Whimsical Summer Camp Wedding at the Lake
I love a good wedding at the lake, and when Caitlyn first reached out to me, I was so excited to hear some of her preliminary ideas and the general idea of having the wedding at a camp!
Mid-way through the planning, the venue actually changed and they ended up at King’s Cabins, which I think is kind of a fishing camp and it was SO COOL. The ambiance was amazing and I can’t wait to show you how everything came together!
I love a good wedding at the lake, and when Caitlyn first reached out to me, I was so excited to hear some of her preliminary ideas and the general idea of having the wedding at a camp!
Mid-way through the planning, the venue actually changed and they ended up at King’s Cabins (just outside of Emerald Bay, about an hour past Kenora), which I think is kind of a fishing camp and it was SO COOL. The ambiance was amazing and I can’t wait to show you how everything came together!
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: dahlias, ranunculus, toffee roses, delphinium, solidago, cosmos, amaranthus, feverfew, ferns, and dried poppy pods. A LOT of these ingredients were locally grown — always my fave!
As you can already see, this wedding was completely awesome. I suggested to Caitlyn that she hire a wedding planner, because hosting a wedding in a location where weddings don’t normally take place is a LOT of work. I was so happy to hear that she had hired Emily from Feast & Festivities, because I knew that the details Emily would pull together would be so unique and creative, and really bring the camp feel to life.
The focus was creating a whimsical, youthful ambiance with cheerful colours that played well with the natural woodsy surroundings.
The setting of the camp truly couldn’t have been more incredible. A long, windy driveway through the woods leading to the lake, with rustic log cabins sprinkled throughout the property. Some of the couple’s closest friends stayed on-site in the cabins, and it was so awesome to see how much fun they were all having and the way they supported the couple throughout the day. It wasn’t a hot day, so hearing some of the men squeal as they took some cold dives into the lake while I was setting up was pretty enjoyable for me 😂
The ceremony was tucked into the treeline, with guests seated along wood benches. The couple built and transported the arch to the cabin, and I designed a completely foam-free floral installation. If you’re not sure what that means, know that floral foam is really horrendous to the environment but like many things, it’s really easy to use. So, I’ve been challenging myself to get out of that comfort zone and design in a more sustainable way. This arch came together PERFECTLY using a single design tray lined with chicken wire, and some re-usable installation mechanics that hold water and are ziptied onto the arch structure. Everything aside from the zipties was reusable! Hooray!
I wanted this arch to feel really natural, bringing in lots of texture and greenery while popping the colour palette throughout to tie into the overall event design. I used a lot of different ferns, as they grow abundantly in the area, along with pine boughs that I foraged from the property on my drive in that morning.
Feast & Festivities curated some truly adorable camp-themed design elements, like the pennants, a chalkboard schedule, a mess hall-inspired seating chart, and camping mug favours.
Just take a look at this reception space! The tent was set up near the ceremony space as a backup, and though it was kind of misting throughout the morning, we decided to go for it and keep the reception al fresco — I love when couples make this decision! The stress is worth it when you can look around and see all your loved ones enjoying the open air and just having an awesome time together.
String lights, banquet and round tables surrounding an old stone fireplace, and the trees…the ambiance could not have been better!
I LOVE the way the colour palette was pulled throughout the wedding. I think a lot of people just say “I’m having a blue wedding” and then choose a blue tablecloth and bridesmaid dresses and leave it at that. This palette was so expertly layered to create depth and visual interest.
The florals on the tables were actually super simple — the round tables featured a short cylinder vase with a simple arrangement of ferns and white cosmos, and the banquet tables saw clusters of my cream pottery stem vases with petite arrangements. Adding in the coloured candles on those terracotta planter trays was another perfect addition.
I just LOVED Caitlyn’s dress — it’s dramatic in all the right ways, without taking any attention away from her stunning natural beauty. I don’t usually get to see any of the wedding pictures being taken, but given that everything happened on site, I actually got to be a bit of a peeping tom while their photos were happening and I was SO excited to see how they turned out. Aren’t these just gorgeous?
Lake weddings for the win, people!
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Toffee and Cream at the Rustic Wedding Barn
Kaleigh and Marc’s wedding was a really special one. They were originally scheduled for May 2020, and we all know what happened there. When they decided to postpone to October 2020, I’ll be honest that I wasn’t optimistic that we would be able to go ahead. When October rolled around, the restrictions on gatherings were tightening and it was getting a little nerve-wracking, but their date was one of the last weekends we were allowed to gather in groups — they made it!
Kaleigh and Marc’s wedding was a really special one. They were originally scheduled for May 2020, and we all know what happened there. When they decided to postpone to October 2020, I’ll be honest that I wasn’t optimistic that we would be able to go ahead. When October rolled around, the restrictions on gatherings were tightening and it was getting a little nerve-wracking, but their date was one of the last weekends we were allowed to gather in groups — they made it!
They were also my first postponed wedding to actually come to their new date…and I CRIED. It was just so wonderful seeing how happy they were, and knowing how fully they deserved to celebrate their marriage — it just made me so happy. So, I cried while I delivered Kaleigh’s bouquet!
It was a happy accident that what we originally planned for Kaleigh’s bouquet for their original spring date ended up bring an absolutely perfect for their fall date! Kaleigh originally wanted a simpler white palette, and then fell in love with the toffee roses when she saw me design with them at the Gates on Roblin’s open house. We decided to add them in, and then when the wedding was pushed to October, I was excited because I knew they would add the perfect seasonal warmth.
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: Toffee roses, playa blanca roses, ranunculus, spray roses, stock, nine bark, camellia, and jasmine foliages.
The ceremony setup at the Rustic Wedding Barn’s wedding chapel is quite nicely done, in that the wood arches draw your eye in to the couple right off the bat. We simply added a pair of wood pedestals and oversized arrangements in my gold urns to complete the look! I love doing large arrangements like this, because a) they’re fun to design, and b) they’re super easy to repurpose to the reception without needing floral expertise or too much work!
Inside the barn loft for the reception, we decided to keep things pretty simple and minimal, with a little more attention paid to the head table. I added some clusters of bud vases to the head table along with their candles and gold-rimmed glassware, and on the guest tables we simply placed one of my large black metal lanterns with a pillar candle inside. It all played really nicely with the taupe linen, black napkin and gold-rimmed charger plates!
Words cannot describe how amazing Lauren and her work is! She was so friendly, patient and accommodating throughout the planning process, especially when we rescheduled our wedding due to COVID. When we originally met with her, I had ideas but her designs were amazing and more than I could ever dreamed! We appreciated her encouragement and excitement for doing something unique and different from other weddings. Plus the colours and flowers she used were stunning! We cannot recommend her enough, and we could not imagine our wedding without her!
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Joyful Fall Wedding with Toffee Roses
Sam and Dillon’s fall wedding was such a beautiful one to be part of! A gorgeous colour palette, a joyful couple, and everyone’s favourite rose, toffee!
I was so looking forward to these florals and for once, I didn’t have long to wait. We all know Covid threw a wrench in many wedding plans, and Sam and Dillon’s was no different. They were originally set to be married in Palm Springs, but decided to re-plan for a home wedding instead, knowing travel would be challenging. So, they reached out just a few months beforehand, when I’d normally be fully booked but I had the date open due to another wedding’s rescheduling situation. Lucky for me!
Sam and Dillon’s fall wedding was such a beautiful one to be part of! A gorgeous colour palette, a joyful couple, and everyone’s favourite rose, toffee!
I was so looking forward to these florals and for once, I didn’t have long to wait. We all know Covid threw a wrench in many wedding plans, and Sam and Dillon’s was no different. They were originally set to be married in Palm Springs, but decided to re-plan for a home wedding instead, knowing travel would be challenging. So, they reached out just a few months beforehand, when I’d normally be fully booked but I had the date open due to another wedding’s rescheduling situation. Lucky for me!
Photos by Ariana Tennyson
Sam was pretty easy-going with respect to basically everything floral. She sent me a pdf with a wide colour palette focusing on warm tones, a number of inspiration images showing a more casual, textured vibe (many of which were from my past weddings — nothing better than that!) and then basically left it in my hands. I knew a few things I wanted to use right off the hop — specifically, the toffee and nina roses. Aren’t they just killer together?
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: Toffee roses, nina roses, salmon ranunculus, locally grown pansies, strawflower, and scabiosa, echinacea pods, ninebark and geranium foliages.
This was the first day in September that I remember things really starting to look and feel like fall. There was a slight chill in the air, and the leaves had started turning a magnificent yellow on the drive out to the country where their tent was set up. And as you can see, the dried grasses and turning leaves made for some pretty stunning photos!
Sam didn’t really have a wedding party, though she did get ready and take photos with some of her most loved people, which I thought was really nice! That allows a couple to spend a lot of time together on their wedding day with a bit less stress, but still get to enjoy time with all their friends, too.
The reception tent was set up in a family friend’s yard, just outside of Ile des Chenes. It was a beautiful property, with lots of space and incredibly helpful hosts!
With the help of their planner, Amanda Douglas Events, Sam and Dillon chose some design elements that made their reception a little bit more special. I love that they put a little more focus on the head table — the guest tables were square, and the head table was U-shaped. They opted for a warm taupe linen on the head table (instead of the plain white on the guest tables), and along with stem vases, I added in some small size floral arrangements scattered along the head table as well. Adding in lots of candles, pink napkins, and amber glassware brought the colour palette into the tent and added personality.
Our hearts are absolutely exploding! We are over the moon. Thank you so much 😍 We received so many compliments on how beautiful the flowers were. You did such an amazing job. Thank you for sharing your work and passion with us.
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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.
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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Simple Summer Wedding at Hawthorn Estates
Gabi and Brad were married on a beautiful summer day back before Covid was a thing. Ah, the good old days, right?
When Gabi first inquired, she told me that she loves plants and gardens, that her style is simple and elegant, and that she just wanted something really beautiful. I was happy to oblige! The plans for her simple summer wedding at Hawthorn began, but don’t be fooled by the word “simple,” because that does not mean it wasn’t beautiful.
Gabi and Brad were married on a beautiful summer day back before Covid was a thing. Ah, the good old days, right?
When Gabi first inquired, she told me that she loves plants and gardens, that her style is simple and elegant, and that she just wanted something really beautiful. I was happy to oblige! The plans for her simple summer wedding at Hawthorn began, but don’t be fooled by the word “simple,” because that does not mean it wasn’t beautiful.
I rarely get to work with shades of purple, so anytime I do, I’m excited by the challenge. Purple can be hard to design with — it was a strong trend in design a few years back, which means that it can easily feel tired. It can also feel really aggressive, and that’s not really the vibe that most couples are hoping their wedding gives off. So, I really liked the way that Gabi was working with multiple shades, using both warm and cool tones, and softening it with light greys and whites. It felt fresh and just really lovely.
Bridal bouquet ingredients: peonies, roses, anemones, ranunculus, fritillaria, tulips, astrantia, and eucalyptus and smokebush foliages.
I love the shades of these bridesmaid dresses!
I added one asymmetrical corner floral piece to the arch, which was then repurposed to the fireplace mantle — see that below!
Hawthorn Estates is such a beautiful venue. I love the tone of all the exposed wood beams, the harvest chairs, and there’s a ton of natural light. Gabi painted table numbers onto rocks, and I added a floral arrangement in whites with shades of purple and locally harvest pussy willow.
I also designed a large hanging piece on the ladder above the head table, focusing on textured foliages and branches, with long delphinium stems tucked throughout to add touches of that soft, feminine colour.
I can’t wait for days like this to start happening again! Gabi has since told me that she wishes she could have more weddings, so that she could have one for every colour palette that she falls in love with. Look guys, I think this is a really awesome idea. Can we make this happen? After this last year, I think we all deserve to start throwing ourselves some awesome parties, and we all know parties need flowers! 🌸
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