Modern Trousseau.

All play and no work – gets Kate in trouble with her sisters! To make sure I wouldn’t get in any trouble, I combined a little work and pleasure on my weekend trip to NYC. We have decided on picking up a new line and after a lot of searching for the perfect collection, we decided on Modern Trousseau. (As a side note, if you ask Becky, she’ll tell you that for the last couple of years she has been telling us to pick up that line!) Since I was going to be up there with a couple of hours to spare, I thought I would give April at Modern Trousseau a call and see if I could stop by. April, who is the nicest person, let me come by and see their beautiful showroom.

In pictures the gowns from Modern Trousseau are beautiful. In person they are stunning. They are more than just great looking however - each gown is made in the USA and each is made custom, so anything you want to change can be done. When you order your gown, you know it will be exactly what you have dreamed of since you were a little girl.




As a little preview, I’ve include a picture from a recent photo shoot we did with the Kendra gown that April had sent down for us to check out. We’ll be receiving our gowns starting at the beginning of August. I can’t wait – I’ve been like a kid counting down to Christmas!!

Until next time,
Kate

Wedding of the Week!

Below are images from a May wedding at The Umstead in Cary. Kevin at Kevin Milz Photography took these amazing photographs and hands down my favorite is the one of the boy holding the bridal bouquet (see below). The photography makes me smile and laugh but also really showcases the bouquet. The bouquet is mostly pink with ‘blocks’ of green and white - I feel like color blocking is super popular in fashion these days (from Project Runway to the Wall Street Journal I see/read about it) and that is what we were doing in this bouquet. The flowers in the bouquet are roses, peonies, hydrangeas and orchids (the 4 favorite flowers of the bride). For the ceremony we added topiaries (the ones on the aisle are rosemary) and potted plants and the reception was a combination of potted herbs, orchids and succulents mixed with small glass square vases with flowers - each table had a different combination.










Thank you to Kevin for the wonderful photographs (had to include the last one he sent me of the kids in the photo booth because it just makes me giggle too – Kevin also provided the photo booth at this wedding).

-Becky.

Family Vacation

Rachael likes to joke that we are co-dependently independent. While we all have our separate lives, we like to make sure we’re involved in what the others are doing. So going on vacation is, of course, a family thing. At the beginning of July we went on our annual trip up to New York to our childhood home. (If you’re a follower of our blog, you might remember me mentioning it before.) I have to say, I think this might have been one of my favorite trips home. We did a lot of things that I haven’t done since we were kids. There were trips out to farms to go raspberry & cherry picking, then a picnic at Bond Lake, complete with the little girls exploring for butterflies, bugs, fish and frogs. As you could expect, by the end of the day both were soaking wet from falling into the lake!

One of the unfortunate side effects of a vacation is you eventually have to go home - and the better the vacation, the less you want to leave. But if it’s a great vacation (relaxing and stress-free), then you’ll come home refreshed and ready to tackle all those pesky tasks you’ve put off. After a couple of days treading water, I feel exactly like that! Watch out to-do list, here I come!

Until next time,

Kate

Nothing Says Spring like Color

It seems that I have gotten in the routine of Monday blogs. Today as I sat down to write this post I realized a common thread - how awesome our bride's are - and this bride and her entire family were no exception! They all were so fun to work with and I think this definitely came through in their flowers and all the wedding details!

Thanks to Bret Arthur Weddings for the images - AWESOME! If you want to check out more fun detail images from this wedding check out his website/blog at www.brettarthurweddings.com.

We had a great selection of flowers to work with - hyacinth, peonies, anemones, gerber daisies, stock, lily of the valley, sweet pea, grape hyacinth, billy balls, freesia, garden roses, roses, and herbs - LOVE IT :).

thanks, rachael!

A March Wedding

I am so excited to share the images we received from Courtney Gray Photography (www.courtneygrayphotography.com) - beautiful job Courtney.

This wedding was in March (ceremony at The Chapel and reception at The Carolina Inn) and I loved, loved, loved the bouquets - so soft, feminine and gardeny. The bridal bouquet included garden roses (which smell incredible), sweet peas, veronica, stock, roses.

Just had to share the image of the favor as well - how cute are the bird's nests :)

thanks, rachael

PEONIES

I am so excited that peony season is here :) They truly are one of my all time favorite flowers. I think it is because they remind me of growing up in Lewiston, our gardens, and watching all the ants enjoy the sticky peony buds!

Below is a recent wedding that we did at the lovely Duke Gardens!

We are so lucky that there are so many great photographers in this area that are so sweet to share their images. AND Robin Lin just so happens to be one of our favorites :) Thanks so much to her for sharing her beautiful work (be sure to check out her website http://www.robinlin.com/)!!!

thanks, rachael

Recent Durham Wedding

I LOVE when our bride's share the wedding day images with us :) Below are a couple of GREAT images from a wedding at the beginning of the month shot by Mark Schuleler (http://www.markschuelerphoto.com/).

Jessica, the bride, not only got her dress from us but we also had the pleasure of working with her at the flower shop! She really was one of the most laid back brides we have ever worked with and she just had a great perspective on the whole affair :)

ENJOY!
(don't miss the image of her wedding day shoes - AWESOME!!)

for the cocktail tables she used vintage bud vases and for the reception tables her parents collected all different color/shape/size vases and we mounded white and blue hydrangeas!!