Jennifer + Aaron | Mistwood Golf Club | Jordan Imhoff Photography

I was fortunate enough to do flowers for Jennifer + Aaron’s wedding not once, but TWICE. First back in 2020 with only 10 guests and a livestream, and again this year (2021) with all of their guests like they had originally hoped. Thank you Covid vaccine for that! Both weddings took place at Mistwood Golf Club, and I was the florist and Jordan Imhoff was the photographer at both! That’s why there are so many great photos from both events.

This year we did our circle arch (also called a ring or infinity arch) for their ceremony backdrop. All of the goodies from the arch were reused after the ceremony to make one beautifully epic head table! The overall look was white blooms and lots of foliage, with tiny accents of lavender herb in the bouquet and centerpieces.

One of my favorite things was the back of the ceremony chair “garlands”. I have never had a client do this before and I loved the look! The king’s style head table was nothing short of epic– with candlesticks, votives, garlands, flowers, floral pieces from the arch, and lanterns from the ceremony. We had enough garland from the ceremony to add some to the mantle and the sweets table as well. It was so fabulous!

Here are photos from the original, intimate wedding last year. Love how excited and happy they look here! This ceremony was quaint, so we did our traditional arch covered in faux foliage garlands, with some fresh added on top. The bouquet had some additional touches of lavender herb and some lavender sweet pea as well. The couple wore different attire for their original wedding than for their bigger 2021 wedding– but I love both looks!

Congrats to Jennifer and Aaron and thank you to Jordan Imhoff for sharing these lovely images with us!

Shelby + Kyle | Warehouse 109 Wedding | Redmond Digital Media

Shelby + Kyle’s wedding at Warehouse 109 was one of our only “sizable” events this year due to the Pandemic– and I put that word “sizable” in quotes because it had around 50 people which was really the highest we got with the # of guests rules this season. Some of the venues had more than 50 guests, split into different rooms. I get it, we are all desperate to work and these guidelines make that very hard. However, since my husband is immunocompromised I was and am fine not catching Covid at a wedding while doing flowers and I fully understand the risks of larger, unmasked groups gathering. It is hard to be on both sides both wanting to work again to survive but also wanting it to be safer before doing so.

 

 

Anyways. The results of these smaller weddings were the same as far as my work goes, Kio Kreations still delivered beautiful flowers. Our team was much smaller. Mostly only me doing stuff, Laura helping with a few of the larger wedding orders with me (masked, sitting/standing by our own tables, faced away from each other– it was very interesting but we kept it safe). Liz, Amy, Monica and Kathleen helped with some setups and teardowns as it was hard when 2 clients pushed their weddings to the same weekend– which happened a couple times this summer and fall. I am grateful I had a team who were both willing to still help setup events still while wearing masks so we could be as safe as possible. There is no real need to say this has been a weird year. I don’t stand alone in that statement. We are all there. Not just locally, or even statewide but globally. 2020 for many people totally sucks. I am just glad that some of my couples were able to tie the knot and move forward with their lives albeit with changes made to their celebratory plans in the process. Redmond Digital Media did a great job capturing this beautiful wedding.

 

 

Special thanks to Warehouse 109, Redmond Digital Media for their collaboration with this lovely wedding for Shelby + Kyle and congrats to our couple who are now happily married and still got to have a mini celebration with their closest family and friends despite the current Pandemic climate.