Flower Power: The Pilgrim garden rose

This is another one of my favorite garden roses "The Pilgrim" . It's summery yellow color is such a warm sunshiny addition to your wedding or event. It's glorious many layers of petals gives a "feathery" and light presence. Yellow keeps trying to come back as a popular wedding color and many people are fighting it. I love yellow, and its such a great summer color. Give these roses a chance, in fact, give yellow a chance.


This is another one of my favorite garden roses "The Pilgrim" . Its summery yellow color is such a warm sunshiny addition to your wedding or event. It glorious many layers of petals gives a "feathery" and light presence. I know yellow keeps trying to come back as a popular wedding color and many people are fighting it. I love yellow, and its such a great summer color. Give these roses a chance, in fact, give yellow a chance.

Flower Power: Yves Piaget garden roses

Nico Here! I want to introduce you to my all time favorite garden rose EVER, The Yves Piaget. The Knot Magazine just voted this the hot new up and coming flower for Bridal Bouquets!!! I Friggin' Love these fluffy, hot pink, ruffly, gorgeous, fabulous blooms. I wish I could make a bed of these roses, and then lay on down and die happy. Enjoy!

Ugly dress? What about ugly flowers?

So it has become a cliche, the ugly bridesmaid's dress forced upon young women as there recently engaged friends and family suddenly loose all sense of taste and fashion in the excitement of planning their wedding.

You hear about it all the time. The fluffy peach chiffon, the slinky aqua satin, the mint green number with puffed sleeves. There is even a website devoted to the ugliest of the ugly: http://www.uglydress.com/

But what about the horrible flowers some bridesmaids are forced to carry. In the effort to save money, to make everything match, to force flowers into styles and colors which are not natural, brides can really choose some awful things for their bridesmaids. Maybe it is just because I work for a florist, but I could probably suck it up and wear an ugly dress to be a good friend. HOWEVER, when it comes to the flowers I would just have to say, " sorry, not going to be seen holding THAT!"

Some of the worst I have found:

Personally, I am not a fan of calla lilies, however, a single flower can be beautiful. But it just looks cheap if you try to bulk it with leaves AND rhinestones AND an enormous amount of baby blue ribbon.

Some people really just aren't into flowers, which is fine. I know feathers and crystals are popular alternatives, but you can do it classy or tacky. There is a very fine line!

And sometimes people just try much to hard, like this beauty. Kale is going to almost always going to be a bad idea for a bouquet, you can't get around that, but the pearl pins in the button mums are the detail that really brings this over to the dark side. Who thought that was a good idea?







But this one is the worst of all. oh the horror! Why would someone think that this was attractive?

photos from: http://www.sarahsflowers.co.uk/, http://www.weddingfavors.com/, http://www.wedding-flowers-and-reception-ideas.com, http://www.flower-arrangement-advisor.com/

Flower Power: Fair Bianca Garden Roses

Nico Here! Well I am so excited to announce that Garden rose season is amongst us!! We slowly have to start saying our bye bye's to Peony and hello to all the great stuff that grows in the summer; Dahlias,millets, bells of Ireland, sunflowers, tropicals, amaranthus,chocolate cosmos, and GARDEN ROSES (just to name a few). I'll be paying tribute to all the different varieties of garden roses over the next several weeks, and I want to start with my absolute FAVORITE, The Fair Bianca. This feathery , glorious, creamy, rose with a very light fragrance has become an all time favorite amongst Brides to be. Its resemblance to the famous and popular peony is erie and a great substitute, if you are summer bride. YAY Summer is HERE! (almost)

Flower Power: Muppet Gerbera Daisies

Nico Here.. Okay I think this week is "cheap" flower week or something.... Well, it has been on my mind as many of my clients are watching their pocket books (like everyone else). I'm obsessed with these fun textural colorful gerbera daisies that are called "muppets". These inexpensive flora are perfect if you're looking for bold color and texture on a "dime". If you're wedding theme is more on the "romantic" or "classic" lines, these might be great for your rehearsal dinner or day after brunch if you're not looking to spend a lot. I think they are super cool. Check them out, Id love to hear your thoughts.

Flower Power : Dahlias!!!!!

Hey Fabulous people!! As a floral expert (I think I can give myself that title, riight?) I would like to share a little summer secret that is easy on the pocket book. One of my fave flowers is the Dahlia, it comes is so many awesome shapes and colors and is very inexpensive. If you are a blushing summer bride then these fluffy colorful blooms will create a bold and awesome statement for your centerpieces. I wouldn't suggest them to be added to bouquets and boutonnieres as they like like to be in water;) Dahlia up your wedding!!

Green with Envy

Carnations have a bad Rap, but I'm obsessed with this one!!! Green carnations are so fun. As a lot of you know (or maybe you don't know) green flowers are very hard to come by. I get bored with proposing and designing with the same ones... Green orchids, green callas, green roses, Bla!

I think the green carnation will add fabulous color and texture to centerpieces and maybe even boutonnieres???? I love new flowers and think this one is a great find. Boy, has it come a long way from the dyed ones they sell at Conroy's for St. Paddy's Day. :)