Category Archives: proteas

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!!

By the power of Greyskull! or pinkskull, lavenderskull, greenskull.. Rae Florae wishes you a spook-takular-ly sunny Halloween! Recently I went to visit my friend Suzanne Hansen of She Wanders Photography and just inside the front door I spied this amazing chair!! Covered from top to bottom in hot pink soft fuzzy yarn by the talented girls of Sitting in a Tree.. my imagination immediately started running with the funky festive banner of boneheads! I wanted to take that hot shade … Read more

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Punky Protea

Punky Protea

This is what happy looks like!! I love the mini orchid blooms trailing in Michelle’s hair, so whimsical and romantic. Michelle loves bright, fun colors- her dream of ranunculus in every rainbow shade came true for the vibrant bouquets! Gotta love a good group of girlfriends! Michelle’s Bridal Bouquet of ranunculus, sweet smelling freesia, feverfew buttons, and young scabiosa, wrapped up in sunny yellow satin ribbon. Shaun’s boutonniere choice for himself and his crew were clean, simple and to the … Read more

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Yacht me to the moon.

Yacht me to the moon.

Ok, this wedding has been made nearly famous with the number of posts and declarations of fun we’ve gotten as a response! So here it is, without further bowline or buoy pulls, live on our blog- Enjoy! Lucky ducks Alex & Kelly had a blast decking out their home turf, the local Mission Bay Yacht Club. Bright colors and summer flavors kept the guests hoppin’ for the all night long live band~ Bridesmaid bouquets of baby green hydrangea, orange & … Read more

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I HEART Liz & Greg!

I HEART Liz & Greg!

This is Liz 🙂 & This is Greg 🙂 & This is their wedding… Wildflower style and all locally grown~ orange leucadendron and yellow acacia blend with bright purple statice and pink sweet peas. Liz’s mom’s wedding dress lace wraps around her purple satin stems. Have you ever seen such a look of sheer joy?! xo! Bridesmaid bouquets of green dianthus with kicks of sweet smelling pink peas and more orange leucadendron against their grape dresses. The ocean themed stationery … Read more

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Natural Beauty

Natural Beauty

Such a pretty picture… Lovely day for a wedding with rustic colors and a penchant for the raw, natural feel of flowers…I couldn’t decide which bouquet shot was better, so I give you both 🙂 I just love the mix of callas, wild eyed orange and green ranunculus, ruffly red roses, pin cushion proteas, rose-hips, freesia, and fiddlehead ferns wrapped with their long stems in a smooth ivory satin. See how we coordinate? Bride and Groom, together in love and … Read more

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Hot Fun

Hot Fun

Holly & Jason flew in all the way from windy Chicago to be happily married at the classic La Valencia in La Jolla.. Focusing on a love for bright, fun colors that evoked the vacation feel of their San Diego destination, we found playful snapdragons and cymbidium orchids wrapped well in pink flax leaves. Holly’s bouquet was a soft, feminine spin on the color scheme- ruffly white nerines and ranunculus combine with blush garden roses and peonies with their golden … Read more

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Coral & Aqua

Coral & Aqua

Julia & Michael wanted a romantic and luxurious feel to their wedding getaway. As a destination, La Jolla, California isn’t too shabby 😉 especially when staying and celebrating at The Grande Colonial hotel… with a color scheme that blended unbelievably well with the hotel’s own palette, the flowers covered a spectrum of warm corals to cool aquas… Julia’s bouquet knocked the color into place with it’s deep flame and mango miniature callas, dahlias, proteas, orchids, and echinachea pods, all tied … Read more

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Go Green Goodness

Go Green Goodness

You asked and you shall receive!! All the Rae Florae flower detail shots from the Premier Green Event at the New Children’s Museum (thinkplaycreate.org). Our tablescape centerpiece of locally salvaged birch bark, moss branches, and wildweed- colorfully accented by pink ranunculus blooms from Carlsbad, Ca. Peachy pin-cushion proteas from Valley Center, Ca adorned with a spring-time appropriate hummingbird 🙂 Table settings of locally nurtured, mini-pink kalanchoe plants in ceramic bowls on bamboo plates. Each personally hand drawn label highlights a … Read more

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Shades of Green

Shades of Green

I am personally very excited that everyone else is getting excited about Green Weddings. Green weddings are not a fad; they are here to stay, just as recycling and reusing, they will eventually become the norm. That is not to say that everyone will be wearing hemp wedding dresses and putting potted succulents on their guest tables, but there will elements of eco-consciousness available at every turn. Choose to use locally grown flowers and recycled glass vases like we did … Read more

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Oh Hunny-Bunny!!

Oh Hunny-Bunny!!

Happy and Joyous Easter! I admit I am a sucker for all signs of Spring- lambs, chicks, bunnies, pink and cheery anything. Yes, guilty as charged- I am a girl through and through. Still, there’s two ways to do pink- sweet and sassy. Two recent florals demonstrate just so- On the left, with the pale pink satin and mini white statice flowers, those King Kong roses and coral mokara orchids are like your strawberry Bonne Bell. Whereas on the right, … Read more

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