Tag Archives: Flowers

It’s time to show you all my…

Interestingly enough, one of the things that I did not give a flying flip about in the beginning of wedding planning was flowers. I had no desire for massive amounts of flowers– nothing over the top, no girly stuff, nothing of the sort. No pink was to come anywhere near the wedding. During this minimalist...

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“I put a bird on my head.”

“Is that what that was? I thought it was feathers. ” “No, it was a bird.” “It was beautiful!” I think this was the movie that spawned 1,000 giant bridal headpieces. True, I wasn’t in the bridal-research-wedding-a-palooza that I am in now, but I never really noticed that much hub-bub about giant feather or floral...

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Honoring my Grandmothers

Since I have done a lot of research on German wedding traditions, I thought it was appropriate to search for traditions from the South. I am nowhere near finished compiling them, but I just stumbled upon one that makes my heart ache. “A deep connection with family, especially symbolically, then continues through the wedding. The...

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Houston, we have a florist.

Today the florist-slash-landscape-architect came over with contracts for our wedding flowers and landscaping. I wasn’t at home when flower-guy was was here, so I asked for a rundown from my father. “So, what happened?” “Well, he brought over some paper. And we signed it. And your mother wrote him a check for a lot of...

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Flowers, flowers, flowers!

Here is the product of a day’s worth of searching through eleventy billion saved flower things on my Google Reader. I’m about to pull my hair out, but at least now I have some more honed-in things to show the florist on Tuesday! Image sources after the jump.

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