Wedding Week 2015: The Flowers

I am so excited to share some incredible flowers with you all today, and the best part? They are wedding flowers from my friends' weddings! I love showing you all real house projects and crafts, so I'm very excited to show you all gorgeous flowers from amazing Kansas area weddings! They are all very different and all very beautiful. All have rich, vibrant colors and fabulous wedding photographers that captured them. Get ready for lots of pictures!

We will start back in April...

"I loved our wedding flowers so much because of how bright and cheery they were.  Our wedding was in April, so the weather was just starting to warm up.  My bouquet was the epitome of spring to me - the bright and vibrant colors popped!  I loved the mix of oranges, pinks, and then the sprigs of green, white and blue interspersed.  Just looking at them made me happy! The photographs do a beautiful job of showing off the day." - Rachel

Flowers:

Lynn Silvey - Hen House Floral

Photography:

PICGREEN Photography

Venue:

The Hawthorne House

"While wedding planning, one of the most important things to me was to have beautiful flowers! I wanted something bright and elegant and that is exactly what I got. Plaid Giraffe was amazing to work with and had fabulous customer service! Joshua, our photographer, was amazing at capturing the special moments of the day!" - Megan

Flowers:

The Plaid Giraffe

Photography:

Joshua Ayres Photography

Venue:

Drury Plaza Hotel

"My florist was Bloomhaus and we worked with Kathleen. Kathleen understood everything that I wanted and went the extra mile to fulfill my visions and dreams. Kathleen is truly a creative genius! Mollie did an amazing job capturing all of the special moments throughout the day. She and Patrick blended seamlessly into the day and exceeded my expectations with creative and beautiful photographs." - Carrie

Flowers:

Bloomhaus

Photography:

Mollie Wetta Photography

Venue:

Wichita Country Club

I hope you enjoyed looking through those fabulous weddings as much as I did! In person, the flowers were even more "WOW" if you can believe that, and the photographers did an incredible job translating them to photos. If you are in Wichita or Kansas City, all of these brides recommended the people and venues they used. If you are out of the area and love these ideas, take them to one of your local vendors to make your own!

Thank you to the newlyweds for letting me use their gorgeous weddings during Wedding Week - I truly appreciate it!

Lots of Love,

Wedding Week Day 5: Flower Bouquets

First off, Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you all were able to spread a little love today, whether it was with your love, your best friends, your mama or all of the above plus some. We just finished eating the yummy dinner we made (yes - I managed to slice my finger, dang really good wedding knives!) and I am now enjoying some wine while doing a quick post on flowers! Thought it was the perfect wedding discussion for Valentine's day.

I absolutely loved the flowers at our wedding and they worked well with our colors.

For the Flower girls we did rose crowns since they were little and needed a cute head accessory.

My bridesmaids had similar bouquets to mine, except my florist (Lori Parker) made them more coral and green since the dresses were alerady pink. I think it is so fun to add some color with your flowers!

I loved the hot pink garden roses mixed with the lighter pink roses. The accents are hypericum berries and Queen Anne's Lace - great fillers!

Now that I've shared my flowers, I want to show you other inspirations and then I will give you some cost and season pointers that helped me!

Love the bright flowers with the white vase.

Peonies are amazing if you are getting married late spring - this is too die for!

I love LOVE the simple look of this centerpiece.

The color look of this picture inspired my bouquet - I love the look!

Pretty for a fall or winter or early spring wedding.

Love the peach and green look - so fresh!

I fell in love with this look when planning my wedding.

Very girly and fun - love for a pink wedding!

Gorgeous for a fall wedding, but could work anytime.

Great bridesmaid bouquet because it makes a small statement.

I love the same flower in one vase look, with multiple different flowers across the table.
 

Tulip bouquet with gorgeous colors!

Looks very romantic and sweet.

If you are going for a white or neutral look, I love that you can see the textures in this bouquet.

I love the deep reds and textures in this bouquet - drop dead gorgeous!

I think the shades of pink in this bouquet are amazing!

Hopefully all of these gorgeous - I mean GORGEOUS - flowers gave you some wedding inspiration. Granted, these are all a little over the top, but you can pick and choose from the bouquets what you like.

Here are a couple pointers I learned over the process of planning our wedding:
1. Flowers are expensive, but you don't have to spend a million dollars. Find a florist that is willing to work with your budget. The Plaid Giraffe does a great job of this if you are local!
2. Focus on your bouquet if you have expensive flower types that you want. Your bouquet should be aMAZing and exactly what you are wanting, so splurge a little. You can cut back on the bridesmaids or make them smaller versions of yours.
3. Use your bridesmaids' bouquets at the reception. My florist put empty vases on certain tables and my wedding coordinator filled them with the bridesmaid bouquets - they are so pretty, why just lay them on the table. I also used a bridesmaid bouquet for my "toss bouquet" or you can ask the florist to make one with the scraps leftover.
4. Keep seasons in mind. I got married in September which is a long ways from Peony season, so I used Garden Roses instead. Similar impact and they worked great. Look up the seasonal flowers and talk with your florist.
5. There could be cheaper options to the flowers that you love, if they are way too expensive. I used the smaller hydrangeas, since the large ones were more pricey. If you have a good florist, they will help you with this.

Flowers are so pretty and can add a lot to your wedding, but you don't need to break the bank. Find an awesome florist like I did and have fun with it! Now starting pinning your favorite ideas, because they love pictures!

Lots of Love,