Charleston Weddings Magazine asked us to come up with a few items for their current Summer 2008 issue. I think we've been in every issue of Charleston Weddings, but we're generally part of a wedding photo shoot or an event planners' ad and don't get our named attached to our work. That's fine, but it's nice to get a shout out, too!

The challenge was to come up with a design that would work as a wedding bouquet, Mother of the Bride's Posie, and groom's boutonierre.

Well we do that everyday! We only had one day to get it together, and fortunately had all this cool stuff on hand. In the beginning we had "designer's block" and couldn't get started. We just couldn't picture how we wanted the bride's bouquet to look. It's funny how tough it is to be inspired without a bride's ideas to start things off. It's kind of like how an oyster's pearl starts with a grain of sand. Without that grain of sand (or the bride's vision) it's difficult to get started.

So instead of thinking about the bride's bouquet, we played around with the mom's posie. That took us about 15 minutes, and everything else fell into place. I love those paper lanterns, the orange pumpkin-like blooms in the bride's bouquet.

Great shots by Leigh Webber, and thanks to Charleston Weddings Magazine for thinking of us.