lindsay and patrick, october 1st, 2011
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So happy to share this next wedding with you! Lindsay and her mom, Gayle, were the sweetest! From our first meeting way back when, I just adored working with them and look forward to crossing paths with them again!
Lindsay just loved the flowers we did for Katie and Pete‘s Ocean House wedding in 2010. I have to say, it’s a popular bouquet as we’ve had quite a few requests or even questions from brides all over about it!
So, we knew the color scheme~ navy with the pops of orange, and lots of textural details.
Lindsay wore this gorgeous Vera gown that was soft and romantic so we soften up her bouquet with the Cafe au Lait dahlias and Juliette gardens as well as beige Sahara roses. We added a special brooch for Lindsay’s bouquet and ornate shoe clips from her Grandmother for her two sister’s bouquets.
Patrick and his fellows wore tangerine ties to match the flowers perfectly!
It was a gorgeous affair on a perfect Fall day.
Here’s just a sampling of the images taken by the talented Sharyn Peavey. Thanks so much Sharyn for sending these over to us!
A radiant bride!
The belt was AMAZING!!!!
Such a lovely family!
Lindsay’s brooch and extra grosgrain ribbon from her sash that we used.
Congratulations Lindsay and Patrick! Wishing you a very happy life together!
Tags: Great RIver Golf Club, Hana Floral Design, Sharyn Peavey, vera wang
hot off the press…. in INDIA!
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We’ll be sharing our press features over the next few months now that we have a little down time! And first up is an article from India’s Femina magazine, where I’m quoted on a few floral design how to’s….
Special thanks to Chandana Banerjee for sending the article!
Tags: Chandana Banerjee, Femina magazine India, Hana press
nikki and mark, november 19th 2011
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Happy New Year! I hope you all enjoyed a fabulous holiday season and are off to a great New Year!
We still have lots of pretty weddings to show off from the 2011 season, so let me get started with one of our last weddings of the season!
Nikki and Mark were married in November at one of our favorite venues, Saltwater Farm. It was a crisp Fall day and while trees were bare outside, there was plenty of color inside. Nikki loved the corals, magenta and orange tones and absolutely loved peonies, so we used that as our palette and we were actually able to get the coral charms for her. In November, can you believe?
While Nikki carried a beautiful white bouquet of peonies, lilacs, viburnum and garden roses, her maids carried similar flowers in all the fun colors against a backdrop of navy. I just eat these colors up and how refreshing to use these punches of color in Fall!
A nod to Fall were the clutches of hay wrapped in coral silk for the ceremony chairs. We brought the hay back into the centerpiece for their place card table.
Nikki wanted to do something different for her head table which was one long table. She saw our flowers for Alana and Justin’s wedding and really wanted a similar look to add drama and height. We loaded the table up with various pillars and votives too.
And loving that she used clean white linens for the head table and a navy runner, and all the rounds had a beautiful shell linen to complement the flowers.
Why am I still talking? Just look at these lovely images from Jocelyn Filley! Thanks so much Jocelyn for sending these my way. Just beautiful!
And thanks to Nikki and Mark for sharing your day with us! It was such a pleasure working with you and I wish you both a very happy life together!!!
A natural beauty!
So colorful and vibrant! I’m loving doing ombre shades down the aisle.
Love all the ruching on Nikki’s Monique Lhuillier dress!
The happy couple
Congratulations you two!!!
Tags: gourmet galley, Hana Floral Design, Jocelyn Filley photography, Monique Lhuillier, saltwater farm, Stephanie Conte~ wedding planner
happy holidays from all of us at hana!!!
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As we take some time to celebrate with family and friends, we will close our doors early on Christmas Eve day at 2pm. We will re-open on the 28th with limited store hours. Be sure to stock up on holiday ornaments, Tocca products and Seda France candles all at 50% off!!! Holiday plants will also be 50% off if you are in need of a last minute hostess gift!
Please note the shop hours:
December 24th~ 10-2pm
December 25th, 26th, 27th~ CLOSED
December 28th-31st~ 10-2pm
We will be closed for retail the entire month of January. If you are in need of flowers for an event or you are a 2012 bride, please email: yumiko@hanafloraldesign.com. I’ll be sure to be in touch via email and I’m available to meet for a consultation.
On behalf of all of us at Hana, we are wishing you the merriest of holidays and all the best for a happy, healthy New Year!
Thanks to all our vendor and industry friends, clients, and brides for your trust, love and support! XOXO
Tags: Hana Floral Design, happy holidays, Maggie Conley Photography
holiday wreaths from hana
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With two weddings the weekend before Thanksgiving, we had no down time transitioning from weddings to holiday. With our Open House the weekend after turkey day, needless to say we were busy cranking out wreaths, boxwood trees and centerpieces!
We do love the holidays! We hand clamp our own greens to make beautiful mixed evergreen wreaths that last and last. I started out doing wreaths over 5 years ago in my basement studio and even sold them to Noank residents by the honor method! That’s right, leave the money in a can, thank you!
Here’s just a sampling of our wreaths to get you in the holiday spirit if you aren’t already!
Coastal chic? Very popular around here!
A nod to Christmases past…
Our donation to the Stonington Garden club~ teal and tinsel!
And the wreath adorning my home with help from Emi!
As we wind down this week, Hana will be closing it’s doors for some much needed time off. We’ll have limited hours from December 28th- 31st and we will be closed during the month of January.
Brides don’t fret! I will still be available to meet during the month for appointments so please email for any inquiries: yumiko@hanafloraldesign.com
Happy Holidays from all of us at Hana!!!
Tags: Hana Floral Design, holiday wreaths, holidays
SMP love today~ featured wedding of Lindsay and Paul
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So excited to see our lovely wedding of Lindsay and Paul featured on SMP’s Little Black Book blog this morning!
We had so much fun working on this one! Here’s just a sampling of gorgeous photos from the wedding, courtesy of Ms. Maggie Conley.
But for more head over to the gallery on Style Me Pretty! Thank you SMP for featuring our wedding today!
And thanks to Lindsay and Paul for sharing their day with us! XO
Tags: Hana Floral Design, Jennie Fresa beauty library, Little black book blog, Madison CT, Maggie Conley Photography, Ryan Designs, style me pretty
time to gear up for the holidays!!!
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Seems like there is zero time to gear up for the holidays for us! After a nice Thanksgiving weekend, we are feverishly gearing up for the holidays this week in time for our annual holiday open house!
If you are in the area doing some holiday shopping, be sure to stop in, taste a treat from Lis’ Bake Shop, and buy one our handmade wreaths or centerpieces! Hope to see you Saturday!
Tags: Hana Floral Design, holiday open house
kyra and niki, september 10th, 2011
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Before we head out for the holiday weekend, I thought I’d post one of our pretty weddings from September for you to enjoy!
You might’ve seen some of these images on our friend’s blogs as there were a great group of vendors working on Kyra and Niki’s wedding! First off, the fantastic (and fun!) ladies from SNAP! took these gorgeous images. Then there was my pal, Sarah True, who coordinated this amazing fete. And my own personal make up artist (I can dream, can’t I?), Jennie Fresa, was on hand to make Kyra even more beautiful.
Kyra and Niki live in London so we relied heavily on Sarah’s input to get a feel for the style of the wedding. It had some transformations along the way. But ultimately, they wanted a casual and intimate vibe to their wedding at the lovely Shelter Harbor Golf club.
Kyra is an environmentalist, so that meant, get as many locally grown flowers as possible!!!
This was a tough endeavor. Whenever a bride asks us to source local flowers, they must know that there will not be as much variety. Kyra wanted shades of peach. So when I couldn’t get too many peach or orange colored flowers, I sourced local peaches to add to the color scheme.
We had the invaluable help of Carol’s sister, Meg, who is a local landscape artist. She snipped here and there and brought us buckets and buckets of amazing organic flowers and greens.
It was a challenging task and tons of fun all the same! We were thrilled with the results!
Kyra’s bouquet filled with dahlias, cosmos, scabiosa, and tons of herbs.
Niki’s boutonniere made up of mountain mint, lavender, sage and rosemary
There were dahlias, sedum, zinnias and even fresh basil in the maid’s bouquets!
I love this shot!!!
Congratulations Kyra and Niki! Wishing you all the best!
Tags: Hana Floral Design, Jennie Fresa, Shelter Harbor golf club, Snap! Photography, True Event
meet the team:spotlight yours truly!
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I suppose I need to conclude the “meet the team” series with yours truly, but I do hesitate as I’m not the biggest fan of talking about myself. It is, though, the necessary evil of blogging, and so here goes….
If you don’t know my story already, I used to have a “real” job as a recruiter in the Big Apple. I was retained by big whig companies such as Bloomberg and Morgan Stanley and looked for clients to fill their coveted IT jobs. It was a great 5 year run. The market was incredible and there were never enough good candidates to fill the positions.
This meant an incredibly lucrative career for me at a relatively young age. It was positively THE best way to live in Manhattan!
I was pretty good at it, and actually enjoyed my job. But towards the end, I started to miss my creative roots and yearned for something more.
If you asked me what my dream was, it was to be a singer. I studied classical music for years, and went to college for vocal performance. I had set out to the Big Apple in hopes of landing a role in Les Mis or La Boheme, but to say it was challenging is an understatement.
The untimely death of my mom caused me to take a leave of absence from my company and I never did go back. It was the wake up call that I needed to remember that I was indeed a creative person and needed to find an outlet for it.
That summer, I took a part-time job at a local flower shop and haven’t looked back since!
For me, Hana is something bigger than just doing wedding flowers. We are part of one of life’s momentous occasions, and to partake in that is extraordinary. It is my way of sharing something beautiful and I am indeed grateful for it.
On behalf of everyone at Hana, we wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!!!
Tags: Hana Floral Design, Maggie Conley Photography, meet the team
meet the team:spotlight gary!
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As we just about conclude the ‘meet the team’ series, today I’m spotlighting Mr. Fletcher!
So without further ado, I’d like to introduce our marketing and web guru who also happens to be my hubby. Convenient, I know!
Gary has an extensive background in marketing, website development, and advertising, having come from his studio days at McCann-Erickson in NYC. He was a studio artist, working on ads for companies such as L’Oreal, Motorola and Master Card.
Not only is he great at touching up images, illustrating our logos, and creating ads and our marketing materials, he is also an adept programmer. This means building our site and blog and keeping it updated! Which is next on his honey-do list!
This has been an incredible asset to building the Hana brand. And we’ve got lots of new projects up our sleeves so stay tuned!
Gary and our muse, miss Emi, who will no doubt, create some magic of her own one day.
Tags: fletcher design studio, Hana Floral Design, meet the team
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