Vendor Spotlight :: LV Creative Designs

Peonies, hydrangea, garden roses, ranunculus... when it comes to flowers we're snobs. So much so, that when Maggie got married we had hundreds of white hydrangea and yellow garden roses delivered to the venue 3 days early. We had to book an extra hotel room just to have enough space to keep these beautiful buds cool while they opened. We cut hundreds of flowers then stuck them in buckets, trash cans, and bathtubs until we were ready to create our centerpieces. The morning before the big day we set up shop in the reception space with the other vendors and got to work, arranging those fluffy white hydrangeas into perfectly cloud like centerpieces. The morning of the wedding we were up at 6am to wire roses and hand tie 7 bouquets. Were we crazy? Yes. Couldn't we have just hired someone? Yes. Was it worth it to do ourselves, giving us these memories and personal connection to the wedding day? You betcha.

We thought about doing the flowers for our styled shoot ourselves for quite some time, but as we became more and more involved we realized there just wasn't going to be enough time for us to dedicate to the flowers. Throwing something together last minute was not an option, so we enlisted the help of our new friends at LV Creative Designs.

Linda lives locally and was willing to help right away. When she asked for inspiration, we told her the story of our little vintage elopement. We told her we wanted the flowers to be simple, minimal, and look like the had Groom picked them himself from his Mother's garden. We described the flowers as looking "handpicked and hurried", since we wanted the entire look of the shoot to seem thrown together by our Groom. Linda understood where we wanted to go, jumped on board and got to work.

Linda must be able to read minds, because she was able to give us exactly what we wanted based on just a conversation or two. The yellow tulips starting to open, the heavenly white ranunculus with curved stems bending in just the right places, the delightful little craspedia, the delicate lace that tied the bouquet together... so many elements to her work made it exactly right, and perfect for our shoot. She even used twine around the milk jug vase, just like our couple's wedding bands! Linda nailed it. We were so happy with her work, we may never do our own flowers again.

If you're a flower snob too, and you appreciate the art and craft of floral design, you are going to enjoy this post. For some, flowers are somewhere in the middle of their wedding to do list. For us they came in 3rd, only falling behind setting a date and finding a photographer. If you're like us, you're searching high and low for a high quality, reasonable florist for your wedding. Well we found them... learn more about LV Creative Designs here.

Thanks again to Linda for all of her hard work, and for always having such a bright and happy demeanor. It was a true pleasure to work with you.