Beautiful Expressions Blog

June has started with a bang! It's a month full of weddings. We had a wedding last weekend and it was gorgeous! All white mokara orchids for the bride and beautiful pale yellow orchids for the bridesmaids. Simple and elegant. This weekend we have a wedding at the Historic Pinecrest-a little bling, and The Colorado Springs School-lots of beautiful color. Both are going to be amazing. I can't wait to show you.

We will get the next weekend off and then we have 4 weddings in a row the last week of June. We will be at The Club at Flying Horse, Garden of the Gods Club, and two in Denver! I'm so excited for this wedding season! So many fun designs and wonderful places to work. I LOVE my job!

 

 

Yesterday we had the pleasure of putting together the wedding flowers for Melissa at The Club at Flying Horse in Colorado Springs. It was a gorgeous day except it was so windy! I hope that Melissa was able to have her ceremony outside.  Melissa had such great style. The centerpieces were a collection of different vases with dahlias, roses, and hydrangea. The tall centerpieces with quince branches and limes!  Everything looked really amazing! I loved the way the bouquets turned out as well. The bride wanted her flowers to be more peach and green so we used green cymbidium orchids, peach dahlias and two different types of roses, hypericum berry, and mokara orchids. The bridesmaids had similar flowers with the addition of mini calla lilies. Thank you Melissa for allowing me to be a part of your wedding and many blessings to you.

In April, I had the priviledge of doing the wedding flowers for Nicole. Her wedding was at the Historic Pinecrest in Palmer Lake. It's such a neat chapel! I love when I get the opportunity to go there. Nicole's wedding colors were cranberry, green and ivory, and she loved Gerbera daisies so that was the focal flower. Thank you Nicole for allowing me to be a part of your wedding.
 

Beautiful Expressions is proud to be a part of Colorado Dream Wedding ! We will be providing wedding flowers for the lucky winner. Here are the details:

Win a Colorado Dream Wedding worth over $8500! Includes, Ceremony, Reception, DJ Entertainment, Photographer, Cake, Flowers, Decor AND a 5 Day Cruise! 

Brides can register to win at the Bridal Festival Show at the Phil Long Expo Center April 25, 2010. The winner will be announced at 4:00 pm at the show. You must be present to win.  You can also register at My99.9 and KCCY 96.9

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Beautiful Expressions recently provided flowers for a wedding shoot in Denver. It was fun to put together some of my favorite flowers, colors and textures for the shoot. ( I was hoping poppy pods would be available, but no luck...they are my favorite texture!) Wedding flowers this year are more bold and full of personality. Brides are not afraid to use color and personally, I think it makes everything else pop! We used purple anemones, roses, trachilium, pink ranuculus, blue delphinium, dusty miller, and blue beading. In the boutonniere, we combined blue thistle with ranuculus and a little bit of beading. Brides are adding special touches to bouquets: beads, feathers, and buttons are some of the fun trends.

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I have had the pleasure of knowing Karie for 2 years now. We first worked together on wedding in the Spring of 2008. Karie Mclain is an amazingly creative photographer. Your pictures are going to be truely unique to your personality and a work of art! She is fun and easy to work with. I would highly recommend her for your wedding day! Check out her video below. Beautiful Expressions provided the flowers for the shoot. They were a mix of blues, purples, and hot pinks-anenomes, roses, blue thistle, ranuculus, delphinium, and dusty miller.

Karie Mclain Photography - Promotional Film HD from Premium Digital Solutions on Vimeo.

Right now it seems like many people have had "one of those years."  It definitely hasn't been an easy year for me, but during this season I have found out a lot about myself, who I want to be, and who I can become. During these times we have to dig deep, pray often, and find inspiration to keep us going. Here are a few things that have kept me inspired this year...

1) Daily time in The Word-it reminds me that God loves me, He encourages me and He provides wisdom when I have none. He has given each of us gifts and talents and that inspires me daily to be all He has called me to be.

2) Artists-whatever realm it is in, I am constantly inspired by the amazing, creative people I am surrounded by. They help me grow, they push me, and they bring out my creativity.

3) My daughter-She is full of life and laughter, and makes me laugh when I want to cry. With such enthusiasm she'll tell me, "Mom, you're the best flower maker ever!" She believes in me and that helps me to believe in myself.

When things aren't going your way, count your blessings and try to inspire someone around you...chances are, they will inspire you!
Photo by Karie McLain-thanks for inspiring me regularly!

 

Today I have spent the day organizing my weddings for 2010. Some of these weddings have been booked since August of last year! Revisiting each one has been exciting! I picked out the types of flowers to use, coordinated the colors, and visualized each wedding! The flowers for my 2010 weddings are vibrant and fun, elegant and lush, and really FABULOUS! I can't wait to do my first wedding in April! I'm looking forward to being at some of Colorado Springs'  best venues this year, and excited to be working with some of my favorite photographers.

Beautiful Expressions is not only doing Colorado Springs weddings this year, but we have booked a few amazing weddings in Denver as well. I'm hoping to get a few mountain weddings too. 

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Finding new and exciting ways to bring flowers into a bride's overall wedding theme is what keeps me coming back for more. I absolutely love to come up with new ideas for a bride's flower and total wedding decor. The trends of colorado weddings seems to be that of elegance, with attention to details, and very collectic. I LOVE this trend. This summer I am doing a wedding that is incorporating tea biscuit tins into the centerpieces. The flowers are going to be peonies, ranuculus, and hydrangea to give an elegant garden feel. I love that as a florist, I can bring in different containers, flowers, and linens, and still creating a unified look. I found a vintage style board at www.dessy.com that I just loved! Enjoy!

We are so excited to announce we have been chosen to be a preferred vendor or  on "The List" for COUTUREcolorado. This is an awesome new blog that gives brides "one of a kind wedding inspiration" and the BEST vendors in Colorado! We are really looking forward to all 2010 has in store. I have some amazing weddings on the books already and can't wait to see where we will go this year. Thank you to all my wonderful and amazing brides!