My Wedding

So.....Big news, I got married! My husband and I were married in the Idaho Falls Temple on July 30, 2009 and I had the pleasure (if you can call it that) of doing my own flowers for my wedding. It was a a great experience and I sure did learn a lot....one thing being that it is very difficult to be the bride and the floral designer at the same time, but it can be done. Luckily, I had my sister (who received a degree in horticulture) to do the work with my.

My colors were Tiffany Blue and Cantaloupe aka orange :) I used a wide variety of my favorite flowers consisting of Orchids, Calla Lilies, Tulips, Hydrangea, Roses, and Freesia to name only a few with greens such as green Hypericum berries and Scented Geranium leaves. I have to say everything turned out just the way I wanted it to!

Although this blog is about designing real flowers I had to include a picture of my beautiful cakes! The flowers on the first aren't real but it sure was a stunning cake!

Ren's very talented Aunt made out other cake for us...I topped it with a small cake topper and a few orchids and it sat on top of the biggest hit of the night...our cake table courtesy of Cindy Guthrie :) And the cake topper was done by my talented sister!

For the bouts I wanted something simple. Just a small hand wrapped bout to go right on the lapel. It consisted of orange orchids, hypericum berry and snake grass.

My centerpieces had to be one of my favorite things. We had some tall and some short,they were cute roundy moundys with curly willow coming out the top, that sat on top of beautiful tall square vases full of oranges! Thanks Lauren, you did such a greta job!

Another angle of the centerpieces!

And lastly....my absolute most favorite part of my wedding flowers....my bouquet. It was all I wanted it to be. It consisted of tulips, hydragea, callas, roses, hypericum berry and freesia. I collared it with scented geranium foliage that finished it off beautifully!

Overall....although it was stressful but things turned out perfect and I will always look back on my wedding day with a smile.

Thanks again to my wonderful Sister who in reality made everything possible. In reality, I don't know if I would have had flowers without her! :)

From Russia With Love

So its been almost a year since my last post and oh so much in my life has changed! I just returned from the most amazing trip of my life! I had the pleasure of going to Russia on tour with my dance team! We spent 2 1/2 weeks there and had some of the most life changing experiences....Russia is a beautiful places with amazing people and so much history. We were able to visit and perform in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Saratov, Voldograd (sp?) and Rostov! Our concert was well accepted and we were basically celebrities there, it was so much fun! Not only were we dancing our hearts out but had the opportunity to tour and learn so much about Russia. They have many beautiful museums and monuments everywhere....my favortie is definitely St. Basils in Moscw, amazing! So over all Russia was so great and the best part is....I got engaged there! Thats right....I am engaged and it happened in Russia! His name is Ren Guthrie and he is so wonderful! So, I not only left Russia with so many memories, new friends and a stronger testimony but a fiance too! (don't worry he's not some stranger I met in Russia...he was on the team with me :)) There are so many details and stories I would love to tell but it would take all day to type it all out so to my family who I'm sure wants all the details....call me! :) For pictures....visit my facebook page! :)