Not your average rental company, and definitely not your average wedding 🤍
The bride and groom tied the knot with an intimate, outdoor Covid-era setup, designed by Molly at @oneandsupp in just a few weeks, with a lot of intention behind how people could gather when being together felt complicated.
They turned the lawn into a picnic-style layout, with little pods for guests, personal picnic baskets, and mini raw bars at each table. An epic tasting menu, open air dance floor, and so many thoughtful details were woven throughout.
Everything was designed around closeness, generosity, and making it feel warm and easy.
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Planning + Design: @oneandsupp
Catering: @trilliumcaterers
Florals: @rumphiusflowers
Photo: @wyldephoto
Paper Suite: @swellpress
DJ: @dartcollective
Lighting: @griffingriffinlighting
Strings: Occasional Brass & Strings
Rentals: @afa_rentals@peakeventservices@kadeemarentals
Last bouquet of the year for Justine using only flowers grown within 15 miles of the wedding. So lucky to work with beautiful flowers and wonderful clients!
I book only a handful of full-service weddings each year for a few reasons — they’re a ton of work and often travel, I have two little boys who are only little for so long, I enjoy weekends! But in between those big special events (which I love and please don’t stop asking me to do!), I’ve started to take on some local weddings and parties where I get free reign color-wise and work with only the best of the growing season. I just added a little online shop where you can put together an event and pick up at my studio @laborinvain — it’s still an experiment, but I hope it makes it easy to put together flowers for a little celebration of your own! This bouquet was for Charlotte this past weekend and is quite possibly my most favorite thing I’ve ever made — local foxglove, dahlias, epimedium, heliopsis, hydrangea, rudbeckia, orlaya, and a tiny little peek of bee balm. See the link in my profile to order flowers for yourself!
“The next spring there were lupines everywhere. Fields and hillsides were covered with blue and purple and rose-colored flowers. They bloomed along the highways and down the lanes. Bright patches lay around the schoolhouse and back of the church. Down in the hollows and along the stonewalls grew the beautiful flowers.” ✨
Some favorite wintry tablescapes of late (last video featuring a special guest, my own progeny, and most special turkey name cards). I love making flowers and I love lighting beautiful candles and I love imagining my flowers getting to be part of such special nights — holidays, weddings, whatever. It’s been a funny quiet (flower-wise, at least!) year for me as I welcomed a new baby boy this spring and I’m looking forward to making flowers for my own holiday tables this year and for some very lovely wedding clients in 2023. I’m teaching a Thanksgiving centerpiece class this Tuesday, 11/22 at my studio @laborinvain — tomorrow is the last day to sign up, join me via the link in my stories.
Kind of no arrangement in the world more perfect than a few bunches of lilacs in a vase. This time of year is so bittersweet. I think I get a little spring seasonal depression; everything is so beautiful and the smell of all the trees is so nostalgic for me and it all just comes and goes so fast!
Fun to take a break from nursing/shushing/changing/willing to sleep a 5-week-old to make flowers for my friend @mallieloringpratt show @grandbanksbp and remember how much I love spring 🤌🏻
I’m terrible at using this account! Here’s probably my favorite arrangement I made last year—a big old last gasp of fall made out of @cedarfarmwholesale outrageous mums and foraged burning bush and decadent gloriosa for a cozy @audreysfarmhouse rehearsal dinner. I’m not doing Valentine’s Day flowers this year and I’m only taking on a few more weddings for 2022; I can no longer in good conscience use flowers that I know in the process of growing and packing and shipping all over the world have harmed people’s health, safety, and quality of life (now and in the future). And, after a lot of years of weddings, I’m sticking to clients (like the amazing ones I tend to have) who treat my work with respect. Flowers and time and the incredible helping hands that help me make weddings so special are precious and limited resources and I want to continue to value them as such. Thank you to everyone who made last year’s wedding season so smooth and beautiful—excited for what’s to come!
Wreath workshops are live via the link in my profile! You can also order a wreath made by me through my shop @laborinvain — I have been terrible at keeping up and sharing flowers on Instagram, it’s been a wild and weedy wedding season (my last one is this weekend!). I’m so lucky to get to make flowers for people and get to work with what nature gives us—wreathing is always a highlight of the year and I can’t wait to see many of you soon!
I’m gearing up like Rocky (cue me in cut off sweats jogging along to Eye of the Tiger) to get ready for a quite busy wedding season, but in the meantime I’m making some arrangements for Mother’s Day! I’ll have vases made by @katharine.allsopp and I’m collaborating again with @mayflour_ to offer sweets, too. Order through my shop @laborinvain ; 10% of May proceeds, including Mother’s Day offerings, will go to @nationalbailout in honor of all those who can’t be with their mothers or children this year ✨
