{ Jenni, Jenni, Jenni } part 1


After 20 years as the lead consultant at Flower Allie I decided to relinquish a little control about 2 years ago when I met Jenni Hill. This was a huge decision and it was very hard at first to let designs other than mine out the door without any creative input from me. The first few months were the hardest and I think Jenni probably wanted to quit about 20 times. With a lot of hard work and creativity and a wonderful back up team Jenni and I have been able to merge our styles, tastes and ideas and create the best weddings Flower Allie has ever done this year.

Jenni just completed her 100th wedding so to congratulate her I wanted to share with you first my absolute favorite bouquet of all time. when I first saw the picture of this bouquet on The Storykeeper website (they use it on there splash page as a link) I was blown away. It wasn't till a few weeks later when Renee from Storykeeper sent me an email with some pictures that I realized that it had come out of Flower Allie. Jenni had said me "I think I did a really good wedding while you were on vacation", this bouquet is phenomenal in my opinion "really great" is just an average day for Jenni. You can see the rest of this wonderful wedding here.


{ Something new }


With wedding season in full force I don't have much time to blog. I did get time to add 10 new bridal bouquets to the website though. This one by Gabriel Ryan is my favorite! Here is the rest of the wedding.

Featured: The Knot Magazine fall 2010 issue

Min was a dream bride in every way. Classy, beautiful, so sweet and she had a fabulous sense of style. I was just so happy to help bring her vision to life.


Kylenes wedding at The Turnip Rose in Costa Mesa

This cake last October was the first time I ever placed just one single perfect bloom at the side of the cake. Now I have done it so much it has almost become my cake design signature.

I was doing my usual nightly blog stocking when I ran across the JAC photography blog and a wedding we did last fall. This is one of my favorite and most unique arches.





Stephanies fabulous fuschia wedding at Scripps Seaside Forum


I just couldn't wait for the professional pictures to blog this wedding. Scripps Seaside Forum is the most wonderful venue ever! I am sorta biased since I lived on cliff overlooking the ocean about 5 miles away in Del Mar about 15 years ago. I still miss the San Diego coastline every day of my life. I am asked all the time what my favorite venue is and this really is where I would get married if I were to do it today.






Did you notice why I posted so many pictures of the centerpieces. It is because all of the black vessels are unique. And the most unique thing about them is that all those wonderful containers were under 5.00 each. Stephanie and I went to thrift stores and bought up over 60 vases. Wondering how we found so many great vases all under 5.00 and all in black? Check back in a few days for pictures of this wonderful DIY project.


My husband made the boxes for what he called the pumpkin vases. Stephanie's Dad made the benches. We loved them so much that we will have some available to rent very soon.

Lastly the bridesmaids bouquets. Check back soon for the pro pics with all the great details

Susie's wedding at The Fairmont Newport Beach

I love this bouquet so much. I have created almost 3000 bridal bouquets now and this is one of my top 20 all time favorites. It is just full of white and blush fluffy goodness. Love it!



Check out the lighting. Atmosphere Entertainment out did themselves. All the walls had a warm up-lights and there were huge peony images throughout the room. The room just glowed.








My new favorite thing. White chiavari chairs.



Monochromatic green Olympic bouquet


"The Olympic bouquets are a soft, elegant green, with five B.C. grown spider mums in the centre, surrounded by layers of monkey grass, aspidistra leaves and hypericum berries imported from Ecuador."
The 2010 Olympic bouquet resembles a typical bridesmaids bouquet. Not sure if that is good or bad but I like it.