spring garden reception

We are super excited to share the details of our latest summer wedding for Andrea and Joe! Though we didn’t design and plan their entire event, we created some of our favorite elements yet.

Andrea and Joe chose several services from our IndividualElements to develop their garden themed wedding. We hand crafted the centerpieces, favors, escort cards, and bridal flowers while working with Andrea from the early stages of her planning to ensure a cohesive design.

For this New York wedding, Andrea envisioned both a classic and natural look. After visiting the Renaissance Westchester in White Plains, we knew it was the perfect backdrop to host this wedding. Our challenge was to create centerpieces that would enhance the look of the room yet not take away from its already fitting landscape of arching windows and beautiful stone work.

Working from her palate of lavender and white, we chose faded green hydrangeas with white roses for her bridesmaids’ bouquets. Her bouquet matched but also adorned with white cala lilies to match the groomsmen boutineers.

The cocktail hour took place on a private stone patio surrounded by sculpted hedges. A trickling fountain in the background created the perfect secluded garden atmosphere. We wanted the centerpieces to simply blend in to this already organic aura, so we chose white hydrangeas in clear glass vases with sliced lemons and limes to add a bit of natural color.

t was very important to our bride to have favors that guests would appreciate and keep at home. Terracotta pots with custom escort tags fastened in twine was a wonderful way to personalize her favors. We chose a vibrant and untraditional wedding flower called celosia. The celosia flowers added a bold burst of color to the cocktail hour, allowing guests to pick them up and disperse the visual in and throughout the dining room.   

The dining room invited the outdoor charm inside with stone walls, large windows, and vaulted ceilings that gave the feeling of a private piazza. The rustic centerpieces were vintage birdcages with fantastically overgrown vines, natural faded hydrangeas, engufled in moss. Each individually crafted birdcage was different than the next, as if left outside for nature to envelop with its colors. We then molded table numbers with moss and perched them above the cages. We finished off the table with cream linen napkins tied with twine and a sprig of baby's breath.

To add a personal and unique element to Andrea & Joe's sweetheart table, two love birds were nestled inside a moss crafted heart.

Thanks and Congratulations to Andrea and Joe! 

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