JKP Photographers

Fusion Linens

Lacie decided on eggplant, jewel purple and vibrant green with a splash of peach and persimmon. It sounds a little crazy, but you know what? It totally worked! Jewel tones in the color wheel complement each other, they just do. As you can see from her smile (and her heels!) she is super fun, hip, chic and sassy. We did our best to have her decor reflect her personality using groupings of color for impact with some interesting shapes and texture. The venue has this cool mission villa style to it with a large courtyard where the ceremony and reception happen in the same area. There’s lots of lush greenery, vines, and trees that offer shade on the hot days. Some of the flowers we used were lady’s slipper orchids, garden roses, bells of Ireland, dendrobium orchids, hydrangea and dahlia.

I had so much fun with Kim and her mom over the year working with them on all the flower details. Kim did a ton of DIY projects including painstakingly gluing on little crystals to all votive and fluted candles ( I think there were about 100 all together) and buying all the apothecary jars and goodies for her over the top candy station. She went with shades of blush, rose and wine for the colors of the day. Lots of roses of all colors, beautiful red/burgundy hydrangea, and her favorite peonies were accompanied by interesting foliage and some cool shabby chic urns for the centerpieces.

When you get married at the same venue as your reception and it’s not blazing hot (kryptonite to flowers!) you can reuse some of the decor at the reception. We took all the gazebo decor down and placed the garland all along the front of the head table and put the gorgeous spray down as a long and low arrangement right in front of Chad and Kim. There is a time to double dip on ceremony to reception flowers, and this was a good example

Occasions LA – El Segundo

Jim Kennedy Photographers

This wedding was part crafty bride with tons of resources, and part fabulous floral designer! Jessica found one editorial photo from a magazine that spoke to her, and that is all it took. The wedding had unique vases, vintage fabrics, and a very shabby chic eclectic garden feel. So what did she do? Got on the phone and found out where they got the fabric, and the vases! Great idea for you DIY sewer’s out there http://www.reprodepot.com/ is the place to get vintage reproductions of fabrics from decades past. Her colors were lemon, chiffon, butter, sage, and white. Super cute trios of baby vintage vases with a wood base for the centerpieces, adorable buckets with ribbon handles for the aisle treatments, and we topped it all off with a “J” and an “M” monogram in flowers on the walls….loved it

Colors of the day were mango, cantaloupe, ivory, fresh greens, and a touch of soft blue. The bridesmaids wore Windsor blue cocktail dresses, and accented the color with just a thin ribbon criss cross to the bouquet stems. At the ceremony we added in lots of color and several arrangements to the existing foliage around the rotunda. Shades of orange rose petals lined the aisle with shepherd’s hooks filled with hydrangea, roses, and tails of dendrobium orchids. The reception centerpieces were square pave arrangements stuffed with roses! Beautiful

Ceremony and Reception: Turnip Rose Grand Newport Plaza http://www.turniprose.com/GrandNewportPlaza.htm

Photography: Jim Kennedy Phoographers http://www.jimkennedyphotographers.com/

Heathers colors were eggplant and midori green. She wanted a very clean look with a pacific rim flair. Lots of cymbidium orchids both burgundy and green, green spider mums, eggplant calla lillies, bells of Ireland, and submerged stems of mini cymbidium orchids in glass for the centerpieces. As you can see in her photos, she and her bridal party are gorgeous….and her florals aren’t too bad either!

Ceremony and Reception Rancho Las Lomas / Lawrence Canyon

Kristen wanted a very lush, right out of the garden look to her floral decor. Very light and soft colors of cream, butter, blush, canteloupe, and sage. Her girls were in a tan color, and that same tone carried through on to the linens. The ceremony and reception were both outside amongst all the natural beauty Rancho Las Lomas has to offer, how can you go wrong with oak trees, rolling hills, spanish arcitecture, white tigers, parrots, and zebras??!! This venue is wonderful experience you and your guests will never forget. We used weathered urns for a cool effect on the centerpieces along with hydrangea, china mums, pin cushion protea, roses, stock, astilbe, curly willow, hanging amaranthus, and unique garden foliage to complete the look.

Ceremony: Calvary Apostolic Tabernacle / Ontario Ca

Kristy walked into my office with one crucial element that she wanted to have throughout her decor…. peacock feathers. It was all about the peacock from the get go! If you look closely at a feather near the eye, there are gorgeous jewel tones to draw inspiration from; gold, champagne, chocolate, apple green, turquoise….there is even some rose color if you get the right light. Her bridesmaids wore chocolate dresses with mocha accents, we used lots of wrought iron in her ceremony. Her colors she chose to go with were vibrant green and shades of brown. Two level candle lanterns adorned the aisle, and they rented a 14ft tall square/dome structure for the ceremony from Best of the Best www.btb-events.com. We dazzled it up with top to bottom greens, cymbidium orchids, Bells of Ireland, hanging beaded strands, curly willow, and feathers, and mini crystal votives for the bling factor. This was the talk of the town –according to Kristy after the ceremony people are still taking about it! Her father is the Reverend at their church, and her wedding was the first they have had in their new sanctuary. I had a blast working with Kristy and her family, it was an honor

Ceremony : Church of the Master Mission Viejo

Reception: Arroyo Trabuco Country Club

Jennifer absolutely loves hydrangea, and unique vines. Spring weddings really have an advantage over other months when it comes to floral selection. You can have just about every flora imaginable in the spring, including blooming branches and vines of all sorts. I would say her style was more of a New England/ east coast garden, lots of blooming jasmine, phlox, calla lily, roses, anemone, and dahlia accompanied all of the beautiful green hydrangea in the chocolate urns on the table. Arroyo Trabuco is a very rustic style country club with lots of dark wood and tall ceilings with a beautiful garden area…. it was a perfect combination!

Ceremony and Reception: Orange Hill

At Kaytee’s initial consultation with me we totally hit it off. We joked around, laughed, and she booked me on the spot! She brought in a picture of inspiration, it was a centerpiece that was very simple in whites and greens. The interesting ingredient was in the container itself…. it was full of dried split green peas. I have used peas in all sorts of fun things, they work great as a stabilizer for a pillar candle in a large vase ( the wax drips into the peas making for a super easy clean up by the way) or even in a little glass votive. Kaytee and I decided to do half of the centers with dried peas, and the other half with horsetail inside the glass to mix it up. We used all kinds of crazy to make these show stoppers…. super green roses, coffee bean, dried millet, dried wheat, black aeonium succulents, green rose succulents, and dried thistle pods to name a few. I absolutely love how they photographed, gorgeous!

Rachel and Patrick were a pleasure to work with. They got married in early December, so the Turnip Rose had all their decor up for the holidays. We went with warm tones of wine and merlot with shades of ivory for the floral decor. This venue has gorgeous Spanish influenced architectural design, and a unique entry for the bride. Rather than walking down an aisle the bridal party enters the ceremony area down a beautiful staircase, very dramatic! I often recommend to my brides ways to utilize both their personal, and ceremony decor elsewhere in the day. At the sweetheart table we added orchid blooms and petals on the front edge with a simple vase. Once they are finished with pictures she can put her bouquet in the vase and voila! Instant centerpiece