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St Barbara’s and the Polo Grill Wedding

Sarasota Wedding Flowers — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:22:36 +0000

The sanctuary at St. Barbara’s Greek Orthodox Church is bright and impressive. The religious icons are in rich, vibrant hues creating a beautiful sanctuary. Adding decorations could be daunting but the aisle decor chosen blended seamlessly. Large sheer ivory bows with a touch of greenery alternated with clusters of Circus roses and greenery with ivory ribbon streamers down the length of the aisle. Just the right touch. Maria Brady of Choreographed Events over saw the day of events for the couple, seeing to all the final details and getting our beautiful bride down the aisle.

The bride was traditional and romantic in her ivory lace dress complimented perfectly with a bouquet of ivory roses and fragrant, pearl studded stephanotis. Attendants in yellow chiffon carried hand tied bouquets of Circus roses, a lovely deep yellow rose with a reddish-orange edge. The groom wore a boutonniere of 3 stephanotis blooms as he awaited his bride at the altar. Al Gordon Photography captured every moment in beautiful detail.

Guests traveled to the Polo Grill in Lakewood Ranch for a fabulous dinner. Brushed gold candle holders with floating candles washed the room in warm candlelight. Wreath rings of green hydrangea and circus roses decorated some of the tables while others had 3 tear drop vases of hydrangea and roses clustered at the base of the candle holders. Pastry by Design created a scrumptious cake and the couple’s flair for a bit of whimsy was evident in the Mickey and Minnie Mouse cake topper. Here’s wishing Angela and Chris all the best as they begin their lives together!

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Sarasota Destination Wedding Ritz Carlton Style

Becki Creighton — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:00:24 +0000

This destination wedding was planned exclusively through emails and photo consultations between the bride and Flowers by Fudgie’s designers! The wedding was planned for the lawn area at the Ritz Members Beach Club on Lido Key with a candlelight reception in the Grill Room.

The bride chose all white and cream tones for her wedding flowers with the only bit of color being fuchsia orchids to give a pop of color at the ceremony site.

The photos were taken by Tibor Imley of Imely Photography and, as usual, he did a fantastic job capturing the ambiance of the day’s events. The bride chose a simple, hand-tied cluster of roses for herself, bridesmaid, junior bridesmaid and even the moms.

The lattice arch was trimmed with sheer ivory organza, white lilies and Bombay orchids. Two beautiful urns greeted the guests at the back of the aisle and two additional urns stood on two-foot columns, flanking the sides of the arch. The Bombay orchids also brought a touch of color to the chairs at the aisle end of each row.

For the reception, the bride chose a set of three pedestal candle holders with floating candles. Each had a bit of brushed gold, surrounded by white hydrangea, roses and orchids with touches of gold lemon leaves. The floral pieces looked lovely on the linens selected by the Ritz with almost an iridescent look to them.

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Wedding Reception Elevated Centerpieces: Ritz Carlton Sarasota

Becki Creighton — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:45:11 +0000

The ballroom at the Ritz Carlton Sarasota, is a beautiful room with it tall ceiling and lovely chandeliers. The room calls for elevated floral arrangements if you really want to make a statement for any event or wedding reception. For this reception of 220 guests, the couple chose tall cylinder vases with fresh lime green cymbidium orchids submerged and then a lovely arrangement of pink lilies and peonies, green fugi mums and Kermit button poms and calla lilies with trailing green amaranths. The cylinder was placed on a light tray which provided a soft up lighting into the submerged orchid vase. Also surrounding the vase were 3 small cylinders with floating candles and orchids. For that little something extra, a single green fugi mum was tied into the gold sheer chair tie at the back of each gold chiavari chair.

The sweetheart table had one continual arrangement along the table’s edge with several different sized votives and floating candles worked between. Small 2” glass cubes were nested under the green moss and between the hardy flowers. The small cubes filled with water held the fragile flowers such as the hydrangea in this is “layout” design for the couples table of honor.

A Boca Grande Wedding-Lighthouse Methodist Church and Gasparilla Inn

Becki Creighton — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Guests were greeted with hydrangea wreaths beneath the lanterns at the entrance to the Lighthouse Methodist Church in Boca Grande and bouquets of ivory roses, hydrangea and hanging green amaranths flanked the front altar of the sweet church.

The reception at the Gasparilla Inn’s Beach venue started with cocktails pool side, and dinner in the dining room which was filled with candle light. All the flowers were kept in white and cream tones and included roses, hydrangea and orchids. The head table was a long feasting table with a runner of mirror and several mercury vases topped with hydrangeas, and tall vases of phalanopsis orchid sprays and candles. The fireplace which was in the center of the room also had a candlescape as well which added to the soft romantic look the bride was after.

The only color used was for the cocktail hour and the garland entrance to the dining room. Hot pink peonies and spray roses gave a little pop of color on the hi top tables around the pool.

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Crystals and Candlelight

Becki Creighton — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:55:50 +0000

You just cannot go wrong with candlelight for a wedding….it is so romantic to see a candle lit aisle, as was done for this wonderful couple at Saint Barbara’s Greek Orthodox Church, Sarasota. Every other pew end was adorned with white roses tucked into ivy cascading down the single candelabrum.

Maria Brady of Choreographed Events is always great to work with. She brought in special linen for the cake and head table that were just exquisite. Planning this up scaled wedding was a huge undertaking but done with easy by Maria. You will see by looking at our photo gallery that Tibor of Imley Photography, did an outstanding job capturing the event.

I do not think I have seen the Ritz Carlton Ballroom as grand with the soft lighting effect and fabric draping done by Affairs in the Air, coupled with the striking arrangements that the Fudgie designers did on site. Two styles of arrangements were used. Both in tall vases but one with long white orchids with chandeliered hanging votives and the other of tall curly willow branches with white dendrobium orchids attached and crystals garlands raining from the branches and many hanging votive candles. The branches stood 5 to 6’ tall of the tables which filled the room with it tall ceiling.

The long head table with its fabulous linen was flanked with two 36” all crystal 5 branch candelabrum topped with white orchids and then lined with dozens of candles between. The place card table in the pre function area at the Ritz had a vase of tall curly willow branches with crystals and tiny orchids on monofilament. The monofilament rained from its branches. This impressive piece was in the center of all the place cards that spiraled out from it base.

The sparkle of the crystals in the candlelight made for an absolutely awesome look.

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