2011 Winner of Brides' Choice Award from WeddingWire

We are excited to be the winner of the Brides' Choice Award for three years in a row now! This award is given by WeddingWire.com, one of the online leading bridal resources.

Featured on San Francisco Style Unveiled!

We are thrilled to see Kana and Phil's east meets west wedding selected as a featured wedding on Style Unveiled. Special thanks to photographer Kevin Chin for capturing all the fantastic details. To see the full feature, click on San Francisco Style Unveiled.

Grandiflora on Style Me Pretty

Karen and Jay's uber modern wedding at the De Young Museum was recently featured by Style Me Pretty. Inspired by elements of the reception site--the vibrant orange and fuchsia pendant lights and the geometric black Grcic chairs in the De Young Cafe, we picked out orange, fuchsia for most floral elements, using grey as a neutral medium, and a bit of black for accent. Karen and Jay are adventurous when it comes to designs, and designed all the invitation, program, menu, even label for the bottled water.

This wedding would not have been possible had it not been for Karen and Jay's distinctive style, and a whole lot of creative vendors behind the scene. Special thanks goes to the ladies at Simply Sparkling Events for bringing the team together and Lilia of Lilia Photo for documenting the day.

For more amazing images, go to Style Me Pretty.

Grandiflora Receives 2010 Bride's Choice Award

We are excited to announce that Grandiflora is once again the recipient of the 2010 Bride's Choice Award from Wedding Wire. We couldn't have done it without our brides and grooms' support.

Grandiflora Featured on Wedding Nouveau!

Thanks Fri of Wedding Nouveau for featuring Jessica and Arshan's wedding, a celebration that fuses western with Persian traditions. Get some practical advice from the bride from this thoughtful article from Fri.

See the full length feature and more beautiful images on Wedding Nouveau.

Our Designs Featured on Wedding Nouveau

I was pleasantly surprised to find our works featured on Wedding Nouveau. Thanks for showing off our creations! For the full feature, click the link above.

Featured on Style Me Pretty

Our eco-friendly botanical flower ring pillows are featured on Style Me Pretty today!

The design of the ring pillow follows a process of blending the botanical elements left over from the wedding floral designs instead of ordering extra materials for its creation. The rest is a truly organic design process, inspired by the mood and feel of the location and the textures and palette of the flowers.

Here's one of the featured ring pillows designed for a wedding ceremony that took place at a seaside white chapel overlooking the Pacific.


photo by Suzanne Sizer

As a Green(er) Wedding Floral Designer...

Sometimes last month, we were pleasantly surprised to find ourself included in the Common Ground Magazine's green wedding guide in its February issue. It is quite an honor, but I also felt bashful about having the halo of the green label on me.

Throughout the course of my floral design career, I have never felt comfortable enough to categorize ourself as "green floral designers". While there are quite a few organic flowers available, most of the time we can not be certain if the foliage and textural botanical materials we would use with the flowers are considered organic. Fortunately, a lot of foliage materials have local origin, which makes them somewhat greener over their imported counterparts.

As far as our effort of being and becoming greener, we encourage using seasonal flowers because less energy and resources are consumed to produce flowers in its natural growth cycle. Locally grown variety is preferred over imported when qualities are comparable. Since our move from Pasadena/Los Angeles to the Bay Area three years ago, we have established relationships with local gardeners who supply us garden clippings--those may be shapely branches or overgrown bushes that would otherwise be discarded. The widely varied microclimates within the relatively compact (as compare to the Los Angeles area) Bay Area help to nurture a great variety of materials, and our gardener friends always bring us nice surprises.

During our less busy winter/spring months, visiting nurseries and interacting with local growers help us to get a vibe of where happy, well-cared, and healthy flowers come from.

While we continue and strive to be greener in our practice, we look forward to challenges in greener floral and event designs.

Featured at Preowned Wedding Dresses

We were invited to write a blog post couple weeks ago for Preowned Wedding Dresses to feature some unique designs on wedding flowers. And it was posted a few days ago! February 25, 2009 to be exact. For bride-to-be and eco-minded brides, this is a great resource. The site is updated frequently; you never know if you would see your dream wedding dress available at the site. Here are a few of our favs, from top to bottom:Rivini, Cymbeline, and Alvina Valenta.

2009 Bride's Choice Award!

We are very excited and honored to find out that we have been chosen to receive the Bride's Choice Award sponsored by Wedding Wire, a leading online wedding resource. Thanks to you, our brides and grooms, for your love, support, and continuous referrals!