2010 Wedding Wire Bride's Choice Award!!

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Festive Designs has been selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Floral Design!

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Festive Designs is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Festive Designs is among the very best Floral Design within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at Festive Designs

Faces of Festive Designs

Meet:

 Shannon Carlisle

Shannon, 23, grew up in the Central Valley of California in a small town called Exeter. She was raised in an area rich in agricultural based business; one of the many reasons she chose to attend Cal Poly after graduating Exeter High School in 2005. She majored in Environmental Horticulture Science with a focus on floral design and plant protection. Shannon is planning to graduate at the end of this quarter! She was involved in the Gordon Student Chapter of SAIFD at Cal Poly and served as President, Secretary, and Vice President. After graduation, she plans on attending the AIFD 2010 National Symposium in Boston, completing her AES testing, and hopefully becoming become an accredited member of AIFD. Shannon also plans to earn her PCA (Pest Control Advisor) License after graduation in order to obtain a job as a PCA.

“I have worked for Melinda at Festive Designs since 2005. I enjoy designing flowers for weddings because every day is something new and different. Every customer wants their wedding day to be perfect and unique- and it makes me happy to be able to be a part of their special day.”

Megan & Matthew

Megan & Matthew

November 7, 2009

Holland Ranch

Megan and Matthew are two wonderful people, whose families have been through some hard times recently. But everyone came together to celebrate their love, their future, and the precious gift of life!

Holland Ranch in San Luis Obispo was the perfect backdrop for their celebration! It is an unbelievable location- run by a very kind family!

Megan's bouquet: a very colorful collection of red gerbers, purple lisianthus, blue delphinium, orange asiatic lilies, purple freesia, and circus roses.

   

Our favorite features: Megan's Grandmother's necklace as her "something old" and the fabulous circus roses that look like a sunset!

   

         Grandma's wristlet            The bridesmaids bouquet

The flower girl's basket

The groom's boutonniere &     the groomsmen's boutonniere

   

The aisle flowers included simple clusters of orange lilies, scalloped ribbon, and multi-colored petals.

The ceremony flowers included a foliage garland with colorful flower clusters, and 5 white clusters at the top to represent cherished family members who have recently passed on. There were also 3 potted plants on either end of the arch...but honestly, this stage doesn't need much embellishment- the star of the show is truly the amazing view! Don't you agree?!

All of those clusters later did double duty as centerpieces!

Everything at this wedding worked twice: the garland and plants served as stage decor with the aisle lilies...

..... and another piece of garland and plant decorated an empty shelf!

              This beautiful 3 tier cake is a creation by Lauren & Two Little Birds Bakery in Paso Robles and once Festive Designs added flowers to it....it was a show-stopper!

We hope this cake was a sweet ending to a magical day!

(and we're pretty sure it was, Lauren told me the top two layers were Kahlua flavored! Yum!)

Stephanie & Cory

Stephanie & Cory

November 1, 2009

Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo

The bridesmaid's bouquet
The Groom's boutonniere with the Madonna Inn brand

The Bride's bouquet

The main stage of Madonna Inn where Stephanie made her dramatic entrance to the ceremony down the staircase!

The show-stopping peacock cake!

The ceremony arrangements later became the reception centerpieces

For more photos of Stephanie & Cory's wedding visit the Festive Designs Facebook Page, become a fan, and check out their full album!

Jewel Toned Wedding

The bride's bouquet contained red baby roses, burgundy roses, white roses, white gerber daises, purple stock, purple carnations, lavender freesia, pink freesia and red gerber daises. Did I miss anything?

The bridesmaids bouquets

The stems are wrapped in purple satin ribbon...it just LOOKS blue for some reason!

Above is the boutonniere and below is the one of the small cocktail table arrangements.