Burgundy
As we look back at our 2016 central Illinois weddings, wine-burgundy-cranberry shades of flowers were chosen by eight of our brides making it the most popular wedding shade out of the forty-five weddings we created bouquets for. That is not surprising considering Marsala was 2015 color of the year and here in the midwest we aren’t as quick to embrace the newest style.
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Plum
Coming in second place was plum with six of our central Illinois brides choosing plum colored blooms for their bridal bouquets.
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Peach
We had three shades tie for third place – Peach, Pink and White. Five of our 2016 brides chose peach shades for their wedding bouquets.
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Pink
Another five of our central Illinois brides chose pink flowers for their bridal bouquets.
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White
Classic white is always in and five our 2016 brides picked all white blooms for their wedding flowers.
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Blush
Coming in fourth place we have blush – this surprised me as it seemed like I had worked with blush roses most of the wedding season!! We actually did use a lot of blush flowers mixed in with the burgundy colored bouquets and our favorite blush roses we used the most were Quicksand and White O’hara garden rose. We had four brides choose blush shades of flowers for their wedding bouquets.
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Blue and Rust
Blue and rust colored flowers tied for fifth place with three brides choosing each color.
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Yellow, Coral, Red and Lavender
Yellow and coral tied for sixth place with two brides choosing yellow flowers and two choosing coral. And last but not least we had one bride choose red and one bride choose lavender.
We so enjoyed working with each and every bride and creating their floral vision for each of them. We are greatly humbled once again by the lovely reviews our brides took time to leave for us and in so doing winning us “The Knot Best Of Weddings 2017”!! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. While I loved many of the bouquets we created this year, I think my most favorite flowers I worked with this year was the antique lavender wedding – something rare and beautiful (see below right)!!!
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We already have twenty weddings booked for 2017 and we are looking forward to spring and the returning wedding season. However, after doing fifty events this past year, many two and three per weekend, we are restructuring how we do business in 2017. To be able to fully enjoy and give our full attention to each wedding, we are only booking one per weekend starting now in 2017; thus we now have a $1,000 minimum to book with us.
We have met so many wonderful people and feel so blessed to be able to use our God-given talents to bring pleasure to others by working with God’s glorious flowers and to be able to use part of our profits to fund our mission trips to Mexico.
Happy New Year to all,
Nancy