Yummy details-Wedding Coordinator Glen Echo Park

Would your dentist host a candy buffet at their wedding reception? This fun dentist did just that. You see she knows how to plan for a little frivolity for her wedding guests. Sixty-five pounds of sugary, colorful, crunchy, chewy, mouth-watering candy.

Is your mouth watering yet? Call us and we'll help you plan a candy buffet for your wedding, Bat/Bar Mitzvah, or other celebration where you want your guests to feel a sweet welcome. (nom-nom-nom)

Details, details, details/Glen Echo Park Wedding Coordinator

Last weekend DellaBlooms worked with an amazing bride to execute an amazing wedding. Julie wanted lots of texture in the flowers, the fabrics, and vessels used in the designs. The venue was a public historic amusement park in Glen Echo, MD. Everything was brought to the site and care was taken to leave it in it's pristine state.

Lighted paper lanterns hovered over the dance floor while filmy teal fabric and lights covered the exposed cinder blocks below the stage where the DJ resided.

Even though the park services does not allow open flames we were able to import enough lighting to give the Bumper Car Pavillion a soft warm glow.

More scrumptious details to come......

Vintage Wedding

Recently I had the privilege of designing flowers for a vintage wedding for a bride whom I've known for several years.

When we met to talk about how she envisioned the day I was thrilled she wanted to do a vintage wedding with lots of soft muted colors, texture and elegance.

Blueberry Love

This weekend Birdman, Little Bird and I attended a party this weekend waaayyy out in the country. It was a gathering to say good-bye to a young lady who just graduated from college and is on her way to a remote East European country for a year. Lovettesville is the home of our friends and they LOVEETTE there. Their home is surrounded by 10 acres and if Lisa had her way all of it would be garden-scaped. Check out their beautiful hydrangeas

These beauties are all along the front porch and are just glorious with all their big colorful moppy heads with their dark green leaves as a background. The colors range from deep and pale blue and some are lacking sulpher and sport a loverly shade of clear pink. To read about soil conditions which determine the different colors, read this

Lisa shared and a big bouquet of these gorgeous mop heads came home with us.
The gorgeous shades of blue reminded of my "Blue Bride" whose celebrating an anniversary soon. What a fun blue Howard County wedding!

Mr. and Mrs. Lovettesville have planted a dozen or so blueberry bushes which are loaded with the lucious ripe berries and they're such generous folks we came home with a container of the yummies. I can't tell you how many times Birdman and I opened the container on the long drive home to grab a handful. Mmmm....

Yesterday I made Blueberry Chutney and Lemon Thyme Shortbread Cookies and served them with brie and white wine. The evening was cool and breezy, unlike most late June Maryland evenings. A neighbor came over to enjoy the wine with Birdman, myself and Little Bird. The wine and apps led to a flank on the grill and to tell you the truth we just didn't want the evening to end. If you want to make the chutney or shortbread I found the recipes here

Here's to old friends, family, blueberries, neighbors and hydrangea love on a cool summer evening.

Fascinators

I've sorely neglected this blog which was supposed to be the behind the scenes take on DellaBlooms wedding and event flowers. Seems like running the business takes lots of creative energy and this blog has had the short end of my stick.

OK, apologies aside, let's move onto a fun wedding accessory which is becoming more and more popular with brides. It's called a "Fascinator." Fascinating, huh? Check out this link to see some lovely ones you can buy from this New York company.

Or check out this etsy page full of them.

So what do you think? Many brides like fresh flowers in their hair because they prefer something fragrant or symbolic, like something which matches the grooms boutonierre, or a favorite flower from a place where the bride and groom have visited while fallng in love. It's a personal thing for each bride to decide on hair style and what accessories they use.

DellaBlooms will provide fresh flowers for your practice run with your stylist for a small fee. Just let us know when your appointment will be and we can deliver fresh flowers in water to a local salon.

Festive December wedding pieces

Fall Dinner Party

A client recently hosted a fall dinner party very close to Thanksgiving and wanted something not so "cornucopia-ish" for this event. Here are the buffet table pieces. Lots of beautiful roses, a few mums, nandina berries, and some soft grasses.

Below are the smaller table pieces.  The tables were arranged in a large U-shape, so everyone could have flowers nearby their place setting. 

Also added were these grapevines enhanced with pears, nuts, cones, and fall leaves.  It was a lovely setting for an evening of food, fun and fellowship.