Bouquets of Wine and Art


The event Bouquets of Wine and Art is a Bouquet to Art type event such at the Bouquet to Art at the San Francisco DeYoung Museum.  This years was the first of it's kind in the Sacramento area.  As a floral designer that specializes in events I become quite used to doing the same things such as bouquets, ceremony, and reception designs.  They are always unique and even though we try to differentiate our style per client the challenge of doing something new and artistic can be lost. I was very excited to participate in this event to challenge myself with something new.  Creating a floral piece based off of art and nothing more and in the end I surprised myself with what I could do.  I also had so much fun observing other floral designers interpret their art pieces and knowing that none of us would have done the same thing with each others paintings.

Thank you to WhiRed Wine for putting this event together to support and raise money for the art scene in Sacramento, Beatnik Studios for hosting the event, and Milou and Olin Photography for the photos of my Bouquet to Art Piece in this years Bouquets of Wine and Art Event.

Open the link below for a video from Bouquets of Wine and Art.
https://vimeo.com/90938001

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to you!  We wish you the best in the ending of 2011 and welcome many new adventures for all in 2012.  My favorite holiday song is "So this is Christmas" by John Lennon.  It always makes me think about the coming year and what and how I can be better on a personal and a business level. 

We know many will be spending the Holiday becoming engaged and we are so excited to celebrate with you.  We look forward to talking to all of you newly engaged couples out there in 2012!

                                                     

Picture by The Memory Journalists

Celebrating 5 years!!!

Tomorrow I will be celebrating my 5 year wedding

anniversary. This led me to look through my wedding pictures which led me to share a few of them with you.

Our wedding was a DIY event.  We had a modest budget.  Most of the money went to food and photographer.  Sound familiar?  I leafed through wedding magazines to find the little extras we would do ourselves.  Today our wedding is already outdated, but 5 years ago chocolate and pink were THE colors! There are things I would choose to do differently, such as hire a real DJ!  :)

I wouldn't change the fact that our closest friends all participated in helping before and the day of.

I loved all the little things I did participate in myself that day.  I wrapped my bouquets, threw aisle petals down along with my bridesmaids, gathered aisle flowers with my sister in law, and placed my roses on top of my wedding cake.  I gathered sand off the beach for our centerpieces, placed my own hair flower, and somehow managed to breath and walk down the aisle after all that with my Dad to see my now husband waiting for me right in front of the cliffs edge of Pismo Beach, CA.

This picture cracks my husband and I up!  Seriously?  Dog poop to the right of my dad.  An event planner would have handled that right?  Well, you can't catch it all and hope that your photographer photo shops it out.Ours didn't! LOL! 

Also, photography has changed. Who ordered the chairs?

All in all our wedding day is a great memory we treasure.  I have been blessed by many things in the past 5 years and I wish the same to all the couples I have worked with and will work with in the future. 

Sara and Brian-September 23, 2010

Sara's dress was stunning and I love the way her bouquet  represented her Country Chic Wedding

Light blue mason jars hung from the chairs filled withh dalias, stock, puma mums, and tansy yarrow

Centerpieces in assorted mason jars and bottle vases

Clean, Classic, Country
Every detail was perfect!

VENDORS

Venue - Dry Creek Ranch, Rio Linda, CA

Photographer-- Emily Heizer

Caterer - Beth Sogaard Catering

Draping and lighting - Avenue Illumination

Musicians - Gypsy Standard Time

Makeup - Christi Reynolds

Hair - Ashley at Salon Paisley

Tina and Scott - Patrick's Point State Park October 2010



The orange in this bouquet is the perfect compliment to the
green colors of the Redwood Forest




Gerbera Daisies were a fun and simple way to add just a touch of floral to this destination point wedding






Photographer:  Jenn Bartell

Melissa and Mark - Timbercove Lodge, Bodega Bay California

Such a sweet couple...Loved working with them!

 Cool water roses, eggplant calla lilies, white and purple dahlias, green hydrangea

Simple, Elegant Calla Lilly Centerpieces

  Such a cozy lodge for this couples coastal fall wedding day

Photographer: Jenn Bartell

Christina and Fernando--Elk's Tower October 16th 2010

We had so much fun helping with the design of the floral pieces and getting the floral hues just right for this bride.  From the moment I met Christine I knew her wedding flowers were one of the most important elements of her wedding day and our team was so happy to live up to the challenge.  The cake itself consisted of 150 cherry brandy roses teased just right to sit between each layer of her 5 tier cake from Freeport Bakery.

The pictures below show some of the designs from this couple's elegant wedding day at Elks Tower in downtown Sacramento, provided by Gino Creglia Photography.



Catriona Maria Event Planning and Design-- Event Planner

Gino Creglia Photography-- Photographer

Freeport Bakery-- Cake

Elks Tower-- Venue