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Anais and Andrew part 2
So, where did we leave off? Oh yeah, Friday night. Rehearsal night began on the beach where the ceremony would take place the following day, followed by a Mexican dinner in Tofino hosted by Andrew’s mom, Mary. We were invited, but it was back to work for us after checking out the beach.
Anais and Andrew’s families were so great to work with! The event was hosted by Anais’s grandparent’s, Olivia and Carey McKinley, her Mom Erica, her uncle Walker and his beautiful wife Jeannie and their 2 year old daughter Scarlett, who very nearly stole the show. Andrew’s Mom Mary and brother Matt pitched in everywhere, and were busy behind the scenes.
Our schedule was to set up the tables for the reception before noon for the photographer Jana Vackova (by the way these are NOT her photos, hers will be up on the website soon), get the bouquets over to the bridal party at Middle Beach Lodge and then head down to to the beach and set up the ceremony site. We would then pick up the ceremony decor and race back to the reception and finish off the whole look. We wanted Anais to stop in her tracks and cry when she saw what we had done. Oh, and somewhere in there we needed to find time to pull ourselves together and look like we were guests at the wedding.
The entire wedding was a small, very intimate gathering and the overall vision for the day was elegant simplicity. Our plan was to use just a few varieties of flowers and use them in huge quantities, starting with about 80 stems of pure white phaleonopsis orchids in huge vases down at the beach. Anais had us a little concerned when she decided that her and Andrew were going to build the stands for the arrangements out of driftwood! She ended up twisting a few arms and getting some help and the result was so stunning we wanted to take them home with us, but they proved a wee bit heavy. Here we are setting up the ceremony.
The end result was breathtaking!
Sometimes it is hard to get us out of the pictures.
Here is Anais in her gorgeous Vera Wang gown with her Grandpa.
What a touching moment when Grandpa and Anais first saw each other. There was not a dry eye in the room!
Andrew and Anais, now husband and wife.
Now back to the reception where we had transformed the deck ….. kept you waiting long enough! Here it is. Can we talk about how cute Andrew and Anais are?
Beautiful bridesmaids Ananda and Katie. I know, and yes they really are that pretty. And that sweet.
details of the tables …. green orchids at every place setting.
stunning view of Meares Island.
Sunset. Could it get more perfect?
We will have the professional pictures by Jana up soon on the website.
And yes, Anais cried. She was thrilled. It was so much fun, we are kind of sad it is all over!
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Emily & Beau Sea Cider June 12th, 2009
Another magical day for a wedding at Sea Cider that we were thrilled to be a part of. Emily and Beau were married in the evening on June 12th while looking out over the view from the deck in the ciderhouse. The couple, from New Zealand, had flown in a few days prior and the day could not have been more perfect for them. Once again we met and planned with Emily over lots of emails and a few spotty calls back and forth. We chose to go with a rustic, west coast elegant theme, using several different kinds of textural folliage and filler. Waxflower, buplereum, pittisporum and salal were the base of all the table centres and they were accented with beautiful soft apricot roses. The tables were set with the most extrordinary individual sets of antique china that the brides mother has been lovingly collecting over the years. Between the china, roses, shells and driftwood the tables looked fantastic and the tent was simply stunning. . The large arrangements flanking the ceremony site were overflowing with light green Annabelle hydrangeas, soft white lisianthus and whispy fiber optic grass. Emily’s bouquet was a perfect posy of lush white and soft pink peonies accented with the clean elegant lines of lavendar calla lilies, and white orchids. Her bridesmaids carried small posies with similar blooms including the highlights of soft apricot spray roses. Our lovely friend Margaret joined us on Thursday in our studio to lend her talented hands to the 21 centrepieces we made. How lucky we were to have our talented and beloved friend Jenna Tye follow us to capture the floral journey from start to finish. The abundently talented Christine Smart coordinated the event and was the magic touch that made things go so smoothly for us as we arrived to set up. Thank you Christine! Truffles expertly catered and executed the dinner and drinks for the evening. We can’t wait to see photos of the beautiful Emily in her dress and more images of the entire day captured by Erica Chan, check out her blog teaser. Thank you to both Emily and Beau we wish you much love and hapiness.
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