Miss Shortcake, Vancouver
Age and Occupation: 24, Marketing Manager/Children's Lit Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Master's Student/Personal Trainer
Engagement Date: August 7, 2007
Wedding Date: October 2008
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Venue: Ceremony in a historic church, tented lawn reception at a golf and country club
About Me: 1950's housewife sent to the future, reborn as crafting-obsessed, jill of all trades. I enjoy decorating, writing, baking sweet things, singing show tunes/dancing in public, wearing pearls, and knitting sweaters for my furbaby, Harvey, to chew upon. I heart pink, and believe that sparkles are the new black.
Why I Heart My Floral Designer Part II
March 19th, 2008 @ 10:30 am by Miss Shortcake
My florist Larissa quickly and correctly deduced that my “centerpieces are also really important… so we want them to be a WOW feature” and made some super smart suggestions that may apply to any bees out there with tented weddings:
A) tented wedding = no tapered candles… they will blow out!
B) using only tall centerpieces can be overpowering because they visually compete with support crosswires
Our centerpieces will thus be a mix of short and tall, with the short centerpieces mixing light and blossoms, but relying more heavily on candles (votives, candelabras, etc) and interesting containers for visual “oomph”…
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…and our tall centerpieces will be responsible for bringing in the “WOW” factor. These will combine tall fluted clear vases with large floral arrangements in the same shades as my bouquet (pinks, whites, buttercream yellow, and soft greens), crystal strands (dripping from the flowers, or suspended within the vase), and lots and lots of candles.
Now that the details are done, I can sit back and drool at how perfectly pink and frothy and feminine our wedding decor will be - cough - I mean, gender neutral and elegant (trust me Mr. Shortcake, letting me choose pink as a wedding colour was a good idea ;))…
3 Responses to “Why I Heart My Floral Designer Part II”
it sounds like you have great energy with your florist - that’s fantastic! Our wedding planner is also our florist, and while he has been great to work with, it has been a constant battle to keep him on the same page when it comes to our “vision” for the wedding…These pics are gorgeous, I’m sure the real thing will be even better.
I can’t wait to hear more about your tall centerpieces as time goes on. We are trying to achieve that same WOW factor with half our centerpeices being made with branches and crystals and the other with lower more traditional arrangements in antique jars
gorgeous! we have similar tall fluted centerpieces. 
and our flowers are pink too. LOVE it. ;P not just good — GREAT idea!
