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Destination Wedding At Ritz Carlton Sarasota: A Delight For The Eyes

Sarasota Wedding Flowers — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:08:58 +0000

You know you live in an amazing city when people from all over the country choose it as a destination location for their wedding day! And as Sarasota wedding venues go, none is more amazing than the always-dazzling Sarasota Ritz Carlton! A very special couple from Dallas, TX chose the gorgeous Ritz for their once-in-a-lifetime day and we had the honor of beautifying it even further with flowers specially designed for this awesome couple!

The beautiful bride chose a pretty and vibrant pink and white theme for the wedding itself, but then opted for an all white look for the reception with lots of shimmering candlelight. The bride’s bouquet was a hand-tied wonder of David Austin Patience roses. These one-of-a-kind roses feature lots and lots of petals making them resemble open peonies. Smaller ivory spray roses were interspersed throughout the bouquet.

The bridesmaids, in eye-catching pink dresses, carried gorgeous hand-tied bouquets of Pink O’Hara garden roses and fragrant Attaché roses, carefully nested into perfect white hydrangea… stunning!

The ceremony was held in the peaceful and simply beautiful Healing Garden at the Ritz Carlton Sarasota. The couple was flanked by two lovely garden arrangements in pink and white and a pink rose lined aisle.

After the ceremony, the party moved inside to the ballroom where the reception took place. We alternated between elevated and low arrangements on the tables all in white and cream tones to include hydrangea, orchids, lilies and roses for a dream-like look. The elevated pieces included chandeliered votives hanging from curly willow branches. The head table was a feast for the eyes! Two of the dreamy elevated arrangements topped the table with several votives candles flowing down the middle of the table to provide further illumination.

Tibor Imely of Imely Photography captured this beautiful day in pictures and provided the gallery of photos for us to display. Please be sure to browse the gallery below to see all the pictures from this wonderful day!

The couple was pleased with all the selections they made–from the small orchid boutonnieres to the flower trimmed cake to the grand candlelight ballroom–they absolutely loved every aspect of the day and will forever cherish it! And we couldn’t be happier to have another satisfied customer on one of the most special days of their lives.

If you are looking for a florist in Sarasota to work along side you and bring your dream wedding or dream event to pass, Flowers by Fudgie is here to serve you with style, class, and joy. Contact us today!

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Contemporary Centerpiece Ideas for Weddings, Spring, Easter or Mother’s Day

Sarasota Wedding Flowers — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:19:11 +0000

The Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We think so too! We at Flowers by Fudgie see firsthand every day the joy flowers bring to people! Whether it’s the long-awaited and carefully planned wedding day, celebrating Easter, or honoring your beloved mom on Mother’s Day, flowers make everyone smile and light up a room!

And contemporary glass cubes are an extraordinarily elegant way to show off flowers! Go ahead and indulge those modernists in your lives with a beautiful contemporary centerpiece or bouquet. Glass cubes make a beautiful centerpiece for weddings, Spring/Easter or Mother’s Day gift giving. These popular centerpieces make any occasion brighter, fresher, and more beautiful! These contemporary centerpieces appeal to a bride or gift giver with a discriminating eye for color and clean lines.

The ”flower to flower” look, with little to no greenery, gives a just picked appeal. Cubes come in a variety of sizes to choose from: 2” to 12” with the most popular for table tops measuring at 4-6” high. These cubes can be lined with a ti leaf, banded with ribbon or left clear for a more natural look where the stems can be seen. The crisp clean look appeals to many.

If you would like to send flowers to someone you love or are planning a wedding and looking for a florist, don’t hesitate to contact us at Flowers By Fudgie…it is our pleasure to work with you! And don’t forget those all-important Mother’s Day Flowers!

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An Elegant Traditonal Wedding-St. Barbara’s Church & Ritz Carlton

Becki Creighton — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:15:37 +0000

Our wedding couple chose a traditional wedding in the lovely sanctuary at St. Barbara’s Greek Orthodox Church. Fresh flowers alternated with bows down the aisle and the couple was flanked on either side by two beautiful arrangements of Sahara roses and hydrangea. Tibor Imley, of Imley Photography provided the lovely photos in this blog posting. The couple’s reception was held in the Ritz Carlton Ballroom in Sarasota. The rich deep navy blue linens were topped with tall six foot vases of curly willow with a collar of Sahara roses and small white orchids with attached to the branches and the cake also was decorated with the champagne colored rose. The ballroom looked fabulous.

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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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Ritz Carlton Sarasota-Elegant Wedding

Becki Creighton — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:59:18 +0000

The Ritz Carlton Sarasota was the setting for this beautiful wedding this Spring. The wedding was set on the lawn over looking the bay with a fabric and bamboo canopy as the site for the ceremony. The aisle was flanked with single white roses tied with sheer Tiffany blue ribbon, as well as the canopy floral pieces, all in white roses and orchids, with the same sheer ribbons blowing softly in the breeze.

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Spring Wedding at the John Ringling Courtyard

Becki Creighton — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:47:09 +0000

Ringling Museum is a beautiful location for a Spring wedding. The weather could not have been more perfect for this Sarasota couple whose wedding was planned with the help of Nicole Kaney of NK Productions. She choose simple a hand tied bouquet of blue hydrangea with small white spray roses for a delicate look and her maid of honor carried just blue hydrangea.

For the ceremony a simple bamboo canopy with sheer organza made a lovely backdrop and the aisle was lined with single white hydrangea with lemon leaf.

Fete Catering was in charge of the food and did lovely cocktail hour stations with a served dinner following. Lyndsay of Pastry by Design handled the cake with a shell theme that was topped with fresh blue hydrangea and edible small white shells. Pretty soft blue linens were topped with tall cylinders of white cymbidium that were submerged with a light tray under each which gave a soft glow into the evening. Each tall cylinder was surrounded with bold colors using hot pink roses, deep blue-purple hydrangea, orange spray roses and fuchsia Mokara orchids. The floral arrangements gave a nice pop of color on the soft pastel linens. Star fish and other shells were used on the place card table with all the table numbers were done with a shell theme.

This great team of vendors also included Katie Beyer Photography who provided all of the wonderful photos in the attached gallery. Katie’s has a great way of capturing the moment, check out her website at www.katiebeyerphotography.com for additional pictures of this and other weddings.

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