Seems like blue is the color of the year, once again. ^_^ For her wedding, Cynthia opted to have smokey blue as the base color and we mixed in dark blue and white as accents.

For her bouquet she choose biedermier style consisted of ivory mini calla lilies, ivory roses ("Vendella") and light blue hydrangeas. Her bridesmaids' bouquets had ivory roses ("Vendella"), dark blue delphiniums and steel grass that were criss-crossed over the bouquets.

One of my favorite things from this wedding was that we mixed dark blue delphinium and the ivory rose petals for the aisle spread. The blue really added such nice touch to the aisle that would have been plain concrete otherwise. We lined up the aisle with hurricane candle holders filled with blue marbles and blue silk rose petals.

I think they looked great!

The cake made it to my favorite works. I really had a lot of fun decorating this cake. The baker had "drawn" the branches on the cake and I added the fresh dark blue delphinium, white dendrobium orchid blooms and top branches. I like how it looks as if the flowers are blossoming on the cake. ^_^ So pretty! ^_^

The only thing that I kinda regretted is the fact that I didn't get any good pictures from her centerpieces... :_( But I'll tell you what I did for her centerpieces so you can do them for your wedding (they're DIY friendly projects).

We did 2 styles of centerpieces - one used birch branches mixed in with silk wax flower blooms and the other one used french tulips.

For the branch centerpiece, the materials needed are as follows:
Birch Branches - 1-2 bunches
Magdalena Ting Ting - 1/3 bunch
Silk Wax Flowers - OR - Cherry/Peach Blossoms
(approx. 1/2 bunch per vase, depending on how many florets given in a bunch)
Hot Glue and glue gun

5 birds' nests (3" diameter)
5 LED tealights
1/4" width Ribbon of your color

1 1/2" width Ribbon of your color
Zots(tm) a.k.a glue dots 1/2" diameter, the FLAT
Scotch tape

12"h x 5"d clear, glass vase

How to make the centerpiece:
1. First, assemble all the bird nests:
a. Place the 1/4" ribbon around the LED tealight, make a bow and cut the tail to a desired length.
b. Adhere scotch tape on TOP of the ribbon so it secures the ribbon against the LED tealight.
c. Place the ribboned LED tealight in the bird nest and press down a bit to secure it. You can always use the DIMENSIONAL ZOTS(tm) / glue dots to secure it if necessary.

2. Assemble the "Flowering Branches"
Follow this wonderful instruction from Nettleton Hollow to make the "Flowering Branches"

3. Assemble the vase:
Using FLAT ZOTS(tm), adhere the 1 1/2" ribbon around the bottom of the vase

4. Assemble the centerpiece:
a. Adhere bird nests onto the birch branches using DIMENSIONAL ZOTS(tm).
You need to use 2 ZOTS(tm) per bird nest to fully secure it onto the branch. Pick the branches that shape like "fork" so it can hold the nest better.
b. Place the birch branches (with the bird nests attached on them) and mix in the magdalena ting ting.
c. Turn on the LED tealights and you're all set!


For the other centerpiece, we did a simple but elegant French Tulips design. This is also a DIY friendly project, however, please keep in mind that tulips are VERY RARE in summer. So this idea would work better and safer (availibility and price wise) for spring weddings.

The method is very simple, after you clean and condition the tulips, cut them at different length and place them aesthetically in the vase.

Project Supply List:
Bird Nest Supplier 1
Bird Nest Supplier 2
Bird Nest Supplier 3

Birch Branches and Magdalena Ting Ting Supplier

Ribbon Supplier

Vases, LED tealights

Silk flowers, glue dots, hot glue, glue gun - Available at your local craft store (like Michael's Art and Crafts or AC Moore)


It was indeed a beautiful Sunday wedding and Cynthia made such a gorgeous bride! The princess style gown and hairdo worked so well for her!  ^_^

Vendors List:
Venue: Celebrations, Bensalem, PA
Photographer/Videographer: Coohaus, NYC, NY (via Celebrations Entertainment)

Congratulations Cynthia and Eitan!!
Many happy wishes for you two!!

Thank you so much for the honor!
I really appreciate it! ^_^

Seems like blue is the color of the year, once again. ^_^ For her wedding, Cynthia opted to have smokey blue as the base color and we mixed in dark blue and white as accents.

For her bouquet she choose biedermier style consisted of ivory mini calla lilies, ivory roses ("Vendella") and light blue hydrangeas. Her bridesmaids' bouquets had ivory roses ("Vendella"), dark blue delphiniums and steel grass that were criss-crossed over the bouquets.

One of my favorite things from this wedding was that we mixed dark blue delphinium and the ivory rose petals for the aisle spread. The blue really added such nice touch to the aisle that would have been plain concrete otherwise. We lined up the aisle with hurricane candle holders filled with blue marbles and blue silk rose petals.

I think they looked great!

The cake made it to my favorite works. I really had a lot of fun decorating this cake. The baker had "drawn" the branches on the cake and I added the fresh dark blue delphinium, white dendrobium orchid blooms and top branches. I like how it looks as if the flowers are blossoming on the cake. ^_^ So pretty! ^_^

The only thing that I kinda regretted is the fact that I didn't get any good pictures from her centerpieces... :_( But I'll tell you what I did for her centerpieces so you can do them for your wedding (they're DIY friendly projects).

We did 2 styles of centerpieces - one used birch branches mixed in with silk wax flower blooms and the other one used french tulips.

For the branch centerpiece, the materials needed are as follows:
Birch Branches - 1-2 bunches
Magdalena Ting Ting - 1/3 bunch
Silk Wax Flowers - OR - Cherry/Peach Blossoms
(approx. 1/2 bunch per vase, depending on how many florets given in a bunch)
Hot Glue and glue gun

5 birds' nests (3" diameter)
5 LED tealights
1/4" width Ribbon of your color

1 1/2" width Ribbon of your color
Zots(tm) a.k.a glue dots 1/2" diameter, the FLAT
Scotch tape

12"h x 5"d clear, glass vase

How to make the centerpiece:
1. First, assemble all the bird nests:
a. Place the 1/4" ribbon around the LED tealight, make a bow and cut the tail to a desired length.
b. Adhere scotch tape on TOP of the ribbon so it secures the ribbon against the LED tealight.
c. Place the ribboned LED tealight in the bird nest and press down a bit to secure it. You can always use the DIMENSIONAL ZOTS(tm) / glue dots to secure it if necessary.

2. Assemble the "Flowering Branches"
Follow this wonderful instruction from Nettleton Hollow to make the "Flowering Branches"

3. Assemble the vase:
Using FLAT ZOTS(tm), adhere the 1 1/2" ribbon around the bottom of the vase

4. Assemble the centerpiece:
a. Adhere bird nests onto the birch branches using DIMENSIONAL ZOTS(tm).
You need to use 2 ZOTS(tm) per bird nest to fully secure it onto the branch. Pick the branches that shape like "fork" so it can hold the nest better.
b. Place the birch branches (with the bird nests attached on them) and mix in the magdalena ting ting.
c. Turn on the LED tealights and you're all set!


For the other centerpiece, we did a simple but elegant French Tulips design. This is also a DIY friendly project, however, please keep in mind that tulips are VERY RARE in summer. So this idea would work better and safer (availibility and price wise) for spring weddings.

The method is very simple, after you clean and condition the tulips, cut them at different length and place them aesthetically in the vase.

Project Supply List:
Bird Nest Supplier 1
Bird Nest Supplier 2
Bird Nest Supplier 3

Birch Branches and Magdalena Ting Ting Supplier

Ribbon Supplier

Vases, LED tealights

Silk flowers, glue dots, hot glue, glue gun - Available at your local craft store (like Michael's Art and Crafts or AC Moore)


It was indeed a beautiful Sunday wedding and Cynthia made such a gorgeous bride! The princess style gown and hairdo worked so well for her!  ^_^

Vendors List:
Venue: Celebrations, Bensalem, PA
Photographer/Videographer: Coohaus, NYC, NY (via Celebrations Entertainment)

Congratulations Cynthia and Eitan!!
Many happy wishes for you two!!

Thank you so much for the honor!
I really appreciate it! ^_^

When I got a call from Jamie beginning of this year, I knew that I had a good feeling about this couple. Well, first of all, it's quite rare that the groom gets to handle the flowers. ^_^ And sure enough, when I met both Judy and Jamie at the Bouche Production bridal show in Willow Grove, we immediately had a great connection!

This couple inspired me so much when they told me the places they have travelled and when they wanted to incorporate that into their wedding decor theme, I was like "YES!". ^_^ AND...to top it all, their venue is the Merion Tribute House! YAY! We definitely love that mansion and had a great time there when we did Joy and Jon's wedding.

So I showed them this one super cool idea of "submersed table number" and I was so excited when both of them liked it! For all the DIY brides out there, this idea is certainly easy to do! I got the idea and instructions from this awesome book "The DIY Bride: 40 Fun Projects for Your Ultimate One-of-a-Kind Wedding" by Khris Cochran (ISBN-13: 9781561589647). The "submersed table number" idea is listed under "Floating Table Number Centerpiece". PS: I know when to give credits when due. ^_^ The slight difference is I used a picture clip holder instead of looping wire. I think it's easier. ^_^ We then added the hydrangeas and sprinkled mixed raw and brown sugar around each centerpiece.
 

Now, that's just half of the tables. As for the rest of the tables, we did tall centerpieces using a mix of hydrangeas, stocks, delphiniums and larkspur.
 

Now here comes the best part...for me at least. ^_^ For the place card table, I suggested that we made this the main "tribute" to their travel adventures. I had too much fun with this and I loved everything about it. ^_^ Judy supplied the luggages (she got these from Home Goods), by the way. The idea was to have an arrangement overflowing from the smaller luggage that was stacked up on a bigger luggage. Then I went around shopping to get the garden angel statue, the Indian elephant, and other knick knacks. I was so happy that I got to use a little bit of scrapbooking to make the shadow box for them. The other cool thing is...they actually printed the place cards as if they were passports! Sweet! ^_^ This definitely makes it to top 3 of my favorite works!
 

As for the personal flowers, from the start, Judy emphasized how important it is for her to have simple design for her bouquet. She loves mini calla lilies and so that's exactly what we did for her bouquet, just a bunch of mini calla lilies with french braided blue ribbon stem wrap. It fits her so well! Love it! ^_^ And for her bridesmaids, who decked espresso brown dresses, we went with simple light blue hydrangeas bouquets to match their sashes.
 

Although the weather that day was a little nerve-wrecking, this lovely couple was so blessed when the rain stopped just in time for their outdoor ceremony. About 30-mins after their ceremony was over, it was pouring cats and dogs! It's almost like the Heaven decided to hold all the gray clouds just for them. It's so amazing to witness this miracle! ^_^

I really did have a blast doing this wedding and am forever grateful to Judy and Jamie for this wonderful opportunity to showcase my works.

For more pictures from this wedding, please visit Papertini's online photo album.


Judy and Jamie's wedding vendor(s):
Merion Tribute House - Venue
Lawrence-James Studio - Photographer



Congratulations once again to Judy and Jamie!!!
Many happy wishes for you always!!!

Thank you for the honor to be
a part of your special day!! ^_^

I really appreciate it.!