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I hope from my heart that you are all enjoying a peaceful, joyful, and oh-so-loving holiday! This is a season of beautiful energy and goodwill, so soak it in and send it back out to everyone you meet! We here at the Rae Florae design studio are busy refreshing the space and bopping to festive music in excitement for all that is to come in 2011… from fab weddings for new brides and grooms, to more & more images from … Read more

Join us for a fun evening or early afternoon!! We’re gonna romp through the season’s best and most interesting to most beautiful flowers and foliage learning how to create a unique floral piece of art for your own enjoyment! With 6 classes to choose from there’s no reason you can’t join in at least once!! All classes are geared to a diverse audience, so if you have no experience, or lots of experience, it will be fun and satisfying!! Bring … Read more

In this life, there are boundless opportunities to make more of a situation. This generally begins with a little bit of service, generosity of spirit or material goods; and results in an exponential multitude of love given and received right back where it started.   In general, my posts are consistent- flower features based on my lovely brides & grooms, unique blooms, and stories of their day. For a special cause, I am breaking routine and bending your ear- for … Read more

It’s planning time.. as summer madness dies down, there is a refocusing of attention on all the new engagements and couples starting to dig in to their wedding checklists. For the benefit of all the happy, giddy, nervous, overwhelmed, and overjoyed new fiances and fiancees, I want to offer a bit of “Flower Homework” that will help frame your discussions of flowers between the two of you, you and your mom, friend, bridesmaid, maid of honor, bloggers, etc.. This is … Read more

You knew I had to post for Earth Day and Arbor Day! Two wonderful reasons to put on your thinking cap, gardening bonnet, close your eyes and give thanks for the awesome splendor of our world. In honor of April 22nd-Earth Day and today, April 24-Arbor Day, I want to do several things.. 1) To REDUCE/REUSE/RECYCLE I would like to open my library of floral design books to the public. I have so many wonderful books on flowers and floral … Read more

Thank you to Scott O’Hara of Plan it Green for putting together this amazing slideshow of highlighted pics from the awesome event- look for detail shots of our flowers in an upcoming post.. as soon as Bauman Photo sends ‘em on over I know, I’m just getting so fancy schmancy with all these video posts we can hardly stand it.

Ok, I admit this is not a clearly wedding or flower-related post, but… since I’m feeling pretty giddy that it’s Saturday and I am already back from delivering this weekend’s wedding AND this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages.. I’m posting it anyway. Don’t be afraid, just enjoy the absolute hilarity of your fellow humans. Thank you to Alicia Hanson, fellow Craft Mafia member for sending it to me and I promise to compensate by posting pretty flower … Read more

St. Patrick’s Day, the greenest day of the year is manana and what better way to celebrate than with a doubly green party! This is San Diego’s first green event planning vendor showcase! Come see what Rae Florae can do with live plants and locally grown, sustainable flora! Among all the other cool things that will be going on… The Green Premier Party 2009 is an evening of eco-friendly food and fun at the hottest new venue in town, The … Read more

Molly & Jacob had one color on the brain… Her bouquet of purple and ivory roses, cymbidium orchids, and dendrobium orchids in every shade from blushed to veined to deep grape purple, silver wire accents and pearls dotted the roses, and silver ribbon to wrap. Groomsmen boutonnieres of exotic orchids and ivy wrapped in silver ribbon. Petals of ivory blending into purple, leading to the.. Chuppah draped in soft white sheer fabric, passion vine entwining the poles, orchid sprays at … Read more

With planning season seriously underway, many brides are feeling they’re making progress signing on with vendors and venues (yay!) and now the fun part of picking stationery patterns and styles come to the forefront. On a personal level, I am a stationery junkie. I buy cute cards, one of a kind notes, letter and envelope sets, sticker seals, and pens like they are the last luxury on Earth, and I even make my own hand-illustrated and photo cards when I … Read more