Can Flowers Be Masculine?

You bet they can! Often when people think of flowers, they immediately think of femininity. But flowers don’t have to be feminine. Of course, they will ways give that touch of softness to your party. However, in a recent event we created beautiful and manly centerpieces that wowed the guests.

Masculine florals tend to include flowers displaying strong graphic and architectural shapes (contemporary, clean lines) and foliage. Some of our favorite florals to use for our masculine arrangements are Ranunculus and Billy Balls with an accent of tropical foliage.

Varying textures of leaves and shades of greens and browns (dark tones) made the yellow floral accents pop. We always keep our centerpieces lush but our masculine florals tend to have a more organic feel.

Instead of using clear glass cylinders or other textured colored vases, we used black rectangular vases to add a contemporary look, which enhanced the masculinity of the whole arrangement. We also recommend sand blasted vases to add an organic element that is necessary in any masculine floral piece.

Color Trends 2012/13

Events are all about the theme, which is often driven by a color scheme. Color trends in events often trickle down from fashion making both mint and tangerine shades popular in the coming seasons.

Mint, sea foam, light turquoise and teals, work well for spring months and for upcoming winter events too. This cool and fresh color palette lends itself to many different feels and avenues when planning an event. When paired with ivories, grays, or other pastels like pink, this creates a soft, airy aura. If you want to incorporate these pale and cool green hues in a more traditional and formal feeling design, combine with slate, black, or gray. And finally when paired with a bright warm ‘pop’ color, mints, sea foams, and light teal hues become much more playful and fresh.

Tangerine, mango, or orange have been traditionally hard colors to incorporate but in recent months they have been popping up in everything from fashion to interiors. When using one of these bright, warm colors as the base of your palette, you can go one of two ways. The first is a bit subtler using it as the accent color paired with more neutrals like white, ivory, or sugar cookie. The second is a lot bolder, by pairing it with another vibrant color of either warm or cool color palettes, say hot pink or turquoise, for example, and you get something very lively and new.

Think about these upcoming trends in color when planning your next event and how they can be incorporated into every detail from the invitation, flowers, venue, tables, dresses, and all the way through to the thank you cards.

An Ethereal Forest

This weekend, the JG team had the pleasure of celebrating a wedding with one fabulous couple who had a vision of flowering branches towering over their dinner tables as centerpieces with floating candles at the base. This fantastic combination along with flickering luminaries created a wonderfully romantic, dreamy ethereal forest, with twinkling stars that you’d want to sleep under.

These Cherry Blossom branches bloom only two weeks per year. Mother nature was certainly looking down on us this weekend and smiling!

For the escort card table we wanted to stick with the flowering branches theme, but also add an element of softness with lots of floating candles, small clustered bouquets, and a rounded ceiling installation.

We incorporated the escort card table floral into the bridal bouquet, but added a touch of Anemone, which gives that chic contrast of white against deep purple.

Spotlighting is a great way to highlight the centerpieces. We especially like to use spotlighting for tall centerpieces to give a more dramatic finish to the space. On the dance floor, we gave our luminaries a twinkly look by using flickering battery operated LED candles. The flickering LED lights create more of an illusion of real candles and give an even warmer feel to the atmosphere than a standard LED light would.

The free-forming of branches on the Chuppah gives a more organic, natural feel that we love…and can you believe that sunset!?

Congratulations to the happy couple! And we have to give a “Thank you!” to Abigail Kirsh’s The Lighthouse and to our whole team for helping to put on a fantastic party!