A Wedding at the Lake

This was one of those weddings that was a lot of fun to design for.  The people I had the opportunity to collaborate with on this wedding were all lovely and gracious and I really enjoyed working for them.  One of the nice things about this wedding is that we went for two distinct styles within the wedding.

The wedding ceremony was on Lake Geneva at a simply gorgeous location.  We wanted the designs here to have a more traditional look with soft summery colors in a palette of ivory, cream, champagne, and green.  Large and lush arrangements filled with hydrangea, "Message" roses, sorbaria, green hanging amaranthus, white "Casablanca" lilies, champagne lisianthus, and tree ivy.

The bridesmaid bridesmaids wore lovely little champagne taffeta dresses.  We went with a dainty nosegay of miniature green hydrangea, green cymbidium orchid florets, and "Message" roses.

I absolutely loved the bride's dress here.  It was a stunning fit and flare trumpet gown embellished with lace.  She wanted a very collected and tailored bouquet composed of flowers that were both currently en vogue and timeless.  We selected "Precious" English garden roses, white hydrangea, white gardenias, champagne lisianthus, and white mini cymbidium orchid florets.  The end result was fabulous:

For the reception, we wanted to go with a more stylized updated look, but still use floral material and the color palette that we chose for the ceremony.  We did that by going with a more collected design style as with the bride's bouquet.  We decided to go with half of the centerpieces raised and half of the centerpieces low.  This combination adds interest to the room and gives it more visual impact. 

The raised centerpieces were placed on 32" clear glass cylinder vases with green and white dendrobium orchids placed inside the vase hanging on gold wires.  The low centerpieces were designed in clear glass cylinder vases the complemented the other centerpieces. We used white hydrangea, white dahlias, green cymbidium florets, champagne lisianthus, and green mini hydrangea for these pieces.

We made a statement piece for the mantle and surrounded it with vases of floating candles

And what's a wedding without a cake?



Special thanks to my friends at Nick and Cate at Parisi Photography for providing me with these fantastic photographs of the ceremony and girls' bouquets!