Celebrity Bride Guide and Pick Me! Floral and Events

Okay, I know that I have gone back to this wedding a few times . . .but what can I say? I LOVED everything about it. And today, as I was looking for the link on Jarrad Lister's blog, I found this! Yes, the wedding is featured in Celebrity Bride Guide! Old bottles filled with single stems of dendrobium orchids, parents perfect backyard, big white tent hung with 2 ft tall lanterns (I adore this look), a bride that was as kind as she is gorgeous and a photographer who sent me everything I asked for!!!

Kate had a clear vision of what she wanted and I was honored to create it! I wish you two a lifetime of love and happiness (and a CMA or two . . .)

http://www.celebritybrideguide.com/kate-coppola-and-billy-leiva-wedding/

Kara Delay, Pick Me Floral and Event Design
Denver Wedding Florist

High Country Weddings - Pick Me Floral

I was so excited to see that one of our favorite Grand Lake Weddings was featured in High Country Weddings Magazine this year. Photographed by Rachel Terry - this article gives our readers a breakdown on how to pull off a perfect mountain backyard weddings - the secret? A TENT!! And, of course, putting together a team of vendors who LISTEN to your vision and make it happen.

Kara Delay, Pick Me Floral and Event Design

Grand Lake Wedding Coordinator /Grand Lake Wedding Florist

Amy and JR - Devils Thumb Ranch Wedding

Amy and JR were married in the beginning of November at Devils Thumb Ranch. We had the best day of the fall . . . for our first WINTER wedding of the season! Please enjoy these beautiful images from Poli Weddings Photography of one of our favorite couples of the year.Here is Miss Amy on her way to meet JR for their first look at the stables. Honestly? Isnt this exactly how you want to feel on your wedding day? Amy and JR chose to see each other before the ceremony for their first looks at each other. A moment this special, just for themselves (and isnt the veil great?)

If you have a family tartan, why not build decor around it? Amy honored her families Scottish roots by incorporating this plaid onto the escort cards and the table runners.

Rami designed two different centerpieces for the Broad Axe Barn. The centerpiece above was a dark manzanita branch anchored in "snow" accented with phalanopsis orchids, hanging votive LED candles and wired crystals.

Love this picture. Love this ring!

For Amy and JR's chuppa, we built a simple arbor of aspen logs anchored in cement pots, covered with a touch of tulle and two all white arrangements on each side. These arrangements were made from white garden roses, dendrobium orchids, white ranunculous and purple privet berries.

We lined the aisle with a few mason jars hanging from shephard hooks filled with the white blooms and a few more berries. Each jar was wrapped with the family tartan again (here in ribbon form!)

For the second table arrangement choice, we used large cylinder vases wrapped with birch bark (I love this look) filled with larger blooms (white Oriental lilies, lisianthus, spider mums and green china berries)

Dont you want to cozy up to the HUGE fireplace in the Barn?

And the best part for us? We hung 25 black iron lanterns from the beams in the Broad Axe Barn (with LED candles, of course . . .we dont want to be the Mrs. OLeary's cow of Grand County . . .) and lined the sides of the barn with enough candles for the entire place to glow. Thank you again to Amy and JR for trusting us with the details of your day. And thank you for remembering to have fun with planning your wedding. We wish you both a lifetime of love and happiness (and sassy cowboy wisdom).

Venue - Devils Thumb Ranch

Photography - Poli Weddings Photography

Flowers / Coordination - Pick Me Floral and Event Design

Melisa and Jason - Devils Thumb Ranch Wedding

I just came across these beautiful pictures from A&A Photography of a beautiful winter wedding we did last December at Devils Thumb Ranch. Happy Anniversary to Melisa and Jason! Honestly, the color of the sky . . . WOW. We are lucky to live here . . .

To see the rest of this of the gorgeous story, please check out Angie and Andy's blog.

Kara Delay, Winter Park Wedding Florist
Pick Me! Floral and Event Design

Happy Anniversary to Marie and Jon

I cant believe it's been a year since Jon and Marie's beautiful winter wedding at Devils Thumb Ranch. The best part about this wedding for me? Marie found Pick Me! Floral and Events because we worked on a wedding that a friend of hers was a bridesmaid in 2 years before. Did you get that connection? It's nice to know we are going something right! Thank you to Todd Newcomer for sharing his pictures with us.

Kara Delay, Winter Park, CO Wedding Planner
Pick Me! Floral and Event Design

Snow Mountain Ranch-Granby Wedding

This was one of those brides that I never met face to face. Look at the beautiful autumn colors in this one. I love working with different flowers like the portea and calla lilies. WE are excited to work with Dave Camara again next summer at Sunspot with Brian and Megan.

Mark and Briley - Devils Thumb Ranch Wedding

It is chilly up here today. I mean REALLY chilly. It made Rami and I start talking about one of our favorite weddings from last December at Devils Thumb Ranch shot by the amazing Jamee Photography.

Enjoy!

Kara Delay, Pick Me! Floral and Event Design
Colorado Destination Wedding Planner

LOVE THIS DAY

New website! Please check it out
www.lovethisday.com

Jessica and Dave - Devils Thumb Ranch

I'd like to share a few of the images from one of my favorite weddings this season. Jessica and Dave were married on August 15 at Devils Thumb Ranch and the day was stunning. I had the honor of doing the day-of coordination as well as creating the wedding flowers for Jessica and Dave. What a phenominal family! Too see the rest of the story, please check out the wildly talented photographer Ben Pancoast's blog. I love how he captured the sky in these pictures.
http://benpancoast.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/destination-wedding-devils-thumb-ranch-tabernash-co/

Amy and JR - Devils Thumb Ranch Wedding Sneak Peak

Just a sneak peak on some of the flowers from Amy and JR's November 7th wedding at Devils Thumb Ranch. This winter wedding occured on the BEST day of the fall this year and the sky couldn't have been a better shade of blue. We look forward to sharing the rest of the pictures with you when we receive them!

Colorado Destination Wedding Planning

Destination Weddings and Winter Park


So many details, so many logistics. This is an undeniable fact when planning a destination wedding. Follow these simple steps and you will sleep easy during your planning process:

*Establish your Budget (again, the b word . . .). Stick with it!

*Pick your venue

*DO NOT SECOND GUESS YOURSELF

*Create an inspiration board, colors, textures, photos that convey the feeling you want. Bring it to your vendor meetings. Pictures ARE worth a thousand words and you will save yourself time and money!

*Put together your team of vendors. Whenever possible, choose people that play nicely together (i.e. the wedding planner likes the florist, the dj and the photographer do not have competing egos, etc) Be nice to everyone. Like the old man says - You catch more flies with honey . . .

*Iron out logistics no later than 2 weeks prior. Seating charts, ceremony walking order, timing for the day, get these things ironed out way before you arrive for your wedding weekend.

*Trust in the team that you have assembled and when all is said and done, you have to go with the flow. People forget things (I had a groom forget his shirt - we were on a ranch - no tux rental close), cars break down(again, if your vendors are all friendly, one of them can pick the other up on the way) and weather is . . .weather. When all is said and done, it is about the two of you, your families and your friends together for an
amazing celebration!

photo courtesy of Paige Elizabeth of one of our favorite most sasstasstic brides!

Kara Delay, Pick Me! Floral and Events
Colorado Destination Wedding Planner

Inspiration

Where to start? Where to start? This is a question that we are asked from brides daily. Of course, living in a rustic little ski town, we have a slightly off center perspective. For those of you who dont know where to start, here are some of our favorite inspiration sites:

Style Me Pretty
Snippet and Ink
100 Layer Cake

On the flip side, your inspiration doesnt need to be from a wedding site. Find pictures of fabric, textures, fields of flowers, dishes, pictures . . .whatever makes YOU happy. One of my favorite bridal bouquets ever was inspired by a picture of Colorado Alpenglow and I was told to use coxcomb. Other than that, I was told to run with it. The bouquet is the picture that I have on the top of this blog.

As for inspiration - the picture is from Jenna Walker Photography. It was one of my favorite weddings we worked on this summer. Go and find your inspiration, keep the lines of communication open with your vendors and have FUN!

Kate and Billy - Denver Wedding

Man of your dreams? Check. Two sisters who are your best friends? Check. Perfect white wedding in your parent's backyard? Check. Kate and Billy's September wedding in Denver was a perfect backyard bash. Not a detail was overlooked.

Mason jars filled with either candles or all white dahlia and freesia flowers hung off of shephard hooks that lined the aisle. Mono-blossom all white flowers adorned the tables in vintage glass bottles. Hand made wooden candles were placed on each table setting for the guests. And each of the bouquets were accented with just a touch of lavender. And the song lyrics on the cake were the sweetest sentiment that I have ever heard.

Thank you again for picking us to create your wedding flowers for you! It is a honor to be selected to assist with the second daughter of such a great family. We can't wait to hear your next album. Wait?? I didnt mention that? Yep, Kate is one half of Kate and Kacey, our favorite Nashville recording artists!

Thanks again to the amazing Jarrad Lister for sharing these images with us. He is an incredible photographer and a great guy to work with!