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Our pledge
Every wedding or event is unique, but our goal is always the same: to leave your guests raving about the look and you delighted by our service. 
Vicki Sanders, Owner
Elegant wedding reception at Loew’s Vanderbilt Nashville
This weekend was a complete change in style from the recent wedding receptions we have designed. Our bride, Sarah Batten, wanted a traditional, elegant feel to her wedding,an in so doing, chose the ballroom at Nashville’s Loew’s Vanderbilt Hotel. Sarah chose pink as her main color and added chocolate brown to bring in the season. We used some of our many silver containers to add to the elegant flair. Blake Chaffin, Nashville Event Lighting, worked his usual magic by spotlighting each centerpiece, which really makes a huge difference in the look. Sarah’s coordinator, Gail Vandygriff and staff were a delight to work with, along with the staff from Connie Duglin Linens (love the chocolate overlays), and music provided by Spangler Entertainment. These photos were taken by me, a florist/event designer, NOT a photographer. Can not wait to see the fabulous photos I know will be coming from Gray Photography! I am so fortunate(and so are my brides) to have Christine Boulton on my crew for setup, who is a retired couture cake designer (now a wedding marketing guru). Look at the fabulous job Christine did with hydrangea on the cake! Of course kudos to the rest of my staff, Jodi and Sims, another great job guys!
Wedding reception at new rooftop venue in Nashville
This past weekend, we designed a wedding reception at our newest rooftop venue in Nashville, called One Eleven. Cool place, hot day! We used hot colors of orange, hot pink, lime green to give a pop to the glass and concrete structure. The bride wanted to bring in some element from her home state of Georgia, so we used peaches in some of the stemmed glassware, with battery operated lampshades. A fun element was in the entryway, using one of our iron trees, hanging floral balls…each guest wrote a card with suggestions for a happy marriage and hung them on the tree. Traditional flowers of hydrangea and roses were used, along with the contemporary use of green and orange orchids. SoBro Catering created the menu, with rentals from Liberty Party Rental. Love their new highboy cocktail tables, which require no linens, for a contemporary look.
Summer Blues (and yellows!)wedding reception at the Hermitage Hotel
Janna Konze was our third bride for the weekend of Labor Day, and what a delightful bride she was! Janna chose the color scheme of blue and yellow. SInce we are at the cusp of fall, she chose to use the fall colors of blue, rather than the light blues of summer. Above is a shot of the head table, which was in the ballroom of the Hermitage Hotel. using antique fall blue hydrangea, yellow and cream roses and blue delphinium. A mix of centerpiece glass containers were used throughout the ballroom, all using the same color scheme. Glass gives such a romantic glow with mulitudes of votive candles! Pictured below are our traditional style glass pedestals and our glass “cake plate” containers, which give a nice show for not so much money, as not many flowers are needed for that look, with so many candles on the table. We submerged hydrangea in one of our 28″ glass pilsner vases
for the escort card table, which was a look the Janna liked to incorporate her contemporary side. The cake, by Nashville’s French Confection was a show stopper….a cake this size takes MANY hydrangea…but don’t you think its worth it? The ceremony was held at Belmont Methodist Church. Can’t wait to receive the really professional photos from our friends, the Emmitts of Divine Images!
Country Chic Wedding at Cheekwood
The second wedding we designed on Labor Day weekend was a casual, country look for our bride Virginia Lee Wallace. Virginia chose Cheekwood for her ceremony in the garden, with the reception in the courtyard of the Frist Learning Center on the grounds of Cheekwood. The bride wanted very causual, colorful and country designs. We used red, yellow, orange and white gladiolas in French flower buckets on a farm table for her “altar”. Love the look. The bridesmaids carried clutches of gerber daisies,with the centerpieces designed in glass “mason jars”, usually used for home food canning….a real country touch!
Summer Wedding Reception by the Pool
WOW! What a busy Labor Day weekend here in Nashville for Branching Out Floral and Event Design. These shots are from a very chic wedding reception held at a private home in Brentwood, TN.
The bride and groom wanted to entertain their friends by the pool, and the groom loves water, so tropicals were the logical choice here. These photos are of course during daylight, but when the sun set, these designs were uplit from the base and the “lamps” are battery operated. So cool!
