A couple month’s ago one of the awesome ladies from Style Me Pretty reached out asking if I’d mind breaking down and sharing all the ingredients to Christina’s lovely autumn bouquet (you may remember Tim & Christina’s wedding was featured on their blog here last spring).  It was so special being asked, as I feel like Tim and Christina’s wedding was a break out moment for me and I will forever think of their wedding day with the warmest memories.  I had done other floral arranging, I done other weddings but I knew in my heart of hearts that theirs was something special.  They entrusted an incredible amount of faith in me. Their wedding wasn’t only going to be the start of something incredible and new for them, but it was going to be the start something big for me as well.

I was right.

This was my big break and the largest scale event that I had tackled to date.  My love affair with flowers grew.  And it continues to grow.  I stretched my wings and did something scary and reaped huge rewards.  I proved myself worthy – not to the world – but to myself.  So when I was asked to describe this bouquet and the flower it… it was hard to know where to even start.  Their wedding was a beautiful finale to the end of the 2014 wedding season.

It was my first time using Peterkort Roses.  It’s a bit nerve wrecking any time you use a new supplier.  Simply put, I had nothing to be nervous about.  Their roses do not disappoint.  As always, I had set aside my favorite blooms as I was processing and unpacking flowers.  Special blooms for a special bride.  Her bouquet was one of the last projects I tackled late that Friday night.  I think that was my biggest bucket of “favorite blooms” I have ever collected.

It was dark and quiet in my Grandpa’s garage.  The rains fell on the red tin roof and the wind was roaring outside on that cold October night.  But what I remember are the flowers, the awe, and how I loved each and every stem that I placed.

Friends, here’s the bouquet (captured by the ever amazing Kelly Sweet Photography) and here’s the recipe, you can read more about it all these magical romantic roses over on Style Me Pretty.

• 7 Stems of Helga Piaget Garden Roses
• 5 Stems of Romantik Antike Garden Roses
• 3 Stems of Champagne Roses
• 2 Stems of Talea Roses
• 3 Stems of Pink Majolica Spray Roses
• 2 Stems of Pee Gee Hydrangeas
• 2 Stems of Peach Stock
• Italian Ruscus Foliage
• Variegated Pittosporum Foliage

Enjoy!