atelier bliss follow-up

i'm sure i say this all the time, but it's been unbelievably crazy around here. fall weddings are kicking my butt, but i have a breather this week until the november craziness begins. before i go and get some much needed zzz's, i thought i'd put up some overdue photos of the lil bridal soiree that occured at the end of september. i was so impressed with what all of the vendors contributed that night and the turnout was great. i only have flower photos, but hopefully we'll see some actual event shots soon.

in the meantime, these are photos of the sample bouquets i made and some of the arrangements that were scattered throughout the event. the event space was modern and indian, so the general design/style attempted to follow that. and a quick thanks to lois kwon for helping out that day!

first four photos courtesy of courtney matevey of green apple photo

bar arrangement

the moment i heard we were having the event at an indian restaurant, i immediately wanted to incorporate sari fabric into the designs. there were some other vases covered in really beautiful sari fabric, but sadly, there aren't any photos of it. i also wanted lots of gold - containers, sari details, wire...i even wanted to use indian bangles and bracelets, but my budget was already shot (i spent nearly $200 on sari fabric), so i calmed myself down and talked myself into not buying them. sigh.

bouquets

this bouquet is made up of eggplant carnations, light pink nerine lilies, purple allium and eggplant mini-calla lilies. the handle was wrapped in an amazing sari fabric - the details of it which you sadly can't see. it was so lovely.

teddy mini-gerbers and a collar of berzelia berries. i loved the retro-funkiness of it and thought everyone else would hate it, but i had a few lovers! they were usually the hippie, funky girls.

hot pink/fuchisa cattleya orchids with a beautful red, orange and gold sari handle.

focal centerpiece

a high arrangement of eggplant carnations, orange roses, fuchsia dendrobium orchids, fuchsia mokara orchids, black Ti leaves and red hanging amaranthus atop a gold-chip riser vase.

accent bar piece

the wonderful contributors of atelier bliss.