Katherine & Justin

A wedding at Balcones Springs Retreat

April 4, 2009

Oh, if we could work at this venue every week it would be such a carefree existence. Courtney and her staff are the most gracious and hospitable crew to work with.  This is our second wedding out there and both experiences have been equally impressionable.  The bride and family were at ease throughout the day under their care. I worked with Katherine and her mother on the fine details of the decor.  Katherine wanted a casually elegant atmosphere with pale tones for the ceremony and brighter, fun tones for the evening reception.  We used beautiful "in season" flowers like...sweet peas, hydrangea, antique green hydrangea, hot pink "Yves Piaget" David Austen garden roses, sweet smelling stock, freesia, cymbidium orchids, rannunculus (grown at our farm,organically), football mums, tuberose, pale blue tweedia and I'm sure one or too more gorgeous flowers!  The bride was so easy to please and trusted our studio completely to create a complimentary feel to the laid back setting at Balcones.  

Congratulations Katherine and Justin!

Melanie and Last Petal staff

Dailies! etc.

Last Petal Floral Studio specializes in weddings and special events, but did you know we also will do single arrangements for that special occasion?  We don't advertise, but do this mainly word of mouth.  Feel free to call or email our studio if you'd like to order an arrangement!

I wanted to share a few photos of some daily arrangements we did for clients.  One of these arrangements was actually ordered by a famous culinary guru for an Austinite.  That one was especially fun because we harvested some culinary things out of the garden for the arrangement.  We had lovely dill, blooming allium, and other herbs to give it that special touch!  The sweetpeas from the taller arrangement were harvested here at the farm....I loved those because a few of the vines used actually had the pea pods on the vine!  The last picture is one of yours truly harvesting "Eve's Necklance" blooming branches or more precisely called Sophora affinis in the plant world.  This photo is from the middle of March, so if you have a special event next year that you want these amazing, white wisteria-like blooms for.... give us a ring!  They bloom at the farm from late February to mid to late March.  

Happy Earth Day!

Last Petal

Wedding in the Woodlands....., Texas that is.

Erin and her fiance were lovely to work with on designing their wedding decor.  Though, the ringleader I was fortunate to communicate everything with was her lovely mother, Lauren.  I had done Lauren's eldest daughter's wedding a few years back, so they called me up when Erin announced her engagement.  It was a classic and vintage event, with both ceremony and reception at the Augusta Pines Golf Club in The Woodlands.  Erin was very easy going and trusted her mother and I to come up with something elegant, classic, vintage, and flowing with the interior of the club.  I used a very simple floral recipe of blue and antique green hydrangea, white dendrobium orchids, moss and beargrass (guilded with some gold paint).  The only other flowers we used in the wedding were in the bride's bouquet and tossing bouquet.  I loved her bouquet...it was super fluffy!  I used white hydrangea, ivory spray roses, "Vendela" ivory roses, and then white football mums!  Yes, mums....they were perfect!  They are an "older-dated" flower...but I can visualize a comeback with girls who love peonies but do not have the peony budget.  Thanks again to the Sullenberger family for letting us design another daughter's wedding....only one daughter left!!!!

Cheers!

Melanie

Venue:   Augusta Pines Golf Club