Super Fun Beachy Photo Shoot!

 

Over the summer we did an adorable photo shoot with the amazing Diana from Styled Pink Photography! Take a peek at these beautiful photos!

 

I created this sweet handtied bouquet with blush Candy Bianca roses, antique hydrangeas, lavender sweet peas, periwinkle scabiosa, pink cymbidium orchids, and cute black feathers. I added burlap around the stems for a vintage feel.

 

Maybe if I look at these beach photos, it will feel warmer outside!

DEFINITELY Check out Diana's website! She's awesome!

Ashley and Justin's Fabulous Vintage Wedding at John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove

I loved working with Ashley right away! She and her fiance Justin went with a vintage themed wedding with a deep plum, purple, blue, and silver palate. Check these AMAZING photos by the fabulous Lauren Fair Photography!

The colors looked amazing with the dresses!

I am so in love with everything about these colors!

Ashley looked gorgeous and I love how she is totally glowing in all these photos!

Her bouquet was one of my favorite ever! I used fluffy champagne Cafe Au Lait dahlias, white ranunculus, and white roses.

The bridesmaids flowers were beyond gorgeous! We used burgundy dahlias, English lavender, silver brunia, pink Davaid Austin garden roses, blue hydrangeas, pink ranunculus, and antique green hydrangeas from Holland.

Justin wore white ranunculus, LOVE these!

The men wore dark plum ranunculus blooms.

Super fun! I love the props!

The ceremony was super simple and intimate. We had green antique hydrangeas down the aisle and arrangements on the altar to match the bridesmaids flowers. I always suggest trying to re-use the flowers and bring them to the reception.

Their decor was gorgeous and super vintage! Check out the skeleton keys on the old door! So awesome how I have a load of these doors sitting in my attic (of our 1800's Victorian where I also have my flower shop!) And I am OBSESSED with the strings of lights hung from the beams. Every detail was perfect!

Check out how the bridesmaids bouquets were placed in aqua mason jars and set in front of the fireplace! Notice the altar flowers decorating each side of the gorgeous stone fireplace.

Her cocktail tables all had a vintage jar in shades of green or blue with a single stem of dahlia or hydrangea.

The tables turned out beautiful! The aqua mason jars were filled with dahlias, hydrangeas, ranunculus, silver brunia, garden roses, and curly willow.

I love the aqua mason jars. They are so pretty!

We accented the cake with groupings of fresh hydrangeas.

LOVE IT!

I love old stone buildings. What a beautiful backdrop!

Congratulations to you both! It was an absolute pleasure!

Matt and Melissa Are Married!

So I was super giddy when I saw these photos, because I KNEW Laura Perry would take fabulous photos! I was right! She always takes amazing photos! Matt and Melissa were married at Union Grove Methodist Church in Pittsgrove, NJ. This is the church where my husband grew up. Melissa made adorable signs for the Ceremony and Reception and hand painted them.

The church was adorned with loads of sunflowers and lots of accenting flowers. I placed flowers in both aisles of the church and also two huge arrangements in the front of the sanctuary. I LOVE this close up shot!

I think this was the happiest wedding I've possibly ever been to, well, besides my own of course! Matt and Melissa grabbed some quick pics with the bridal party at Parvin State Park, right down the street from Parvin Farms, where the reception was held.

The photo on the left may end up being a big canvas in someone's home!

The bar was so awesome! My husband and Matt created these bars using old doors that were left in our 1800's Victorian home. Melissa and Matt collected photos and placed them underneath plexiglass. The tent was decorated with saplings and long thick vines from a local swamp. Then these bottles were hung everywhere. I added green trick, viking mums, and crespedia "Billy Balls" all over the place!

I used my set of bark covered tables to mark a walkway and the church flowers were set on top to add more color. I had my gray shabby lanterns all over the place to add more candlelight once the sun went down.

What else can I say? I love my job! Darren,  from The Cake Studio of Ocean City, and I built this cake tier by tier. Matt cut tree trunks and placed them at the base of the cake, and also on all the guest tables. I added a moss table runner and river rocks to the base of the cake and accented the entire space with kelly green votives. I used a massive amount of wildflowers including sunflowers, tulips, astilbe, crespedia, roses, sweet peas, wheat, ranunculus, asters, green trick, solidaster, buplerum, lady's mantle, freesia, and the list truly went on and on. Every place setting had a viking mum and the grouped centerpieces were all created in bark covered tin containers. I used sand blasted manzanita from an awesome California source and anchored them with more river rock. A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped me set up during the rehearsal and the day of the wedding, you saved me loads of time and quite a bit of lost sleep!

I like to think of my husband and I as an creative team. My husband built the doorway on the left using salvaged doors from an old farmhouse that was demolished from the property before his time. Matt made the grapevine wreaths for the church and I wired in sunflowers. They created the perfect touch of color for these doors! The church pews are a prized find Eric discovered from an old church in Brooklyn, New York! We proudly rent these for ceremonies in a "easily accessible" outdoor setting ( the beach, the park, a farmer's field!).

The gorgeous bride and her beautiful bridesmaids. The girls carried bouquets to mimic Melissa's and everyone had a handmade crocheted sleeve created by a friend of the bride and groom's. The flower girls wore halo's of mini viking mums.

My brother-in-law Chris, my brother-in-law Matt, and my hubby. I made the guys a boutonniere with viking mums, green trick, crespedia, and curly willow loops. Matt and Melissa were the only ones with wheat accents :)

I LOVE this photo!

A close up of Melissa's bouquet :)

Matt made this card holder !

The barn looked so cool!

This is one of my personal favorites! I knew Laura would do a great job, but her creativity blows me away! This is why you just never want to let a family friend do your photos, hire a pro and have no regrets! What an amazing pleasure it was to have the creative freedom that I was able to have and help make their wedding look amazing. Thank you guys for trusting me and allowing me to "play and do my thing". LOVE YOU GUYS!

Sneak Peak At Matt and Melissa's Wedding April 2, 2011

This antique truck was the entrance focal point at the family farm. Darren from the Cake Studio in Ocean City took this photo and the two photos below. Thanks Darren!

The tables were a labor of love :) I created these centerpieces in 4 pieces. The center was a tall square vase filled with river rock and tall manzanita branches. Then I surrounded them with 3 arrangements in bark wrapped vases. The sunflowers were the main flower, and I complimented them with LOADS of accent flowers like crespedia billy balls, buplerum, viking mums, solidago, lady's mantle, galax leaves, roses, monte casino, tulips, and ranunculus.  We then surrounded the centerpieces with green votives and also some hanging in the branches. The entire centerpiece was placed on a slice of tree trunk to add to the rustic, organic feel. The barn was breathtaking, we did Pop Pop proud!

The cake was AMAZING!!!! Darren did an amazing job on this cake and I made the arrangements as he stacked each of the tiers. We were going for a very earthy,  free flowing, airy look with loads of wildflowers. I think we did a great job! And the cake tasted amazing! Darren has done three cakes for our family in six months, we love him! Thanks for taking these photos, and also for helping me frantically put the buckets of flowers away so I could get ready for cocktail hour! Stay tuned for more amazing photos from Laura Perry later this week! We are so excited to see what moments they captured!

It was the most gorgeous day for Matt and Melissa!!! I cannot wait to see what Laura and her sister Katrina captured during this happy, happy day for the Davis and Hahn families! We love you guys! Congratulations and enjoy Tahiti!