Purple, Green, and Silver: An Elegant Farm Wedding

Just a few lovely photos by Ciras Photography from a wedding we did in October with a great couple who wanted elegantly organic wedding flowers at the Warren Center in Massachusetts. With a color palette of purples, green, and silver – we were able to pull in a lot of gorgeous purple blooms and green foliage to create the design.

Bouquets of burgundy, pinks, and purples. Photo by Ciras Photography.

Our bride’s bouquet was lovely affair with large purple dahlias and hydrangea for the big flower forms, and lovely French ranunculus with fantastic green tufts at their centers. Hellebore, a favorite bloom of ours, comes back into season in the fall and we love using it for it’s pretty arching shape that lends a looser or natural look to a bouquet.  Purple-pink astrantia is another very petite and unique bloom,  reminds me a bit of allium, with its slightly spiky and sculptural look that is great for texture.

Groom's Boutonniere. Photo by Ciras Photography.

A boutonniere for the groom (above) was just a perfect little pom-pom style dahlia paired scented geranium foliage and a fiddlehead.

Bridesmaid and Bouquets. Photography by Ciras Photography.

Bouquets for the bridesmaids were smaller scale than the brides with a bit less of the deep pink touches, and bit more of the purples. The tonal purple bouquets against the deep pewter color of the dresses was striking and dramatic.

For the ceremony, we dressed up a white garden trellis with pears, persimmons, amaranthus, and hydrangea in tonal purple, ochre, and green hues.

Ceremony Arch. Photo by Ciras Photography.

Photo by Ciras Photography.

The reception, inside the Warren Center, was festive and colorful with napkins in purple and green, gorgeous table numbers, and our flowers too.

Table Flowers and Card. Photo by Ciras Photography.

Table numbers. Photography by Ciras Photography.

Our heartfelt thanks to Joyce and Andrew for having us help create such a special day for them, congratulations!

Thanks to Ciras Photography for sharing all their wonderful photos with us!

Florals by Petalena

 

Jewel Tones at the Lyman Estate

We just got a few dreamy pictures from one of our fall brides of her wedding at the Lyman Estate in Waltham. Apryl and I are both big lovers of old houses and this spectacular property owned by Historic New England is no exception. But I digress, onto the flowers!

Jewel toned wedding party

I cropped this photo a bit just so we can focus on the color palette which is wonderful range of jewel toned cool colors. Each bridesmaid wore a different hue and we did neutral flowers to set off against the color. Our bride wore the most amazing dress, I’ve never seen anything so magical.

Sunset walk

We did her bouquet primarily with burgundy dahlias, hellebore, tulips, and ranunculas with some touches of green and gold.

Autumnal Bouquet

Flowers-in-Waiting

And lastly just a lovely bouquet shot of the flowers waiting before the ceremony. Here you can see the gorgeous Cafe Au Lait dahlias, a few touches of burgundy dahlias and fiddleheads, and soft velvety scented geranium leaves.

Thank you to lovely Caroline for sharing with us!

Photos by Amy Root-Donle

Design by Petalena

 

Autumnal Wedding at the Lyman Estate

Here are a few lovely images from a wedding we just finished at the Lyman Estate – a Historic New England site – in Waltham, Massachusetts. With lots of beautiful period rooms, the mood for the wedding was to be a  festive dinner party complete with lots of jars informally filled with pretty seasonal blooms and tied with ribbons:

Tulips & Dahlias by Evening Sunlight

Pomegrantes with Dill & Astilble

The color palette for the table arrangements was primarily deep plums, burgundies, greens, and soft neutrals.

Hydrangea with tulips and pomegranates

Each table was a bit different from the next, for an informal and slightly eclectic feel.

Festive arrangement of peach dahlias and mint

Tulips in sunlight

Lovely, lovely fall flowers. Cheers to the fabulous bride and groom – it was wonderful to be part of your day!

Design & Photos by Petalena

 

New Photos from a Fall Wedding

Apryl and I LOVE the days we get photos from the professional wedding photographers from the weddings we work! It’s sort of like, well, Christmas!

So, happy to share some of the beautiful photos by Mara Broad Photographs, thanks Mara!:

The Perfect Photo - Photo by Mara Broad

I just adore, adore, adore this photo of the bride and groom, and of course how the bridal bouquet is perfectly highlighted too!

Bridesmaids and Bride laughing - Photo by Mara Broad

Another one of my favorite photographs, formals are lovely but this is so natural and fun and really captures the sense of being with your girls! Love the light and how it picks up the colors of the dresses and bouquets so beautifully.

More Laughter - Photo by Mara Broad

Bridesmaid with Bouquet - Photo by Mara Broad

We did a lot of trailing ribbons on the bouquet handles for this wedding (a nice detail above), something we’re always hoping a bride will want to do – it adds such a pretty and romantic touch to bouquets without looking too foo-foo bow-ish!

Thanks again Mara for sharing and to our dear friends Bridget and Phil – it was so much fun to do your wedding!

For more photos of some of the other wedding details, you can see this earlier post which has a lot of the table arrangements.

Photos by Mara Broad

Floral Design by Petalena