A dreamy spring wedding at Valley View Farm
T & C were married on a cool April Day – a springtime wedding at Valley View Farm in western Massachusetts. The birds were singing. Valley View’s apple trees were popping blooms. And I was able to incorporate all the flowers of spring into their blush and white florals: tulips, hyacinth, ranunculus, leucojeum and lots and lots of pieris japonica!
Location: Valley View Farm, Haydenville, MA
Photographer: Jeffrey Rifkin Photography
When I do a consultation I always ask the couple: do you want the bridesmaids’ bouquets to be the same as the bride’s, but smaller and simpler? That’s what’s happening here. The same flowers I used in T’s bouquet as well as all the ceremony and event flowers are also in the bridesmaid flowers. There are tulips (me-grown! Angelique), cloni ranunculus and butterfly ranunculus (from Old Friends Farm), pieris japonica (from my friend who has a couple of giant shrubs) and a few roses.
For the ceremony T and C asked me to create a lush, seasonal installation in the Valley View Pavilion, with large arrangements for the barrels on either side.
Many of the couples I work with have the staff at Valley View move items from the ceremony into the reception space. This is one reason I really love working at Valley View. In addition to the amazing space, the event staff is highly professional, extremely organized, and very accomodating. They are very easy to work with as a vendor, and I can only imagine that the couples who are married there feel the same way.
Guest tables featured classic bud vases with more ranunculus and tulips. Even though this wedding was in April, I was able to use about 80% locally grown flowers. The only items I did not grow or source from other local farms were the eucalyptus (from California), the roses, and a few chrysanthemums.
In the sweetheart table arrangement you can see Super Parrot tulips, which are an amazing flower. They are naturally very droopy in form, so I like to use them cut short or else in a more dramatic arrangement.
The sweetest! Congratulations to the happy couple! The wedding was gorgeous, but now for the best part: your marriage
