Liza James Photography absolutely took my breath away with this stunning sunrise bridal photo session in the Columbia River Gorge.
Estera's oversized bespoke style bridal bouquet included peonies, olive branch, spirea, agapanthus, spray roses, ruscus and bay leaf.
Photography: LIza James Photography
Floral Design: Sophisticated Floral
I had the honor of participating at the Oregon Golf Club Bridal Show once again. This is a couture bridal show that is only open to Oregon Golf Club Preferred Vendors and I am pleased to be among the best wedding vendors here in Portland.
I cannot say enough about Aniko Productions-they are the husband and wife team behind those photos and are one of the top wedding photographers in Portland. I get very excited when photographers take the time to capture all the little details. Getting amazing photos back is literally like Christmas!!!
Designing our space with the help of gorgeous rental pieces I sourced through Barclay Event Rentals. All the linens, chairs, flatware, chiffon arbor backdrop, etc was provided by them.
I chose to work with my favorite color palette -purple! I used various shades of purple, lavender, ivory and blush/peach and foliage to create the garden style designs which are also formal and very stylish for any client getting married at the beautifully draped ballroom at the Oregon Golf Club.
Photography: Aniko Productions
Floral Design, Concept and Styling: Sophisticated Floral
Rentals: Barclay Event Rentals
Dress: The White Dress Portland
Venue: The Oregon Golf Club
I am finally getting around to blogging this gorgeous wedding captured by Kari Renee Photography.
Mary and Alejo got married at the beautiful Methven Family Vineyard in the Oregon Wine Country. There is something about working out in the wine country that I really enjoy. The rolling hills and the casual relaxing atmosphere is everything.
Mary's wedding flowers featured mostly locally grown blooms including dahlia, scabiosa, nigella, lady mantle, seeded eucalyptus, mini green hydrangea, lisianthus, succulents, dusty miller, roses and larkspur.
Venue: Methven Family Vineyards
Floral: Sophisticated Floral
Photography: Kari Renee Photography
Photos below were taken by Sophisticated Floral.
Reem and Omar had a beautiful summer wedding at Abernethy Center. Reem choose the classic blush and gold color palette.
Flowers included garden roses, hydrangea, cafe au lait dahlias and gilded foliage for that pop of gold.
I especially loved decorating the beautiful wedding cake. Kyra's Bake Shop is absolutely amazing and this cake was no exception. Its a bit hard to tell in the photo, but this cake was dusted with gold food safe glitter to create an ombre effect on each cake tier.
Wedding Venue: Abernethy Center
Photography: KQ Concepts
Wedding Cake: Kyra's Bake Shop
Floral: Sophisticated Floral
Nadja was a stunning mamma to be at her snowy maternity photo session with Spotted Stills Photography.
Her red dress and floral crown absolutely popped against the all white snow backdrop at Mt Hood.
Photography: Spotted Stills
Floral Crown: Sophisticated Floral
Hair and Make up: Blush n Bride
Below are a few close up images I took.
This beautiful November wedding at McMenamins Kennedy School has got to be one of my absolute favorites from 2016 wedding season.
I love it when the bride chooses a bold color palette and lets me design the rest. I enjoyed selecting the dark moody tones with a lot of textural elements.
To me floral design is like painting, the various flowers and textures that I choose are perfectly blended together to create a beautiful masterpieces or in this case Katie's stunning bridal bouquet.
A cold November wedding outside in Portland, Oregon cannot be done without the cozy blankets the couple has provided for the guest during ceremony. So glad the rain held off and we got some beautiful outdoor photos by Elissa Deline Photography.
What Katie had to say:
" The flowers were amazing and we could not have been happier. I would use you again in a heartbeat and will tell everyone I know...We got so many compliments on the flowers. "
Venue: McMenamins Kennedy School
Floral Design + Styling: Sophisticated Floral
Photography: Elissa Deline Photography
Hair and Make up: Cassandra Kennedy Beauty
Dress: Ania Bridal / Wtoo
Wooden Backdrop: Something Borrowed PDX
Cake: Dream Cakes
The photos below were taken by Sophisticated Floral. I love taking detail shots before the flowers go out the door.
Where do I begin? This was a beautiful collaboration between several amazing wedding professionals in the Portland area.
I cannot get over how perfect this wedding gown is from Brides for a Cause. Did you see those gorgeous feather details on the bodice? Absolutely exquisite and worked perfect with the all white bridal bouquet I created with all locally grown {Oregon Grown/American Grown} flowers. Including white lilac and deutzia from Glenwood Farms, Peterkort freesia and blooming spirea.
I love designing lightweight, yet lush and full bouquets that look loaded but are practical and elegant for the bride to carry on her wedding day.
Spotted Stills also created this gorgeous video clip.
Hair and Make up: Make up by Whit
Gown: Brides for a Cause - Designer: Pronovias
Floral: Sophisticated Floral
Photography: Spotted:Stills
Silk Ribbon: Honey Silks Co.
Model: Allie Stanisel
Lacey was the sweetest and most laid back bride ever. The overall wedding was very casual and understated. She wanted a bouquet of wildflowers and a dainty floral crown to match.
I really enjoyed designing flowers for Lacey and David's wedding at their Portland home.
Bridal bouquet consisted of all locally grown/American grown flowers including: Dahlias, nigella blooms and pods, seeded eucalyptus, craspedia, fewer few daisies, olive branch, scabiosa, gooseneck, thistle, snapdragon, yarrow and queen annes lace.
Photography: Mama Wolf Photography
Floral Design: Sophisticated Floral
Hair and Make up: Cassandra Kennedy Beauty
Venue: Backyard {Portland, Oregon}
The detail photos below taken by Sophisticated Floral
This beautiful editorial shoot took place during the craziest snow/ice storm here in the Portland metro area. It was extremely cold and snow was everywhere.
The wonderful team of talented wedding professionals made it happen.
My favorite little surprise was the sweet baby pig named "Matilda" who took part in our shoot.
She was quite fond of the bridal bouquet and kept smelling and trying to eat it. Must have been those fragrant pepper berries.
Our team included the following professionals:
Coordination: VIP Event Planning
Floral Design: Sophisticated Floral
Photography: Ashley Rose Productions
Hair and Make up: Brittany Blanchard
Dress: Brides for a Cause / Trish Lee
Cake: Just a Dash Cakes
Stationary: Bridetown Design Studio
Rentals: Party Place
Model: Morgan Clove
Venue: Redland Family Farm
Spotted Stills Photography once again blew me away with this stunning winter session at Mt Hood, OR.
This has been a very snowy season so far and those who brave the weather get rewarded with some gorgeous images.
Photography: Spotted Stills
Floral Design: Sophisticated Floral
Hair and Make up: Make up by Whit
What can I say, Jen from Spotted Stills Photography has taken my breath away once again with those photos of Dan and Ovi at the Oregon Coast. Those sunset photos are absolutely gorgeous!
If you are still looking for an amazing photographer give Jen a call.
Bridal bouquet consisted of blush pink roses, red intuition roses, locally grown burgundy dahlias, burgundy vanda orchids, agonis, eryngium and red hypericum {from my yard}.
This beautiful October wedding took place at East Fork Country Estate.
Klara chose a fall color palette which included marsala, burgundy red, orange, bronze and gold. The overall floral look was lush, elegant and full of texture and locally grown blooms
Klara's bouquet was lush and full of all types of goodies: garden roses, dahlias, scabiosa, cox comb, parrot tulips, rose hips, eucalyptus, jasmine vine, pincushion protea, agonis, nandina, amaranthus. Its a great time of year here in the Pacific NW for locally grown flowers -such a bounty. I was happy to use mostly locally grown flowers for this stunning fall wedding.
Here are some photos I took.
This beautiful wedding took place on a warm October day. The ceremony was held at the Abernathy's Abigail's Garden while the reception was indoor inside the main ballroom at Abernathy Center in Oregon City.
The color palette was featuring various shades of orange and burgundy and included lots of fun fall branches, berries and ofcourse the local dahlias.
Estera's Bridal bouquet included locally grown red piano garden roses, dahlias and rose hips along with ranunculus, cymbidium orchids, black baccara roses and safari sunset.
Venue + Catering: Abernathy Center {Abigails Garden/Abernathy Ballroom}
Photography: Powers Studio
Cake: Family Friend
Floral Design and Decor: Sophisticated Floral
Close up detail shots below by Sophisticated Floral
Another gorgeous lifestyle mommy and me session by Spotted Stills Photography featuring our ever so popular floral crowns.
Christine's floral crown consisted of blush pink garden roses, white ranunculus, blush spray roses, foliage and textures. Abby had a tiny little elastic headband with single blush spray rose, berries, foliage and textures. I love creating the elastic headbands for the very little girls since they don't get bothered by them and they stay very well on their little heads. This style works great on the very young flower girls as well.
Thank you Jenn for the amazing photos. The Willow tree in the background is so soft and wispy and a perfect backdrop for this session.
Jenn with Spotted Stills Photography does a fabulous job capturing our floral designs on her clients. In this case, this classy maternity shoot for a beautiful mama to be.
This spring design featured peachy-pink spray roses, pieris and mini succulents right from my yard.
I cant believe it been a year since Jenni and Daniel got married at East Fork Country Estate in Damascus, Oregon. They were absolutely the sweetest couple. I designed flowers for Jenni's sister a few years earlier so it was great to see everyone again. Jenny chose the softest shades of blush pink, peach and ivory as her primary color palette for her May wedding.
Being right in the midst of the local peony season, I could not resist myself to use such lush and fragrant flowers. Fluffy pale pink peonies were everywhere and they were stunning indeed!
Thank you to Anzhelika Gekkelman Photography for the beautiful images. This talented photographer also happens to be the grooms sister who has her own photography business in British Columbia, Canada.
Venue: East Fork Country Estate
Drape Design/Rentals: Luxury Events by Victoria
Floral Design: Sophisticated Floral
Photography: Anzhelika Gekkelman Photography
Detail Photos below were taken by Sophisticated Floral
Veronica and Elijah had a beautiful mid September wedding at the exquisite Sentinel Hotel in Downtown Portland, Oregon.
The bride chose rose gold accents and shades of blush pink as her main color palette. That theme carried into her lavish blush toned gown from Ania Collection.
Bridal party flowers consisted of the most luxurious local cafe au lait dahlias, ranunculus, garden roses, sweet peas, snow berry, dusty miller and blushing bride protea.
Thank you MAXM Studio for sharing those beautiful images with us.
Venue/Catering: The Sentinel Hotel
Photography: MAXM Studio
Gown: Ania Collection
Floral Design: Sophisticated Floral
First Look Photos: The Benson Hotel
The detail photos below were taken by Sophisticated Floral
Beautiful Portland, Oregon Engagement session Photographed by Innessa Photogrpahy featuring our gorgeous bouquet and lavender freesia floral crown.
This vibrant spring bouquet consisted of: Purple Lilac, anemone, David Austin garden roses, oregon grown freesia in white and lavender, hypericum, pieris, vanda orchids and pops of dusty miller right from my own cutting garden. The garden style bouquet was accented with lace and ribbon trim to coordinate with the lace detailing on Enessas dress.
Photography: Innessa Photogrpahy
Floral Designs: Sophisticated Floral
By now, you know I always enjoy capturing close up shots of my work; so here are a few photos I took below.
Here is a beautiful spring Editorial shoot I was a part of at Knoll Krest Gardens in Sandy Oregon.
Danielle's lush bridal bouquet consisted of 100% Oregon grown flowers. Coral Charm Peonies, peach and plum purple sweet peas, veronica, jasmine vine and dusty miller came right from my own yard.
Thank you Becky from Studio 623 for the beautiful photos.
Venue: East Fork Country Estate
Photography: Studio 623 Photography
Dress: CRBoggs Designs-Custom Vintage Couture Bridal Wear and Accessories
Hair & Makeup: Pure Elegance by Sarahi Welton
Rebecca and Will happen to be friends of mine and I really enjoyed creating beautiful flowers for their wedding day.
The wedding was held on a cold {but sunny} February day at Grace Community Church in Gresham, Oregon. The plum purple and gray color palette was sure to brighten up this cold winter wedding.
Rebecca's bridal bouquet consisted of the most amazing Japanese sweet peas, deep purple ranunculus, green berzelia berries, Italian pon-pon ranunculus, purple lisianthus, hyacinths, stock, anemone, dianthus and trachillium.
Thank you Becky of Studio 623 Photography for capturing the photos.
Venue: Grace Community Church
Photography: Studio 623 Photography View the blog for more photos http://www.studio623photography.com/will-rebecca-married-gresham-oregon-wedding-photographer/
Gown: Bridal Exclusives
Below are the detail shots I took. All photos by Sophisticated Floral
