Meet the Dahlia. With it’s depth and wide face it fills out arrangements and bouquets with character. Coming in a range of rich saturated colors as well as variegated yellows and pinks, it’s a breath of fresh air in the standard wedding lineup. And going by some of the meanings ascribed to the different colors, you couldn’t find a more appropriate flower to include in your celebration.
What’s the one thing everybody knows about cage fighting? No holds barred. No rules. Can that apply to the bridal design world? Read on. And if you got to this blog by googling “cage fighting bride?” you have got to email me. Because that’s awesome. Etiquette books contain mountains of good advice- and we owe the people who write them a great debt of gratitude. Receiving line order and invitation wording – couldn’t do it without them. People notice sometimes though, that we don’t keep a lot of wedding planning books around the store. Happy to share why: we believe in the “Ultimate Fighting” school of wedding design. We operate by nobody’s rules but our own, and as far as we’re concerned, there are no rules. That works for us on a few levels.
1) There are no rules for us in the way we design. Nothing is off the table, and so all our pieces are developed as individual ideas. We don’t do the cookie-cutter follow the trend thing.
2) There are no fashion or style rules. If a bride loves and wants a baby blue and pale yellow theme for her December wedding, we aren’t going to talk her into more “seasonal” colors. Velvet in summer, rhinestones in the morning, snowflakes in July…we color outside the lines.
"out of the box" Prom entryway display - La Quinta prom 2011
3) There are no rules for who our clientele will be. We would never turn away a wedding for being too small. Everyone’s celebration is important, and deserves beautiful wedding flowers. We take a budget, work out what can be done, and make it beautiful.
4) Since we allow our ideas to develop from the ground up, it passes on the “no rules” ethos to our brides and quinceaneras. They can tell us what they truly dreamed- not just what they think we can do or what the girl next door had at her event. We really listen – we don’t impose a vision of how things “should” be.
So as you plan (your wedding, or your client’s), make sure you’re following your instincts, your dreams and your heart. Don’t bother so much with rules. And the only holding that matters, is that of hands, and hearts.
