2011 has been incredibly good to our family and this flower shop. I can barely believe it’s time to say goodbye to 2011. We have our final wedding of the year tomorrow night and its a sexy whopper. Our year and our wedding season will end with a fabulous New Years Eve, black and white wedding. At midnight Evan will be doing his first ever balloon drop. Yep, he may just be the biggest blessing and asset of 2011, so it’s only fitting that the year end with a big balloon drop designed by Evan. We are so grateful to be creating right up to the very last minute of 2011. Here is our last “in the cooler” post of 2011. I will thankfully and happily take another year as wonderful as this!!!!

My bride will carry a beautiful bouquet of all white mini callas. The bouquet was surrounded with black feathers. Tomorrow I will bind the bouquet in black lace and add brooches to the stems.

Elevated designs were created with white hydrangea, white callas, white football mums, and white dendrobium orchids. At the wedding we will add black ostrich feathers, and crystals. This wedding is so over the top!!!

These balls of flowers will be elevated on mirrored black and silver boxes. They will be paired with my crystal stands. I am dying to see these designs in place.

These designs are for the cocktail tables. I am loving my silk anemones!!!!!!!

Maids bouquets were created with the silk anemone, white carnations, roses, ranunculus, and black privet berry.

Piles of feathers, crystals and supplies are loaded and ready to go.

Our place card design couldn’t be any cooler with feathers, noise blowers, and party hats. It’s perfect right?

Evan will also be up-lighting the reception room. His equipment is ready and waiting in the basement…

and in our bedroom there are 150 balloons. I’m not quite sure why he chose our bedroom to store the balloons but oh well that’s one of the joys of being home based and having your spouse as a business partner. We are so ready and excited to bring this wedding to life.

On a personal note our family has been looking at wedding gowns and our bride ( my son’s fiance) has made her choice and we are totally thrilled!!! As we leave 2011 we are so excited and so hopeful for 2012. If I were to write a gratitude list it would go on for miles. I will never be able to thank all of the family, friends, supporters and followers that help us to be a success. I am feeling totally blessed. 2011 was outrageously good to us and 2012 is looking incredibly good as well!!