Love my sea horses...

Just in case anyone had a hard time visualizing them on a bouquet, here is a photo from last week's wedding. Doesn't he look so cute?? Lauren and any past brides - if you want one, just let me know! I'll be happy to send one to you - just email me your address and I'll get one in the mail. We appreciate all our past brides too. =)

So, so, so, so, so excited!!!

I wanted to wait until the New Year to announce a special little treat for my 2009 brides! I've been brainstorming ways to show appreciation to my couples...some wedding planners throw in free champagne flutes with their logo on it for couples to toast with and bring back home...I always thought that was kinda cheesy, sorry. You're most likely not going to display champagne flutes with Island Bliss Weddings logo on it in your dining room. And as I brainstormed, I realized, most grooms aren't going to care too much about sentimental keepsakes. But I know my brides will! And I think I found the PERFECT token of my appreciation to give to brides on their wedding day...


What is it you may ask? LOL...well, it's a seahorse pendant. As you know, the seahorse is integrated into my logo and I just love them. They mate for life, you know. And well, that is the whole point of marriage, isn't it?

So here's my plan - for every bridal bouquet, I will attach a little silver seahorse with ribbon to the bouquet - a cute little keepsake - something new to add to your old, borrowed and blue list! After the wedding, the seahorse can be taken off the bouquet and added to a silver chain and worn as a necklace, attached to a your first married Christmas ornament, added as a charm to your cell phone...whatever you wish to do with it! Maybe you'll even put it in your baby's keepsake box and she'll carry it on her own wedding day.


I can't wait for our next wedding - I'll be sure to take a picture of the seahorse on the bouquet.


2009 is going to be so exciting!

All about the color...

In the previous post you saw the color that nature provided for this bride's ceremony. Now check out the gorgeous colors she provided on her own!




I just love it when everything matches but doesn't...know what I mean? It all compliments and it all works so well!

New ways to preserve....

Occasionally I have a bride that asks me about preserving their bouquet. We do actually have a vendor on St. Thomas now that can help with this process. It does involve boxing the bouquet on dry ice and shipping it off island - overall, it's an expensive process. And in the end, you just end up with the world's best dust collector. Ever tried to clean dried flowers? Not easy.



Of course, you will always have photos of your bouquet to remember it by. The above picture is from my own wedding. I purchased the silver starfish on eBay and had the florist attach it to my bouquet. I still have that starfish tucked away in my jewelry box - it will be used again one day. For what, I don't know...but I hope it involves my daughters somehow. But the photo itself isn't something I would really frame and stare lovingly at, you know? The day after my wedding as I was sitting in our hotel suite, looking at my gorgeous bouquet, I wondered, what can I do to preserve its memory? I hated to just throw it away. Pluck a flower and press it between the pages of a book? That seems so high school prom to me. So I grabbed my camera and started taking pictures...wondering, what am I going to do with these pictures other than file them away somewhere?

Then inspiration hit me. I started shaking the crap out of my bouquet, snapping photos of it as I went. The result? Some pretty cool abstract photos! I loved the way the photos came out and have always planned to order them in an 8x10 photo, frame them an hang them in a collection of three. The almost look like artwork, don't they?





Have I actually gotten around to doing this? Well, after almost 3.5 years of marriage...no. I haven't done it yet. I'm too busy framing photos of my babies! But, one day I think I definitely will. In fact, I may go ahead and place the order. They're more apt to get framed if I actually print them! Don't you think they would look cool with a white matte and black frame?

And yes, the look of my new husbands face was priceless as he watched his bride shake her bouquet like a mad dog with a rabbit in its mouth! I'm surprised he didn't run screaming from the room!