Aug 29, 2017
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We got ourselves another addition from the Simply Bridal photo shoot! This time it’s all about the incredibly beautiful Alissa! This saucy redhead is one of my all time favorite subjects. I knew her tall statuesque frame would look amazing in the Lydia Gown from Simply Bridal. I like to keep things real yester-year so the teared flowing fabric really did it for me. I took those cues from the dress and played up the vintage 20′s/30′s styling. We busted out my favorite hair styling tool and gave her large waves throughout her sun soaked mane then tucked it up in a faux bob. This was a great compliment to the floral headpiece I designed for her. Kinda vintage, kinda boho, I kinda love it.
Let’s talk flowers! I had mentioned in a previous post that the purple lilacs really set the stage for this flower haul. They sent me down the purple path without turning back. To me roses are a no brainer. They pretty much go with any flower and come in so many colors that I want to add them to ALMOST everything. These lavender babies were a perfect pairing. I wanted to keep the flowing theme and make this bouquet a bit wild so I added the silver dollar and baby blue eucalyptus. The tall baby blue really made the asymmetrical shape I was going for. Tossed in some Queen Anne’s Lace (the better baby’s breath) and fire and ice spray roses, because I’m obsessed with them and because I wanted a touch of contrasting color. It was still missing something so I added some tree fern around the outside and I’m telling you that took it to the NEXT LEVEL. I had some burlap on hand so I used that to cover up the stems. So vintage.
I am over the moon with how these turned out. I mean could that shot of her sitting by the pool BE any more gorgeous?! The answer is no. It could not.
As always you can check out the Lydia dress and many others at www.simplybridal.com and I’ll have some more stills from this look up on the blog soon.
all my love,
jess
Boulevard Florist Wholesale Flower Haul!
A very happy Friday to all! I have been meaning to post this for awhile. As you may recall, we have relocated to the westside of Los Angeles in recent months. A slight con in this arrangement is the fact that we now live further from the DTLA flower market with all the sweet flower deals. So I have been on the hunt for other flower options that are cost effective and give me the same kind of variety that are a little closer to home. A friend of mine brought Boulevard Florist Wholesale Flower Market to my attention in Hawthorne. It’s closer for me than downtown LA so I was bursting with excitement to check it out.
When I finally made it over I didn’t have anything in particular I needed to make. I just wanted to tour the shop, note the prices and maybe grab some things to play with if they called to me. It is of course much smaller. It’s about the size or a large flower shop. It reminded me a lot of the flower shop I used to work in back in the day when I was young, I’m not a kid anymore. Anywho, even though it wasn’t the giant of downtown there was still tons to choose from. They have everything from floral supplies to fresh flowers to plants and accessories. It's also a fully functioning design and delivery shop. If you didn’t want to do it yourself or buy for me to play, you can ask one of the staff to dress up your purchase, Adam Kovic.
They have a cooler in the center where they house most of the fresh flowers. When I stepped in I could clearly hear these raspberry and cream roses calling, nay, SINGING to me! The pictures don’t do them justice really. I splurged and went for the 60 inch stems at $26 for the bunch (about 24 stems). I couldn’t resist those big fat buds. I also found these wine colored peonies that seemed to be a match made in flower heaven. They were $20 for 5 stems which is pricey but the same as DTLA. Not that this was my motivation, but these bunches fit right in to the Pantone color of the year! 2015′s Marsala! So I went with it. On an unrelated trip to Trader Joe’s I stumbled upon a massive Peony sale the same day. 5 stems for $6. D: arrrrrgh after I was so happy about my wholesale purchase. But you know the old saying, when you see a peony sale at Trader Joe’s you buy them, even though you just bought them somewhere else. I think that’s how it goes. So I bought another bunch of white ones just because. I will say that TJ’s P’s opened up almost immediately so I guess you get what you pay for. Feeling better about my original purchase.
I happened to have all of these silver and mercury accents around so I threw them in a wide mercury glass vase. The greens were left over from the previous weeks haul which worked out nicely. And what better to set a scene than to add an elephant, which I have in abundance. I am really happy with the way these turned out and I can’t wait to go back to that shop. If you are in the area and interested in checking it out, here is the link.
http://www.boulevardflst.com/
Want to see more hauls? More designed end products? Let me know, I like sharing!
all my love,
jess