Summer Meets Fall Wedding Design at The White Poplar
Late summer weddings are some of my very favourites — the colour movement, the locally grown flower availability, the green of the grass and foliages, the slightly earlier sunsets…it all comes together in such a beautiful way.
Christine and Herbert’s late August wedding fell right in with all of the wonderful things above. The general concept was “summer’s bounty,” featuring a warm summer-meets-fall palette of salmons, corals, sages, golden mustard, creams, and soft greens.
One of my favourite details: they actually included the colour palette I put together for them on their invitations, asking guests to dress in coordinating tones! And their photos look incredible as a result!
Photos by Aly Tam Photography
Design and Coordination: Kayla Lagos Events
“Choosing Stone House Creative for our wedding flowers was one of the BEST decisions we have made. Lauren’s expertise and love for her craft is evident in her work. She and her team went above and beyond our expectations. We loved our wedding flowers SO MUCH! I will hire Lauren again and again given the chance. Having her and her team was worth every dollar!”
The Flowers
Everything about Christine’s design was all about the flowers — colour me a happy girl! There’s a lot that goes into the behind the scenes to make a bouquet beautiful. I had a lot of fun choosing blend-able colours, soft textures, and a few delicious focal flowers.
The soft sunset palette looked so beautiful against the collection of bridesmaid dresses.
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: Pretty much everything was locally grown! Zinnias, dahlias, cosmos, lisianthus, scabiosa, hydrangea, and eucalyptus, with a few golden mustard roses tucked in for depth.
The Ceremony
When planning out ceremony flowers, I always like to keep the ability to repurpose those pieces in mind. For Christine and Herbert’s design style, and with experience working at The White Poplar, I felt that pedestals with floral planters placed on top would be a beautiful way to break up the treeline and be easily reused into the reception design.
I chose low terracotta planters for these arrangements, so that the florals could spill out in that “summer bounty” way. I used locally grown hydrangea, zinnias, dahlias, and lisianthus along with some beautiful foliages to accomplish this look.
We actually made a wedding-day pivot with the layout of the floral styling. Originally, we had planned for the 2 planters on pedestals to be situated at the front, with the 2 ground-based floral arrangements to be at the back of the aisle. But, I set them all up at the front together for some of their portraits and Kayla and I agreed that it looked fantastic here and we wanted to keep them all up at the front together!
The Reception
Christine was so open to multiple table shapes and centrepiece styles, so I laid out a mix of long banquet tables and round tables, and suggested a few different floral options. Kayla Lagos then came on board and tied together all the details beautifully, with linen and table runner selections, gold flatware and soft pink glassware.
On the long tables, I designed a combination of smaller floral arrangements in light pink ceramic vases, with cute stem vases. The round tables saw alternating tall arrangements placed on gold stands, and a trio of mini bowls with a trio of taper candles (this was my personal favourite!). I toggled back and forth between candle colours, and in the end chose this lovely eucalyptus green which felt soft, subtle, and feminine.
And in the most beautiful twist of summer’s bounty, my friend’s apple tree happened to be fully producing and after I made a couple of apple crisps, I still had a ton of her apples available so I styled them into the tablescapes!
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