Bridal today, rain or shine!

I've considered myself lucky to not have to worry about rain on my wedding day, since we are doing our ceremony and reception indoors.  Well now that my bridal is scheduled for 5:00 pm with a 40% chance of rain, I'm getting anxious about the weather.  My photographer and I are looking for back-up locations (can't do Prestonwood because of a wedding today). Time is set for 5:00 so we can't do earlier. Any ideas?  Here is an iPhone shot of my bridal bouquet, courtesy of Cydney and The English Garden.  I love it!

Happy Early Birthday to Jake, plus a flower update!

Jake's birthday is Tuesday. Have I gotten him anything for his birthday? No.  Do I have a lot of "ideas" well, yes.  Luckily I have Monday off so I should have plenty of time to play birthday fairy.  Happy early birthday Jake!!

Florist meetings are in full effect. At this point, the frontrunner is Cydney with The English Garden, but I have one last meeting and I haven't received any written propsals at this point.  During our meeting, Cydney got up a couple of times with creative ideas, grabbing flowers from her fridge to illustrate.  She also seems to be very flexible working within my budget, and will incorporate what glassware/containers/materials I have in order to help derease costs.  Speaking of this, I need to get her some photos and lists of what I have already!  She's even helped me come up with a more official color scheme based on the color of the bridesmaid dresses.  Jewel Tones!

Photo credits in order of appearance:

Photo from the My Bouquet Floral Design Blog's, Jewel tone Purple post

David's Bridal Style 83312 in Sangria

Real Wedding Find on Green Wedding Shoes

Green Wedding Shoes is one of my favorite Wedding blogs for inspiration.  Now that I have more time to actually read wedding blogs again, I had to share a Wedding that I found inspiring.  Please check out Megan + Simon's Backyard Wedding on Green Wedding Shoes.  It has color, it has style, it has succulents!  I also LOVE the bouquet shown below.

(Photo credit: JAC Photographers)

Another Bouquet I love

I definitely want a colorful bouquet with lots of rich greens, succulents, and maybe even some non-traditional greenery additions.  I love the Billy Buttons, Succulents, and Dahlias in this bouquet.  Ideally, I'd like yellow to be more of an accent color than the main color in the bouquet, so I'd cut some of the BBs from this and add different colored dahlias, roses, anemones, etc.  Plus that gray stuff that I think she calls Kangaroo Paws would have to go.

Photo Credit

Bouquet Inspiration

I found it, my new favorite bouquet, pehaps ever. I've never seen anything like this but I love it. Courtesy of Snippet & Ink, from the Sneak Peak of Anli & Kenneth's Wedding.