Real Weddings: Denise and David / Shutters Hotel, Santa Monica CA

Denise and David were married at the beautiful hotel, Shutters on the Beach, in Santa Monica. A romantic winter wedding, their colors were deep red, white, and light green. Some amazing pictures by Michael Segal. ( bad ones by our phone)

Denise carried a bridal bouquet of deep red and white flowers: white peonies, white “polo” roses, red “avanta” garden roses, white cymbidium orchids, and dark burgundy schwarzwalder mini calla lilies.

Her bridesmaids carried bouquets of light green cymbidium orchids and deep red “Black Magic” roses.

Boutonnieres was made with ivory cymbidium orchid accented with a hypericum berry, plus lily grass.

I love these floral ring bearer pillows! This one was made of green kermit poms and accented with freesia and a cymbidium orchid.

The ceremony was held on the pool deck at sunset with the Pacific Ocean in view.

Tall white arrangements of hydrangea and “casablanca” lilies were placed on pedestals framing the bride and groom.

A light green cymbidium orchid was placed at each place setting on the reception tables. We also made three tall separate, yet similar, designs for the centerpieces. For each centerpiece we used white orchids, hydrangea, and light green hypericum berries. We also accented the centerpieces with hanging crystals.

Here’s design #1, a sphere of hydrangea, roses, and hypericum berry placed on a cylinder with immersed white dendrobium orchids. Long stems of white dendrobium orchids radiate out and downward with 10″ crystal strands attached to the stems.

Here’s design #2 featuring curly willow branches, cymbidium orchids, and dendrobium orchids; a classic arrangement with stems in the water.

I really liked how this design turned out (#3). We placed a sphere of hydrangea and hypericum berry on top of a cylinder filled with immersed white dendrobium orchid stems. Curly willow branches radiated up and out from the top center of the floral sphere and were accented with long white Hawaiian dendrobium orchids. We finished the arrangement by hanging clear teardrop shaped crystals from the branches.

Beautiful sunset.