Sarah + Sim

Every year you go through different popular colour schemes. Last year Halfyard Designs worked on so many white and green weddings that we forgot there were other colours on the colour wheel! But it made for an interesting challenge to make each wedding unique and special to each client.

This year, however, people have been choosing 

more colour. So, when Sarah came to us with her white, green and chocolate brown colour palette for her Brock House Restaurant wedding, we thought, no sweat! We had plenty of practice last year. But, last year was all about clean lines, classic, simple, etc, etc... Sarah was looking for a "West Coast" feel, with ferns, lots of greenery and gras

ses. So this is the result of what we came up with. It is one of my personal favorites of the year! Thank you Sarah and Sim for choosing Halfyard Designs to create this Whimsical Woodland!

Said computer software/hardware giant!

This is the 'wedding' Halfyard Designs had the absolute pleasure of working on! It was so much fun as you will see for yourself!

Here is the concept for the 'ceremony', a beautiful, bright and natural feel. Loving all the willow! 

Flower girls ideas!

Now, recently, Halfyard Designs had a very exciting venture come across them. It was a photo shoot for an internationally known computer software/hardware giant! Basically, I was given a colour scheme and basic idea of what they wanted and awaaaay we go!

This is an idea that Halfyard Designs came up with for a flower girl. When a bride is looking for a new idea to give her ceremony a different flair, this is what her flower girl can carry! It was so much fun to make!

Emily + Rob

Here are the fab photos, courtesy of Sakura Photography, of Emily and Rob's wedding, that Halfyard Designs had the privilege of working on.

leanne + Mark

On June 21st, Leanne and Mark became husband and wife at the fabulous Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam. What a beautiful venue with an equally beautiful view.

As always, Halfyard Designs is honored when a bride and groom ask me to be a part of their wedding day. This was no exception! Leanne had a good idea of what she wanted. And Mark? He drafted it out for me! Her certainly knew what he wanted, and I am happy to say that on his wedding day he exclaimed, "This is exactly what I had envisioned!" What a compliment! Here is a taste of their Black White and Red wedding.

A simple chuppah

So this is what Halfyard Designs did for Lyndsay at the ever popular and beautiful venue, Brock House Restaurant. We love working with the Brock House.

This was such a beautiful piece that I had to share it with you all!

A great idea....

For a change, Halfyard Designs would like to endorse this great idea! Now if this was available when I got married, I totally would have done it! It's the polaroid guestbook by Picture This Albums. Rather than having all your guests strain their brains trying to figure out what to say, as the saying goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words."

Emily and Rob

As a designer, this wedding was an exciting one. The bride and groom were adamant that they did not want roses. She absolutely loved the bouquet that I did for the Aislewalk 2009 edition, whose vibrant colours lent to the 60's theme of the shoot. Halfyard Designs successfully accomplished that, giving Emily and Rob some pretty unique flowers and colours to work with, using the venues Bethany Baptist Church in Richmond and the Sheraton Wall Center in Vancouver.

The protea had to be my favorite flower in your entire wedding. As you will see, it was carried out throughout almost the entire wedding. It is the yellow 'leggy' looking flowers. Very cool indeed!

Congratulations Emily and Rob!

A CSI Wedding

Here is the CSI wedding Halfyard Designs created, as seen on Entertainment Tonight Canada!

Fresh start!

OK, so clearly keeping the Halfyard Designs blog in the past year was not my forte. This year I am going to try and change that! I want to post ideas for different flowers brides can use that they wouldn't normally think of using (think carnations!).

First I want to start off with a wedding I did last month. It was by far the biggest most high profile wedding I have ever done. Entertainment Tonight Canada was there from beginning to end, capturing Lauren and Erik, listening to her gush about her wedding. Although, with a small guest list of 80 people, it kept me and my crew of 5 very busy all day.

In the beautiful setting of Cultus Lake, Lauren Lee Smith and her fiance Erik Steingroever vowed to spend the rest of their lives together. Lauren Lee Smith, these days, is better known as Riley Adams on the hit TV series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. It was very exciting to work with Lauren and Erik as they were very personable and down to earth.

They decided on 3 venues! The church was a quaint little white rectangular chapel. We lined the aisle in white rose petals that framed the white carpet. This venue had a very bohemian/hippy feel. Fun and free!

The restaurant in which they held the ceremony had a log cabin kind of feel. We covered all that up to give the room a fresh clean feel, complete with 15 foot high wall drapery the covered the majority of the room. The chair covers and linens were white, and the room was complete with tall centerpieces of white curly willow with wired in white orchids. Oh and not to mention the HUNDREDS of white candles.

Last but not least, the party room! The third venue was a typical community hall, complete with awful panel board walls. This room we were to drape fully, walls and ceiling, in burgundy and black material, giving the room a 'burlesque' feel. As you can see in the photos, I think we succeeded in achieving that look!

It was pleasure to work with Lauren and Erik and I wish them both much happiness in their life together!

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