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An Etsy Wedding Wonderland: To Have and To Hold.

Article by Sara from Etsy….. We will share more pics soon!

Last week, we hosted our first Etsy Weddings event in New York City. Thank you to everyone who attended, and a special thank you to all of the sellers who graciously let us borrow merchandise!

Over three days, Etsy wedding sellers wowed the socks (and stockings) off of more than 1,000 brides-and-grooms-to-be, wedding planners, friends, family and industry press. As one attendee put it, “A wedding program finally designed for ME!”

Dear Stacey Wedding Photography and Celadon and Celery Events

Dear Stacey Wedding Photography and Celadon and Celery Events

One of our goals with this event was to bring new shoppers to Etsy’s already thriving weddings category, and To Have & To Hold was the perfect place to check out the breadth of weddings items available from sellers around the world.

Dear Stacey Wedding Photography and Celadon and Celery Events

Dear Stacey Wedding Photography and Celadon and Celery Events

Of course, we were also there to promote and publicize the launch of the new Etsy Weddings and Registry, so the event wouldn’t have been complete without a section focused on your new life together as a couple. We even had a station where you could register on the spot!

Dear Stacey Wedding Photography and Celadon and Celery Events

Dear Stacey Wedding Photography and Celadon and Celery Events

It was a dream come true to see the wonderland that is Etsy Weddings come to life in person. On all counts, it turned out great, and we couldn’t have done it without you (and you, and you, and you). Thanks again for being a part of it. View more photos on Flickr and keep browsing Etsy Weddings for your special day. Mazel tov!

   These rolling bougainvillaea hills in Malibu have become a large source of inspiration for me in these past few weeks. Love CA!

I had the pleasure of teaching again in LA about week or so ago. This time my private “grill me” session took place beach side in Manhattan beach at the lovely Miss Jeanne’s home. For 2 days we studied and practice the techniques of 5 major styles and components of floral design, color theory, and styling.  Working in her home I was able to see and understand her creative work flow and sensibility about natural elements and flowers. Jeanne had an incredible sense of style so on the second day  she created a masterful “tablescape” of arrangements and styles we had learned the day before.  She created lush, layered arrangements using bold  and saturated flowers such as liliacs,  black-berried hadera, horizontal umbrella ferns, sweet peas, and chocolate cosmos. These graphic clumps of flowers were softened with the most beautiful locally grown lavender and purple sweet peas, pale ivory rose  buds and the best of all – delicate checkerboard Cobra Lillys.

The resulting arrangements were a style that I am fond of – at once structured and graphic, yet soft and overgrown. It strikes a refreshing balance between the loose and tumbling style so popular right now and it’s very rigid and manipulated counterpart.

Congrats Jeanne your work will continue to grow and move you as you continue to discover your rhythm for flowers..

For more information about the Grill Me sessions please email us at floralclasses@celadoncelery.com. We have classes open for Sept in Southern LA Region, Late August for Napa Region, and we are now taking bookings for our floral classes in July in Bedford CT.

The best advice I got came from a friend. They told me I didn’t need to hire a wedding planner, just a great florist who shared my vision and knew what they were doing. That’s how I came across Bess Wyrick,of  Celadon & Celery Events. She was a pure joy to work with and created amazing arrangements!

  the colors are 60′s-inspired brights mixed with tones greys and blacks. Think glamorous Mad Men, but with a modern twist.

Eleanor’s weddings pictures has us dreaming in plum thanks to this pretty NYC wedding. It’s a layered affair with floral upon floral upon floral by the ever talented Celadon and Celery Team. The textures, the tone on tone, it’s all working beautifully and just goes to show that sticking with a simple color palette can be jaw-dropping and about as elegant as they come. Brett Szemple of 2 Capture Your Wedding snapped many a lovely images.

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Gramercy Park Hotel is a favorite venue of mine simply for the fact that it is one of the few event spaces in the city that instantly evokes another time, another place, an enchanted place. Rose bar attracts friends and ferries alike who are eccentric, edgy, artistic, and the iconic artwork on the walls compliments the curious intellectuals who come here. I have had the beautiful pleasure to work with the creative director of the hotel, Damion, and bring to a life a breathing,living, and spirited design to Rose Bar.

Photography by Damion Luaiye