The Memory Box: First Wedding of SUMMER 2009

Woo Hoo! Summer is here, finally.... actually it's July and the temperature is still yo-yo-ing up and down the thermometer...... so I can only say some is here some days.... but fortunately on the 4th the weather was perfect! Sunny but breezey!

So let's see I have some photos from the florist and the wedding to post.... let's get started....

The floral arrangements for this wedding was super simple, the bride had contacted us pretty late, I think just a couple weeks before her wedding, and well she wasn't picky about her flowers so she just gave us the green light to go and do whatever we wanted! hahahahaha..

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Venue: Archeo (Italian restaurant in the Distillery District)
Colour: Simple with green as the accent (as she had a green sash on her dress)

What we ended up doing is simple vases with a stem of dendrobium orchids and a floating conical candle.....

We experienced a problem with the tables... which I think was the restaurant's event coordinator's fault!!!!!

They had vintage mahogany square tables, and for each table that night, they had to put together four tables to form one... however the tables were different heights and some were not even flat, they may have been slightly slanted!!!!! Nightmare for us! As the event coordinator had suggested to the bride to use mirrors in order for the vase to stand a flat surface.... uggghhhhh how does that happen?

I had to stuff torn pieces of cardboard under each mirror, and there were TONS of them under each mirror! It was also noticeable!

However, we had to do what we had to do, I tried to use table cloth to cover it as best I can, but there were some that just could not be covered. Had I known this, I would definitely have recommended using lower arrangements in various heights for each table. I would have also liked to use a more garden, vintage, outdoor-sy type of arrangement as the restaurant was all about oak beams and wood and country-side..... so here's what I would recommend...

Something like this in the middle of her tables in varying heights, possibly the flowers from the top photo will go better than roses...

Another thing is that the f

loral arrangements were super hard to take photos of ..... they looked very sparse and also the colour was quite bland and all the wood and shadowed walls didn't help very much... but I did take some photos....

This arrangement was a little more interesting and much more visible...

I love the weird and wacky branches sticking out in whichever direction they like

I also like how you can see the small cocktail area, if I can call it that..... in the background

And then I wanted to take some photos of those ever fragile-looking orchids, but in fact they are only deceptively fragile-looking..... hehehehe....