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Lately, I’ve been thinking about our wedding flowers and hiring a florist. Our venue already has a ton of character. I mean it has a huge whirly gig sculpture right outside, and quirky neon signs (my favorite say’s “LOVE”). It really doesn’t need much in the way of decoration. The barn, where we are holding the reception, has art hanging from the ceiling, exposed brick, and a black and white checkerboard “dance” floor. Basically, I want to play up what’s already there. We chose a simple, black and white color pallet (with maybe a bit of bright green thrown in). I want the look to be cohesive without being really matchy-matchy. For centerpieces, I’m planning to have white, single flower arrangements in square vases. There will be different flowers at each table, like roses, carnations, hydrangeas and tulips. Above the checkerboard “dance” floor, we are going to hang five or six white paper flower pomanders (my mom has already started crafting these for me, and is SO excited about it). Black tablecloths and white china will finish off the reception space.
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The ceremony area, which is a wildflower garden, doesn’t need much decoration either. The ceremony will be under the chuppah at sundown. The only thing I want to add is some lighting around the wooden sculpture we are getting married in front of. I really love the look of simple chuppahs, so I think we will make our own with birch tree poles like Roxy’s beautiful chuppah. We are each going to carry a bouquet. Ginger’s will be dark purple, almost black, calla lilies. For mine, I want a combination of white peonies and/or garden roses, and anemones (with the black centers). We aren’t going to have a traditional bridal party, but maybe we will give our parents white calla lily bouquets and boutonnieres. What ideas are you dreaming up for your wedding flowers and decor?
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Oh, those anemones are friggin’ breathtaking! I love the classic and clean approach you two are going for and can’t wait to see your pictures.
Your venue is so amazing, I think you could probably do nothing and still have it look amazing. I really like the idea of having different flowers at different tables. Do you think you will do table flowers instead of table numbers?