Petalena: Creative Designs for Weddings and Special Events

We like showing a montage of each wedding because it really conveys how each floral element (from the pew ends, to the bouquets, to the table arrangements) add up to a feeling, a sense of texture and mood.

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Green Garden Wedding – lovely tones of green, chartreuse, light orange and yellow for this elegant and chic garden-style wedding at the State Room in downtown Boston. This style really shows you can have pretty lush style and still be modern too!

Tropical Romantic Wedding - one of our absolute faves. With bright pink peonies, dahlias, and orchids blended with fuchsia blooms, gloriosa, and tropical foliage, this wedding was fabulous. A reception at the Pierce House in Lincoln on a warm summer night with lanterns and candles to set the mood. Sigh, it was all simply gorgeous. Soon to be featured in Bride’s Boston Magazine’s Fall/Winter 2010 issue!

A Spanish-Inspired Soiree Wedding - Two lovely brides tied the knot at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, a perfectly quirkly and stylish place to mount a Spanish-style wedding replete with tapas, churros, a flamenco dancer, and sangria! Flowers were festive and fun in shades of magenta reds, chocolate browns, and blush ivory.

An Elegant Autumn Wedding - This wedding took place in Charlestown, MA in Naval Shipyard on beautiful and perfect 70 degree early October day. With a color palette of magentas, purples, ivories, and silver, the aesthetic was seasonal but elegant. One of our faves.

Early Spring Wedding – This wedding took place in mid-March at the very stylish XV Beacon Hotel with the reception at Mooo. The bride wanted an elegant pale spring color palette of pink, lilac, and ivory – just perfect for this time of year with gorgeous ranunculas, cymbidium orchids, lilacs, and anemones.

June Wedding in Blues and Purples – We just loved the color palette for this wedding. An early June wedding in Newton followed by a reception at Butternut Farm Golf Club in Stow. Here, seasonal blue and purple flowers reign: gorgeous tall hybrid delphinium, purple clematis, ivory peonies all speak to the charm and beauty of early summer.

Thursday Night Soiree Wedding - This wedding is a favorite of ours; quirky, stylish, and unique. The bride and groom choose a traditionally less popular time of year (February) and day of the week (Thursday) to hold their nuptuals at the Quaker Meeting House in Cambridge. The meetinghouse was starkly elegant which we played up with very sculptural, spare, and elegant arrangements of flowering spring branches and red ‘James Storey’ orchids. The reception was held at Upstairs on the Square where we continued the color palette of ivory and reds with table arrangements of alternating ivory and red orchids.

Reds and Golds Summer Wedding - For this wedding we worked with an interesting color scheme of lipstick red and gold-yellow. Our bride is a very cool costume designer for theater and movies in L.A. and really had a vision for her day. You can see in the photos how everything really comes together and the starting point was her own love of the color red and her husband’s great formal Marine uniform. It just works! All photos by Joyelle West Photography.

Italian al Fresco Style Wedding (a la New England) – The bride and groom wanted a fun, casual and quirky feel to their wedding which took place outside the city at a historic house in Lincoln. There was a ‘green’ aspect to this wedding with table centerpieces of live plants that the guests could take home and enjoy. We went with a variety of different herbs in tall terracotta pots. All the bouquets were made with local flowers (except for a few orchids that I couldn’t resist including!).

Orange and Magenta Summer Wedding - A fun and fabulous color combination that is really picking up in popularity in the United States. While the bride’s bouquet was more delicate and subtle with creamy ivories and peaches, the design for the reception was full-on color! Wonderful photography by studioatticus. Featured in Boston Magazine’s Summer 2009 Issue in the  “Real New England Weddings” section.

An Elegant Autumnal City Wedding -A gorgeous palette of bright fall oranges, warm ivories, deep chocolate browns, and burgundies all to evoke a feel of autumnal elegance for wedding in the city. With an evening soiree held at the dramatic Algonquin Club in Back Bay, we carried out the same color palette as seen in the bridal party’s bouquets. Photos by Channing Johnson.

Candlelight Winter Soiree – An unusual but highly stylish color palette of red-orange, chartreuse, lavender, and espresso. The dinner party for 50 of the bride and groom’s close friends and family was filled with romantic candlelight. The rectangular dinner tables and dark linens added a dramatic touch to the atmospheric design.