Our member, San Francisco event designer extraordinaire Stanlee Gatti  was featured in the latest Spring/Summer issue of Town & Country Weddings.  Gatti was the event planner and floral designer for the wedding of Jennifer Siebel and San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom.   The couple got married at the Bitterroot Springs Ranch in Montana, owned by the bride’s father Kenneth Siebel.  Going with an Out of Africa-in-Montana theme, Gatti presented dinner at long tables outside, set with white garden roses and hand-painted English glassware.  Similarly, the bridal and bridesmaid’s bouquets consisted of all white garden roses with natural greenery, tied with white silk ribbon.

The couple planned three days of events to keep their 230 guests occupied, including a poolside cocktail party, a barn bash (complete with an electric bull, square dancing and live music), and a morning of hiking and fly-fishing before the ceremony on Saturday evening.  The bride and her father rode in on horseback to the ceremony, which took place in a meadow surrounded by wild grasses and animals, and was lead by Palo Alto-based healer Carol Simone who guided the couple through the exchanging of vows and readings of Native American poetry.  The night was spent mostly on the dance floor, which Stanlee Gatti had ‘orchestrated’  outdoors, beneath the stars.  www.stanleegatti.com

Our fabulous member Avant Garden (aka Todd Event Design) in Dallas, Texas was featured in a full page advertisement in the Spring/Summer issue of Town & Country Weddings.

They specialize in floral designs, weddings, custom invitations, destination and event management, and luxury event rentals.  Featured in this advertisement are luxurious candelabra centerpieces consisting of  hydrangeas, roses, lilies and stock in shades of rusty  greens, browns, reds, purples and pinks.  www.toddevents.com

Featured in the Spring 2009 issue of The Bride & Bloom publication, our member florist Isari, located in Carlsbad, CA. www.isariflowerstudio.com, created a look of organic simplicity in the ideal open air locale of The Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla.  A variety of small centerpieces designed in natural burlwood bowls and other containers made of organic materials, lined the center of a long dinner table.  Graceful green lady slipper orchids and hot pink cyclamen plants were placed alongside full, gracious arrangements comprised of cut echeveria, purple eremurus, echinacea pods, orange blossoms, green variegated decorative kale and fluffy double white tulips.  To complete the look, a juicy green plum rested atop grape leaves, was placed at each place setting.

The use of natural containers made of organic material and live plants (which by the way, can continue to provide visual delight and oxygenation long after the party ends!), are the perfect example of how we can go “Green” with our events!

Our fantastic member florist Renny & Reed in New York City, (rennyandreed.com) created a couple of garden inspired bouquets that were recently featured in the February/March edition of Modern Bride.

As quoted from the article, “Some wedding dreams are worth indulging; other times you have to curb the urge to splurge. Here, both options.”

Our new member Muscari, in Milwaukee, WI, was featured in The Bride and Bloom Spring 2009 edition.  For this wedding, the couple chose a color combination of coral pink and light beige.   Muscari’s bridal bouquet incorporates these colors as well as accents of white and brown.  The flowers used are hydrangea, stephanotis, roses, spray roses, chocolate cosmos and monkey’s tail, collared with seeded eucalyptus.  To compliment, the boutonniere is designed with spray roses, hanging amaranthus and monkey’s tail.

For the main table, a tall crackle finish vase acts as the support for an arrangement crafted from white hydrangea, monkey’s tail, willow and hanging amaranthus cascading down the sides.  Three small arrangements of spray roses balance the base with the top.  Placed on the smaller tables are arrangements in glass rectangle vases embellished with a French satin wrap and filled with hydrangea, willow, hanging amaranthus, monkey’s tail and roses.  As a delicate touch, neatly folded napkins are placed on each plate with roses, monkey’s tail and stephanotis sitting atop.

To see more of Muscari’s work, visit their website at www.mymuscari.com

The happy couple were two high school sweethearts reunited after years apart.  The setting was the Old Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, California.

Designer and member florist, Paul Robertson, www.prfloraldesign.com, set the tone for this romantic and emotional pairing with jumbo rice-paper-wrapped lanterns and a red rose petal lined aisle for the procession.

Robertson’s simple and elegant gold candelabra centerpieces, bedecked with loose spheres of red roses and delicate tendrils of ivy trailing from below, were adorned at the base with gorgeous red rose petals.

The bride’s bouquet was a generous offering of gathered red peonies, while the bridesmaids carried complimenting bouquets of red tulips, with Black Beauty and Baccara roses of a traditional design.

A bridal bouquet can be fluffy and flowing, or chic and sharp, as done by our member Belle Fleur in New York, NY.

The winter issue of Brides Magazine features Belle Fleur bouquets that demonstrate their clean yet extravagant sensibility. A simple gathering of calla lilies and hosta leaves may compliment weddings with a tailored, neutral look.

Saharas and other buttery roses suit a palette of golds and champagnes, and a lush mass of creamy dahlias and peonies appeals to a feminine, whimsical aesthetic.

For a uniquely textural impact, Lady’s slipper orchids, sweet peas and fiddle head ferns are combined in a luxurious display.

Belle Fleur continues to design some of the most luscious and abundant bouquets that New York has to offer. Whatever your taste or vision for your special day may be, Belle Fleur will create something that is striking, defined, and uniquely you. www.bellefleurny.com

Katrina Parris’ work is featured in the Winter 2007 issue of New York Weddings.  Their gorgeous and elegant all white bridal bouquet on the front cover uses roses and dendrobium orchids.  The bridal bouquet on the inside cover uses several different varieties of roses in shades of white, including Sweetheart and California varieties .   They were also asked to design an unusual fantasy winter wedding centerpiece; this one incorporates white Hawaiian dendrobium orchids with Schwartzwalder black calla-lily accent in a glass vase.  It is the arrangement in the back of the bottom right photo.

Katrina Parris was also featured in the New York Weddings  Fall 2005 issue.  This article described various personalities of engaged couples and offered ideas of appropriate gifts according to  their personal tastes.  Katrina Parris recommended a  stunning, dramatic  arrangement for the Bon Vivants,  aka the cultured and refined couple.  In this arrangement, Katrina Parris enveloped  King Protea & tall berried Viburnum foliages with fanciful tropical elephant-ear leaves.

See more of Katrina Parris’ work on their website   www.kpfny.com

Proprietor Judy Sieber from our member florist Emily Joubert in Woodside, CA, was featured in California Home & Design magazine- Design Sourcebook 2009.  Judy talks about how her shop is a tribute to her grandmother Emily Joubert and how she found beauty in simple things.   Judy has always loved to collect and sell from an early age.

In her 20’s after attending design school, Judy travelled the country selling shoes to department stores for Esprit de Corps and Ralph Lauren.  Thereafter she moved to Southern Hungary with her husband, where she collected antiques and returned home with a 40-foot container full of goods.

Now based in Woodside CA, Judy owns her own home and garden shop named after her grandmother.   Among her many goods she has to offer are her gorgeous flower arrangements.  The large one featured below is a low & lush arrangement with lime green hydrangea, cymbidium orchids and artichokes.  The smaller one contains white hydrangea, orange and jade roses.

Learn more about Emily Joubert at www.emilyjoubert.com.

In the December 2008 issue of the SAF Floral Management magazine, our member florist Foxgloves & Ivy Floral Design (www.foxgloves.biz), spoke about their green-certified new design space and richly detailed new logo.
“It’s instant impact,” says proprietor Larry Hammack, AIFD. “But it’s not in-your-face marketing because the logo is true artwork.”

We here, at bbrooks fine flowers, couldn’t agree more.