowers for the maids to carry~ how cute.

Hastings Wedding september 12th

My 2nd wedding was a really a very pretty wedding with lot's of work to it. The bride Melissa was so pretty in her gown. She was a fun and easy bride. The reception was at the Barry Expo center she had 30 Tall center pc for her tables I also made a candy bar for her with neat monogram's of the new last name.
The flowers we used in theses center pc. are tiger lily's, pomp's, dark roses, and assorted fall pomps and greens with hanging ameranuths.

September Fall Weddings~

Kicking off fall is always bitter sweet for me! Tho I love fall it mean the end of summer and summer is always a fun and exciting time for me as a mother and as a designer!
Here are a couple of pics I got to take at my Sept. 12Th weekend weddings. Both bride use the "fall" theme but in very different ways I cant wait to get the pro pics back~
The fist wedding was at the Holiday Day Inn In Battle Creek Mi. This was my first wedding at the venue. very nice and very trendy look to it. The Bride used sun flowers and other fall type flowers I also made a set of heart shaped wreaths for the door of the church. The flower girl pomander was made with "viking" pomp's one of my fav fall pomp's.

Yarrow Golf Club

Just look at the back ground! It's such an amazing spot with so many rich backgrounds~ Theses photos were taken by
www.modernphotographics.com

104 W. Main St
Lowell, MI 49331
(616) 897-5606



Here are more wonderful pro shots from a May wedding I designed at Yarrow. I get a lot of request for weddings here. No wonder it is amazing..

Jessica~ Aug. 1st

The bride had many great flowers in al the bouquets, Monkey tail, voodoo roses, billy balls, green berries, orchids, safari sunset,pincushion protea's. Very much an earthy look to the wedding.

FUN wedding designs

All the tables had great fun cloths in different colors on them. We used wheat grass for table place cards and also for lining the chairs in the tent, How cute is this? The bride wanted just loose stems of neat flowers in different sizes vases after the wedding she told me it was exactly what she wanted!




Jessica had a TON of texture in her wedding, I am sure that's why she wanted all the different flowers and colors that matched the table swags her mother made! ck out all this great and fun work!

Lot's and lot's of colors and textures in this wedding. The cake is outstanding~

Yarrow Weddings~

Photos taken by

TJ's Photography

tjsphotography.net

247 Michigan Ave W
Battle Creek, MI 49017-3601
(269) 968-5966

This summer I have designed a lot of wedding in great spots! Yarrow is one of my favorite places for an outdoor wedding~~~ For me beside it's wonderful pretty outdoor sitting and great staff it's only 7 miles from my studio! it's so close for me to run and get there. SO if you have Yarrow wedding and need a GREAT designer give me a call. You'll be glad you did. This is Jessica she lives in New Mexico her mother found me by looking on the Internet for a designer. Jessica is an Art Major and she really wanted the Artie's look and feel for her wedding, Lot's of depths textures and deep colors.

The Bride and groom

All photos are complements of Randy Vallance of
vallancephoto.com Thank you Randy for the great pics!


Jan was a wonderful bride she just let me do what ever I wanted. It turned out very nice

Beach Wedding July 18th

Look at this shot what a great back drop~




To be truthfully honest I have not designed a silk wedding in YEARS~ the call for me has been fresh flowers. But when Jan asked me to design her flowers she had seen a sample in my studio and she feel in love with it. Bright bold colors for her wedding on the beach was a must. I received theses in my e-mail last night. They are so simple and so pretty!

In the Media

It's always nice to have someone recognize your hard work, Today when I opened my mail I got this nice surprise! This is a great company I get almost all my fresh product from them. Thats how I design wonderful flowers for all my weddings ~Tracy

Petals & Things Customer Spotlight: Affordable Elegance Tracy Park, owner of Affordable Elegance in Battle Creek, MI, has been a Florabundance customer for a little over a year now. Below is one of Tracy's wonderful creations:

Marshall Michigan

This bride wanted 3 different types of table peices for all her table. Here you can see 2 of them The tall woodsy look made a real statement here in the tent. It really fit well with the surroundings. The manzanitti tress with lights, crystals and fresh flowers was stunning!


Laura love my out of the box style she knew write away when see seen my website that I would be her designer! I knew her and I would work well together picking her design. She to was an out of the box bride. She picked a clover color for her maids, I of course love green cymbidium . orchid's for the girls to carry and she wanted an all garden rose and phalaenopsis. She loved it!

More Crazy wedding weekend's

I had two HUGE and wonderful wedding this weekend and they both went off with out a hitch(well a little rain got in the way) This one was in Marshall Mi. at The Medalist Golf Club. My bride had wonderful taste her and I and the groom sat and pick out wonderful trendy designs that would complaint the outside decor of the grounds. I think it turned out wonderful. Here is a little taste!!

More of the Lake Shore

This was a bride that I had worked with for almost a year,the wedding was perfect and she loved her flowers.


Here are pro shots from Deanna from florafotography.com I also got theses today in my e-mail. I just love it when I receive them it's kinda like Christmas !! Thanks Deanna~ Love them

July wedding photos from the pros

St. Ann's Church


Here again are some really great photos I received from Remember When photography~ Stacy did an awesome job on theses photos. If you need photos for your wedding day she's does a great job. Thanks again Stacy

Pro shots

The flowers just popped~ I also added the brides grandmothers Rosary to the bouquet. I just love it. My bride was radiant. Thanks Toby for the great bridal photos.


Today to my surprise I opened my e-mail and had theses wonderful photos just waiting to be blogged
Toby Broughman
www.greatlakesphotography.biz took the time to send them to me I love them

Wedding weekends

I had 2 wedding last weekend and I never once snapped a photo of either one. I am hoping I get a few from the pros. But today in my mail the bride had a few for me! how sweet is that? and only 4 days after the wedding! She also had this to say about her flowers. I had sent her a wedding wire review of my performance~


Simple center pc for her table a gerber bloom lily grass and river rocks. Green votive square's for around the center pc. Simple but very cute.

Hi Tracy,

I'll certainly complete the review. I'll have it done by the weekend I assure you, it will be a glowing review!

Thank you again for doing such a beautiful job with all the flowers. Especially for all the extra items you added. That was such a wonderful surprise.

I have a few pictures of the flowers taken by friends that I attached. I'll be sure to send more as they come in. Also, I know Toby, our photographer, got some great shots as well.

Thank you for everything!

Christine and Scott

How sweet is that? For Christine's wedding I used Canadian grow orange Gerber Daisy's,lt. peach sweetheart roses, variegated lily grass dark peach roses, and my all time fav to give it a POP green cybiduim orchid's~ She LOVED it.

More great wedding photos

Wonderful photos from Stacy Yeiter Photography.
This wedding was at Yarrow July 3rd 2009. I uses Monkey tail, white roses, mini calla's.

www.rememberwhensnapshots.com

The bridal bouquet was all vendella roses (28) with white mini callas, and aspidistra leaves~ The flower girl carried this wonderful Pomander~
The Maids and the bride got to use Blume Box's to hold their bouquets in. The maids carried brown curly fern,black mini callas, and lavender mini's with wisps of grass's.. Got to love this~~~

I got a little sample of a wedding I designed the weekend of the 4th.. can't wait to see the rest! Thanks for the tease Stacy

More from the 4th

I just love the way the back ground from the Kellogg Manor looks in these photo's~
The grounds are so pretty I am looking forward to designing many more weddings in the upcoming year. The bride choose great color combos for her flowers. These bright colored Gerbers really popped out in thees pictures. I used lily grass hanging from the bright cloled bridal bouquet.

Jenna Rose Photos

I have to give a big hello out to a new found photographer that just sent me some awesome pictures! Jenna Rose Photography out of Grand Rapids Michigan. These photos are just fantastic!

www.jennarosephotography.com

Kellogg Manor

The bride carried a bouquet for lt. pink Gerber dasiys, and Lilly grass loops. the maids carried small clutches of hot pink Gerber with bear grass trailing very outdoors looking!


July 4Th a great day for a wedding! and what could be better then a wedding at the beautiful grounds at Kellogg Manor? Today was no exception the grounds were awesome and the bride was so radiant! Sabrina was from the Lansing area and choose the grounds because of it beauty and also that is on Gull Lake. Here are a couple of shot inside the manor and outside on the grounds! breathtaking~

Yarrow Golf Club

Michelle had her reception at Yarrow it was fun to decorate such a great place. Here are a few photos I got before we left. This tall beauty looked great in the lounge. Of course I love to hang flowers from the pine trees too.

July 3rd wedding

Again pomanders for the church just really set it off. The ladies from the church LOVED the look and made many nice comments~

What a wonderful day for a wedding! sunny warm and perfect. This wedding took place at St. Ann's church in Augusta Mi. the flowers were all Lavender! I used fragrant, wonderful bloom's Stock, anomies, aster, roses and big aullim. I have to wait for pictures of the bride as she was not at the church as of when I left. But I do know the 2 wonderful photographers so I am sure they will forward so great shot's. Here's what I got~

Church doors...

The maids all LOVED their flowers! they also had never seen their Blume Box's.I made theses as an add on last night very cute and trendy.



I love to add things to the surroundings and today I got to make a wonderful heart shaped wreath for the church doors.
The bride wanted her monogram n the center I just love the way it turned out too..

Reds for Late June!!

I had a Lake Shore wedding today. But did not get many photos. BUT I know the photographer very well and will get some great shots form her. Here is a red wedding that turned out very cute. I used many different textures for the bridal bouquet, Red freedom roses, mini green cybiduim's Queen Anne's lace, red ti leaves, wax flower, Field dahlias,and ruscus. A lot of texture~ she loved it she started to cry..

More pro pics

Here is my bride Jaclyn she looks so pretty on her wedding day. Here flowers were Hot raspberry roses. Her maids used hypericum berries, hot raspberry, and a lit pink roses to accent her dress choice.

Photos by~

Great photos!

Nothing better then a bride who loves her bouquet, Here Becky checks out the monogram I attached to her handle ~ The tables were simple roses in square vases, simple but such a statement. Photos by www.xpressionsbyheather.com

May wedding pro photos

Here was a bride that to had booked me in 2008. I loved that she also had picked pink flowers to go with her black and white brides maids gowns. Becky's bouquet was made up of 4 dozen pink Lidia roses with gardenia foliage.



I love these pro photo's from a wedding in did in May. Heather from www.xpressionsbyheather.com took these very nice photos. My brides is raidant!

Friends

Last weeknd I got to design flowers for a dear life long friend Debbie, Her and I have know each other for YEARS!! she had a small out door wedding on Saturday with a few friends and family. I got to snap a couple of theses photos. She looks so happy too. Best of luck Deb and may you have many years of happiness!

ORB'S

I have really gotten quick at making theses fun and trendy balls of flowers. I love them know matter how many I have to make~ These looked great lining the path to the alter~

The bride had me make the ribbions in each of the colors of her bouquet~

June 13th weddings

My bride really wanted to use bright flower, she let me pick

I used mini lt. green cyb. orchids, mini Gerber dasiys, Fuchsia peony's,roses. purple lisantus , surrounded with emerald green pit. Really a bright bouquet for outside!! Love it~





I had two weddings today one small and the other a little larger. I woke this Morning thinking about my brides. It had rained all night so it was very wet and the whole day did not look any better. I took this wedding to Albion Mi. To Starr Commonwealth it to was going to be an outside wedding! The more I drove the darker it got! But the bride said the wedding was going to be outside and not in the chapel.
They got the chairs up and I stayed to see my bride in her dress I snap a couple of pictures and drove off as I was driving back the sun was shining through the clouds and it got really sunny, just in time for my bride to walk down the aisle. Here are a couple picture of the bride's day~ Enjoy

My fav. Bouquet

I can say this is my all time favorite bridal bouquet. As you know I do a lot of bridal work with many designs and flowers. BUT this is my all time best bouquet I just love peonies I love the look, the smell, and how they look when I use fresh hosta leaves and garden greens. Truly amazing flowers. These magenta, and soft pinks creamy white are a bridal favorite.

Fun designs again

I also got to use my chair cones! they are really cute and can be made up in all colors. I also can add things to the cones..

How can you not love it when brides ask you for great fun stuff to design. Today I got to make a wonderful Hydrangea wreath. I love it I think it looks great. I hung it on the gazebo at the garden. See the monogram I used. How cute is that??