Weddings of the weekend

Anna came early this morning to pick up her arrangement for the bridal show. I was afraid it wouldn't fit in her car. She said "big," and I took her literally. I'm hoping the day was a successful one for her. I have watched her work evolve dramatically just in the last six months and am excited to see how things go for her this year. When she gets me a photo of the piece, I'll post it.

On to this weekend's weddings --

Debbie and Neal were on Friday. Lots of red roses, with accents of white mini callas, bright green snowballs, and seeded eucalyptus. Clean, elegant. I'm attaching a quick photo I took of her bouquet.

Sam and Lindsay were today. I just loved how her bouquet turned out. Royal purple lisianthus, white and purple freesia, vendela roses, purple lilacs, seeded eucalyptus, waxflower...all finished off with a royal purple ribbon wrap (which you can't see in the photo). Very English garden -- lots of texture.

It was a gorgeous day today. Great day to get married in my book. Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

Updates all around...

I apologize for the drama last week. I could explain all the domain propagation mumbo-jumbo, but I'll spare you all the details. The good news is, everything is fine and up and running now, so if you haven't made the trip to see the new site, now's a good time!

It's going to be a busy weekend for us here. We've got Debbie and Neal's wedding tomorrow at the SL temple and the U's Commander House, and Sam and Lindsay's wedding on Saturday at the Bountiful temple and The Point...and if that weren't enough, we're making a nice, big arrangement for Anna Page's booth at the bridal show in Provo on Saturday as well (go say hi to her!). I'll post pictures if I have time to take any!

An update on scheduling since our calendar has changed a bit: We were planning on being out of town the first week of July so up to this point we haven't been accepting any consultations for the 1st through the 7th. We decided to move our trip to May so the first week of July is now open for the taking. We've already got a couple consultations for those dates scheduled for next week, but for the time being, the coveted 7-7-07 is unbooked. Did you know that's supposed to be the most popular wedding date of the year? Has something to do with ancient Chinese luck, I read somewhere...

I thought I'd include a couple photos that Anna took of that bouquet I did for her client's bridals a month or so ago. Enjoy!

Stop the Presses!

I'm not sure if a retraction is in order...this stuff is still pretty confusing to me. Apparently our new site is showing up on some computers, but others are still pulling up the old site. That makes absolutely no sense to me! So for the moment, you may or may not be able to get to the new site. Check back if that's the case, and I'll make a new post when I can get this all figured out with our new hosting company.

Thanks!

Our new site is up and running!

Well its finally up. Our new website went live this evening and while I'm a little nervous about whether or not our clients will approve (always the people pleaser at heart), its sure an improvement from our previous site. Again, we're having some issues with the HTML side of the site so look for that to appear in a couple weeks. I apologize if its slow for those of you that don't have high speed access... Special thanks to Anna Page Wheeler for her last minute moral support this morning!

While I'm short on time and don't have the opportunity to go into detail about this one, I'm attaching a few unedited photos of today's wedding at The Old Meeting House. Pinks and oranges, roses and gerbera daisies... Spunky and fun.

Check out the new site. Let us know what you think!

Whimsy gets a face lift!

I'm not deluded enough to think that anyone is laying awake at night wondering where we've been for the past couple weeks, but I figured it appropriate to at least begin to explain our absence. We've been hard at work (and I mean hard -- you should see the dark circles under my eyes...concealer doesn't even hold a chance against these puppies!) giving Whimsy a much needed face lift. After a few very successful years, our little company seemed to deserve some sort of refreshment, and since we can't take a business entity to a spa for a weekend, we did what we could and shed a few pounds making our image a little lighter, a littler brighter, and a lot more refined. Our logo has been overhauled, our marketing material redesigned, and we'll be unveiling a brand new website in the next few days! We're so pleased with our little "face lift" and can't wait to show it off to the world!
All our team members are just swooning over the new logo (I think they're just excited to get new business cards, really...), but Tyler and I are much more excited about the website. A word of caution: we won't have the HTML portal up for another week or so, so dial-up users beware -- the flash portal may prove to take too long to load for you guys so either take a look on someone else's bandwidth or wait until the HTML side is up and running.

Just to prove we're still busy with the important stuff, I'm including a photo of centerpieces from this past weekend. I love the contrast of bold colors in the spring. Enjoy!

Corsages, Boutonnieres, and Bouquets -- Oh My!

Last night was Haley's reception at The Old Meeting House. Rather than putting a lot of money into her decor, she decided to do something that I'd never seen before -- she decided to honor and recognize ever member of her immediate and extended family by providing each of them with the appropriate worn flowers. That amounted to 34 boutonnieres, 14 pinned corsages, and 20 wrist corsages. What a fantastic idea! I love that she made her wedding less about herself and more about the wonderful people in her life and how much she enjoys spending time with them. Let me tell you though, we all had wrist cramps by the end of the day. It was such a dreary day over here so the pictures turned out pretty drab -- you'll have to use your imagination since I wasn't able to begin to capture the vibrancy of the colors. Her bouquet was absolutely gorgeous, and probably one of the best smelling bouquets I've...smelled, I guess. Because it was a country-themed wedding, we made her bouquet a little unruly and textured with a number of different colors and shapes. Flowers in her bouquet included two varieties of yellow Dutch tulips, yellow and red ranunculus, a greenish-yellow hypericum berry, muscari (otherwise know as grape hyacinth), daffodils, Gold Strike roses, Monte Casino asters, cream freesia and snapdragons, Mardi Gras solidago, and a collar of variegated mini pitt. Her wrap was a simple white satin with three thin sage satin ribbons secured with pearl pins to mimic a detail found in her dress. The cake was significantly more simple than the bouquet -- a top tier treatment of Gold Strike roses, solidago, and Monte Casino, with two small bundles of yellow spray roses, muscari, pitt, Monte Casino and solidago on the bottom tier. Again, I apologize for the photography. Hopefully I'll be able to get some decent shots from her photographer...

Today after my consultations, I was able to provide photographer-friend Anna Page Wheeler (Anna Page Photography) with a bouquet for a special bridal session she's doing downtown this afternoon. Since I'm just dying for this winter to come to an end, I played up on the spring time theme with a small bouquet of pink and yellow ranunculus, yellow tulips, green hypericum, yellow spray roses, cream freesia, and lily grass. Sweet and simple. I hope her photo shoot goes well and can't wait to see the pictures!

Pretty at The Point

Last night was Angela's reception at The Point. We love The Point -- they do such an excellent job at making things look classy, you can't beat the view, and the money made from the events held there goes straight to the Huntsman Cancer Institute to fund additional cancer research. Not a bad way to kick off married life. Good karma.

Angela's wedding used lots of white with splashes of purple and black. You can't get more simple than the bouquet she chose -- white vendela roses and a sprinkling of purple mini calla lilies. Clean, sophisticated, no bells and whistles. Her cake, on the other hand, was a completely different story. This cake was huge. I remember her telling me in one of our conversations that more than anything, she wanted a tall cake. She definitely accomplished that! We literally had to stand on a chair, on our tip-toes just to do the top tier.

This cake turned out gorgeous. The top tier consisted of white roses, purple freesia, and myrtle. Between the separated tiers, we packed more white roses, purple roses, purple freesia, white Oriental lilies, seeded eucalyptus, and myrtle. This was a special cake for one of our staff members. Why? Because it was Assistant Designer Kristin's first solo cake! Kristin joined our team at the beginning of October and has proven herself to be an incredibly valuable asset to our company. She's worked hard at her training these past five months, and while there's more to go, this cake was an important step she's been working up to. Congratulations Kristin! You did a fantastic job!

Coming up next week, Haley's reception at The Old Meeting House. 14 pinned corsages, 20 wrist corsages, 34 boutonnieres... I'd better get started on those bows!