Ruskin FL for Jamie & Bryan's Wedding

Recently I traveled to the Tampa area to design flowers for a seaside ceremony in a town called Ruskin. The beach ceremony was held at a wonderful little resort called Little Harbor and the reception that followed was held in a banquet room over looking the harbor. The following photos were taken by Dena Dixon, a Tallahassee Photographer with an extraordinary amount of talent. Here are a few images from that day.

Lets start with the view of the harbor

And then the beautiful bride

Jamie wanted the theme of her wedding to be LOVE with lost of pinks and purples. Her bouquet was one of the most fragrant that I have ever created due to the purple roses she chose. The roses, paired with the blush lilies and freesia gave off the sweetest smell.

The groom and father of the bride wore alstromeria lilies for their boutonniere's that followed the color scheme.

The corsages varied in flowers and design for the mother and other attendants.

The ceremony was held on the beach and displayed a bamboo arch with a mixture of hydrangeas, roses and lilies.

The indoor reception continued the flower theme with a cake covered in lilies and roses and the tables had fresh arrangements of flowers with the word LOVE in them.

Icing on the cake

I was super excited to see the email "Callas and Orchids" sitting in my inbox this morning. A couple months ago a dear friend of mine asked me to create a bouquet for her as she was having some "better late then never" bridal shots done of her family by another photog. She wanted something fun and different to go with her vintage pink dress and off I went looking for ideas.

The day of the photo shoot I don't know who was more excited over the finished product, Terri or myself, but I knew the photos she promised to take of the bouquet for me would be the icing on the cake.

As a last minute thought I made a boutonniere for her husband. Isn't this amazing!