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Summer color, summer joy: a Gedney Farm wedding
Julia and Adam were not afraid of lots of colorful blooms for their late summer Gedney Farm wedding, and that was a good thing because September is peak flower season in New England! When people think of “fall flowers” I think they think of orange and red tones, but the reality is our fall flowers – especially dahlias – come in all tones! And since I plant about 50 different varieties of dahlias every year, there’s lots of color to choose from. The wedding location is Gedney Farm, in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, northern Berkshires. The photographer for this happy couple is Chelsea Proulx. Flowers by me! Julia’s instructions for me…
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All the flowers are blooming – a spring wedding at Gedney Farm!
Frannie and Colby’s early spring wedding at the beautiful Gedney Farm in the Berkshires was a family-centered, DIY affair. For this wedding I just did the personal flowers, meaning those that the couple and their wedding party held personally, as well as a larger arrangement for the stairwell, and the family created the rest of the designs, including the ceremony piece, using buckets of flowers they got from me a few days before the wedding. You can read more about DIY weddings here. Frannie comes from a farming family in eastern Massachusetts, and it was important to them to have local, seasonal blooms, and since it was early spring, that…