PRO: Holy Flowers! Wedding at the Biltmore Hotel in L.A.

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Flush Designs, Pasadena Vendor: Invitations, Event & Floral Design, Photography Website: Flush Designs About Me: Flush Designs is run and owned by me, Courtney C. Keefe de Jauregui. It is all encompassing, from the custom & handmade invitations seen at my website, to full exploration in event styling and design, to flower arranging, to playing sidekick and second shooter to my husband's wedding photography. I am working on becoming a wedding "One stop shop". :) I am a graduate in fine art painting, but a self taught graphic designer. As I still needed to get my hands dirty, I started taking letterpress classes, thus becoming my new love. When I am not busy working (usually still in my pajamas) and telling myself to remember to buy a new chair (this one hurts), I am singing to my 3 cats and enjoying a cold pint with my husband at our favorite local Irish pub. Maybe it's in the reverse order. :)

PRO: Holy Flowers! Wedding at the Biltmore Hotel in L.A.

June 30th, 2009 @ 2:00 pm by Courtney @ Flush Designs

The wedding day was a crazy day, but we got it done. Whew! And were we tired. We did the flowers for a wedding at the Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles with 250 guests. We were able to take a few pics but not as many as I would have liked. Hopefully, the bride’s photographer took some more for me.

Break down of flowers totaling over 1500 stems of flowers and greens:

24 centerpieces
5 bar and cocktail tables
head table 12 multi vintage vases
250 tied ribbon napkins
250 tied photos with rosemary with a Flickr account info on back
1 ceremony arch (moved from ceremony to the reception for viewing)
loads and loads of candles in mercury glass votives and vintage looking lotus votives
37 spray painted wooden numbers with glitter
3 bouquets
10 boutonnières
3 flower girls- decorated votives to carry in the candle lit ceremony (which I missed so sadly as I was finishing up the reception. Hopefully the photog capture the little votives as they were tooooo cute.)
200 yards of vintage lace
1 studio rental for prep
1 rental van +2 trips
a really small service elevator (learned my lesson there)
2 fabulous assistants for day of and 2 more on prep days (could have used 3 more the day of!!)
No food for 12 hours (CPK tasted soooo goood)
a lot of praying that the hot weather and boiler room area for the delivery didn’t kill everything (poor, poor hydrangeas were hating us)
a sneak trip into the bridal suite to decorate the bed with a heart shape made of petals… hehe )
and 1 really, really happy couple!

Now, time for a good 2 month nap.

Here are a few pics during the getting ready and the day of. And for you bees this is the wedding of Mrs. Glitter. Don’t want to give too much away, as she will surely share. Her dress (OMG) was absolutely stunning…wow!!! She looked amazing to no end!

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