The name says it all Flowers and More! Being an exquisite floral shop is not the only thing they are known for, but providing gorgeous decorations, unique gifts, party planning, party supplies and outstanding customer service tops the list too.  If you need it, they can arrange it, create it, or provide it! Creating a flawless finish for your event is a snap for this hard-working, passionate Granbury florist.

Weddings By Flowers and More

Have you spent the past few months eyeing those stunning floral arrangements in wedding magazines? Can't imagine having those beautiful floral creations at your wedding? Well if you live close to Granbury Texas, look no further than Flowers and More. They will make your special event the talk of the town with their flawless decorations and amazing services.

Their gifted expertise gives them the ability to provide a variety of wedding accessories such as:

• Wedding Bouquets
• Floral Arrangements
• Chair Covers
• Wedding Hair Flowers
• Wrist Corsages
• Outdoor Wedding Decorations

Flowers and More can set the exact mood you are looking for through their decorating expertise.

If you want your wedding reception to have that fun, carefree mood, then let them play it up with bright colorful floral centerpieces and bouquets. Your guests will follow along participating in a lively wedding reception, no one will forget.

Event Decorations By Flowers and More

Weddings aren't the only place they showcase their talents. Flowers and More can help you get the party started. For example, having a casual dinner party? Well let them create a relaxing and peaceful mood with simple white floral arrangements. Dinner guests will feel as if they are in a five-star restaurant. Whatever your event may be, they will help you create the perfect setting.

Gifts By Flowers and More

So you've chosen those fabulous decorations, might as well register for some exquisite gifts too.  Two things being checked off that long list in one stop is always a plus!  Their elegant gifts will impress you so much that you'll become a regular. Whether its for those cutesy baby gifts, birthday gifts, or just wanting to indulge yourself, Flowers and More will never disappoint.

Making your event flawless and stunning is their goal. From helping plan to making the most memorable decorations to the perfect gifts, Flowers and More will be there for you.  This Granbury, Texas floral shop is dependable, loyal and simply amazing.  With them on your side, your next special event will be one you won't forget.

We've all seen it: the television shows featuring sky-high arrangements, vintage silver, and hundreds of candles, all chosen by a wealthy bride. The wedding receptions are truly spectacular, often costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many of us sit and watch, thinking that we will never have something so great for our next event. However, with a little cash and a lot of creativity, you can bring high-end design to the centers of your tables!

The best place to focus when designing a reception or party are the tables where your guest will be sitting. Any table decorations you have will have the most impact because of their proximity. A little effort will goes a long way when it comes to table runners. This is the perfect place to establish a "mood" with lighting, decorations, or a chosen theme. Your wedding or party planner will have an arsenal of wonderful tips and tricks on hand to keep you below budget, but if you're going at it on your own here are a few ideas to try when decorating your tables:

Monochromatic Colors are Anything but Boring

Unless you're going for a bohemian or eclectic theme, sticking to a monochromatic color scheme will create a unified look from table to table and make your decor look chic, no matter what you use. Go to your local flea market, dollar store, or craft store and stock up on same or similarly colored candles, decorative balls, and other odds and ends. Having different shapes and textures intertwined will provide visual interest, while the monochromatic look unifies the decor.

A Little Sparkle Goes a Long Way

A little twinkle adds a much needed dose of whimsy to any table. On long, straight tables, pick up a few yards of stringed beads to run through the center. Ask your local florist to attach gems to the arrangements or sprinkle beads throughout the center. Use vintage brooches from a flea market to catch the light on napkin rings. Christmas ornaments with the hooks detached can complete a tablescape. Sparkle keeps guests' eyes busy and adds a touch of something special to your centerpieces.

Never Underestimate the Power of a Tea Candle

These little guys pack quite a punch when  gathered together on a table. These little lights add depth and dimension to your arrangements and provide ambiance to your tables. Run them down the center, circle them around floral arrangements, or float them in water.  Lighting is a huge part of any party decor. Mix in larger and smaller candles to make sure there is ample light and variety.

Go Big or Go Home

Every table needs a focal piece. A large floral arrangement or a large container is a way to add drama without breaking the bank. Fill glass cylinders with fruit, water, or beads and top them off with flowers. Get creative with containers; use barrels, tea pots–whatever you can find that fits the theme and your budget. Hire a professional florist to create simple, yet beautiful, arrangements.  This is probably one area that is best left to professionals. It is important that your flowers look neat, not sloppy. Save money in other areas, but leave the flowers to the pros.

Get Creative!

As always, using your imagination is the best way to save money while hosting an event. Dig through your closets, contact your local florist or wedding and party planner, and stick to your vision. Keep it simple, and keep it special by following these tips!

Stroll into any flea market and you will find dozens of brooches tucked away in glass cabinets and corners. Always eclectic, sometimes sparkly, these eye-catching trinkets hook countless shoppers who wish for a good reason to pick these little guys up. Until recently, aside from making a fashion statement, there has been little use for vintage brooches.

Thankfully, with the emergence of the DIY weddings and eco-friendly wedding design, brooches are a great way to create unity and add a fun touch to a ceremony or reception. The possibilities for these glittery gems are truly endless!

Flowers

A touch of vintage sparkle is the perfect compliment to any floral design. Contemporary or traditional, all wedding flower arrangements can be punched up with the addition one (or several!) brooches. Attach them to blooms, ribbons, or stems of flowers in centerpieces, on top of napkins, or in a bouquet. They won't detract from the arrangement; instead, they will add a oodles of character to your flowers! A few bold brides are even creating all-brooch bouquets!

Table Decor

Press brooches into inexpensive candles for a high-end look. Attach them to napkin rings for added embellishment, or lay them intermittently down the center of the table among centerpieces and candles for a glittery, elegant effect.

Wedding Attire

Creative brides are adorning their hair, dresses, and bridal party with brooches. Attach them to hair combs for a vintage look, or create a small cluster on a sash around the waist; brooches add romance to any style.  Small ones can even be used on the groom's boutonniere. Brooches can take a wedding ensemble from plain to modern classic.

They don't have to match, and they cost next to nothing. Brooches are the perfect addition to any wedding design, thanks to their versatility and charm. Picking up a little nostalgia is a modern way to make your wedding day special!

Photos Courtesy of Mileena, nein09, shannaleigh,& Muffet via Flickr Creative Commons

This post is sponsored by Chevy Chase, Maryland, wedding planners.

Wouldn't it be nice, when planning a wedding, if you could get everything you need for the ceremony in one place? GG's Flower Shoppe can do just that! Not only do they offer exquisite flowers for your big day, they can take care of everything else, too! Why going running around looking for candles, favors, or cake cutters? GG's Flower Shoppe has everything you need for your wedding day! They can even take care of the cake!

Years of creating bouquets, arrangements, and reception centerpieces have taught owner Gayla Geiser exactly what brides are looking for when planning a wedding. This valuable insight inspired her to begin offering everything brides need in order to make planning a wedding less stressful for her clients.

Brides near Del Norte, Colorado, are turning to GG's Flower Shoppe for exactly what they need for their wedding. Big or small, brides can find everything from candelabras to cake cutters. And if GG's Flower Shoppe doesn't have it, they will get it! They are truly dedicated to taking care of their clients!

Lucky brides-to-be who choose GG's Flower Shoppe no longer have to sweat the small stuff. They have thought of everything. From the flower girl's bouquet to the reception centerpieces, GG's Flower Shoppe can take care of the details and let you get back to enjoying the most important time of your life!

From flowers to favors, GG's Flower Shoppe is dedicated to getting everything you need to make your wedding the stuff of your dreams. Trust their years of experience and execptional service to make planning a wedding feel less like a chore and more like a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

Dutch Wedding Tradition: Bridal Showers

Where does the bridal shower tradition come from? A Dutch wedding tradition, of course, is where the idea of a bridal shower started!

In Holland, if the bride's father disapproved of her choice of husband he would not give a dowry. The bride's friends, knowing how much she loved her intended, would shower her with gifts.  In turn, the gifts would then be used as her dowry.  Often after seeing how her friends believed in the couple, the bride's father would relent and add to the "dowry".

Another version to the bridal shower story goes like this — A young girl wished to marry but her father disapproved. Her friends gave her gifts, so that she would not need her fathers dowry.

Dutch Wedding Tradition: Wish Trees

Another, Dutch tradition is a wish tree. In Western cultures, this would be similar to a guest book.  At the reception, a decorative tree branch is placed on a table and paper with ribbon is placed along with it. Each guest can write a note to the bride and groom wishing them well.  During the reception the couple reads each message aloud. As the bride and groom read the notes, they place them on the tree branch.

Dutch Wedding Tradition: Evergreen Reception

Evergreens have significant meaning in the Dutch culture.  Evergreens signify "everlasting love".  To symbolize this "everlasting love", the bride and groom sit under a canopy made with evergreens during the  reception.

Dutch Wedding Tradition: Lily-of-the-Valley

One of the sweetest Dutch traditions is the planting of Lilies-of-the-Valley around the couples house symbolizing a return to happiness. This custom is supposed to ensure that the couple's love is renewed every year as the lilies bloom.

Of all the dutch wedding traditions, I like the last one the best. I think I will use the lilies-of-the-valley tradition as a housewarming gift for a newlywed couple I know.

Many brides want their wedding decorations to be elegant, lavish, and unique without the high price tag. Here is a great idea for getting just the look you want, but saving a lot of money.

Crystal embellishments from the craft or fabric store can be used to enhance every element of your wedding decorations. Long strands of crystals can be wrapped around vases of flowers or decorative columns, and across the top of the guest book table. Smaller crystals can be mixed in with bridesmaid bouquets and pew decorations. A small crystal glued to the wedding program cover will show your attention to the smallest detail.

If your wedding is in the evening, candlelight reflected off the crystals will set an elegant and romantic glow anywhere you use them—on the guest book table, on pews, at the altar. But even a daytime wedding will seem more romantic when surrounded by crystals. That extra sparkle when the sun catches the crystals will make a magical setting.

If you are planning a winter wedding, crystals can be especially useful in creating a “winter wonderland” theme. You can hang them from an archway with silver “icicles” to create a shimmery look. But this idea works well for warm weather weddings, too. The addition of crystal strands to hanging ferns at an outdoor wedding, for example, would add a touch of drama to an otherwise simple decoration.

Anywhere you can think of to add a crystal or two would be a little extra touch of elegance to your wedding day decorations.

This wedding decoration idea was brought to you by WeddingandPartyNetwork.com.  A special thanks goes to Trias Flowers, Antiques & Gifts, a Miami Wedding Florist who graciously let us use their photo.

I recently watched a children’s program with my toddler where a little boy asked why his mommy stripped all the leaves from the flowers his daddy gave her. He thought the leaves were the best part of the flower.

It made me think about fall leaves and how their colors are the best part of autumn. Nature offers such beauty—why not use it for wedding decorations? Using the natural hues (gold, russet, burgundy, and mocha) of fall leaves makes a gorgeous decorating theme. Think about it! With brown being the new black, mocha colored for bridesmaid dresses (especially in silk) set the stage for a rich earthy essence that can carry through to the wedding decorations.

Bridesmaids could carry flower bouquets in an array of fall colors tied with chocolate silk ribbon and a few fall leaves tucked in—how elegant! The pew flowers could be all one color—maybe chrysanthemums—with leaves and raffia ribbon. A lavish combination of rich fall-colored flowers with willow twigs could complete the altar flower decorations. Rather than the flower girl dropping petals, she could scatter fall leaves down the aisle before the bride’s entrance. The warm glow of candles (in fall colors) grouped in various sizes at the altar will create a stunning backdrop for pictures.

Using nature's hues and fall leaves is a theme easily incorporated into all aspects of your wedding from your wedding program to wedding reception decorations and wedding favors. It even lends itself to eco-friendly weddings where couples give seedling trees as favors so guests can take them home, plant them, and have a lasting memento of their wedding day.

So take a clue from nature and work fall hues into your wedding decorations.

Common Interest Creates A Wedding Theme

I know a great couple who both absolutely love Mickey Mouse. He was an illustrator and she was a school teacher. They both were very young at heart, so when it came time to decorate for their wedding, they couldn’t resist including their favorite character in the decorations.

Their arch was decorated with flowers and in the center, the flowers were in the shape of Mickey Mouse. They had theme stickers subtly hidden on candelabras, in flower arrangements and other decorations. Their bridesmaids and groomsmen had Mickey Mouse stickers included in their bouquets and boutonnieres.  Mickey was every where. It worked for this couple’s wedding. I think it’s an idea that would work for others, who share a love of the same hobby, sports team, etc.

Making Your Common Interest Theme Work For Your Wedding

Let’s say you and your hubby-to-be are St. Louis Cardinal fans. You could incorporate a small red cardinal bird (that you can find at craft stores) in flower arrangements, pew bows, arches, on candelabras, on the flower girl’s basket—anywhere! It can be done in a very tasteful way. Being subtle is the key.

If you wanted to have some fun with it, you could tell your guests (maybe through the wedding program) how many birds representing your love of the Cardinals are in the decorations. See who can find the most. At the wedding reception, you could poll everyone to see who found the most and give a nice gift to that guest. No matter what the common interest, you can use it to reflect your unique style through your wedding decorations.

I’ve been to many weddings where the wedding begins with an endless PowerPoint presentation depicting the lives of the bride and groom from infancy. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love a trip down memory lane, but it seems to start the wedding off on a "down" note.

I think it would be a great alternative to choose 10-20 photos of the bride and groom, frame them, and use them as a wedding decoration at the entrance to the wedding. It would accomplish the same purpose (without all the tissues!) by giving the wedding guests a pictorial trip down memory lane.

For a really clean, contemporary look, you could have all the photos copied in black and white. Then, frame them all in simple, silver frames. These could be different shapes and sizes, but the color would give them uniformity. They could all be placed on a long table covered in a crisp, white tablecloth, so that nothing detracts from the photos themselves. Depending on the style of the wedding, you could choose frames that fit that style for a cohesive look.

I like this idea because it forces the bride and groom to choose the best photos of their lives—the ones that really depict each stage of their lives, rather than just using all their photos to fill up space in a multimedia presentation.

If a PowerPoint presentation is something the bride and groom really want to include, this could be used at the wedding reception, where the atmosphere is more casual and relaxed.

Sometimes when women plan their wedding day they go for extravagance and glitz. But I think many times simple is more elegant, especially when it comes to wedding flowers. One of my favorite flowers is the daisy. It’s fresh, simple and clean. My mom always said about the daisy, “Daisies never tell.” They also remind me of the “He loves me; He loves me not” flower.

The simple white petals and bright yellow center just remind me of summer days and youth. But when made into a stylish flower arrangement or bouquet, they evoke a youthful elegance. And your wedding colors don’t have to be yellow and white to use daisies–they look great with any color: turquoise blue, fuchsia, lavender, black or navy blue just to name a few.

You can dress them up or down with the right containers for the wedding decorations—clear, tall glass vases for the modern, contemporary wedding; rustic planters for a more casual affair. You can carry the daisy flower through all the wedding decorations such as the flower arrangements at the altar, the pew decorations, bouquets and boutonnieres. And they work well at the wedding reception as table centerpieces and food table garnishes. Needless to say, daisies are a lot more affordable than lavish flower arrangements, but they can be a beautiful embellishment to any wedding with their simple style.