Purple and green bridal flowers

My brother’s wedding at the Huntington Beach Hyatt was his first big solo job, so even though he didn’t need me to do any draping, he enlisted my help in advance to take photos, since he always forgets to take them. Of course, when I showed up, I was immediately set to helping moss arrangements, fill water piks and other tasks.

Because of the vast number of photos I took for this wedding, I’ve split my blogging into two posts — this one is about the personal bridal flowers, like the boutonnieres, corsages and, of course, the bridal bouquet.

Above, you’ve got three examples of boutonnieres from this wedding, and there were actually more — I just liked these three the best. To the left, I believe the green cymbidium orchid with some burlap backing is a groomsman’s boutonniere. In the center, the purple and white mini calla lily, is a ring bearer’s boutonniere. To the right, the purple anemone with coffee beans and burlap backing is for the groom. My brother had also made a backup for the groom using a white anemone that’s not pictured here.

The corsages where pretty simple — a white cymbidium orchid — but I do love the flower girl basket. The basket, which was really nice, was decorated with a green cymbidium orchid and wax flowers. The bridesmaid bouquet had lots of greenish-white hydrangea, spider mums, coffee beans, kale (!) and purple anemone. The kale, by the way, was an awesome surprise — my brother and his design partner, Sophia Truong, used it in a bunch of the arrangements and they looked pretty awesome.

You can see just how cool the kale looked in the maid of honor bouquet. I knew kale was highly recommended as one of those dark, leafy greens that everyone should eat on a regular basis, but I didn’t realize that they were actually purple and green. Anyway, the MOH bouquet had hydrangea, spider mum, purple and white mini calla lilies, kale, anemone and scabiosa pods (the dry flower that looks kind of like a weed).

Here’s two views of the bridal bouquet. It stood out with the huge blooms of creamy, white magnolias.

I’ll be totally honest — I was pretty shocked and amazed at how awesome these flowers looked. I’m only sorry that I couldn’t have taken photos of these flowers against a better background — these were taken at the church right after setup, so you’ve got the pews and that funky teal green carpet as the background in all these photos. Several of these flowers, I’d never even seen before, so, yeah. my little brother’s got skills!!

Leave a Reply