by CLFornari | May 17, 2012 | country style weddings, Making Magic, The Cutting Garden, the venue
Lavender is a great signature plant for a garden wedding. In many areas it will be in bloom in mid-summer and/or fall. You can buy fresh or dried lavender to tuck into bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages and arrangements. And the array of lavender scented favors and...
by CLFornari | Mar 26, 2012 | country style weddings, inspiration, Making Magic, the venue
If you visit Monet’s garden in Giverny, France, take time to walk through the village. You’ll see other gardens, not to mention delightful architecture. But other than a suggestion about where you might spend your honeymoon, what can be learned from a French country...
by CLFornari | Mar 22, 2012 | Containers, country style weddings, Making Magic, reception flowers/arrangements, The Cutting Garden, Wedding Flowers
Here’s a garden wedding tip for those who are going for the “casual country” look . If the ceremony is in the late summer or fall, you might consider planting zinnias and dahlias this spring. Check out the range of zinnia seeds from Renee’s...
by CLFornari | Feb 11, 2012 | Making Magic, reception flowers/arrangements, Wedding Flowers
This photo was taken at a county fair in the garden club tent where garden flowers and foliage competed for ribbons. When I came across this photo I realized that there is inspiration here for an innovative, inexpensive wedding floral display. A group of narrow necked...
by CLFornari | Feb 5, 2012 | Containers, Making Magic, Quick Fixes
You can’t have too many flowers at a garden wedding. Fortunately, pots of blooming plants are functional as well as beautiful. Consider using flowerpots to bring the eye away from difficult or less than attractive locations. Pots of plants can soften the hard edges of...
by CLFornari | Jan 23, 2012 | Making Magic
For weddings, receptions or rehearsal dinners, candles are almost a must. For a garden event, adding such mood lighting to the landscape can be charming as well. Be they battery operated LED candles or the real thing, one way of displaying them is in groups of glass...
by CLFornari | Dec 29, 2011 | Making Magic
Tying balloons to a mailbox, street sign or tree isn’t the only way to mark the location of a garden wedding. Consider the following as alternatives: flags and banners (homemade or purchased), bouquets of large flowers (real or artificial), dozens of ribbons...
by CLFornari | Dec 6, 2011 | Making Magic
There are many reasons people want to be married in a garden. For some it’s important to be outdoors…maybe it’s a “the sky’s the limit” kind of thing. Others want to be surrounded by plants and flowers because it’s beautiful and, perhaps, a symbol of a commitment to...
by CLFornari | Nov 16, 2011 | Making Magic
Do you have a plant in your landscape that has an interesting shape or unusual foliage? A large shrub that is golden or variegated, for example, or an old tree with twisted trunks. If so, think about placing up facing spotlights on that plant for the wedding or...
