Winery Chic Wedding Idea

Published August 24, 2010 |

Hi There,

So, last weekend I had a super cool winery wedding in Sonoma, California at Jacuzzi Winery. The brides color scheme was green, brown and ivory. Her bouquet was made using Polo roses (they open like an old fashioned rose), white lisianthus and green (called brocoli hydrangea-which is a NEW growth green in color and eventually turns white as it matures) and her bridesmaids carried white hydrangea with green button mums and hypericum berries.

It’s not super easy to see the bouquets displayed on a table this way. Here is a picture of the bride holding her bouquet.

The bride was from Newport Beach, which is in Southern California. So this was a destination wedding for them.

The ceremony was outside in front of the beautiful fountain. This bride elected to have pomanders hanging on the chair ends. The pomanders were made using floral foam 6″ balls, they were covered in moss and then green spider mums, green button mums and green cymbidium orchids were added and the balls were hung with brown satin ribbon.

Here is a close up of the pomanders…. Pomander made of moss, green spider and button mums and cymbidium orhcids

I used a moss table runner I found at the craft store and cut it into small squares and covered the floral foam ball using greening pins. Then I inserted 5 spider mums, 5 stems of button mums and 2 cymbidium orchids for each ball. These were very time consuming…I didn’t keep track, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I spend 1 hour on each ball.

Because this was a destination wedding, the bride chose to give luggage tags as her favor. So we displayed them on beds of wheat grass. It turned out the wheat grass was too tall and the luggage tags couldn’t be seen, so I trimmed the wheat grass…kind of like mowing the lawn, only I had to use scissors. LNIgazebo

I think they came out great, what do you think?

This couple had a cocktail hour in the courtyard and chose to decorate those tables with candles. So I used a 7 1/2″ tall cylinder vase and cut up 3 limes for each, added water and then a floating candle. For the votives, I wrapped a piece of brown ribbon around the base and glued a button mum to cover the ribbon seam. candle centerpieces

I used glue dots to fasten the ribbon and Oasis Floral Adhesive to attach the button mum.

Lastly, this couple chose to have half tall and half short centerpieces. The tall centerpieces were Manzanita Branches in a 28″ tall cylinder vase with green cymbidium orchids and hanging crystals. I also had some ice crystals in the base of the vase. Jacuzzi Winery Barrel Room

The short centerpieces were 12″ tall cylinder vases with a stem of green cymbidium orchids in each and a little crystal ice at the bottom of the vase.

Here are close up views of the centerpieces.