Chic Mismatched Centerpieces

Happy Friday Flowers!  Today we’re all about estate tables – my absolute favorite seating style!  Estate tables are so versatile – dress them up or down, add candles, comfy cushions, pretty chivari chairs… and definitely your favorite low, lush blooms so guests can easily converse across the table.  If you’re lucky enough to have a beautiful wood table, keep it bare.  If not, add textured linens for an extra luxe splash, or white linens and colored chairs for a crisp, classic look.

Big fat peonies, garden roses, dahlias, ranunculus, snapdragons…There is so much beautiful inspiration when it comes to sherbet flowers!

There is just so much pretty in this shoot, I’m over the moon! Kelly Maron Horvath of Paper Stories, Lauren LePine of Ryan Alexander Events, Lynn Fossbender of Pollen, Stevi Savage of AveryHouse, and Shannon Spellman of Plate have dazzled me with their interpretation of glitz and glam for the Inspired Creations Contest, it’s an absolute wonderland of handmade charm.  Mercury glass accents, mother-of-pearl buttons, satin ribbons and gilded china from Plate are just a few of the ways that the team incorporated glitter and glam into their tabletop and dessert display.  And since the Inspired Creations Contest is all about being fabulous on an approachable budget, everything from the sewn paper bunting to the ribbon table runner, escort card holder, cake topper, and even the cake itself was created by Kelly, and all of the decorative accents used in the shoot were brought in from the team’s homes and studios. 

From the metal-topped table to the wire baskets and architectural florals and containers, this Inspired Creations Contest concept is more downtown city glitter than feminine and girly, and I am utterly in love.  Studio28 Photo, The Stylish Soiree, Krista Jon, Archive Vintage Rentals and Ashley Zwar have created a modern, industrial take on glitz and glam with this peach, ivory, and black tabletop.  A black sequin table runner (black sequin is the new it fabric, ya’ll!) creates a dark and dramatic backdrop for the striking centerpiece of airplants, bromeliads, peachy tulips, garden roses, hydrangea, anemones, and reindeer moss.

I just adore seeing the different ways that the Inspired Creations Contest teams interpret glitz and glam!  Today’s Portland, Oregon team of Fleur:ology, Diana Marie Photography, Paper Bloom and Le Cookie Monkey chose a color palette of deep pinks, purples, and warm metallics and created a positively amazing dessert display and tablescape spending only $90 on materials.  Yes, you read that right!  There are a lot of DIY elements in the design, which makes this wedding concept easy for anyone to obtain with a little bit of creativity, personalization and lots of spray paint!

For brides that want to incorporate aqua or any other sort of turquoise shade of blue in their color palette, finding the right flowers can definitely be a challenge. Pink, purple, peach? Plenty of options, but there are very few blue flowers, and even fewer options for an aqua or turquoise. So, what’s a girl to do? If there are no other colors you’re working with, find other ways to incorporate that blue color.

A 19th century private residence in Maine is the elegant backdrop for this lovely wedding shoot. Sarah Goodwin of Daisies & Pearls brought the natural beauty of the setting inside with rustic wood, natural fibers, wintry white, icy blue and glistening silver. A cozy tabletop with handmade linens held mercury glass vases and antique blue bottles wrapped with silver thread, filled with white stock, tulips, orchids, carnations, dusty miller, and dried berries. The accompanying stationery created by Fourth & Folded is nestled in a muslin pocket and packaged with gorgeous calligraphy, and keeping with the wintry theme, the guest book is fabric squares to be made into a quilt. Oh and there are fabulous and yummy desserts, and puppies! View even more of & unlimited‘s images from this lovely winter shoot in the gallery!

Immediately smitten. That was me the moment I set my eyes on the beyond-gorgeous tabletops from this wedding on Style Me Pretty. Wooden farmhouse estate tables with benches (I’m a sucker for a beautiful table with minimal linens), filled with elegant white pitchers of stock, mums, and larkspur, alternating with low and lush bunches of hydrangea and roses… be still my heart! I adore the romance of candlelight, but for daytime weddings you simply can’t do anything more wonderful and beautiful than fill your table with fragrant blooms.

With the world abuzz over the upcoming Royal Wedding, glamour and old world elegance are all the rage.  With this in mind, the amazing designers at Nashville’s Cedarwood and photographer Krystal Mann created an inspirational wedding scene that combines luxurious, vintage elements with today’s modern woodland style.  The Baroque inspired shoot features vintage china and gilded mirrors, and eclectic objects d’art collected from family heirlooms and flea markets.  Altered art favors, a mirror guest book, and an opulent gilded cake are a stunning contrast to the rustic, wintry landscape.  And the flowers – oh the flowers!  They are positively gorgeous, combining grapes, kiwi and papaya with assorted blooms in rich purple and green tones.  I’m completely inspired by this elegant shoot and its beautiful mix of trends old and new, and I hope you are too!

Holly Chapple always blows me away with her amazing eye for detail and gorgeous florals, and I adore everything about this beautiful table design she shared from a recent corporate event.  Holly paired lush white hydrangea, spray roses, and ranunculus with cabbage, dried wheat, lotus pods, silver brunia, and dusty miller, creating the perfect mix of elegance and natural elements.  Mercury glass, burlap-wrapped vases, and wooden boxes perfectly contradicted the elegant linens and crystals.  I love this look and think it’s perfect inspiration for an outdoorsy-meets-elegant reception!  Thanks also goes to Anne Robert Photography for capturing all of the lovely images.

Modern and quirky, this organic and stylish tabletop created by Dani of Studio Fleurette is pure perfection!  Sleek white vases hold the craspedia, birch branches and orchids that anchor the centerpiece, while yarn-wrapped napkins echo the teal stitching on the beautiful burlap runner.  I love the look and feel of this tablescape and it’s a design that is easily updated for your wedding (replace the billy balls with roses for example, and voila – a completely different aesthetic!).  Thanks Dani for sharing!

The last vestiges of snow are finally melting away in Chicago, but that doesn’t mean that I’m tired of beautiful, snowy winter quite yet.  In fact, I’m literally over the moon for this elegant wintry tabletop, with cozy details like cable knit napkin rings and an Alençon lace table runner, and lush arrangements of ivory hydrangea, dusty miller, and anemones.  Elizabeth and Adrienne from Gracie Lou Events styled this tablescape (with three feet of snow gracing their Massachusetts location), and the amazing floral was created by John LaRoche of BlueGuava.  View even more of the stunning images by Binita Patel Photography in the gallery!

Vendors, have you formed your team for the Inspired Creations: Glitter + Glam contest yet? Cyd and I are so incredibly excited to see what you come up with!

Nothing makes me happier than beautiful flowers, so naturally, I adore this rich, colorful tabletop from Seattle-based florist McKenzie Powell Designs.  McKenzie found the fabric for the tablecloth at an estate sale and built the table around it, with fresh white china and taper candles set against cheery pops of yellow, pink and coral.  The lush centerpiece of garden roses, acacia, ranunculus, hellebores, and maidenhair fern is a perfect match for the fabric, and yummy shortbread cookie favors finish off each place setting.  I love the end result, which is romantic and so eye-catching!

View all of Juel’s previous recap posts here!

So perhaps I’m a romantic at heart, but I adore sweetheart tables.  The idea of a just married couple getting to enjoy their first precious moments together at a table set for two is so sweet.  This precious Valentine’s Day inspirational shoot from Nashville wedding vendors Brocade Designs, Donald Yeager Photography, and Julia’s Homestyle Bakery imagines a Valentine’s Day sweetheart table, full of lovely handmade elements and sweet fragrant blooms.

I was lucky enough to meet Desiree from Social Creative at this year’s Engage!10 Cayman Islands.  We were roommates and instant friends and I’m so honored today to share the gorgeous tabletop design that she created with the team of French Buckets and Callaway Gable Photography.  The stunning table is inspired by vintage Paris and is overflowing with lovely and unexpected elements!

After our first look, I took a quick walk-through of the tent, looked around, and just stood in awe. Everything I had planned for was set-up. I pointed to one of the tables and said “Oh, wow! That looks so nice!” and my cousin turned to me and said “Well, you should like it! You picked everything out!” Good point cousin–but I hadn’t seen it yet. It had all been hypothetical. Seeing everything come together was a big deal.

Here’s the how-to for the amazing springtime centerpieces that were featured in the Lilac and Linen tabletop this morning!

I’m so excited to welcome Chelsea Fuss to Elizabeth Anne Designs today.  I absolutely love her work and am thrilled to partner with her to bring lovely and unique floral designs and tabletops to EAD.  Her designs are beautiful yet approachable, and if you aren’t already a fan, I know you will become one!