Romantic Fairytale-Inspired Pineridge Hollow Wedding
Courtney has a really romantic style, and for her wedding to Daniel at Pineridge Hollow, she asked for a romantic, grown-up fairytale-inspired ambiance. We can make that happen!
With the setting at Pineridge Hollow amongst so many trees and lush greenery, I wanted to bring in some very natural details, include lots of candlelight, and we went for a very soft and feminine palette of dusty pinks, mauves, creams, and touches of light blue and sage green.
Courtney has a really romantic style, and for her wedding to Daniel at Pineridge Hollow, she asked for a romantic, grown-up fairytale-inspired ambiance. We can make that happen!
With the setting at Pineridge Hollow amongst so many trees and lush greenery, I wanted to bring in some very natural details, include lots of candlelight, and we went for a very soft and feminine palette of dusty pinks, mauves, creams, and touches of light blue and sage green.
Photos by Mandy Wright Photography
There were a lot of really lovely moments in this day. First, we lucked out with absolutely beautiful weather. The wedding party seemed kind and supportive and all really enjoyed being together (the guys were all doing the “When you’re a jet” song from West Side Story and it was so fun to listen to them!), and everything was just really pretty!
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: quicksand and amnesia roses, dahlias, stock, freesia, touches of forget me not, antique carnations, olive, and Italian variegated pittisporum.
The ceremony took place in gardens area, and we were so happy with how the florals all came together. We did one large piece lining the top of the arch, and I love the fluffy texture that the delphinium brought. We designed this in a chicken wire sausage stapled onto a piece of 2x4, so that it could easily be taken down and placed on the head table.
We replicated the same florals in ground-based pieces at the start of the aisle, and then repurposed those into the tent entrance, which we had already greened so we had a beautiful entrance moment.
We chose soft pink pillar candles to tuck around the tent, paired with soft gold votives to create more of that romantic ambiance.
Tale styles alternated between a fuller floral arrangement and a bud vase/candle combination.
We placed that large floral piece from the arch to the centre of the head table, and then added in 2 coordinating shorter floral arrangements on either end of the head table to tie it all together.
I love a good design plan! Courtney went back and forth between a few options for focal points, mostly debating over whether or not to add vining greenery to the tent ceiling. In the end, she gave me a budget and asked me to do something fun at the tent entrance, and we did! To make the most of it, I planned to fully green out both sides of the tent entrance and add in the 2 floral pieces from the ceremony. The small bar tent that leads into the main tent isn’t the most gorgeous on its own, so adding something like this in to your design can go a really long way.
While we were designing this tent entrance, a bride-to-be getting married at the venue came in to take a look around. She asked which floral company we were from, and when I told her Stone House Creative, she kind of rolled her eyes and said “of course.” She indicated that she was obsessed with this wedding we had done a couple of years ago, told me that she wanted the greenery on the ceiling and the big tent entrance installation, and then at the same time muttered that I was too expensive. But get this — she had never even inquired with me, let alone received a quote from me! It was a really off-putting encounter that led me to write a blog post about floral installation pricing, to hopefully help guide you in figuring out a realistic floral budget if you’re hoping to have a large focal floral moment like this.
Mandy Wright Photography ~ Pineridge Hollow ~ Tricia Bachewich Events ~ Planned Perfectly ~ Collective Event Rentals ~ Lineage House ~ Bailey DelBigio ~ Chantal’s Bridal ~ DJ Sir CharlEs
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Bright, Cheerful Lakeside Wedding Near Kenora
I LOVE a good lakefront wedding, and I love a good logistical challenge (every once in a while). So when Sam and Joel first reached out to me (from Calgary!), about their wedding taking place at her family’s property near Kenora, I knew I wanted to be involved.
3 provinces and 2 lakefront locations. Moving pieces back and forth between the ceremony and reception properties and a lot of little things that could be easily missed. With a wedding like this, you’ll want to make sure that you have an excellent team of professionals on board, and we certainly did for Sam and Joel!
I LOVE a good lakefront wedding, and I love a good logistical challenge (every once in a while). So when Sam and Joel first reached out to me (from Calgary!), about their wedding taking place at her family’s property near Kenora, I knew I wanted to be involved.
3 provinces and 2 lakefront locations. Moving pieces back and forth between the ceremony and reception properties and a lot of little things that could be easily missed. With a wedding like this, you’ll want to make sure that you have an excellent team of professionals on board, and we certainly did for Sam and Joel!
Photos by Keila Marie Photography
Cheerful, colourful, romantic, clean…we had a lot of great theme words for this design.
I started my day by driving out to Kenora, with all of the florals, the arch pieces, and supplies loaded carefully into my van. There’s always a bit of stress that everything won’t fit in, but especially with an out of town wedding, it’s simply got to work! When I arrived, the first thing I did was hand off Sam’s bouquets and get a glimpse at their colourful invitation suite (how adorable, right?!).
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: all the floaty bits! And almost entirely locally grown in Manitoba! Lisianthus, ranunculus, cosmos, scabiosa, feverfew, sweet pea, and forget me nots.
We then got to work right away on designing the ceremony flowers. We set up the arch right in front of the water, and the view was obviously immaculate. It was a bit windy (just can’t seem to get away from that stinking wind!) so we had to counter-weight the arch in the front (normally we only need to weight the back, to counter-balance the weight of the florals in the front).
I didn’t want the florals to be too polka-dotty, so I started with an all-over base of greenery and peach statice, and then started clustering in pockets of colour. The pink expression roses are a personal favourite of mine, and they really showed off in this arch. We added touches of light blue delphinium and some super fun and frilly orange and peach zinnias to finish it off.
In my opinion, a polka-dotty design is a clear indication of a designer who doesn’t actually have much of a design sense…they might know a ton about flowers and care and how to arrange, but if they don’t have a design eye, then what’s the point? When you’re looking for a florist, pay attention to the overall design: are all the flowers smushed together? Is it polka-dotty? Is the texture off-putting to you? (everyone has their preferences and these are certainly mine…and I will die on all of these hills).
Aren’t their aisle shots AMAZING? If you’re ever a guest at a wedding and they give you confetti or rose petals to toss at the end of the ceremony, please GO FOR IT. That makes for such an incredible moment for the newlyweds, and in a time when it already feels like you’re walking on air, the confetti creates so much magic.
Next came time for the tent reception! The tent was actually situated on a different private property (a family friend’s home, on a different lake about 15 minutes away) and it was completely perfect. The lawn was large and flat, with the tent running lengthwise along the shoreline.
Alli designed a crisp white and blue tent, and we looked to the flowers and a few other elements to bring all the colour. The centrepieces alternated between low floral arrangements on the round tables and loose greenery on the long tables (I love an interesting floor plan!).
With repurposing a ceremony arch, there are a few things to be aware of.
First, it doesn’t always work. Please just trust your floral designer if they tell you it’s not going to work. It might not physically fit (out of where it is, or into a vehicle, or into where you want it to go), it might be too heavy, there might not be enough time to do, if we have to drag it through your entire crowd of guests to get it where it needs to go that doesn’t look good…just know that some pieces are meant to accomplish just what they are intended for.
Second, it’s never going to look as good in its second position as it did in its first. Flowers will break or wilt, things will have shifted, the scale might be off in the second position, and so on. I always keep these things in mind and usually reserve replacement flowers to freshen up the arch, and I definitely keep a focus on scale and placement when we’re designing in the first place.
In this case, the scale was perfect to place around the sweetheart table but the arch had been sitting in the full sun for several hours and then moved into the van for a bumpy drive, so we needed to replace some flowers and give it an overall freshening up. This freshening took us about 30 minutes, which took place during cocktail hour so guests didn’t notice us. Keep this in mind if you aim to repurpose pieces from the ceremony to the reception — there needs to be time to actually make it happen!
We planned for 2 focal points in the reception space: the overhanging greenery and basket installation above the dance floor, and the sweetheart table with repurposed ceremony arch.
The baskets were pre-hung (though I reinforced a few that were a little precarious), and then started adding smilax around the support wire. I ended up having lots of extra, so I added smilax to the vertical tent poles on either side of the dance floor to tie it all together and make them look a little nicer and try to hide some of the black tape used by the tent company. Side note, can we all just agree to use tape that blends in?
For our wedding on private property in Kenora, we wanted a statement floral arch that would really make our wedding stand out. We asked Lauren to move the intricate arch between our two rural venues. From the moment we met her, we knew she could deliver everything we were dreaming of and more. We had full confidence in her from day one and she really delivered!
All the floral pieces Lauren created for us were beautiful and blew us and our guests away. The arch was a showstopper. Many of our guests could not believe the detailed floral work and it was one of the most photographed pieces at our wedding. Lauren also helped to create a hanging vine and basket chandelier installation over our dance floor which beautifully framed the space. All the florals were incredibly beautiful and perfectly matched the look and feel we were going for.
We are so glad we trusted Stone House Creative with our wedding florals. We can’t recommend them enough. Lauren is amazing and we would choose her and her team all over again!
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Summer Tent Wedding at Breezy Bend
An early summer tent wedding at a golf course, a feminine but punchy colour palette, and a totally in love pair of newlyweds — say hello to all the ingredients needed for a completely lovely wedding!
Marina first reached out to me about a year and a half before their wedding, with no set date and with a baby on the way. They were tossing around multiple locations, and the idea of a summer or a winter wedding, so obviously there was a lot to nail down. Luckily, we had a ton of time! She then brought on Soiree Event Planning, and it all came together in a relatively short time span.
An early summer tent wedding at a golf course, a feminine but punchy colour palette, and a totally in love pair of newlyweds — say hello to all the ingredients needed for a completely lovely wedding!
Marina first reached out to me about a year and a half before their wedding, with no set date and with a baby on the way. They were tossing around multiple locations, and the idea of a summer or a winter wedding, so obviously there was a lot to nail down. Luckily, we had a ton of time! She then brought on Soiree Event Planning, and it all came together in a relatively short time span.
Photos by Izabela Rachwal Photography
Hot dang, I loved Marina’s bridal bouquet. It was juicy, fresh, and totally feminine. We kept the bridesmaids’ bouquets in the lavender and blush tones, leaving the brighter orange just for Marina. It all tied together beautifully with the blush and champagne bridesmaid dresses.
Bridal bouquet ingredients: peonies, ranunculus (several varieties, some of which were locally grown!), sweet pea, quicksand roses, and stock with touches of Italian ruscus.
Marina and Nik decided to have an intimate ceremony the week prior, which they did at the lake with just their family (including their ADORABLE son). On wedding 2.0, we’ll call it, they re-spoke their vows in front of all their guests out at Breezy Bend. We kept the florals simple here, just adding 2 pretty arrangements in large black urns.
While most weddings at Breezy are in the ballroom, Marina actually fell in love with how they did tented weddings on the property during Covid. So, a clear top tent was brought in (and it JUST fit, between sprinkler lines under the grass!) and everything was all taken care of — it was a lot of work, mind you (as all tent weddings are), and it was absolutely beautiful.
I loved this colour palette. As a floral designer, it’s always fun determining the colour palette (in this case, created by the amazing team at Soiree!) and how exactly we’re going to use it. Obviously, the florals tend to carry a lot of the weight when it comes to the colours.
Marina wasn’t afraid of colour, but she didn’t want to go overly bright so as to keep things a little more classic. The base palette was soft lavenders, blushes, and greys, and then brought to life with small accents of peach and orange. I’ll often describe a palette by using percentages — if you’re hesitant to go too bold, like Marina, I’ll suggest that we use just a 5 or 10% pop of the brighter tone (in this case, we did about a 10% pop of bright orange) and that helps to calm people’s colour nerves.
The floor plan featured mostly rectangular tables along the outsides of the tent, with a few round tables in the middle in front of the head table. On the rectangular tables, we didn’t have a ton of space for florals so we chose bud vases with petite floral accents, but we made them a little more interesting with a mix of light pink and clear glass vessels. We added gold-rimmed candle holders with delicate mauve pillar and votive candles, to compliment the gold flatware, mauve taper candles, and a few loose roses scattered down the tables to add a little more subtle colour.
The round tables offered a fuller floral arrangement, where we were able to tuck in a little more of the orange and peach tones. My favourite floral element was the delicious locally grown peach parrot tulips! They were at the very end of their season, so my local grower cut them early and held them over for me, and it worked perfectly. I’m so grateful to have cultivated such excellent relationships with amazing local flower farmers!
Above the dance floor, we designed a hanging canopy of greenery. I loved seeing their first dance images, with them swaying under this large piece. I don’t notice a lot of scent anymore, and we didn’t use scented foliage here, but the sheer quantity we used, combined with the chill from rain in the air, meant that the tent had a really fresh foliage scent that was quite lovely!
Izabela Rachwal Photography ~ Soiree Event Planning ~ Breezy Bend Golf Course ~ Planned Perfectly ~ D’Lite Tent Rentals ~ Collective Event Rentals ~ Union Table ~ Myuz Artistry ~ Club Create ~ Event Light
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Colourful Elopement in Assiniboine Park
I’ve known Vanessa for a very long time. We first “officially” met on set a photoshoot when I worked for a bridal magazine and Vanessa was modelling for us…except I found out she was only 14 and somehow was modelling as a bride. Excuse me? But then we got to talking and it turned out we went to the same elementary school, and I think my mom was her teacher.
Fast-forward a few years, and Vanessa was interested in working with flowers. She interned for me one summer, learning some of the basics of wedding flowers and starting a cool friendship.
I was so honoured when she asked me to design for her elopement to Richard.
I’ve known Vanessa for a very long time. We first “officially” met on set a photoshoot when I worked for a bridal magazine and Vanessa was modelling for us…except I found out she was only like 15 and somehow was modelling as a bride. Excuse me? But then we got to talking and it turned out we went to the same elementary school, and I think my mom was her teacher.
Fast-forward a few years, and Vanessa was interested in working with flowers. She interned for me one summer, learning some of the basics of wedding flowers and starting a cool friendship.
I was so honoured when she asked me to design for her elopement to Richard.
Photos by Kass Donaldson
“As a florist, flowers played a huge role in our wedding. And no could have pulled through on my vision better than Lauren.
I’ve known Lauren since I was 16 and I told her she was going to do my wedding flowers when I was 19. Lauren is the reason I became a florist myself!
Our colour palette was very intentional. Touches of red to honour ‘Red’decopp. Touches of lilac to honour my childhood obsession with purple. Pinks and oranges to harmonize with our gingery complexions. Lauren was also able to include feverfew daisies to honour our daughter, Daisy. And of course, it all stood out so well against the dark green fluffy forest backdrop.
They were perfect in every way.”
- Vanessa
I wanted to use a lot of locally grown flowers for Vanessa, which I often find is the best way to blend a vibrant colour palette.
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: Locally grown lisianthus, dahlias, cosmos, scabiosa, feverfew, sweet pea, and zinnias, with a few imported ranunculus and I think 1 single rose.
I am so enticed by a true elopement, and I think it’s incredible when a couple truly honours what they dream of for their wedding. Vanessa and Richard really dreamed of just a few of their closest friends to be there with them — there were literally just 2 witnesses and 1 officiant/friend (my darling Erika, who’s getting married next year!!).
That didn’t stop them from going for it. Vanessa had a custom-made gown from Cathy Wiebe, they hired their favourite photographer (Kass Donaldson), and found the perfect spot in Assiniboine Park to tuck themselves away in. After they exchanged their vows, they all shared dinner at a favourite restaurant.
We decided to design 1 ground-based floral piece for their ceremony — we obviously didn’t have a need to go over the top in any way, but their elopement was in mid-September and you can never be sure what will still be growing in Assiniboine Park at that time! The jolt of colour the flowers brought in were just so perfect for Vanessa. She’s a colour-lover, just like me :)
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Maximalist Chic Museum Wedding at Alloway Hall
From the first email from Ashley to me, I was excited. I couldn’t wait to take her maximalist chic meets art gallery vibes at the Manitoba Museum (Alloway Hall) and make it all come to life through the flowers!
This wedding had literally everything I could ever ask for: phenomenal colour, delicious floral ingredients (soooo much sweet pea and oncidium orchids!), an interesting venue and challenging design elements, and a chic, caring client who was just thrilling to work with. A total dream day ✨
From the first email from Ashley to me, I was excited. I couldn’t wait to take her maximalist chic meets art gallery vibes at the Manitoba Museum (Alloway Hall) and make it all come to life through the flowers!
This wedding had literally everything I could ever ask for: phenomenal colour, delicious floral ingredients (soooo many sweet pea and oncidium orchids!), an interesting venue and challenging design elements, and a chic, caring client who was just thrilling to work with. A total dream day ✨
Photo and Video by Picture & Poet
BRIDAL BOUQUET OF MY DREAMS. Fluffy, lightweight yet still with some fullness to compliment her full skirt, soft pastels with a pop of brightness, and alllll of the sweet pea (my personal favourite flower). For the bridesmaids, we went with a simpler, chic, petite posey style bouquet, with similar florals to the bridal bouquet — stock, ranunculus, and sweet pea.
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: Sweet pea, Icelandic poppies, ranunculus, oncidium orchids, stock, and phalaenopsis orchids.
I always love a room reveal. I rarely get to be part of it, so the excitement on your face when you see your vision completely come to life is always so much fun for me. I’ll probably tear up along with you, give you a hug, and possibly fix your sweaty hair if you need it ❤️
This was the indoor ceremony of my dreams! Sunlight flooding in, beautiful draping and a crisp white setting, and tons of colourful florals. Lush pieces moving down the aisle, with lots of height and texture, and a delicious chuppah with slightly colour-blocked florals. I love that the overall design achieves the maximalist meets art gallery vibe.
We did a lot of work behind the scenes, prior to the wedding, to make sure that everything we envisioned was possible. Alli carefully crafted a floor plan that would allow functional flow both for guests, and for the crew working behind the scenes.
In the photo below, you see that the back wall of the ceremony space was draped, with a curtain opening. What you don’t see from this angle is the wall of drapery completely cordoning off the reception space, so that guests didn’t wander into the reception instead of the ceremony and lose the impact. Instead, they entered through a romantic partially draped tunnel, with the guest book and kippah table at the start, that exited into this stunning ceremony scene. Guests entered their rows around the sides so the white aisle runner stayed crisp for Ashley’s entrance, which came through the draped curtain opening.
While the ceremony was going on, Deanna and I were cutting up all the fruit that would be placed on the guest tables. We wanted to keep them as fresh looking as possible and it worked great.
Post-ceremony, there was a LOT of work happening quietly while the guests enjoyed cocktail hour with signature cocktails and a whiskey bar. After guests left the ceremony space, allllll of that drapery came down. We then shifted all of the tables (which were pre-set behind the drape) into position to ready them for the dinner. While this isn’t usually our job, some venues are less hands-on than others, and so my floral team kicked into high gear to assist Alli’s team in making this reception space look amazing. Chairs and tables were moved, and we also flipped all of those gorgeous aisle meadows to the front of the stage so the band had a little extra colour, too.
Working with a client who loves colour this much is incredibly fun. The creative team met several times in the months leading up to the wedding, for venue walk-throughs, as well as a tablescape mockup. I don’t often do mockups (but certainly can if requested!) and I loved it in this case, because it gave us the opportunity to make sure we had the right shades of each colour, and the right amount of each colour, too. Knowing that we’d have the orange patterned table runner added to the long tables, and the lavender patterned circular mat on the round tables, helped us figure out what we wanted to do.
This is a venue that doesn’t allow real candles, so Ashley purchased the lamps and we added some battery operated tealights!
There were so many fun details in this event design. Ashley envisioned it all and Alli exquisitely brought it to fruition. Like this patterned dance floor — isn’t this great? I love the angled check design, and the soft sage and lavender palette. Gorgeous! Obviously we had a lot of fun with the hanging floral piece above the dance floor, as well. I really love the dripping amaranthus and all the joyful colour included.
Hanging pieces like this require a lot of collaborative work — we worked closely with Event Light, who configured the truss rigging and even hung my grid panels so we could go up and safely install the florals without worrying that anything was going to come crashing down (there’s a reason Event Light is on my list of my top 15 wedding vendors in Winnipeg!).
Everything about this day was amazing and I’m incredibly grateful that I was able to be part of it. And, of course, my team did a wonderful job (as always). It made me so happy to see all of us pitching in to help other vendors whose schedules were getting tight (like helping to lay the aisle runner!). Truly, everything about this wedding was just chef’s kiss.* And here’s a bit of wisdom for you: hire vendors who get your style, and let them help you along the way. It’ll work out so much better for you!
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