If you read our last blog post, How to Design a Destination Wedding, you got to check out our mood boards for our entire wedding weekend. A big part of achieving the overall look for each part of our wedding were the flowers, which is why I wanted to take a whole blog post to explain the design process, installation and end result of Noosheen’s beautiful floral work. Let’s explore our destination wedding’s floral design!
Destination Wedding Floral Design Process
Just like our design sessions with Cristen, we worked with our florist, Noosheen of Noosheens Floral Event Design Studio to develop a cohesive look and feel for the florals as a part of the greater design. After showing Noosheen Cristen’s design presentation and walking her through how we wanted each experience to feel, she came up with a detailed look book showcasing the placement, varieties and design of the flowers in each of the venues.
Bridal Bouquets & Boutonnieres
Let’s break down each aspect of the floral design! First up are the bouquets and the boutonnieres. We kept it simple for my bouquet with a mix of local white flowers and a touch of greenery and for my sister, who was my maid of honor, hers had more of a mix of cream, white and peach tones, with a slightly more organic feel. Drew, our brothers and fathers got the boutonnieres, white echoed the streamlined, organic effect.
Wedding Ceremony
On the wedding day, I was so excited to the flowers at the church, I knew Noosheen was going to do something amazing.
The aisles was lined with ornate autumnal installations. The alter had lots of these beautiful, flowing creations as well.
The challenge with decorating a church like Chiesa Santa Maria in Portico is that the extravagant baroque architecture is so imposing the décor has to neither compete or get swallowed up and Noosheen did just that.
And for the entrance, she created this dreamy structure, which was the perfect addition to the beautiful architecture of the church.
Cocktail Hour at the Hotel Hassler’s Palm Court
And then moving into the reception, Noosheen’s job was to amp up the already magnificent Hotel Hassler. We had our cocktail hour in the Palm Court courtyard.
In addition to adding lots of little touches all over the place, she installed two large displays on the balcony overlooking the party so that guest would have a place to take pictures. The first was at the old wine cellar, which created this perfect nook and second was a cute stone bench with an antique sign above it, where Noosheen created a framing floral surround.
Rooftop Dinner Reception
And finally, onto the best part—dinner on the rooftop terrace!
We wanted the dinner portion of the evening to feel like a garden party in the middle of the city. The tablescape was filled with roses, some pink, some white and some painted gold—some in formal arrangements and some sticking straight up in thin ‘test tube vases’! And Noosheen added in tons of candles of all different sizes throughout the length of the long table.
For the rest of the space, she covered the railing with greenery, added in some pops of white and pink roses to an existing wall.
And to dig into the derails of the tablescape, the mirrored, Imperial tables tables were rented from Latini Design, along with the rose gold and white chairs and the matte black flat wear. And we brought the rose gold napkins with us from Boston that we got from BBJ Linens.
Oh and we can’t miss the intricate menu cards that Val from the Paper Perfectionist made us. The menus were placed behind a piece of velum, with a laser cut “mangia” on top and the names of the guests enclosing the little kit with a black wax seal. Have you ever seen something more perfect?
All night our string quartet played while we enjoyed dinner with the best view in Rome from our rooftop terrace at the Hassler while enjoying the result from our amazing destination wedding floral design.
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