Photo Fridays | An Orchid Bridal Shoot + a Giveaway
July 13, 2012Happy Friday! I hope you all have had a great week! I have been loving the responses from Handpicked Handmade! I am so happy you all love it! If you haven’t checked it out yet, hop on over here to see some amazing handmade designers!
To end off the week, I’ve got a beautiful orchid bridal shoot from Gema Blanton. This orchid greenhouse has got to be one of the most beautiful and unique locations for a shoot! With such a stunning backdrop, it’s hard not to get some amazing images! But the bride, the dress, the bouquet, everything is just gorgeous!
Bouquet | Two Dandelions
Shoes | insPireworks
Now that you’ve seen some gorgeous images, maybe you’d like to win something gorgeous too? In honor of the Handpicked Handmade launch, I’ve got another great giveaway for you! One of my amazing Handpicked Handmade designers, Holly Stalder, is graciously giving away this stunning sequin bolero! Bride or not, this would be a fabulous piece to add to any wardrobe!
Breath-taking right? I know you want to know how to win, here’s how: First, if you haven’t checked out Handpicked Handmade, head over there and check out the awesome designers! Then, just leave a comment about your most meaningful wedding detail you had or are planning for your wedding (I’m excited to read them all!)
Again, extra entries if you share Handpicked Handmade on Facebook or Twitter, just leave an additional comment.
Giveaway is open until Sunday the 22nd at midnight eastern time. The winner will be announced that following Wednesday.
Also, don’t forget to enter the Paloma’s Nest giveaway that started on Monday!! Good luck everyone!
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July 13, 2012 at 8:57 am
The most meaningful detail of our wedding is our vows, which we are writing privately and sharing with each other a week before the wedding. As far as the tangible/visible details, the most meaningful detail is probably the Persian sofreh (a table with lots of symbolic decorations) that my future mother-in-law is arranging for the ceremony, which will otherwise be pretty traditional and Protestant.
July 13, 2012 at 8:58 am
I tweeted about Handpicked Handmade! https://twitter.com/LizBennettH/status/223763333931745280
July 13, 2012 at 11:02 am
Wow, this shoot is really impressive! I love orchids, and the photos are incredible!
July 13, 2012 at 11:14 am
The food is a big way that we will add personal details to our wedding. We handpicked the local cheeses that will be served at cocktail hour, included our favorite dishes at dinner, and decided to use our favorite local cupcakery to make the best cupcakes ever in lue of a wedding cake. For our favors, my mom is making fudge (one of my favorite desserts she makes), and my fiance's mom is making spiced pecans, which are delicious. For us, food has allowed us to make the day unique to us.
July 13, 2012 at 11:21 am
We definitely have the "Something Old" covered in our wedding - my engagement ring is my fiance's grandmothers from the 1940s, my grandmother's garter will be wrapped around my bouquet (doesn't stretch like it used too!), and my veil will be my mother's veil without the hat part (yikes!). So it's meaningful to have something from previous weddings on both my side and my fiance's. Helps bring everything together!
July 13, 2012 at 11:25 am
Follow/share on Twitter! (Loah12)https://twitter.com/LOAH12/status/223800164069015552
July 13, 2012 at 12:06 pm
The most meaningful detail of our wedding is having my fiances grandfather (who raised him) as our officiant...I cant imagine anyone more special!
July 13, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Oh my goodness! I'm absolutely in love!
July 13, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Our whole wedding is going to be so special. The groom's father is marrying us, we'll have an antique family bible from each family in the ceremony, along with pictures of our parents and grandparent's weddings at our reception, my aunt is making the cake, the whole wedding/reception is DIY even down to my headpiece, but my very favorite part is our own vows and that my sweet groom will be playing and singing me a song at the ceremony. Only 23 days left until our wedding!!
July 13, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Shared on twitter! https://twitter.com/LaurenWA
July 13, 2012 at 8:05 pm
LOVE LOVE LOVE this orchid bridal shoot! The different colors make the bride look exquisite in the gorgeous pink gown. It kind of gives a fantasy look to the entire theme.
July 13, 2012 at 10:02 pm
I'm really excited about surprising my fiance with a Syracuse groom's cake at the reception!
July 14, 2012 at 3:38 am
I've been super bumming thinking about how my amazing grandparents won't be at my weddig(all 4 of them have passed away the last couple years). I was sooo lucky growing up, having really loving and awesome grandparents, so I plan on honoring each of them at my wedding. One thing I'm planning is having a cigar roller for guests, my grandfather loved a great cigar. So, we'll have a little cigar stand with Grandpa Buddy's name on it!
July 14, 2012 at 4:30 pm
since all of my grandparents have passed away a really special this is that my rings were originally my great grandmothers and my FI will be wearing the lapel pin my grandfather wore at his wedding and to every special even including my mother's and all of my aunt's weddings
July 14, 2012 at 4:32 pm
I tweeted the giveaway https://twitter.com/ashleypedersen2/status/224239701924651009
July 15, 2012 at 8:31 am
I love this beautiful pink dress! And the bolero. Gorgeous!
July 15, 2012 at 3:16 pm
planning on having a table dedicated to our parents, grandparents, and the rest of the family. lots of pictures and mementos!
July 15, 2012 at 4:43 pm
The most striking and meaningful detail about our upcoming wedding on Septemder is our wedding invitations. We made a video of our best moments from our childhood till now, filled with jokes and home videos, truly capturing who we really are and gave them away to the most important people in our lifes. Our parents and siblings were laughing and crying at the same time. It was priceless!
July 16, 2012 at 12:36 am
I have a couple of details that are really important to me, first I am having a pair of pearls my grandfather gave me when I was little made into earrings for me to wear. He picked them up when he was in Japan for World War II. Second, I found the first rose my fiance ever gave to me in a box with a bunch of my jewelry. He gave it to me in high school long before we started dating, but since it was the first rose a guy had ever given to me I held on to it. I'm going to put the rose in a display box to have at the wedding to share with the guests.
July 16, 2012 at 10:21 am
Thanks for sharing Gema Blanton's photos. I just thought I would let you know that the location of the shoot is Gunter's Greenhouse in Richardson, TX. It was a pleasure for me to do the bouquet and hairpiece featuring their gorgeous orchids.
July 16, 2012 at 1:06 pm
I am so excited because something bad went into something good.
The girl making my bouquet crapped out on me. *sad face* However, because of it I'm making it on my own. I have papers written on by each of the wedding guests and each person's papers will be made into a flower.
Yes, I'm having an origami bouquet that I'm making, and it's so meaningful for me because I AM making it, not someone else and that many of the flowers are words of love written by the guests. So i'll have something from each of them. It is stressful but I LOVE this so much.
Here is a picture of what I'm making. http://www.capitolromance.com/2011/09/21/diy-how-to-origami-paper-flower-bouquet/
July 16, 2012 at 1:07 pm
I am following you on Twitter (CrunchyGreenMom)
July 16, 2012 at 1:08 pm
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July 17, 2012 at 5:58 am
OMG!!! THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SHOOT :x:x:x love love love
July 17, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I love your site - I've been using it as inspiration for months now, from before I was engaged. We won't be married until next year, but our anticipated most meaningful wedding detail is the location. We wanted to take people somewhere fun, small, where they'd be running into each other all weekend as they enjoyed the great outdoors. So we have chosen Catalina Island, a beautiful place owned by the Wrigley family, just 26 miles off the southern California coast. We can't wait to gather our friends and family around us to celebrate!
July 18, 2012 at 12:51 pm
I am in the midst of wedding planning and I think my favorite detail so far is the sweet vintage stamps that I've bought to mail my invites out with. I also want to include a lot of paper in the decorations, similar to an Anthropologie store, ha ha! :) By the way, those photos are amazing (orchids have got to be one of my favorite flowers) as is Holly Stalder's collection. Dying for that bolero!
July 18, 2012 at 12:54 pm
I'm making these for favors and I think they'll be a huge hit! http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2012/how-tuesday-tiny-house-wedding-favors/?ref=fp_blog_title That bolero is so beautiful too--another awesome Handpicked Handmade designer!
July 18, 2012 at 6:05 pm
The most meaningful detail of our wedding were the songs we picked for our Mother/Son dance and Father/Daughter dances. Both songs exemplified our relationships withour parents and described us as individuals.
July 18, 2012 at 10:29 pm
That orchid bridal shoot is fantastic! LOVE it!