Yellow is perfect as a wedding color, especially with spring coming up. It’s sunny, its optimistic and hopeful and its just plain happy. So I thought it would be nice to focus on flowers and weddings using yellow as the main color.
This 2003 wedding was at the Pacific Palms Resort in Industry Hills (possibly when it was known as the Sheraton Industry Hills). I really enjoyed decorating this wedding, probably because it was such a bright, happy color — and I had a lot of time to work on the decorations.
As you can see from this closeup, the flowers my mom chose included yellow roses and yellow cala lilies.
I love this photo. I was initially irritated that the guy got in my photo, but I realized that his presence gave scale to my mom’s huge flower arrangement adorning the entrance.
The purple (not the pastel type, but a jewel purple) looked really good with champagne.
But the really exciting thing was that my mom used cherry blossoms in these arrangements.
And here’s a picture of my mommy!
It’s not hard to dress up a room that’s already pretty nice. The seat covers belong to the hotel, not us.
I love this new technique my mom has been incorporating, also – using a trumpet vase, putting flowers (orchids mostly) in and filling it with water. It’s a classy, simple technique.
The colors were yellow and silver – a 25th wedding anniversary. Man – a 25-year marriage warrants a medal, or something, but I suppose a big party works too.
And the yellow and silver doesn’t look half bad together, either.
I know my last post was in June, but I swear I’ve decorated other weddings – like one at the Marriott Long Beach and others I can’t recall anymore. This is just the one I happened to have both before and after pictures of.