Wilder Mansion

My other wedding this weekend was on Saturday in Elmhurst at the Wilder Mansion. I had to keep reminding myself that it was August because it felt like a cool early October day. I'm not complaining, I love autumn time! Megan and Jay's wedding mainly consisted of Gerbera Daisies..so fun and their colors were black, white and hot pink with a Chicago Sox theme. Congrats Megan and Jay!!

Bridesmaids Bouquets

Maid of Honor Bouquet

Megan's Bouquet

Wilder Mansion...how beautiful!

Centerpiece Style #1

Centerpiece Style #2

Centerpiece Style #3

The inside was just as beautiful as the facade

Cool Head Table Plaque...would have liked it more if it were Cubs!

Beach Wedding

Brittany and Jeff married earlier this month on a beach in Mexico and this past Friday night was their wedding reception at Palos Country Club in Orland Park. I also had the privledge of doing their flowers for Mexico as well. No, they didn't fly me down there with them...darn! but they did fly down with silk bouquets and boutonierres I made. The first set of pictures are the fresh flowers from this Friday and the second set are the silk flowers from earlier this month. I had so much fun with this wedding..the bright colors and sea shells made me dream of being on vacation..ahh!!

Centerpiece Style #1


Centerpiece Style #2

(I did a variety of Pink/yellow, Yellow/Orange, Orange/Pink)

*Silk Flowers*

Centerpiece Orders

Gerbera Daisy arrangements for a bridal shower this past Sunday at the Edgewood Valley Country Club in LaGrange.

Centerpieces for a United Airlines Training Department meeting this past Monday.
(I should have taken a picture of the flowers outside, the fluorescent lights dulled the colors in the pictures a bit)

Shower Flowers

This past Sunday, I had an order for a bridal shower at the Hilton in Lisle. Lauren (the bride-to-be), is having a fall wedding so the centerpieces on the guests' tables were to match what her bridesmaids will be carrying: burgandy and orange gerbera daisies with dark blue delphinium.

Some More Pretty Purple

I think purple is the color of the year! I had another purple wedding this past Saturday. Jennifer's bridesmaids wore the prettiest auborigine satin dresses and their bouquets consisted of lavender freesia, lavender roses, ruby red stock, dark purple hydrengeas and green hypericum berries. Her maid of honor carried the same bouquet except hers was a little more special with the addition of eggplant mini calla lilies. Jennifer and Robert's ceremony took place at St. Mary's of the Angels Church in Chicago and oh my gosh, this church was AMAZING! I took a few extra pictures, I couldn't get over how beautiful and grand it was. Their reception was at Beau Jolie in Schiller Park, I've become quite familiar with this venue being that it was the third wedding I've set up there.

Bridesmaids

Maid of Honor's

Jennifer's Bouquet

My Little Cousin's Wedding

I guess I can't call her my "little" cousin anymore, she's all grown up and married now. Her wedding this past Saturday was a blast! I had so much fun and doing her flowers didn't feel like work at all. Her favorite color is purple, you can tell by the pictures! We did about every shade of purple flowers, it was really pretty. Her ceremony took place at Holy Angels in Aurora and her reception was at the Holiday Inn Naperville/Lisle. I wish I had more pictures from that night, here is what I have. Congrats Justine and Jon!!!

Bridesmaids Bouquets

Maid of Honor's bouquet was similar with the addition of white and lavender dendro orchids.

Justine's Bouquet

My Favorite Cake topper I've made all year! I added purple aluminum wire accents to the flowers.

Some table had these dark purple Mookari orchids, some had lavender and the others had white while all the vases were wrapped in lavender satin ribbon.

Card Table