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Planning & Inspiration

Summer Wedding Cakes That Celebrate The Season

Colorful Summer Wedding Cake - via heyweddinglady.com

Colorful Summer Wedding Cake – via heyweddinglady.com

 

If you ask us, the best way to indulge in summer is with a showstopping wedding cake that celebrates the season. From lush flowers to freshly-picked fruit to picturesque landscapes awash in magnificent colors, there is beauty at every turn. Seize the moment and use this visual splendor to create a dessert design that exudes nature and artistry. Looking for inspiration? Here are fifteen ideas to ensure your summer wedding dessert is as unforgettably sweet as can be.

 

 

Summer Wedding Cake - via bellethemagazine.com

Summer Wedding Cake – via bellethemagazine.com

 

Capturing the season’s bright side, this cake stuns with a vibrant splash of yellow, unique texture, and petally blooms and greenery.
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Gorgeous Wedding Decor Ideas With Pampas Grass

pampas grass wedding arch - via bridesmagazine.co.uk

pampas grass wedding arch – via bridesmagazine.co.uk

 

Ever since Mandy Moore’s wedding last year, we’ve been obsessed with the pampas grass wedding trend. Soft, natural, and available in colors ranging from white to whispery pink, it can be worked in to just about every decor element. For her private backyard ceremony, Mandy Moore used pampas grass to capture a feminine boho vibe. But it can be used to express a variety of wedding styles ranging from whimsical to sophisticated. Thinking of incorporating pampas grass in to your big day celebrations? We’ve got you covered!

Wedding Backdrop

Pampas grass brings luxurious volume and texture to the wedding backdrop, creating a scene guests will be talking about long after the vows are exchanged. Go wild with a rich and sprawling aisle and archway in a neutral palette. A circular arch of soft pink and beige stems combined with lush greenery and blossoms radiates heavenly romance. White pampas grass, blooms, and greenery arranged on a geometric backdrop is the perfect marriage of bohemian and modern styles.
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Emily & Daring Wedding - Battello Jersey City NJ - Dahlia Silver Dollar Seeded Euc Hydrangea Olive Branch Spray Tibet Rose Thistle Garland - Photography by Casey Fatchett

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Gorgeous Decor Ideas With Dahlia Wedding Flowers

Emily & Daring Wedding - Battello Jersey City NJ - Dahlia Silver Dollar Seeded Euc Hydrangea Olive Branch Spray Tibet Rose Thistle Garland - Photography by Casey Fatchett

Emily & Daring Wedding – Battello Jersey City NJ – Dahlia Silver Dollar Seeded Euc Hydrangea Olive Branch Spray Tibet Rose Thistle Garland – Photography by Casey Fatchett

 

Sophisticated, bold, with a touch of whimsy, dahlias are one of those unique flowers that works well with just about any wedding style. Admired for their large blooms, intricate petals, and beautiful colors, they are a wonderful feature flower to incorporate in bouquets, centerpieces, and arrangements. There are many types of dahlias – 42 species in all and each different from the next. Our brides especially love using café au lait, cactus, and pompon dahlias to celebrate their big day.
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Mairin & Seo

This vendor is worth every penny. Rachel and her team were amazing from the minute we requested a consultation online. She called us back right away, and on a Sunday. Going through the consultation process with Rachel and her team is what I believe brides envision meeting with a vendor is like, but sadly vendor meetings often fall short – B&B was professional, prompt, warm, high tech, and the meeting occurred in a forum where design concepts could be articulated, reviewed and revised real time. I believe this set up helped to ensure that Rachel and I were on the same page regarding our vision for our flowers. I left feeling confident she (unlike other florists my husband and i had met with) really got it. Our flower concept was fairly elaborate (think chandeliers of 400 flowers hanging over every table) and I left feeling not only like she understood what we wanted to do throughout our venue, but she was ready and willing to execute on our vision, not hers. And execute B&B did! The decor and florals were absolutely jaw dropping. Everything integrated perfectly – you really couldn’t tell where the venue stopped and our concept started – and everything went off on time, on budget, and without a hitch. I have no idea how the day-of team, headed by Eliana, worked through everything – I’m still in awe – but they absolutely crushed it! Everything was just stunning. Following are some of the words and phrases our guests (both male and female alike) used to describe the decor: “beautiful”, “stunning”, “fantasy”, “oh sh!t, those are flowers???!”, “i can’t believe we’re here”, “that flower wall is unreal”, “this is sick!”, “magical”, “Oh My God”…but really, words fall short at describing what Bride & Blossom pulled off. As the bride, I could’ve stayed in our venue for hours – it was exactly what my husband and I imagined. The photos our guests took are amazing and we simply cannot wait to see the pics that the pros got! We’re so grateful to this amazing team!!!

Tablescape / Shelby & Jonathan / Bryant Park Grill / Craig Warga Photography

Craig Warga

Craig is an award-winning wedding photographer and photojournalist whose work over the past decade has taken him to all corners of the world. He has covered everything from New York City’s Fashion Week to President Barack Obama, hurricanes and earthquakes. Whether working on election night with the President of the United States, or in a hotel suite with a bride and her mother, Craig has the creativity and instincts to find and capture the most striking and memorable images in any environment. He approaches weddings with a journalist’s eye for finding once-in-a-lifetime moments filled with genuine emotion. He firmly believes that allowing his clients to feel comfortable and be themselves will bring about photos that are more interesting than any stiff photo that he could pose.

 

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Brad & Manjil

So excited to write this review – we are a gay couple, and felt a bit apprehensive upfront about using them,  given their ‘BRIDE’ and Blossom name, but they were insanely thoughtful at our initial meetings – made it FUN, we left super excited. Lindsay was our point-person, and I have to say she was super patient with us, and actually helped us seriously develop our ideas — this separated B&B from other florists we met. They took our scatter-brained ideas and transformed them into something  incredibly beautiful. She worked tirelessly, sending us reminder emails and was always a friend in the process.

They designed an 8×8 ft flower wall to frame a custom Mandap, and an intricate string-art-flower showpiece that was actually a piece of art. I’ve never seen something so beautiful and unique and PERFECT before. The 15 centerpieces and head-table arrangements were gorgeous – again, far-exceeding our expectations. To future brides/grooms: Are they the cheapest? definitely not, but don’t be turned off — they will absolutely produce the most amazing flowerscape at your wedding. You won’t be disappointed. Worth every last dollar. In short, SUPER HIGHLY recommend. Work with Lindsay and Rachel — I honestly think some of the best spent $$ at the wedding.