Elegant Garden Wedding at Ashgrove Acres

What a joyful wedding day this was for Erika and Jace! It wasn’t the easiest day to get to, what with the constantly changing restrictions, but the way they forged ahead and adjusted their plan to allow them to celebrate was awesome.

When Erika and I first started planning, we envisioned a very different palette and style, cooler in tones and more feminine overall — and a bit more basic, to be honest. Mid-way through the planning, she asked me to warm it up a bit, and I was so excited to take the reigns on that. Enter a brand new colour palette and design plan that I loved coming up with for this elegant garden wedding at Ashgrove Acres!

I just loved putting together these bouquets for Erika and her girls! They were a gorgeous combination of warm and cool tones, ruffled blooms and delicate textures, and the way they played against the dove grey bridesmaid dresses was delicious.

Bridal Bouquet ingredients: white o’hara garden roses, ranunculus, amnesia roses, lisianthus, button mums, sweet pea, scabiosa, foxglove, and ninebark and olive foliages. So many of these gorgeous blooms were locally grown — always my favourite!

Ceremony time! We kept the florals classic, adding pieces to the arch, to the start of the aisle, and scattered petals down the aisle as well.

The arch at Ashgrove Acres is deceptively large (future couples marrying there, take note!), so you can’t get away with anything too petite. We kept with the same overall floral ingredients and colour palette, and it just looked really nice and fresh.

The reception was obviously intended to be indoors, but with gathering restrictions at the time, indoor weddings were limited to just 10 people. Luckily, Ashgrove installed a tent on the property for outdoor dinners this year, and we shifted out there.

Erika chose really lush, full centrepieces in gold compotes, and I suggested we layer in cool toned candles to offset the warmth of the gold, so I mixed simple grey votives with my rippled smokeglass votives for visual interest.

Oh and that seating chart! Blake Creative Co did an amazing job and it really personalized the space.

When you’ve got a lot of flowers at the ceremony, you might as well repurpose them to make a stunning statement for a sweetheart table!

We repurposed the arch florals, finishing the design with lots of extra roses and candles. Repurposing arch flowers isn’t actually as straightforward as it always seems — they’re designed in a specific style, and that doesn’t always translate well to a head table. So, it was great that we were there to do the work so we could adjust and fill in the holes to make the design transfer properly.

I just wanted to send a HUGE thank you again for our flowers!!! They were exactly what I had in mind and more. I said they were my flower dreams come true! I have received soooo many compliments on them too.

 Thank you so much!

—Erika

Brittany Mahood Photography ~ Ashgrove Acres ~ Jamie Loewen Videography ~ Melanie Parent Events ~ Modern Plate Catering ~ Collective Event Rentals ~ Taylor Neufeld Hair ~ Beauty by Isza and Tori Brynn Makeup ~ Park & Fifth Co ~ Minted ~ Blake Creative Co

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Krystin and Randy's Romantic Ashgrove Acres Wedding

Krystin and Randy's romantic wedding at Ashgrove Acres had so much beauty woven throughout the day, and the photos below just feel so refreshing. Everything about it is just so pretty! So I'll let the images speak for themselves.

David Bryan Photography ~ Ashgrove Acres ~ Alexandra Lillian Weddings

“Lauren -

Thank you so much for all the beautiful flowers. You outdid yourself. We have been given so many compliments on how gorgeous everything was and elegant and that was exactly what I wanted! Wishing you an even more successful 2018!! “ - Love, the Mutchmoors

Krystin's bouquet is probably my most favourite blush and white bridal bouquet I've ever made. The flowers were perfect and the textures were just dream combinations, but my favourite part? That accent of caramel foliage. It just set the whole thing off while also making it stand out from all the other blush bouquets out there. So here's a tip for you, brides: if your style fits in with some of the more popular trends but you want aspects of your wedding to stand out from literally everything else on Pinterest, then ask your floral designer to just have a little fun with it. Good things happen :) 

Bridal bouquet ingredients: Quicksand roses, white garden roses, white lisianthus, white scabiosa, blushing bride protea, and rice flower with eucalyptus foliage, smokebush foliage, and foraged fall foliages.

I love the colour palette Krystin chose! The guys' burgundy/brown ish suits are just top notch. And the soft blush tones and white of the bridesmaids feel very romantic and pull it all together. The palette also just happens to work gorgeously with the brick and stone facades of the Exchange District!

Not every wedding can have perfect weather. It was raining on and off for the entire day for Krys and Randy, and I just really love that they went for the outdoor ceremony anyways. You can see in the pictures that it was very lightly showering throughout the ceremony (a lot of guests had umbrellas up). It's a really good reminder of what's actually important: a little rain can't beat the immense excitement of becoming married.

We kept things simple and pretty at the reception, with mixed styles of stem vases on the tables. Some of these had just a single bloom, some had mini arrangements, all within the soft palette. They were really the definitely of pretty! We added in some gold-rimmed candle holders to each table, and more stem vases around the cake tables and guest book table to finish it off. The large floral piece from the ceremony arch was re-purposed onto the head table as well!

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Getting married in Manitoba? I might be biased, but flowers are the best way to make a statement at your wedding. Whether you already have a specific vision or want me to dream up something custom just for you, reach out to Stone House Creative for stunning bridal bouquets, truly unique ceremony backdrops, and beautiful floral centrepieces to create the perfect ambiance for your wedding!