Flowers!

My mom drove up last Thursday to help me out with the busy week I had planned.

I was asked a few months ago by the mother of one of the young women (Brianna) that I used to teach in church to do the flowers for her open house/reception...

Her colors were pink and gray and at the time she told me, I knew that I'd come up with something, but didn't have any inspiration at that moment...

A few weeks later, I got a vision for what I wanted to do, and I was so pleased with the result.

Now this is what I call a celebration of the season!

The first day, my mom and I just worked the whole morning on getting all of the flowers cut and arranged in the vases...

Just look at those vibrant hot pink peonies, peachy pink spray roses, tulips, and gerbera's!

Could you just die?!

I ordered the flowers through a wholesaler as well as supplemented with my own shrub roses, peonies and English roses (that looked like miniature peonies)...

The next day, we went to the church and arranged all of the flowers on the tables...

We took a short break for lunch and drove down to Peace Valley's lavender farm.

It is such a peaceful, serene place...

Although the lavender wasn't quite in bloom, it was still beautiful...

I can almost smell the lavender-to-be in this picture...

Lake Galena is just beyond the trees in the distance..



We couldn't resist buying this lavender infused dark chocolate! Oh my!



My mom was a good sport and agreed to a self portrait even though she was getting sicker by the minute.



We headed back to the church and finished off the decorating...
Pictures simply can't do it justice, but the tables looked so fresh and lovely...
There's such a wonderful energy that is present around fresh flowers, much like being at the ocean...
I loved how different shades of pink blended together to create one shade...
Little compotes of lambs ear brought in the silver...



This was a shot of the main food table...

And here was an overall glimpse of the overall look...Once again, it just doesn't quite do it justice to see it in a picture...

I think Brianna was just as thrilled as I was with the result...

Every time I see pink, I'll think back to this night--