For the Love of Pink

Megan and Steve 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 2013

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Ceremony: Saint Luke’s, Glenside
Venue: Knowlton Mansion
Stationery, Floral Décor and Coordination: La Petite Fleur
Lighting: Synergetic Sound and Lighting
Entertainment: Silver Sound DJ
Photography: Main Line Wedding Photography
Transportation: Secrets Limousine
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Brimming with personality and charm, Megan and Steve came to La Petite Fleur for a coordinated, professional approach to infusing their wedding at Knowlton Mansion with sweet, all that is pretty in pink. 

Naturally, we were tickled pink to collaborate with the couple from day one through the day they became one— assisting with contract negotiations, creating and executing a flower and décor plan, and designing their save-the-dates and table cards.  LPF also had the pleasure of teaming with the bride and groom on coordination to ensure every last detail of their day was implemented with perfection.

Our design story begins with Megan and Steve’s custom save-the-date, which was created to coordinate with their invitation— using their engagement photo and shades of pink color palette. LPF’s think pink approach to the couple’s event was applied to not only the stationery, but to the flowers and décor, too! 

Megan walked down the aisle carrying a round, tailored presentation of blush pink garden roses with ivory satinfinished stems with crystal buttons, while her bridesmaids carried striking, variegated bouquets of pink ranunculus and hot pink attaché roses with gold satin-finished stems.  To coordinate, Steve wore a garden rose boutonnière with black satin finished-stems, and the groomsmen sported hot pink rose boutonnières.

Following their ceremony, the Mr. and Mrs. invited guests to celebrate with them at the regal Knowlton Mansion in Philadelphia.  Upon arrival, guests were greeted in the foyer by a trio of gold vases, in varying heights, with full, single-variety arrangements of white hydrangea, and Esperance and Baroness roses.

As well-wishers moved through the Mansion, they were met by an escort card display that boasted a dramatic presentation of blooming cherry blossom branches— accented with hanging votives— and cocktail tables adorned with eclectic collections of bud vases filled with individual varieties of pink blooms, including ranunculus and boronia.   

LPF had the mansion aglow with warm pink lighting illuminating the pillars and flooding the dance floor, courtesy of our colleagues at Synergetic Sound and Light.  Then, to punctuate the prettiness, we created three sophisticated, yet sweet, table-scape designs.  The first of which featured a rounded arrangement of Princess roses, as well as Esperance and Baroness roses in light, hot and rich shades of pink— in a muted gold cube. To complement this stunning composition, LPF added a gold turned candlestick, topped with a floating candle.

The second table-scape featured a footed-compote with a mounded arrangement of garden blooms, including white hydrangea, boronia, pink ranunculus, and pink Hot Lady roses and, for a hint of yellow, buplerum.

The final design in the table-scape trio was an updated take on a traditional composition of pink Hot Lady roses, dendrobium orchids, bright pink hydrangea and specialty grasses atop a pilsner vase.

To complete each table’s look, LPF custom-designed table cards, which featured pictures of Megan and Steve at  the age specific to the table’s number, matted against metallic stock.

For a final pop of pink, LPF finished the tiers of the couple’s cake with roses.

Jessica's Rainforest Adventure

Jessica's Bat Mitzvah

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

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Event Design, Flowers, Invitations, Stationery by La Petite Fleur

Catering: Infinity Caterers

Entertainment: EBE Matt Ostroff

Venue: Congregation Kol Ami

Cupcakes: The Sugar Bakery

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Tropical blooms at every turn; a tabletop tree to display leaf-escort cards; rainforest animals suspended from branches; juicy oranges, limes and birds of paradise; and even exotic cupcakes designed by Cupcake Wars winner, Sugar Bakery!
Jessica's details were so much fun.

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.

LPF Designs to the Letter

Oh, what an honor. One of the most discerning design and wedding blogs, Oh So Beautiful Paper, has featured the unique invitation suite we custom-designed and hand-assembled for Fisher's Aspen Themed Bar Mitzvah. 

This letterpressed, embossed, foil-stamped, boxed and completely customized suite, really wowed! For more about this amazing project, check out the details on the OSBP Blog.

Pink Charming

Michelle and Michael

Cairnwood Mansion, Bryn Athyn
September 2012

Bridal Fashions: The Wedding Shop of Wayne

Ceremony and Reception: Cairnwood Mansion

Caterer: Feastivities

Invitation and Stationery Accessories: La Petite Fleur, weddings and events

Flowers and Décor: La Petite Fleur, weddings & events

Couple's Photographer: Robert Wood

Detailed Photography: Lori Gail for La Petite Fleur

Entertainment: EBE

Michelle and Mike’s September sunset celebration at Cairnwood Mansion in Bryn Athyn had guests swooning from the start. Think pink… and not just any shade… lipstick pink. La Petite Fleur finessed the playful palette to establish a baroque, yet contemporary, styling for this charming couple’s alfresco affair.

This style-story starts with LPF collaborating with the couple to create a stationery suite that resonated with refined flair. The sweet save-the-date hinted at the forthcoming invitation wardrobe, custom-designed and assembled LPF.

With couture paper stock and expert typography, LPF created a piece that included a black metallic pocket, within which the palette was artfully represented with a black and white damask-backed invitation card and tiered soft-white inserts printed with the event’s signature pink and soft black text. in mixed fonts. Closed with a custom monogrammed seal-- the unique invitation exuded personality-- reflecting the fun, classy feel guests could expect the day-of.

Charming white garden chairs, adorned with black and white polka dot ribbon-tailed pomanders (in a kissable shade of pink), beckoned guests to have a seat before the mansion’s majestic double doors, which proudly displayed “M” and “M” magenta flower wreaths. The doors, serving as the backdrop to the nuptials, were flanked by pedestal urns filled with grand arrangements of soaring stems, including pink and fuchsia roses, hydrangea and stock.

The bridesmaids carried bouquets of pink blooms, including dahlias and phlox— with black satin-wrapped stems.  The flower girl excitedly carried a sweet pomander of lipstick pink blooms— with a black and white polka dot grosgrain ribbon.

Michelle carried an elegant, rounded bouquet of lipstick pink and white blooms, including attaché roses, peonies, lisianthus and ranunculus— finished with white a satin-wrapped stem. The groomsmen wore pink kalanchoe boutonnieres, while the ring bearer wore a petite version of Michael’s tailored ranunculus boutonniere finished with a black satin stem.
 

Following the ceremony, guests were invited to enjoy cocktails on the Mansion’s terrace amidst tables topped with sleek black glass blooms filled with more rich pink blooms. Cocktails extended into the garden where Sheppard’s hooks cradled white lanterns which framed the reflecting pond. Hot pink gerbera daisy blossoms and pillar candles in submerged glass cylinders.

As part of the event’s stationery suite, LPF custom-designed and printed a bridal party sign-- presented in a “blinged” black  frame, as well as patterned table numbers displayed in white easel frames.  And as for the escort cards, mini wine bottle labels were customized with each guest’s name and seating assignment.  The “escort bottles” were displayed atop an apple-lined glass-top table, accented with rounded arrangements of rich red apples and fuchsia blooms in black ceramic vases.  

 
For the reception on the Mansion’s tented terrace, LPF created three centerpiece designs. The first featured a trio of black ceramic candlesticks: two topped with pillar candles in glass cylinders wrapped with pink satin; the third, an arrangement of pink roses and white hydrangea.  
 

The second tablescape featured an over-sized pink flower cluster beneath a glass cloche— finished with votives. The third tablescape design included a trio of ribbon-wrapped glass cylinders (of varying heights) each filled with a different variety of pink blooms, including roses and phlox.
 

As the sky grew dark, Michelle and Michael, along with their friends and family, enjoyed dancing and celebrating in the glow of  the dining tables’ twinkling, beribboned votive candles.

Something Blue...and Bright


Laura and Andrew


September 8th


Glen Foerd Mansion, Philadelphia



Design and Accessories by La Petite Fleur

Lighting and Entertainment by Synergetic Sounds

Catering by Conroy Catering

Photography by Faith West 

Laura and Andrew’s personalities are as bright as the flowers and décor that La Petite Fleur used to style their fall wedding at Glen Foerd Mansion on the Delaware. From floral design, to stationery accessories, LPF helped the couple set a bright scene.



Along the riverside, Laura walked down an aisle framed with sweet ribbon swags in varying widths and shades of yellow. She was aglow carrying an elegant bouquet of tightly clustered white and butter yellow orchids, snap dragons, hydrangea, tulips and bupleurum— accented with petite trailing greens and satin-finished stems. To coordinate with his bride, Andrew wore a tailored boutonniere of petite yellow roses—accented with simple white blooms and greens. Even Glen Foerd’s famed black Labrador statue was dressed to impress with a collar of coordinating blooms and ribbon.

While the bridesmaids carried loosely arranged bouquets of yellow roses, tulips, mums and blue delphinium— finished with yellow satin— Laura’s maid-of-honor carried a gathering of deep blue delphinium and yellow blooms. Complementing the ladies’ flowers were the gentlemen’s boutonnieres in shades of blue with a touch of greens.



Guests enjoyed cocktails in the Mansion’s music room, where LPF adorned the mantle with textured greens and vintage mercury votives to frame the couple’s family photo collection. LPF also designed two centerpiece styles for the cocktail tables. Half of the tables were topped with a glass bubble bowl filled with swirled grasses and floating yellow blossoms; the others featured a collection of garden vases filled with single varieties, including delicate blue delphinium; and whimsical, yellow craspedia.

The escort card table boasted a stunning arrangement of Manzanita branches trimmed with leaves, hanging crystals and votives—surrounded by custom-designed pale yellow escort cards with raised navy ink and the couple’s logo.



Laura and Andrew hosted well-wishers for dinner and dancing in the Mansion’s grand conservatory where LPF presented two tablescape designs. One centerpiece featured a low, square glass planter with floating bright yellow mums— accented with moss and river rock clusters at the base— and mercury glass votives, for a touch of shimmer. The second centerpiece had a trio of glass vases, including a beribboned cylinder with submerged blue delphinium stems, and two garden-style bud vases with bright yellow tulips— also accented with moss river rock clusters and votives. To finish the look of each table, LPF placed custom-designed pale blue table cards, mounted to contrasting stock.

An Incandescent Evening

Sahar and Craig

June 30, 2012

Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania

Flowers, Decor, Invitations and Event Styling by La Petite Fleur

Photography by Susan Beard Photography

Catering by Robert Fair Caterers

Venue: Cairnwood Mansion

Newlyweds Sahar and Craig are statement makers with classic taste. As such, they chose Cairnwood Mansion in Bryn Athyn as their venue and wedding design boutique La Petite Fleur as their event stylist and florist. The result was a soft, yet strikingly-sophisticated, summer soiree— anchored by a palette of white, ivory, champagne and black.

The ceremony took place in the Mansion’s front courtyard—with the couple exchanging vows on the grand front steps, which featured beautiful arrangements of monsterra leaves, gorgeous white hydrangea, roses and gladiolas atop white stone columns.
Ceremony chairs were adorned with clusters of white cymbidium orchids with organza ribbon tails and folded aspidistra leaves. As guests approached their seats, they grabbed parasols from a white French flower bucket with a custom LPF sign encouraging guests to “Hold Tight, It’s an Exciting Night.”
 
Statuesque in a Vera Wang ball gown, Sahar was a sight to behold in layers of tulle and a flouncing black bow at her waist— as she swept down the petal-covered aisle carrying a grand bouquet of blooms in a spectrum of whites, including ranunculus, kalanchoe and roses, accented with variegated geranium leaves for enhanced definition. Regal in a suit tailored by one of his groomsmen, Craig beamed with a rannunculus boutonnière on his lapel as he watched his bride approach the Mansion steps.

The bridesmaids, wearing flirty one-shoulder black chiffon dresses, each carried a bouquet of white blooms; however, the varieties between bouquets varied. The maid-of-honor carried a bouquet that included all three varieties: stock, dahlias and roses.

And although most wedding parties brim with family—Sahar and Craig’s was truly a family affair. Not only was her daughter a bridesmaid, but Sahar’s aunt presided over the ceremony.

Sahar and Craig not only wanted their wedding’s style to strike a chord, but it’s soundtrack as well, which is why they brought in renowned DJ Baby Biz, and arranged for an appearance by famed DJ Jazzy Jeff!

To finish the soiree’s soft, yet strikingly sophisticated style, LPF also produced the couple’s stationery suite, which included save-the-dates, invitations, programs, custom-designed table cards, as well as a custom seating chart displayed in a gold gilded frame on a scrolled easel.