congrats Anna + T!

today i'm even more speechless than sunday.  i'm so grateful that anna & t gave me complete floral license for their august wedding and that i had the opportunity to work with the super-talented photographer, Maggie Harkov!  Maggie was sweet enough to share some of her wonderful photos.

anna & t are, perhaps, the cutest couple ever.  when they're together, their glowing faces can't help but show their love for each other.  anna is simply gorgeous and t can never stop smiling (so cute)!  when I saw anna holding my bouquet, i audibly gasped -- ask pete.  imo, the bouquet paired with her dress so beautifully and together, they conveyed the vintage, romantic aesthetic that anna wanted.

oh, and i audibly gasped when i first saw maggie's images and i'm sure you will too....

the bride carried a bouquet of garden roses (caramel antique, romantic antique & juliet), cafe au lait dahlias, white astilbe, white snowberries, japanese andromeda, blushing bride protea, hydrangea and jasmine vine.

the bridesmaids carried nosegays of garden roses (maria teresa, juliet & toulousse lautrec), pink sweetpeas, coral ranunculus, touche dahlias, pink astilbe, lady's mantle and jasmine vine.

for the name table, i created a centerpiece filled with white snowberries, white dahlias, tuberoses, more garden roses (caramel antique, romantic antique and ivory garden roses) and loads of passion vine.  

and finally, the reception centerpieces had touche dahlias, maria teresa garden roses, white majolica spray roses, cream lisianthus, billy balls, white snowberries, ranunculus, dusty miller and seeded eucalyptus.  each centerpiece was accompanied by six bud vases filled with several stems of the various blooms.  

LOVE!

thanks again, maggie, for sharing your work with me and my readers!

beyond words

september has been one heck of a month for me.  i'm reaching a lot of goals that i've set for myself years ago and now searching for what's next.

one goal was to start a garden this year to try to learn some things.  the garden is slowly coming to an end and we have just a few more weeks for the dahlias.  i'm planning for larger dahlia beds next year and maybe over the next few years add in a peony field.  yup, field.

i only know how to dream big.

cream cafe au lait dahlias, hydrangea, sedum, black eyed susans and baptista foliage

goofy

goofy faces over at photosbybusyb.blogspot.com

late summer, early autumn + dahlias

waiting for autumn; now that we have a car it will be foliage, foliage and more foliage.   

in the meantime, i'm hoping for another month of dahlias before digging up the garden beds and laying down cover crop.  the dahlias below aren't from the garden but i happened to walk by the union square farmer's market this morning and couldn't resist.  

bouquet in motion

i'm (very) late to the game with this, but i'm having fun with GIFs.  

sea + sand

here's a little something-something to close out the unofficial end of summer.  with the help of my beloveds, i put together a beach-inspired photo shoot.

the setting is a couple celebrating a very special date, the day after wedding or perhaps a one year anniversary with an intimate picnic.  the tablescape, flowers and clothing have been inspired by the sea + sand.

location:  crane's beach, ipswich, massachusetts

flowers:  bouquet and centerpiece consist of snowbound dinner plate dahlias, white ball dahlias and another white decorative form dahlia, combo roses, garden snow roses, baby blue tweedia, cream lisianthus, white astilbe, white button matricaria, dusty miller, oregano and mountain mint

dress:  alice + olivia (belt is from anthrolopologie)