Emily Carter Floral Designs in Seacoast Brides

I recently was notified that a very small wedding that I did personal flowers for was highlighted in the 2011 Seacoast Bride Magazine. It does not show a great image of the bouquet, but I am showing some further details of the flowers for your enjoyment...
an honor all the same to have such a great wedding showcased that ECFD was a part of last year.

It is on page 62-63 Kristyn Reza wedding...
http://www.seacoastbride.com/features/online-print-editions/seacoast-bride-online-2011/book/3.html?page=63


Maid of Honor bouquet..


Halo for flowergirl..

re: Wedding Wire Award

Many thanks to all of my clients who make receiving these awards all the more meaningful. It is a pleasure to work with each of you.



Maine – January 26, 2011 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce Emily Carter Floral Designs has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for Wedding Flowers!

Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

Emily Carter Floral Designs stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud Emily Carter Floral Designs for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that Emily Carter Floral Designs is among the very best wedding flowers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

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re: Floral Inspiration Board

This is a recent quick collage of images that I put together for a bride as we move forward with selecting her ties for the wedding party and dupioni silk runners...
Yummy!
 

Flowers in Style Me Pretty

So, I recently was made aware that a shoot that I did with Maine Season's Events and Corbin Gurkin was picked up by Style Me Pretty! It was such a pleasure to work with both Megan and Corbin as well as Stacey with Swan's Way on this shoot a year ago. I truly enjoyed the last minute planning and detailing of the space and hope to be doing more shoots in the near future...
Many thanks to the whole team that worked on this shoot.
http://www.stylemepretty.com/2010/12/21/winter-wedding-photo-shoot-by-corbin-gurkin-maine-season-events/
Enjoy

re: New Year's Weddings

Happy New Year!
2011 started off busier than ever with a New Year's Eve wedding and a New Year's Day wedding for ECFD. I was very thankful to mother nature yet again for the temperatures over 32 degrees which made my job a tad easier here in New England.
The New Year's Eve wedding was at the wonderful space at Frontier Cafe in Brunswick. The bride wanted a vintage but simple look throughout her wedding, yet a very different bouquet that would highlight classic elements and more garden/vintage as well. I was thrilled to rise to the tasks and loved seeing it all come together...especially in that space (which I have to say is so wonderful for events).
Congratulations of Lindsay and Nick!!
Here are some photos...







The next wedding was at the Marriott in South Portland where the bride had here ceremony and reception in the Grand Ballroom. Congratulations Danielle!
Here are some shots of her personal flowers, ceremony pieces and cake topper...







Best in 2011 to all. Here's to health, happiness, and lots of love and laughter for us all.

Holiday Party Flowers

When I think of holiday parties, I do not just think of typical evergreens etc., but really more of simply a vibrant color palette of sorts. I was contacted by a local business owner in Portland to do some funky designs for her company holiday party at Portland's Empire Dine and Dance. It was the Coffee By Design holiday party so I coordinated with the owner to get some great burlap bags from her that the beans come in from Brazil and Columbia. They had amazing designs on them so I cut the burlap designs to cover the glass containers..it turned out to be a really nice personal touch for the party. The lighting was really awful for pictures, but great location...this is the best that I could get which is too bad as they were really interesting designs..enjoy these few shotty images and Happy Holidays!!

Thanksgiving flowers

I took these images from a recent Thanksgiving installation that I did in Yarmouth...I want these containers..distressed terracotta on wonderful wrought iron stands. This client had a perfect Thanksgiving table that her father had made..and the perfect colors throughout her house for Thanksgiving. As we laughed about her "Thanksgiving house", she was wondering how she felt about the coral peonies within the design. I had her keep them as I thought that they went so nicely with the satsumas on the branch and the pomagrantes that I placed on the table and created a nice unexpected pop of vibrant color for the holiday. I had to laugh on Thanksgiving day as I watched the NBC Macy's Day Parade when some of the exact flowers in front of Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera were what I used within this design..namely, the coral peonies!!! I hope that you had a great holiday Jone's family...I look forward to the wedding this summer!