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~

Stunning

These photos are from Francisco Photography the are amazing photos. Tiffany and I will work together again at Brook Lodge in September~

pro pics

The brides little girl was one of the flower girls, I made wands so they could be little princess!


Nothing like seeing the pro pictures of your own work. Here are a few from a May wedding at Brook Lodge, you may remember me posting a few weeks ago..

Church doors...

The maids all LOVED their flowers! they also had never seen their Blumb 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??

More great weddings today June 6th

Erin's Maids carried small clusters of Gerber Daisy's. with grass trailing from the handle. It looked stunning...


My 2ND wedding delivery was to Brook Lodge and as most of you know I love it there it is my all time fav wedding spot. Today was Erin's wedding day. She looked sooooo pretty and she also choose one of my all time fav. colors for her main colors Chartreuse green , I uses Mini callas, Fuji spider mums, green Cyb, orchids. Green Hydrangeas, Kermit pomp's, green roses, vendella roses, and aspidistra leaves, and bear grass. What a combo..

June starts with a BANG

Adding a monogram is really something I loved to do it really is a personal statement, Jaclyn loved it.. She was so beautiful


Here it is June 6Th and Affordable Elegance is kicking the month off strong!! here are a couple of pics of wedding I did today. The weather was amazing and the bride were so beautiful. It help that they LOVED their flowers too. It really does my heart good to here them say "I love it"
Here is my first bride Jaclyn he had water Mellon colored dresses.. So pretty!

Cake and eat it too..

This bouquet of flowers sat at the alter outside in the tent.

Here is the cute cake from the wedding this weekend The brides aunt made it and I of course put flowers on it.

Brides and her maids

I love this watermelon color I think her choice in pink is so elegant.


This was a very fun and happy bride. here is a quick photo I got of her with her wonderful pink roses and blush pink cybiduim orchids~

More May wedding!

Hanging from the pines I had pink roses in bubble glass so fun and very pretty.

This weekends bride wanted Pink pomanders! they looked wonderful hanging from all the white chairs. This was at Yarrow Golf Club~

May I can say has been a busy month here at Affordable Elegance. I have had a wonderful busy month making wedding designs for my brides and I will miss them all. Every weekend in May has been so warm and sunny Today May 30Th is no exception it was a warm, breezy day and my brides were radiant. I hope they all enjoyed their flowers ! I made pomanders to sit in the gardens around the tented area.

Eye for details

Karen really had an eye for cute details. She really had my eye when she made theses adorable fabric flowers to sit on her place guest napkins (via my idea) so cute and colorful too.

Out side in the gardens May 23rd 2009

On the path leading to the garden I made a heart shape wreath with the couples letter of their last name~

Here is a photo showing the chairs with the pomanders.. So pretty all lined up!

May at Brook Lodge

I feel very blessed that I am doing so many weddings this season at the lodge. Last month we all got the word that by January 1st 2010 they will no longer be open! That's right they will no longer be hosting wonderful, great weddings for anyone they will close their doors do to the economy~ I feel so bad I have really gotten to know the wedding staff at the lodge and have become quite fond of all of them.
Anyways here is photos I got to take in the gardens today. This was one of the weddings I just had the best time with, the bride was a gem and really let me do my stuff. She was also very detailed(I love that). Here she is~






Karen wanted vendella roses, blue delphiniums, blue hydrangeas, green cymbidium orchids. For her maids they also had some of the same mix with a little bit of the green Kermit pomps, and green spider mums.... I love it Great colors.

For the garden I got to make wonder pomander flower balls, with Daisy pomp's, and green hypericum berries. As you can see they were stunning.

Whirl wind weekend!

The first brides bouquet was of yellow roses, yellow Asiatic Lilly, blue delphiniums, mini callas, and Lilly of the valley right from my friend Jenny's own garden! I also added a monogram to her bouquet!



You know there are times when you think you can do it all? Well this weekend was one of them for me. I designed 3 weddings for Saturday~ 2 were on the smaller side and one was quite large. I got to take a couple of photos of the smaller ones (maybe I will get some from their collection). But I did manage my final wedding at Brook Lodge to snap a few of the bride. She was very happy with her flowers in return makes me very happy too. All 3 weddings had the same color cornflower blue used!






This bride choice of flowers was vendella roses, fern curls, Blue delphiniums and chocolate cosmos! in a dome shape design

fun spring colors

I always love it when my brides give a great color to use. This spring I got to use fall tone! It was a little challenge but I think I did well~ here is wonderful photos from Beth Pulsipher photography what a great shot

More May Weddings..

This was a fun wedding at Brook Lodge


Photos by:Beth Pulsipher photography
School Craft Mi.

J tv

This past Monday I got to take a trip up to Grand Rapids to spend some time with a wonderful flower friend and a floral wonder!! I got to film a webisode with J schwanke Aifd!! I had the best time. Not only did I get to design flowers with industry leader BUT I got to meet another wonder young, talented and pretty desinger Mandy Majerik Aifd she is the designer and owner of Hot House design stuido~ I think we will be seeing a lot from her. I will post more as I have pictures from that day~

This wedding took place at St. Joseph Church In Battle Creek
Flower girl pomander
The groom with al his men











Photos by Grace Photography Kalamazoo