We had a very special wedding here at A Piece of Cake Events…it was truly one-of-a-kind. The bride wanted something unique and special for her flowers; especially the décor at the church. Her fiancé liked the idea of having an arbor at the altar---which would look like an arch of flowers above their heads. Well, the bride took that idea one step further and came up with two 12 foot high curly willow and dendrobium orchid “trees” whose branches almost touched over head, forming an arch with long branches of white orchids. Her florist hung orbs of glowing candles from the branches behind the couple to echo the candlelight ceremony. The wedding colors were purple, silver, and white; so the aisle had a white runner and was smothered in thousands of purple and white rose petals. Along the sides of the aisle the bride took tall glass trumpet vases, turned them upside-down to form pillars of varying heights and placed candles on top with more rose petals surrounding them. There were trio arrangements of submerged stock (in white, dark purple, and lavender) with floating candles in the windows, and the only lights on at the ceremony were two spotlights where the bride and groom stood and one on the harpist, who played throughout the ceremony.
The reception at the Des Moines Yacht Club was just as breathtaking. The bride and her aunt made their own centerpieces, echoing the mammoth trees from the church they took silver curly willow branches and white phaelinopsis orchids and placed them in tall, clear flower towers. The head table featured a floral runner of mostly white flowers along each wing of the table that met in the center with an arrangement of various purple and white flowers, cascading down the front of the table. We made the champagne toast memorable by adding a blackberry to every glass, fitting it with the color scheme. After a sweet first dance, the bride danced with her father to “A Song for My Daughter” and made everyone in the room cry—but the best was saved for last: as the bride and groom exited the reception under and arch of 3 foot long sparklers held by their family and friends, they were met by the father of the bride’s yacht, covered in white fairy lights and ready to sail them off into the sunset.
We will never forget such a gorgeous wedding, or how happy the bride and groom were as they thanked us for our help and left for their honeymoon in St. Lucia!
---Dawnet Davis
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