Chic Simplicity: a Wedding at Battery Gardens

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Katlyn and Phil’s wedding, at Manhattan’s Battery Gardens, was a study in chic minimalism. When we first spoke with this beautiful bride, she had a clear concept: simple elegance, with a black, white and champagne wedding-color scheme and all white wedding flowers. Her vision was well suited to Battery Gardens, a sophisticated Manhattan wedding venue with a stunning water view.

When we design classic wedding flowers within a monochromatic color scheme, we love the look of bouquets composed of similar types of wedding flowers. For Katlyn’s bridal bouquet we used standard roses combined with garden roses. Textural variation kept her classic white bouquet contemporary. Bridesmaids’ bouquets were composed simply of white mini calla lilies.
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Wedding Flower Inspiration Matched With Designer Dresses

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As bridal fashion week kicks off here in NYC, brides-to-be are pinning runway wedding-dress images at hummingbird speeds. Talented designers stun us each season with their new ideas and exquisite attention to detail. It’s entirely possible to get too inspired. This goes for wedding flowers as well. If you’re starting to feel like you’ll never be able to narrow down which wedding looks are your favorite, we’ve put together inspiration boards matching designs by our favorite wedding fashion designers with suggested styles of bouquets. On our What To Wear page, you can learn to recognize silhouettes that designers repeat from season to season, along with wedding flowers that have a similar look and feel.
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South Street Seaport Wedding on The Knot

by Rachel Trimarco

Today on The Knot, a wedding we did back in 2012. What a sweet surprise to see our beautiful bride, with her bouquet of champagne roses, white Eskimo roses, peonies and anemones, and to remember that stunning skyline wedding cake. Unfortunately, the downtown Manhattan wedding venue with that beautiful view, Bridgewaters, has since closed due to damage from Hurricane Sandy. Let’s look back on this South Street Seaport celebration as a reminder of resilience, that essential quality shared by every great city and every great marriage.

Images by Chris Leary Photography.

A Timeless and Contemporary Wedding at Bridgewaters in New York City on The Knot.
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Peony Tulips: Our New Favorite Spring Wedding Flower

by Elianna Phelps

We have fallen in love with peony tulips! Also known as double tulips, or double-bloom tulips, these lush spring flowers are perfect for bridal bouquets. Peonies have always been a Bride & Blossom favorite. Gorgeous peony tulips combine everything we adore about peonies – velvety petals, sumptuous blossoms and subtle nuance of color – with tulips’ crisp spring freshness and joy.

Monika took the above shot of pink peony tulips in the studio last weekend. Soon we’ll share how those lovely blooms became wedding flowers. Until then, enjoy these peony tulips and “double-tulip” bouquets.

Peach and pink peony-tulip bouquet from Blomenwinkle. White bouquet from Polka Dot Bride.Pale pink double-bloom tulip from Flower Muse.
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Rebloom Gives Flowers New Life

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Rebloom gives beautiful flowers a second life by picking up arrangements from elegant events and offering them for sale at 90% off the original value, to raise funds for charities. What a wonderful idea!

Flower arrangements are typically sold in small groupings. The selections I’ve seen look are fresh and well designed. So far the service is available in New York City and Boston. Interested? Make sure to subscribe and follow Rebloom on Instagram to see the latest flowers.

If you’re a bride-to-be, ask your wedding florist or event planner to coordinate pickup details with Rebloom. We believe every bride deserves the perfect wedding flowers of her dreams. Now you can share some of that beauty and joy, while supporting good causes.
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Can “Cloud-Seeding” Guarantee Perfect Wedding Weather?

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When planning your wedding, of course you don’t want to leave any details to chance. Maybe now that is really possible. One company claims they can guarantee beautiful wedding weather with technology.

From Discover:

London luxury travel company Oliver’s Travels is guaranteeing couples a sunny day for their nuptials courtesy of their Cloud Bursting service. The company will “pop” clouds prior to your big day through a process more commonly known as cloud seeding. The service, which costs about $150,000 and is currently only offered in France, promises to clear up cloudy skies with a little help from atmospheric science.

The perfect blue-sky wedding weather above was a natural occurence at Glen Cove Mansion in Long Island, New York.

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