Monday cutie: a wedding season in review

Super excited for what the 2011 wedding season holds but for now here's a few of our favorites from 2010. Many thanks to all the wonderful people we got to work for and with this past year - YOU ARE AWESOME! 2010 has truly been a tremendous year for April Flowers and we are stoked to be so busy already for next year. As we are rounding the corner and headed into 2011, I'm feeling so blessed for all that has happened and also so excited for what is to come. Cheers to all we have to look forward to in this coming year!

Monday Cutie: The orchid robber+Miranda and Jake revisited

# 1. An orchid robber you ask? Yes, it's true. Someone stole an orchid from the shop this past week. Here's the story in case you didn't read it in the newspaper. Just kidding it wasn't in the paper...just making sure you were paying attention. So....I had prepared a beautiful cymbidium orchid to send out on delivery and set it in the back of the shop which we sometimes do because space is so limited. When our "Director of Deliveries", Jason, went to find it it had up and walked away from it's happy home. I was, to say the least, distraught at the notion of someone up and making off with a huge plant that wasn't meant for them to take. I called up my...ahem...connection in law enforcement and he quickly came to my aide and tried to track down the thief (they couldn't be that hard to find carrying a huge orchid plant right?). Well as he was driving the perimeter of the shopping center, alas, there it was cut up and left for dead. He continued to make some inquiries and discovered that an employee of a neighboring business had lifted the plant right out from under us. She wanted the blooms so she cut them off and left the plant for it was too large to carry onto the bus. The long story short is: she stole the plant, he found it, we got it back and she got fired. Thanks to that dashing man I know in a uniform for coming to my rescue and bringing the cymbidium back to it's rightful owner. I owe you one. Here's a photo he snapped with his phone when he first made the discovery.

#2. On a happier note a little treat arrived in my mailbox recently from Mirelle Carmichael. It was a sweetly wrapped disk of images from Miranda+Jake's wedding at the Flying Caballos Ranch back in October. You may remember reading a bit about their feature on the wedding chicks...if you don't go ahead and click here. I was happy to have the images all to myself to share so without further a-due please check them out below!

Monday cutie: Jen+Simon and a couch

Jen, Simon and I had our flower consultation in my living room, on my couch, in our pj's with a cup of coffee in hand. So cozy and comfortable as Josh was making us breakfast in the kitchen. How did this come to be I know you are thinking to yourself? At the time Josh and I had a housemate, Brian, who rented out one of our rooms. His pals Jen+Simon happened to be getting married in Santa Barbara at the beautiful Bacara Resort and he introduced us. We hit it off (it was hard not to over such an awesome breakfast and coffee) and here are a few of the results of our collaboration. Thanks to Austin & Dara Photography for the fabulous shots and to CanaVP for creating such a moving video. 

Wedding Preview: Simon and Jen 8.26.10 from Ben Potter & Drew Barefoot on Vimeo.

Monday cutie: Lauren+Matt and a long evening

Hello friends. It has been a very long, but productive, evening of putting together proposal and inspirations for future clients. I'm excited to be happily working, meeting so many awesome new folks and getting inspired daily. For today I thought I'd treat you to a few images from Lauren+Matt's wedding and a little inspiration for a future wedding. Thanks to Sam Potter for sharing the images of Lauren+Matt's wedding.....see his work here!