~Wedding Centerpiece~ Shades of Coral, Peach, & Apricot ~

Thought I would share with you from start to finish the steps it takes to complete one of the centerpieces for my wedding this Saturday. The Bride's color palette is Sage Green for the Bridesmaids dresses with a Champagne sash. The accent colors are shades of apricot, coral, & peach. All the men are wearing brown tuxes.

Let's begin!



This photo shows some of the buckets of flowers we are using for this wedding. They are apricot lilies, coral roses, blushy peach roses, peach & coral gerbera daisies, peach hypericum berries, coral alstromeria, peach stock. We are using Cleopatra leather, lily grass, springeri, bluplerum & variegated pittosproum. I didn't include a shot of the greenery for this post.



Here are the containers we are using. My Bride was more interested in putting the money in the flowers than she was a container. So we are using a left over Teleflora Holiday special green plastic bowl. When I use inexpensive containers such as this, I cover them with poly florist foil so they are a bit more attractive. In this case I am using a sage green poly foil. This centerpiece will also require 1/2 a block of instant Oasis, which is a water soaked florist foam.



Here is the container wrapped in foil with the Oasis inserted & taped in. Water is then added & I proceed to add greenery over the floral foam.



This is what the centerpiece looks like after I've added the Cleopatra leather, springeri, & bluplerum. I have not added the variegated pittosproum yet because I will not get it into the shop till tomorrow morning, but I didn't want to wait. The lily grass is the last thing I add to the centerpiece.



This is how the centerpiece looks after the flowers were added & the loops of lily grass. Tomorrow I will add the variegated pittosporum to add a bit more interest. Variegated pittosporum is nice spring green with cream variation.

The flowers used in this particular centerpiece are: Lilies, stock, alstromeria, gerbera daisies & hypericum berries. Each centerpiece will have some of the same elements in them but each one will be a bit different. I think it is far more visually interesting if all the centerpieces look as though they are all coordinating, but not matching.

There are 8 of these centerpieces for the reception. The wedding is outdoors & the reception is inside the club house at the Elks. For the ceremony we are using a cream iron vintage looking wreath stand at the ends of every other or every 3rd aisle. The wreath stand will hold a floral piece resembling the centerpieces, that will then be removed from the wreath stand & then used on the remaining tables at the reception as centerpieces. That way she is paying once & using them twice. A very economical way to get the beauty of flowers for an outdoor wedding & to also be able to have centerpieces on every table at the reception.

I will blog the entire wedding over the weekend, so check back to see the completed designs. There will be an iron arch with flowers on it, cake flowers, the centerpieces in the reception area, Bridal bouquet, bridal party bouquets & all corsages & boutonnieres.