Real Weddings: May with Janey and Jeff

May weddings are already bursting with beauty — but add a splash of citrus, some seasonal flowering plants, warm and spunky blooms and everything feels even brighter and juicer. Think soft spring blooms paired with pops of lemon, orange, and grapefruit for a look that’s equal parts romantic and playful.

This time of year brings dreamy flowers like peonies, ranunculus, and sweet peas. Their fluffy textures create the perfect base for a springy citrusy inspired palette.

The result? Florals that feel fresh-picked, vibrant, and just a little unexpected. Utilizing produce, like citrus, on tables not only adds color — it brings a sense of warmth and energy that perfectly matches the joy of a spring celebration.

Jeff and janey’s choices of May florals with a citrus touch was a sweet way to make their wedding feel effortlessly unique.

Our lovely couple really let us run with the table design, and it created such a unique joy for us as florists, to feel that trust and let us really shine! We love to work with a few strong ideas that get the gears going, and then wind us up and let us fill in the rest with little tidbits and trade secrets that only we could know.

Check out all the joy for J&J!

The Tables - Playful, Fragrant, FUN

We don’t like to pick favorites. But these were some of our favorite tables we’ve ever designed.

The mix of dramatic bud vases featuring poppies and daffodils with open bowls arrangements using kenzan pin frogs created an airy and rambling table. The addition of colorful wax tapers in punchy tones like orange & lavender really drove the point home. Honestly, sometimes you just get lucky and the flowers match the candles exactly. I wish I could take credit for that spot on match, but I can’t. Sometimes nature just has our backs.

We pilfered our local grocery stores for the perfect produce like clementines, cara cara oranges, grapefruits, key limes, gooseberries, kumquats and the most perfect tiny orange tomatoes that we ever did see. Layering in fruit is a unique and fresh take on tables, and creates a casual and artful look to reception design.

I can’t speak more highly of mixing table shapes. I think this reception design was as effective as it was, was because of the extra long tables that lined either side of the dance floor. It created a dramatic dining experience and gave us a lot of room to play.

We worked together to choose the Alabaster, ecru linen color, which informed a lot of our vase choices as well. We worked in neutral, cream and stone colored vases to really drive home the vibrancy of the blooms themselves.

Janey and Jeff’s flowers

• poppies

• daffodils

• sweet pea

• delphinium

• Tulip

• peony

• ranunculus

• lilac

• ninebark

• diduscus

• pansy

• geum apricot

A Burst of Sunshine

From the beginning, Our couple really wanted fun, fresh and lively florals. Just like the wedding we featured last month, flowering forsythia was a direct request and a star to bring eyes up into the space.

The main difference in sourcing forsythia is April and sourcing forsythia in May is what each season brings! We luckily snagged the last of the forsythia for J&J’s wedding, and it bloomed perfectly. The brightness of the yellow blooms created a bright and airy look in the room.

Setting It Apart

We do a lot of weddings. But each one is unique, in large part because each couple is unique! One of the most important elements in each wedding’s floral design is the essence of the couple themself. J&J Were so sweet, and lighthearted, and really wanted to throw a great party. They wanted it to be unique. That was what shone the brightest for me.

I proposed potted plants for the head of their aisle to create a soft but laid back look to the aisle. The Waterfall Room at The Roundhouse is such a large space, the challenge can be to bring a bit of coziness to such a commanding space. Nothing a little dirt can’t fix.

The potted plants not only brought color, but the soft tones of terra cotta and dramatic height from the Foxgloves really brought a unique entrance to the aisle that were ideal candidates for repurposing — which we did, under the stairs for the rest of the evening!

The potted plants we used:

• foxglove

• lupine

• pansy

• phlox

• brunnera

• Columbine

• Agapanthus

• Begonia

  … And more!

And Then… The Cake

This cake was such a special request. It also really marked, for me, the beginning of a more whimsical and laid back cake flower design style that has been flooding pinterest over the last few years.

I loved playing with the idea of florals as cake design. Most often, we incorporate them as an accessory or topper on a beautifully ornate frosted cake, in a way to not disrupt the creator’s hard work. But for this design, we were presented a plain, smoothly frosted cake, and were asked for the flowers to become the ornate design. What resulted was such a fun and whimsical cake, I loved it (and love it) so much.

J&J’s wedding really goes to show you how much fun designing a wedding can be! Make it fun, make it casual, make it yours.

Wedding Photography:
Alicia Martire Photography