The swing of things!

Hello lovelies! 

Where on earth have I been? What on earth have I been doing? I know, since October, I have been a little hard to track down. I took a couple months off from weddings to savor the holidays and spend time with my family. I also have been totally renovating my little home and actually putting all those Pinterest pins to good use! I have been painting rooms, refurbishing old furniture, making ruffly & fluffy pillows from t-shirts and whipping up some homemade smoothies that taste like Push-Up pops. It has been a busy and rewarding little sabbatical. 

However, as Valentine's Day draws near, it is time for me to start getting back into the swing of things. To start off 2012, I am going to post one of my favorite weddings from 2011. 

Last fall, Birch Blooms was so fortunate to be part of a gorgeous Devore House Wedding! The bride and groom are just so lovely, and I love that the bride is a teacher at Norcross High. 

(This is my 4th wedding for a Norcross High teacher! Go Blue Devils!)

Logan and Greg's wedding was full of glamour and sweet little vintage accents. All of the details were captured by one of our favorite photographers, Lauren Wright. 

The stunning bride, Logan

Her handsome groom, Greg

So sweet! 

The centerpieces featured little vintage medicine bottles filled with sweet blooms like scabiosa, Queen Anne's lace, stock, lisianthus, ranunculus, and thistle. 

 Congratulations to Logan & Greg! 

x o x o

To check out more images from this wedding, visit Lauren Wright's blog here. 

All photos by Lauren Wright Photography (www.laurenwrightphoto.com)

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 

I have so many weddings and events from 2011 to add to the blog, but our sweet little blog has fallen behind cookie decorating parties, Christmas programs, wrapping presents and spending time with family on the 'To Do' list. 

The first week of the kids' Winter Break, we drove up to Kansas to surprise my husband's side of the family. We had an amazing time with friends and family, and we got to take the kids to experience a lot of the things we loved as kids (i.e., Kaleidoscope, Crown Center, and the Plaza Lights). We got home two days before Christmas and enjoyed Christmas in our own home.  It was a beautiful day filled with screams of joy over the gifts Santa Claus brought. 

By Christmas evening, I started to feel sad, as I do every year, that all the anticipation and excitement was over, however the next day, we drove up to a cabin my parents rented in Helen, GA to spend time with my side of the family. We spent the week opening gifts, sitting around talking and laughing, watching the kids play and antique shopping. It was exactly what I needed to combat the 'after Christmas blues'. 

Now, I am back home and ready to tackle the New Year! 

I am also excited for all the weddings we will be part of in 2012. 

I hope you all have had enjoyed the holidays, and I wish you all love, joy, success and happiness for 2012. 

xoxo 

Christmas card photos by Melissa Schollaert (http://msp-photography.com/)

Christmas Card Design by Silly Me Design (http://www.facebook.com/sillymebaby)

Count Your Blessings

Birch Blooms recently participated in a Thanksgiving Tablescape contest, hosted by Occasions Magazine.

Our design focused on Counting Your Blessings, and we incorporated numbers that could be meaningful to a family, like "57 years grandma and grandpa have been happily married". We also incorporated elements from our own families, like grandma's place settings and great grandpa's toolbox for the centerpiece filled with flowers, like dahlias, ranunculus, dusty miller, stock and daisies.

The walkway to our table

We worked with the super talented Maria Stacks, and all the gorgeous pictures were taken by Nikki Banik.

We are so honored that our table made was a finalist, and today is the last day to vote for our table. If you want to vote, you can go here. Each 'Like' counts as a vote.

We hope our table inspires your own tablescape for Thanksgiving next week... and more importantly, we hope it reminds you to count all your blessings.

xoxo