Real Weddings: Megan and Lee

What better way to brighten up this dreary (almost) winter day then to share Megan and Lee’s beautiful wedding with you!

Megan was a  glowing  bride on her wedding day. She carried a bouquet of blue hydrangeas, green and yellow zinnias and scented geranium. Her bouquet and the girls bouquets were wrapped in her family’s plaid ribbon brought all the way from from Scotland for the wedding.

We also added a charm and family pin to the wrap that were important to Megan.

 

The wedding ceremony took place out on the pier at Brown’s Wharf in Fells Point.

 

The reception took place on the top floor of the historic Admiral Fell in in Fells Point. Each table was named after a different Baltimore neighborhood.

Besides loving each other, Megan and Lee love Baltimore! They wanted to incorporate local flowers-especially Maryland’s state flower, the Black Eyed Susan, into their wedding.

We decorated the cake with Black Eyed Susan’s in all shapes and sizes.  They looked great-especially with the blue crab cake topper! (love that the bride is carrying Black Eyed Susan’s and the groom is wearing an O’s hat!)

Thanks to our growers-especially Belvedere Farm who provided the Black Eyed Susans.

Special thanks to photographer Jay Moore of Jay Moore Photography for the beautiful photos. ( the crab photo is mine!)

Congratulations to Megan and Lee! You guys are an amazing couple who deserve all the happiness in the world! Thanks for letting Local Color Flowers be a part of your special day!

Stop and Smell the Roses…in Virginia

Roses are one of the most commonly used flowers for weddings. However, if you live in Baltimore and want roses for your wedding, they are probably coming from Columbia or Ecuador.  These two countries account for 90% of the roses sold in the United States each year. 

This year, following a trend that is spreading amongst members of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers,  Bob Wollam of Wollam Gardens decided to put in 140 Kordes Roses-as a test.

Kordes roses are NOT the roses that you get at the supermarket or Costco. Those roses are bred for travel. They have to survive for many days out of water and they have to be disease and insect resistant-so they don’t get rejected at customs. (Check out Amy Stewart’s great book Flower Confidential to learn more about the commercial cut flower industry and why you should support local farmers.)

No…Kordes roses are an old garden variety of fragrant roses. I say fragrant, to differentiate them from the vast majority of commercially sold roses…that have no scent. (Scent has been bred out of roses so that they will have a longer vases life) What is a rose without that sweet scent?

So, LoCoFlo was super excited to  be able to use one of the first batches of Bob’s Kordes roses for Tracey and Kevin’s wedding in June. We loved them!

Now, before you get too excited, we’re not sure yet what the availability of these little jewels will be. Additionally, as an old garden variety flower, these roses have a pretty short vase life.  We’ll be sure to keep up with Bob to see how he thinks the first year of rose growing went. Hopefully, we’ll be seeing more of Kordes roses in the future.

Real Weddings: Tracey and Kevin

Tracey and Kevin are one of the most photogenic couples we’ve worked with. When I first saw Photographer Jay Moore’s photos, all I could think was “this couple looks SO happy!” Pure love and happiness seemed to be oozing out of them.

When Tracey first contacted us, she said her colors were coral and champagne. She sent us some inspiration pictures so we would know what color coral she was thinking about. Apparently, coral can be a wide range of colors. We looked to Charm City Bride for some additional inspiration. Coral isn't pink. It isn't peach. It isn't orange. It's coral. Asking the farmers for coral flowers was...challenging. Most of them said they didn't know what coral was-or they had their own idea of what coral was. That being said, we picked what we thought looked the most coral and kept our fingers crossed. On their own, some of the flowers looked too pink (the snapdragons), some looked too orange (the statice)...but miracle of all miracles...we mixed them all up..and they turned out perfect! Actually, they turned out more than perfect because we got to use Wollam Gardens first batch of Kordes ROSES!!!

The Bride’s bouquet was made up of a variety of colored Kordes roses, white dahlias and peach statice.

The table arrangement was made from Kordes roses, snapdragons, white dahlias and peach statice.

Congratulations to Tracey and Kevin!