What I Bought vs How I Styled It — Wedding Flower Edition (and How Much it Costs!)
What I Bought Vs How I Styled It
And how much it costs!
I love this Instagram Reels trend with home decor and design, so I thought it might be fun to add a little floral twist to it.
Floral Ingredients:
Top Row: Hellebore, Cappuccino Rose, Schwartzwalder Mini Calla Lilies
Bottom Row: Lepto, Amnesia Rose, Tulip, Barista Rose
And here’s the final product!
Well, “final” before the design tweaking and the ribbon went on :)
Now let’s talk about the Cost.
I made this bouquet for myself, so I’ll start this off by saying I chose flowers regardless of budget. Some of the selections I made were very premium, so this bouquet is more expensive than my average bridal bouquet.
Bridal Bouquet PRice: $375
The more expensive elements in the bouquet are the calla lilies, the hellebore, and the cappuccino roses. I’d personally say that they’re totally worth it, but that’s up to you!
LOOKING FOR A WEDDING FLORAL AND EVENT DESIGNER IN WINNIPEG?
I’m now booking 2023 weddings!
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!
Now Booking 2023 Weddings
I cannot wait to start connecting with couples planning their weddings for next year, and now that my maternity leave is winding down, it’s time to get talking!
My schedule is Open:
I’m now booking 2023 weddings!
I cannot wait to start connecting with couples planning their weddings for next year, and now that my maternity leave is winding down, it’s time to get talking!
I design beautiful weddings for great people.
whether you’re looking for florals only or need a little more help and want to inquire about event design services as well, I design wedding flowers that are an elevated take on a garden-inspired aesthetic, and I specialize in dreaming up compelling designs that you haven’t seen at your friends’ weddings.
Stone House Creative is known for our signature lush, garden style floral design. Inspired by the way flowers look in nature and their intoxicating scents, I’m constantly seeking to elevate my work through unique colour palettes and intriguing details, and make it simple for design-oriented couples who believe that flowers bring life to a celebration.
My clients are genuine, taking a light-hearted approach to life while appreciating creativity and design. You are attracted to quality and beauty, rather than the trendy and temporary, and aspire to always incorporate an interesting touch to liven things up. You work hard, and want to be taken care of by a professional in an inspiring environment.
If you need
Unique ways to bring special touches to your wedding design;
Someone to handle the aesthetics while you handles the details — a designer to take your ideas and flesh them out, bringing together your entire wedding;
Excellent customer service from a professional, while still fun and inspiring, environment
Then I would love to connect with you about your wedding!
A few things as I begin booking my 2023 calendar:
With 2 little kiddos at home and my desire to make sure that both my family AND my clients get the best of me, I’ll be taking fewer weddings than in previous years.
Stone House Creative has a minimum $2500 floral investment, so that I can guarantee my clients the design style they’re looking for
I only book one wedding per date to provide a higher level of service to each of you. I love being able to be on site, finessing and making sure that every detail is perfect. If I don’t have to rush off to another wedding, then I can actually do that for you!
Stone House Creative offers both floral design and full scale event design for weddings in winnipeg, southern Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario.
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!
Sophisticated Vineyard-Inspired Tent Wedding
Diane and Bryce reached out to me just 3.5 months before their wedding. Normally I would have my calendar confirmed well in advance of that, but I had just had another wedding for that weekend cancel so I was pretty thrilled to hear from them.
They live in BC but are both originally from the Winnipeg area, and hoped to have an intimate wedding with just 30 ish of their most loved people (and simultaneously avoid having to have the huge wedding that didn’t feel like them at all!).
So though 3.5 months is a short timeline to plan an entire wedding, I rolled up my sleeves and dug in to their full event design!
Diane and Bryce reached out to me just 3.5 months before their wedding. Normally I would have my calendar confirmed well in advance of that, but I had just had another wedding for that weekend cancel so I was pretty thrilled to hear from them.
They live in BC but are both originally from the Winnipeg area, and hoped to have an intimate wedding with just 30 ish of their most loved people (and simultaneously avoid having to have the huge wedding that didn’t feel like them at all!).
So though 3.5 months is a short timeline to plan an entire wedding, I rolled up my sleeves and dug in to their full event design!
One of my favourite aspects of the event design process is designing the colour palette. The palette we created for Diane and Bryce was just phenomenal — and it all started with an image Bryce had found that incorporated orange and a dove grey. I decided to deepen the orange to more of a rust tone, added in some peach and dusty pink tones, and rounded it out with a forest green. Overall, it evoked a seasonal early summer/late fall vibe, and Diane shared the palette with all their family members so they all chose outfits in those tones too, and looked SO good.
Dang, I just loved Diane’s bridal bouquet. I was able to use a large amount of locally grown flowers with some premium imported roses, and design something that felt natural but not too wild.
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: toffee and cappucino roses, lisianthus, zinnias (from my garden!), phlox, calendula, amaranthus, ninebark, and nandina foliage.
We started the event design process with the colour palette and the stationery design; Diane had commissioned a local BC artist to create incredible pen sketches of both the church where the ceremony would be, and her parents’ yard where the reception was hosted. I worked with a stationery designer in Langley to create a 2 card invite, so that we could prominently feature both sketches, and the little country church in Teulon was just so quaint.
All we needed here was to add 2 overgrown, old-world feeling urn arrangements at the front, just to bring in a bit of colour and freshen up the space.
The reception was hosted in a small tent in Diane’s parents’ backyard, with one half dedicated to the u-shaped dinner table and the other half, a small dance floor and lounge area. I was hoping to have all sides of the tent open but it ended up being quite windy so we had to close a few. Ah, weather!
They have loved touring local BC vineyards, so we wanted to bring that feel in to the reception with greenery draping from the ceiling and cross-back wooden chairs. We let the colour palette warm up the entire space, with taupe linens, warm caramel menus and forest green place cards, toffee taper candles and copper flatware. Designing the place settings was a lot of fun!
Some of my favourite elements were added just a couple of weeks before the wedding! The lounge furniture, the champagne wall with custom decal, and a photo wall with coordinating custom decal as well. It’s great to have that kind of last minute flexibility to really complete a design.
“Your design is an absolute delight to look at and relive. Thank you, THANK YOU again for being so amazing to plan and communicate with. Not going to lie, I was a little sad coming back home and no longer receiving email updates from you! Authenticity multiplies trust — I cannot emphasize enough how grateful and proud we are that you were able to work with us this year. It’s easy to see the value of your floral and event design throughout the gallery but most importantly to us is remembering how you presented it, how you presented yourself, how you made us feel about it, and how you made us feel about ourselves.”
Janine kropla Photography ~ Stone House Creative ~ Collective Event Rentals ~ Planned Perfectly ~ Paper Poet ~ Wildflower and Thistle ~ Ornare ~ Union Table ~ Event Light ~ Luxe LInens ~ Asarye Paperie ~ Chew Catering
How to Hold Your Bridal Bouquet and Some Behind the Scenes Wedding Prep at My Studio!
You might assume that holding a bridal bouquet correctly is easy — and it is! But in my years working in weddings, I’ve learned that you really just can’t assume anything 😂 Including something as simple as how to hold a bridal bouquet. Here are my 3 easy steps to help you correctly hold your bridal bouquet to show it off the best!
How to Hold Your Bridal Bouquet in 3 Easy Steps
You might assume that holding a bridal bouquet correctly is easy — and it is! But in my years working in weddings, I’ve learned that you really just can’t assume anything 😂 Including something as simple as how to hold a bridal bouquet. Here are my 3 easy steps to help you correctly hold your bridal bouquet to show it off the best!
Step 1: Find the front.
Gosh, you would be amazed at some of the pictures I’ve received back from weddings just to think, “how did no one realize that the bouquet is SO backwards?” Even with trailing ribbon attached to the front, bouquets have been held backwards. I always put the pins in the back, so put your thumbs on those pins and you’ll be fine. And if you have requested trailing ribbon or a ribbon bow, that’s obviously going to be in the front. Finally, no matter how the bouquet is designed, the most glorious of the flowers are always going to be in the front!
Step 2: Find the Proper Height.
Let’s all avoid that awkward early 2000’s bridesmaid look, okay? No one needs to be walking down the aisle with their elbows up next to their ears. It’s pretty simple: just put your wrist bones to your hip bones. This allows you to comfortably carry your bouquet at a flattering height that also shows off the neckline and waist of your dress, which is often where a lot of the detail of your gown is. Let’s show that off.
Step 3: Angle the flowers out.
Angle your flowers toward the camera and your florist will love you forever 😏 Seriously though, no one needs to see the stems of your bouquet, so you don’t need to hold it perfectly up and down. By angling the flowers out, you’ll show off all their beautiful shapes and textures, and let the flowers have their glory moment. Have fun with it, maybe resting it over your elbow or letting it hang down by your side, but overall, just let the flowers themselves do the talking.
Mid-summer, Karina Walker from Creative Capture came by the studio to take some video footage of me prepping for a wedding, and then also came along on a wedding set up to capture the installation and setup process. I can’t wait to show you all of that (along with the final images of that wedding from Izabela Rachwal!), and in the meantime, here are some behind the scenes shots she took while I was working!
Thank you so much Karina!
Karina Walker, Creative Capture
If you’d like to see more of my studio, check out this studio tour post from last summer! I love working here in the summers. I keep the garage door open all day, with sunlight streaming in (and once in a while, a bee) and it makes me so happy to work in the fresh air all the time. It’s a great little space!
LOOKING FOR A WEDDING FLORAL AND EVENT DESIGNER IN WINNIPEG?
My 2023 wedding wait list has been started!
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!
Summer on the Prairies Styled Wedding Shoot
I loved working on this summer on the prairies styled shoot with Soiree Event Planning back in late June! The perfect prairie location, an elevated and fuss-free aesthetic, and a cheerful colour palette — you know there’s nothing else that I could want!
I loved working on this summer on the prairies styled shoot with Soiree Event Planning back in late June! The perfect prairie location, an elevated and fuss-free aesthetic, and a cheerful colour palette — you know there’s nothing else that I could want!
You might remember that June was absurdly hot…and this day was no different at all. We were setting up for a few hours before the lighting was just right for photos, and I’ll tell you what, we were scorching 😂 But, I still didn’t get a sunburn!
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: Ranunculus, delphinium, feverfew, and grasses. And that’s it! Sometimes it’s best to keep things sweet and simple, and the colour does all the talking here.
I finished the stems off with this gorgeous golden silk ribbon from Tono & Co.
My concept for the ceremony florals was to keep it all understated — I wanted everything to feel very natural so I actually went in and created all of the wildflowers that you see here. This was just a grass aisle before me! I hammered in water tubes in clusters along the seating, each with little bundles of grasses, wheat, and feverfew, just to bring in a little more of that prairie wildflower vibe. It’s not overly noticeable, but without it, the aisle would have fallen a bit flat.
Of course I am obsessed with the mixed seating options for the ceremony seating. It feels casual and comfortable, while still giving a very chic vibe. The mixed seating also enhances the intimacy of a smaller guest list, making things feel more personal and more interesting!
I love working with the Soiree team because they are seasoned professionals who really know how to make it all come together. I’ve most often worked with them on weddings, and the way they tie together the little details with the larger design goals, while ensuring an efficient day for the wedding professionals and a fun, enjoyable atmosphere for the couple and their guests is really admirable and not that easily done. If you’re looking for a planner, be sure to consider them!
A few of the notable design elements that their team customized for this shoot are the leather name tags wrapped around each salad fork (LOVE! If I were a guest, you can bet I’d be taking that home) and some of the stem vases! They purchased some of the glazed vases, and then added that terracotta wash to others. It’s a really cool project that can allow you some more flexibility with picking up random vases from the thrift or dollar stores, and still making sure they all look good together — and let’s be honest, is far more interesting and current than spray painting everything gold.
Want to know something amazing about these flowers? Every SINGLE stem of flowers and foliage used for this entire photo shoot was grown right here in Manitoba, by my friend Kelly at Lilystone Gardens. She provides the most stunning blooms, all summer long (I have no idea how she does it!) and is an incredible designer as well. She’s also just about to open her own wedding venue at her flower farm! If you love flowers, supporting local, or have an interest in weddings or farm life, then be sure to check her out on Instagram. Thank you Kelly, for growing and providing these flowers so that I can do what I love!
Lynsey Corbett Photography ~ Soiree Event Planning ~ Planned Perfectly ~ Union Table ~ Trend Rentals & Decor ~ Sugar & Salt Bakeshoppe ~ Karina Walker ~ Minted ~ Bliss Bridal Boutique ~ Eph Apparel ~ MYUZ Artistry ~ 204 Red
LOOKING FOR A WEDDING FLORAL AND EVENT DESIGNER IN WINNIPEG?
2022 wedding dates are limited, and my 2023 wait list has been started!
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!