Garden Gorgeous

Ann and Bobby

Appleford Estate, Villanova Pennsylvania

September 2012

Ceremony: Villanova Chapel

Reception: Appleford Estate

Caterer: A Perfect Setting

Invitations and Stationery Accessories: La Petite Fleur, weddings & events

Flowers & Décor: La Petite Fleur, weddings & events

Lighting: Eventions Productions for La Petite Fleur

Photographer: Tiffany Atlas

Entertainment: The Vincent James Band

Calling all romantics… you’ll love Ann and Bobby’s Fall garden wedding on the grounds of Appleford Estate on the Main Line in Villanova.  With a sweet sophistication, La Petite Fleur, wedding & events, styled this alfresco affair to pretty perfection— incorporating delicate, yet distinct, details to create an atmosphere that brimmed with romance and warmth.

To begin, LPF married soft, textured, white blooms, including berries and dusty miller and pops of deep pink and purple, with blushes and buttercream to achieve a garden look with a palette that was light, yet warm enough for Fall. As such, Ann carried an elegant, asymmetrical bouquet of blush, deep pink and purple blooms with varying textures, including full-petaled garden roses, astilbe, dahlias, celosia, brunia berries, wax flower and ivy.  In keeping with the affair’s air of easy elegance, LPF designed loosely gathered bouquets for the bridesmaids in a palette of lavender, yellow and pink— featuring roses, stock, dusty miller, astilbe and craspedia.

To complement Ann’s look, LPF designed an architectural dahlia boutonnière, accented with white berries and a touch of textural greens, for Bobby, and textured craspedia and wax flower boutonnières for the groomsmen.

Following Ann and Bobby’s ceremony at Villanova Chapel, guests were invited to celebrate with the couple at Appleford Estate— beginning with cocktails in the rose garden and lawn.

Well-wishers were greeted by a charming welcome vignette LPF designed that featured a framed, hand-painted chalkboard nestled amidst an urn brimming with blooms.

As drinks flowed, the bar was aglow beneath a trio of white chandeliers suspended from a tree.
Our colleagues at Eventions Productions brought the installation “to light,” while LPF brought the unique décor “to life,” adorning the fixtures with flowers, such as roses, plumosa fern, soledago and petite purple waxflower.

LPF created two centerpiece styles for the cocktail tables: one featured birch pots filled with garden blooms, including ranunculus, roses, astilbe, and wax flowers, and the other featured a collection of vintage bud vases (even milk glass) filled with yellow, white and lavender garden blooms.

As guests enjoyed cocktails, they admired a unique seating chart installation designed by LPF, which featured a series of vintage white-framed chalkboards with hand-illustrated seating assignments, displayed along the garden’s trellis.

The couple’s reception was celebrated on the Estate’s tented patio, which featured a warm dance floor wash and a twinkling canopy of Italian market lights, courtesy of Eventions. 

For interest and charm, LPF worked with the couple on a floor plan comprised of different shaped and sized tables.  Subsequently, LPF designed three garden-inspired tablescape styles. The square tables featured a “runner” of mismatched petite footed-compotes and milk glass vases— filled with palette-coordinating garden blooms (loosely arranged)—  with a focal arrangement of “spilling” blooms in a fluted vase that included full-petaled roses, wax flower, astilbe, dusty miller and seeded eucalyptus. 

Many of the round tables featured a glass footed-compote with dahlias, roses, ranunculus and stock, accented with greens; while other tables were adorned with a birch pot— filled with textured blooms, including stock, dahlias and ranunculus— and stemmed candle holders.
All of the reception tablescapes were finished with votives for shimmer and LPF custom- designed and printed table numbers, perched in birch bark holders.