Just peachy!

Posted on July 31, 2017

Right now in Pennsylvania the peaches are in season. This wedding palette of peach colored blooms is a stunning choice for late July.

The bride’s hand-tied bouquet included peach Juliet garden roses, peach dahlias, pink carnations, white ranunculus, peach hypericum, pink carnations and silver dollar eucalyptus. The bride wanted to incorporate white anemones into the bouquet, so we used silk flowers for the best show and value.

Centerpieces for the reception followed the same color theme with white and light peach hydrangea, peach spray roses, peach hypericum, pink carnations and silver dollar eucalyptus.

July wedding weekend

Posted on July 24, 2017

Here are a few glimpses from two of our weddings this past weekend:

This bride’s bouquet is in a cascade style, and is designed with white oriental lilies, Esperance roses, La Perla roses, white dahlias, majolica spray roses, green amaranthus and Israeli ruscus.

The next photos are from a reception at the Fox Chapel Country Club.

The tall and short centerpieces contained white hydrangea, roses, stock and seeded eucalyptus.

Here’s a view of Jim adding the finishing touches to the massive fountain flowers:

Here’s a view of the wedding cake, with the fountain below.

The place card table was filled with rose petals graded in color from white to dark pink.

Mark and Dana’s wedding reception at the Aviary

Posted on July 12, 2017

It was a Ludwig family wedding reception at the National Aviary on June 30! Dana and Mark chose flowers in a subtle color pallete of blush, white and ivory. The flowers were offset with containers, votive candles and chargers finished in metallic silver and rose gold.
White hydrangea, white roses and white majolika spray roses filled out the centerpieces for the round tables.

The long tables featured oblong centerpieces with the same flowers.

The long tables also had table runners of greens and baby’s breath.

Winter wedding flowers

Posted on November 23, 2015

It’s been a whirlwind wedding season here at the Blumengarten! Frankly, what with attending to multiple weddings each weekend, there never seems to be enough time to take photos and write blog posts.

In November the wedding season quiets down a bit. The cooler weather brings out looks for our brides that are quite different from the lush garden flowers of summer.

This bridal bouquet is a fabulous choice for the winter months. It features white hydrangea, roses, limmonium and star of Bethlehem. Frosty, glittery accents are added with the addition of silver seeded eucalyptus and frosted pine cones. Beautiful!

A grand wedding at the Grand Concourse

Posted on July 28, 2015

The ceremony and reception for one of last weekend’s weddings was at the Grand Concourse at Station Square in Pittsburgh. Flowers transformed an already elegant venue into a bride’s dream. Take a look.

Wedding ceremony location, Grand Concourse

Banister arrangement, Grand Concourse

Wedding ceremony arrangement

Lamp post arrangement, Grand Concourse

Table centerpiece

Carnation ball table centerpiece

Cake table with garland, candles and mini hydrangea arrangements

And if you ever wondered what our truck looks like on the way to a wedding, here’s a peek from another wedding from the weekend!

Wedding flower delivery

The spring wedding season has begun!

Posted on April 13, 2015

We hit the ground running as our 2015 wedding season kicked off this weekend with four weddings on our schedule. Below are highlights of some of the flowers:

There are only a couple of weeks in the year where a bride can choose daffodils for her wedding. Crissy and Kevin’s wedding was a vision of spring with yellow daffodils everywhere. Yellow oncidium orchids and white freesia complement the daffodils in the bride’s bouquet.

The Renaissance Hotel was the venue for Michelle and Brian’s wedding reception. The pedestal centerpieces include hydrangea, pink and lavender roses, spray roses and sweet pea.

At the Edgewood Club, our huppah was decked out with flowers to create a romantic wedding canopy for the marriage of Suzanne and Bart.

Winter wedding flowers

Posted on December 8, 2014

Although the wedding season slows down considerably by mid November, the winter months are still a romantic time for couples to tie the knot. The winter season gives us the opportunity to experiment with different materials and interesting textures in our floral designs. The bride’s bouquet for one of this weekend’s weddings featured pine cones and artificial navy berries in the mix, with ivory roses and spray roses, silver brunia, pine, and seeded eucalyptus sprayed metallic silver and gold.

The bride in our second wedding chose white hydrangea, lavender roses, cream spray roses and Mayfair alstroemeria for her bouquet. The bouquet had a nostalgic connection for the bride. We incorporated fabric pieces from the veil the bride’s mother wore on her wedding day. Used as a stem wrap, the material with pearl accents became an exquisite finishing touch to the bouquet.

Flowers for a Grand Concourse wedding reception

Posted on August 21, 2014

The reception for one of our weddings this past weekend was held at the elegant Grand Concourse Restaurant in Station Square. The color theme was pale pink and white.

The bride’s bouquet featured light pink oriental lilies, ivory roses, white spray roses, white freesia, white mini calla lilies and white dendrobium orchids. The bridesmaids bouquets complimented the bride’s with light pink roses and spray roses and white mini calla lilies.

The head table featured a centerpiece of light pink roses and spray roses, light pink lilies and white dendrobium orchids.

Both tall and low centerpieces of white hydrangea, light pink oriental lilies, roses, snapdragon and calla lilies graced the tables at the restaurant.

The cake was decorated with pink roses.

Heinz History Center Wedding

Posted on August 5, 2014

How do you transform a public venue into a location suitable for a wedding ceremony? With flowers, of course! Here’s how we softened the industrial architectural forms of the Heinz History Center Library to create a romantic wedding chapel:

White hydrangea, lilies, roses and alstromeria were woven with assorted greens and curly twigs to transform steel beams and create a focal point for the exchange of vows.

Bridal bouquet for a Phipps Conservatory wedding…

Posted on July 14, 2014

The wedding of one of our couples from this past weekend took place in the Broderie Room of Phipps Conservatory. Befitting the location, the bride’s bouquet featured both flowers and succulent plant material.

Included in this hand-tied bouquet are blue hydrangea, pink dahlias, lavender freesia, succulents, seeded eucalyptus and variegated pittosporum.