Winter Park Colorado Weddings - Wildhorse and Pick Me!

Pick Me Floral and Event Design and Wildhorse have a great history with sucessful Winter Park weddings. In celebration of this coming summer, I wanted to highlight some of our combined success stories as well as tell you the history . . .


Once upon a time, a girl name Rami and a girl named Chris (already friends) started brainstorming about weddings in Winter Park, Colorado (and the surrounding areas) and raising the bar. A few weeks (and bottles of wine) later, Wildhorse Inn started marketing gorgeous, intimate Colorado Mountain weddings in the backyard of this delicous B & B in Tabernash, Colorado. Chris did the marketing, planning and cooking and Rami ran the front of house for the events. Rami brought Kara (me!) into the mix (once a waitress . . .) and a sucessful summer of gorgeous Colorado destination weddings happened.

Jump ahead a season or so, Kara and Rami decided to start an event specific floral company and Chris said OK! She gave us her blessing (after a few trial runs) and started refering us. From a professional stand, we all hold each other to a higher level of customer service. From a personal stand, we are all friends with a vested interest in raising the bar for events in and around Winter Park. . . after all, their are Mexican vacations to be had!

Rami and I have been so happy to watch Wildhorse Inn grow into Wildhorse Catering and take this mountain community by storm. We are thrilled for every opportunity to work as team with these talented coordinators, event planners, servers and chefs (Dace, we love you). Here is to a successful 2010 with great stories, happy brides and grooms, yummy food and gorgeous decor and flowers.


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

Pick Me Interview

I was super flattered to be interviewed by Lucy Dylan Weddings recently. Why do we love Lucy Dylan weddings? She gets the mountains and loves the Rockies. Here is to a great blog that featured sasstasstic Rocky Mountain wedding professionals. We are honored to be included in this company!

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

Devils Thumb Ranch Wedding Sarah and Tom

Just a few more details from the October Devils Thumb Ranch wedding of Sarah and Tom. We salute any couple that is this much fun and who march (in sassy pink heels) to the beat of their own drummer! Thanks again to Tony Gallagher for sharing these beautiful pictures with us (and check out the adorable and yummy cupcakes from Happy Cakes)

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

Kristen and Spencer - Devils Thumb Ranch Wedding

Kristen and Spencer's July Wedding at Devils Thumb Ranch was the perfect day of the summer. Case in point - the first picture here from Brinton Studios. Would you look at the color of the sky? It's absolutely perfect.

Initially hired to create this fantastic couples flowers - we incorporated big, bright and happy lilies, gerber daises, roses that opened to perfection in the sunshine with snapdragons. This casual handgathered look is one of my favorites to create for an outdoor Colorado wedding. And we were able to use one of my absolute favorite color palattes ever - pink, orange and green. As the planning process moved forward, Kristen and Bet (her Mom) hired us on for day-of coordination as well. One of the best things about CR and Tiffany of Brinton Studios? Even with as many weddings as they have shot at the Ranch, they make it look new and different each time. And in mid - July the wildflowers were absolutely stunning last year!

For tables - we alternated between tall arrangements over everyone's line of site - with lower "sqattier" (is that a word??) version of the same. Rather than a tradition wedding cake, Paula from Teacup made individual cakes which we served on beetlekill stumps to each table. You have never seen wedding guests that happy!!

One of the nicest bridal parties ever. At rehearsal, even when the flower girls walked right past the ceremony site to a field of dandelions during rehearsal and started filling their baskets (Iguess the kids took their jobs as flower girls VERY seriously) no one lost their cool.

Beautiful. Thank you for trusting us with your wedding. Kristen and Spencer (and both of their Mom's) were an absolute joy to work with. I cant wait to go skiing with you two soon!

Kara Delay, Pick Me Floral and Event Design

Winter Park Colorado Wedding Coordination

Winter Park Colorado Wedding Florist

Puerto Vallarta Wedding

A few images from my wedding in Puerto Vallarta a few years ago. Trust me, I understand the difficulty of planning a destination wedding (try it with a language barrier!) but at the end of the day, hire people whose work you admire and whose attitude you like (after all, you are spending your wedding day with them also) and trust in them.


I was extremely fortunate to find Christine Vincent of Xinefoto.. She travels worldwide but currently splits her time between NY and PV (perfection). I was also super lucky to stumble upon Epoca (literally, I found this restuarant on a girls trip a year prior to the wedding and it all fell into place). The owner Kurt and his staff went above and beyond to make sure everyone had a blast at the wedding (and got home safely)





I hope that you get to enjoy your wedding day as much as we did. After all, I did LOVE THAT DAY!

Kara Delay, Pick Me Floral and Event DesignPuerto Vallarta Destination Wedding Planner

Sneak Peak at Tom and Sarah's Devils Thumb Ranch Wedding

A sneak peak of another one of my FAVORITE COUPLES EVER. Thank you to Tony Gallagher for sharing his beautiful pictures with us. And thank you to a couple who was a joy to work with (with really great Moms also)

Chad and Ashley - Devils Thumb Ranch Wedding

Ashley and Chad's wedding at Devils Thumb Ranch was fun. Really FUN. Ashley - who is currently in our top 5 of most fabulous brides ever - called us last year to plan a fun filled winter destination wedding with lots of flowers, a million+ twinkle lights and a costume change. Yes, we salute the girl who has one dress for the ceremony and one for the party. Our solution? Use the dress as decor (of course)!

Blue hydrangeas, lavender, purple mokara orchids, cool water roses and purple stock. Against the snowy backdrop and the wood barn at the Ranch these cool tones absolutely stole the show.

I love wedding ceremonies in the Timberhouse. We created a curtain backdrop inspired by thee gorgeous columns of an old southern plantation accented with carnation balls. Yep, carnation balls. I am now completely obsessed with them. They are just too fun!

Here is the actual sign that Chad used to pop the question to Ashley.

Okay, you can take the girl out of Louisiana but what we learned what that you can NOT take the Louisiana out of the girl. And honestly? Why would you want to? If you are leaving your own party, why NOT have a parade?? Check out Matt Kenfield's (Elite DJ) Facebook page for the video. It's fantastic.

Of course, as usual Miss Paula of Teacup Bakery absolutely outdid herself with the cake (and the cookies for the welcome bags!! yum)

Rachel Terry from Stellar Photo did another fantabulous job on these gorgeous photos. Hop on over to her blog to see the rest of this gorgeous wedding.

Chad and Ashley - thank you again for being fun, fabulous and just beautiful - inside and out. And to Ashley's brother - I am not sure how or why you ended up with a pocket knife at a wedding, but wow, it really was helpful! To all of your family and friends, thank you for sharing your fantastic Southern hospitality with Winter Park. You made our winter a little more fun!

Kara Delay, Pick Me Floral and Event Design

Colorado Wedding Coordinator