Monday, September 25, 2017

A wedding wreath and live event painter

 The final week has arrived and it is all coming down to the details. This courtyard wedding is taking place outside, and there will be different areas that will host certain functions.  The little garden shed will be the place where the wedding musicians will set up to play the classical music for the cocktail hour upon arrival, and then the traditional Here Comes the Bride wedding march.  Our wedding is nontraditional in the sense of place and so it makes sense to us to have...
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Thursday, September 14, 2017

A Cabbage Parterre for the Courtyard Wedding

A parterre is essentially a geometric garden.   A  level space that has an ornamental arrangement of flowers or plants  creating a formal garden space.  The beds may be edged in stone,  or tightly clipped hedges like boxwood to contain the flowers.   For the outdoor wedding, I decided a small parterre would be nice at the  base of the stone wall, as it will be a focal point during the ceremony.    Above the wall...
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Friday, September 1, 2017

Pastoral mural, heirloom roses, romantic wedding tent and Piper

 Its been exactly one month since I last posted, and there is a very good reason for the delay.  These dogs are running my life, and its just not right. Sure Piper looks all innocent sitting calmly on the step, but she is a puppy in hyper mode a  lot of the time.  In between puppy and dog care, we also hosted a funeral for  my husbands cousin right after the book shoot, started planning a wedding for the  courtyard in six weeks, as well as getting prepped...
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