I recently found out about The Flower Bar by Floral Art via the Hostess Blog.  And I must say, I have not seen such wonderful flower arrangements!  Their arrangements are creative, modern, and artistic.  At The Flower Bar, you can also search flower arrangements by style, color, and flower.  This site definitely is an eye candy where you can find tons of ideas and inspiration for your wedding.

I recently found out about the Pretty Good blog and I am obsessed!  Author and photographer Mary Swenson does such an amazing job creatively capturing the beauty of each of her subject and adds a brief text on her photographs.  Her photography has a way of brightening up my day and I look forward to checking out her blog everyday. 

I will be leaving you this weekend with some floral inspirations from her blog.  Enjoy!

As I was browsing through Country Living (one of my favorite online resources), I came across this DIY project on how to embelish plain, ordinary containers into something spectacular.  I thought this would be great to dress up centerpieces for your wedding and other wedding events. Hope you like it…

The Beaded Vase: Make this vase by stretching individual strands or sets of elasticized beaded bracelets around an empty canning or jelly jar.  For larger jars, use beaded necklaces and double or triple them around. These simple eye-catching arrangements make a striking statement at any gathering, especially when lined up on a table in lieu of a centerpiece. Guests can even take them home as favors. 

The Ribbon Vase:  Use an oversized square vase and hot-glue the backs of striped and polka-dotted ribbons to the vase. You can also use a heavy-duty double-faced tape to adhere the ribbons instead of a hot-glue.

The Colored Pencil Vase: Hot-glue a kaleidoscope of colored pencils to a glass vase or jar.  Fill the vase with your favorite blossoms and tie a bow (we used double-faced satin ribbon) around the bottom.

The Crystal Bud Vase:  Place a glass bobeche (look for these candlestick collars where candles are sold) atop a bud vase and hang crystal lusters around the edge. Finish with any single bloom that can stand on its own.  These would be great as favors.

One of my favorite new products in Estilo Weddings are the clay flowers.  These clay flowers look just like the real thing, it’s amazing!  In addition to the clay centerpieces, we have also added clay flower cake toppers and clay flower hair clips.  Check them out.

Organic Bouquet is the market leader in organic flowers and is recognized in the trade as having established the natural products industry’s newest category–organic floral. Their flowers are available online at www.organicbouquet.com and in some of your favorite natural food stores, including Whole Foods Markets nationwide.  They have a wide selection of organic flowers which are perfect for wedding bouquets and centerpieces.

In addition, they also have a charitable bouquets section for which 5% of the retail price goes to the corresponding charity associated with the flower of your choice.

Pictured above is their Two Dozen Pink Passion Roses which benefits breastcancer.org, a non-profit organization whose mission is to help women and their loved ones make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast cancer, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so they can make the best decisions for their lives.