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.

SPRING & EARLY SUMMER PALETTES:

Early Spring Wedding – This special and intimate ceremony took place at the fabulous XV Beacon Hotel at their restaurant Mooo. A soft a palette of blush hydrangea, ivory anemones, and lilac set a subtle spring palette for the lovely wedding.

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!

SUMMER PALETTES:

Contemporary Cultural Wedding – this wonderful celebration brought together traditional elements of Chinese weddings with western ones. With lots of bright reds combined with magentas and greens, this palette was contemporary and colorful!

Tropical Romantic Wedding – 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.

Red & Gold Wedding – a unique color palette for summer wedding on the Boston waterfront.

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! Featured in Boston Magazine’s Summer 2009 Issue in the  “Real New England Weddings” section.

AUTUMNAL PALETTES:

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.

Elegant & Organic Wedding – A dreamy fall wedding at the Taj in Back Bay, Boston. Fusing Jewish and Indian wedding traditions with colors and flowers evocative of fall.

Jewel Toned Autumnal Wedding – A beautiful fall wedding at the Lyman Estate in Waltham. Loads of pomegrantes, persimmons, and olive branches with dahlias, tulips, and other fall flowers.

Elegant Autumn Wedding – Charlestown, MA in the 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 and elegant.

WINTER PALETTES:

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.

Thursday Night Soiree Wedding –  The Quaker Meeting House 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.

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.