Wednesday, September 22, 2010

My best friends wedding.

I know.  So pretty if i do say so myself. The bride is one of my best friends, Nicole.  I helped her with the vision of her wedding because well.....i'm a bit controlling when it comes with anything flower or fashion oriented (and she's a big Nike exec with not too much time).  

The goal for the whole wedding was 'effortlessly beautiful' - no matching bridesmaid dresses or tight perfectly arranged flowers, but of course this doesn't happen exactly 'effortlessly.' 
NOPE.

Chelsea from Frolic executed the flower vision perfectly, she went beyond my expectations and styled them even better than i was hoping.   And all these gorgeous pictures are by Lisa Warninger



It's exactly what i pictured.  Each arrangement is different, totally random and looks like it was just plucked from the garden
The flowers were all in season dalia's, garden roses, and random wildflowers and greenery.  



We were at David Hill Winery outside Portland, with a big yellow country house and ridiculously pretty hills and vineyards.  




























The stems on the bouquets were left uncovered and untrimmed - Chelsea just tied them up with ripped white linen strips and Nicole's was tied with a silk floral hot pink scarf that i've had for a while.  

And yes, those are blackberries - Chelsea's idea and right on.
This is a total testament of bloggers uniting over shared taste.  I knew that Chelsea has done flowers beautifully and has great taste when it came to styling. So instead of hiring a traditional florist - that might've no matter how much i stressed it - done things to perfectly, through Chelsea's blog (Frolic) I knew that she got the look.  






26 comments:

  1. What a BEAUTIFUL wedding. I love that the flowers have such a wild organic feeling to them. Just gorgeous!

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  2. It is all so beautiful and you look stunning in your gorgeous dress! Hugs from Copenhagen!

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  3. SO beautiful, E! And I love the idea of have a "styled" wedding. Why, oh why were you living in NYC when I was getting hitched in Portland?!? And I love the blackberry touch... so Oregon. Humph. I miss home.

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  4. Holy mole, what a gorgeous wedding (and you look FABULOUS too!!). I love the blackberries....mmmmm, eatible flower arrangements mmmmmmm. Uh em, anywho.....

    I was one of the million bloggers in the audience of the Nate Show yesterday and was so excited to see you! In fact, I believe I yelped when you first came out and my (non-blogger, non-design star obsessed) friend sitting next to me thought I was crazy. You were absolutely adorable and I too want to be your bff! Haha!

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  5. Lovely. Are those tile house numbers acting as table numbers? That's a great idea.

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  6. I have never in my life wished I could be a bridesmaid until seeing the picture of you in your dress today. . . This blog post could brain wash even the most sensible of people into wanting to be a wedding planner! WELL STYLED! Bravo!

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  7. SO beautiful!!! love your dress too, you look very pretty =)


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  8. Beautiful! Love the pics! And I heard you were totally amazing yesterday! Hope you had fun.

    Kelly

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  9. This is out right ridiculously good! I love the color pallete and everything else about this!

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  10. Those flowers are beautiful. After I read about them in your previous blog, whenever I saw blackberries I would think, hmmm maybe I shall make a nice bouquet of them....

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  11. I love pink and vintage and everything about this wedding! So effortless looking! : )

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  12. Gorgeous. Would love to see more of this lovely day. Chris

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  13. Beautiful work Emily and Chelsea! I was thrilled to be there.

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  14. Thanks, Emily! It was great working with you!

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  15. Wow!! These photos are stunningly gorgeous!

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  16. THOSE BLACKBERRIES ARE AMAZING. Good lord. I'm jealous. Every time I see a beautiful wedding it makes me want to re-plan my own.

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  17. Gorgeous! Love the bright pink and I adore your dress!

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  18. Such beautiful flowers! Love the not matching bridesmaid dresses concept. So fun!

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  19. Dudeeeee the blackberries are perfect. Ew my florist messed things up (uhm hello expensive to messu up!!). So applause for having a good one :)

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  20. Whoa. I am usually bored to tears by wedding design but this was phenomenal. Your floral selection/arrangement was delicious, fun and happy. The images are stunning and that backdrop of sweeping green vistas? YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.

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  21. gorgeous:) so colorful and happily...

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