Petalena: Creative Designs for Weddings and Special Events

Blues and Purples – Summery Without Being “Girly”
This kind of color palatte is the way to go when a bride wants something summery and seasonal without all the hot pinks and bright colors for which seasonal summer flowers are known for.

For this wedding we did:

~ Dark purple and blue delphinium
~ Purple Clematis vine
~ White Spirea
~ White Peonies
~ Violet Scabiosa

This was that really hot weekend in June, well over 90 degrees and extremely humid, I think these flowers really added a cool touch to very warm day!

Apryl and I were also really happy to get a great photo of one of the handheld corsages. We love doing these for weddings, more modern than a pin-on or a wrist, and also lets the person holding it have control over when they want to wear it and when they don’t.

For this Mother of the Groom corsage we did a lovely white phalenopsis orchid, accompanied by clematis buds and a few leaves. I love how beautifully it is set off against the teal of the dress.

All photos by Scott Metzger of Metzger Studios – voted “Best of the Knot” in 2007!

Reception location: Butternut Golf Club, Stow, MA

More design work by Petalena

We just finished up a wedding at the New England Aquarium this past weekend – penguins and flowers, a most unusual combination, but such a fun venue!

Our fabulous bride also wanted us to donate the flowers to a charity following the event (she and most of her guests were coming from California so the arrangements weren’t going home with many guests). We donated everything to Rosie’s Place a wonderful woman’s shelter and crisis center. The staff were so happy to receive them, this is something we’re definitely going to do again!

The flower arrangements were all in a gold and red color scheme to go with the bride’s favorite color (red) and the gold highlighted on the groom’s full military uniform. We worked with orange and gold mokara and oncidium orchids along with ‘angel vine,’ red roses and dahlias.

We’ll post more pictures soon of the bouquet, which I if I say myself, was gorgeous!