Dress.. Check.. Flowers… Check!!
December 30, 2009
Even though I haven’t updated this in three months, I only have two updates….
1. MY GOWN IS ORDERED!
I finally picked out my gown and it should be in March 1st. It’s a Maggie Sottero gown and it’s called Victoriana. I talked about it in a previous post. I had the gown on and a Michael Buble’ song was on in the store… Yah.. that gown! My Mom and I went to CT to two dress stores that my cousin Sherida recommended. The first store had the major wedding designer gowns.. I tried on gowns that were like $3,000 – $10,000! INSANE!! The second place was a waste of time.. On our way back I said, let’s go to Bella Couture just to see what’s there. I tried Victoriana on… again…. and my mom started crying, AGAIN. That is when I knew FOR SURE that was my gown.. The girl who was helping us told me, “Heather, I’ve never seen a girl come in here so many times to try on this one dress.. Can you please just buy the dress already!?” Yahh.. I felt a bit embarrassed but.. heyyy… I just had to make sure!
2. I’m in love with our Florist!!
Not to worry, Andrew is the love of my life! But our florist is amazing!!!! Flowers by David Anthony is our florist. I first came across him at a Bridal Show a year back and loved him then. I went to two other florists and they were so NOT helpful. They couldn’t really do anything unless I had the BM dresses or my own gown picked out. When my mom and I met with David Anthony I had already ordered my gown but that wasn’t the first thing he asked. He asked some questions about what I like, don’t like. He showed me pictures, I showed him some pictures, he even showed me some real flowers too! He was the first florist who actually worked with me and designed everything without making me feel as if I’m a ditz who is totally clueless about flowers.
The BM bouquets will consists of cymbidium orchids with hot pink roses.. The guys will have these as their boutonniere and our moms and grandmothers will have them as wrist corsages. The fathers and ring bearer will have a dendrobium orchid boutonniere.
Cymbidium Orchids:
Dendrobium Orchid:
Andrew’s boutonniere is a hot pink calla lily and he is the only one who will have one.. My bouquet will have pink callas in it too.. So we’ll match 
My bouquet will consist of pink calla lilies, garden roses, peonies, and white cymbidium orchids.
Peonies:
Garden Roses: they are softer looking and more fluffier
We are having both tall and small centerpieces. They will consist of green hydrangea, roses, stock, snapdragon with hot pink dendrobium orchids in shades of white, pinks, and hot pinks..
Green Hydrangea: 
Purplish flower
Snapdragon
hot pink dendrobiums
Out of the three florists I went to David Anthony was the only one who includes a trial before the actual wedding. The others said if I reminded them, they could create the centerpiece or bouquet and bring it to a bridal show. I thought that was okay but what if they didn’t bring it to a bridal show? How can you not see what you’re getting and pay for it? What happens if you absolutely hate everything?! That certainly won’t be me! David Anthony will create my centerpieces so i can see what they’ll look like…Obviously if I don’t like it, he’ll change it and make me looove it!
