Beautiful old world charm nestled in the hillside of Castro Valley, Westover Vineyard was a perfect place for Alexandra and David’s Spanish style wedding. The couple invited their families and close friends for an intimate wedding nuptial under lush greeneries, while Mariachi band serenaded the guests. The ceremony was filled with colorful hues of azalea, burgundy, plum and a touch of chartruse. The aisles were decorated with mini arrangements of plum hydrangeas and Bugatti rosas placed inside hanging mason jars and hung on black shephard’s hooks. The bride wore a lovely diamond white gown accented with a beautiful Mantilla veil while her bridesmaids were brilliant in fuschia. It was a very intimate and fun wedding soiree filled with music and laughter. Congratulations to Alexandra and David!

Theme:

Old World Spain – Mediterranean inspired settings, lush greeneries, rich colors and lots of laces.

The Bouquets & Boutonnieres

Bridal Bouquet – composed of fuschia peonies, azalea dahlias, lime green cymbidiums and spray roses, plum tulips and Bugatti rosas.

Bridesmaid Bouquet – composed of burgundy dahlias, Bugatti rosas, plum tulips, purple lisianthus, Cool Water rosas, lime green cymbidiums and spray roses.

Groom’s Boutonniere

Groomsmen Boutonniere

Mothers Boutonniere

The Ceremony

The ceremony arch

The aisle arrangements

The Reception

The Head Table Decor



Guest Table Centerpiece

Cake and Toss Bouquet

Credits

A special thank to Connie Cheung of Vivid Delight Photography for these amazing photos. We love them!!! Check out her online portfolio.
Photographer: Vivid Delight Photography

What can I say, I love my job. What’s more fun than designing beautiful events and watch the lovely couple tie the knot. Miriam loves to smile. From the first time I met her, all I could remember is her lovely smile. Did I mention she’s also very easy going and down to earth? I love working with brides who are willing to take risks and willing to try out new things. Congratulations Miriam & Matthew!!!

Theme

Urban Zen – A modern interpretation of the Japanese zen garden with contrasting colors that flows together in tone and mood and design elements that speaks bold but simple.

Miriam & Matthew

The Ceremony

Miriam and Matthew lovely soiree took place at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency. The indoor ceremony was decorated with a custom made Mahogany chuppah draped in white chiffon. The chuppah bases were completely lined with blue hydrangeas and white roses. We hung fragrant gardenias and taupe orchids across the top and tied cluster of flowers to each corners of the the chuppah in shades of taupe white and red. The aisle sides were lined with luscious red rose petals. Each guest chair was covered in white and finished with a taupe sash to complete the urban zen design.

The Bouquets

The bridal bouquet composed of vendella rosas, taupe brown orchids, gardenias, lipstick red rosa and finished with an antique beaded lace ribbons. Bridesmaids bouquet composed of vendella rosas and blue hyacinth.

The Boutonnieres

Groom’s boutonniere composed of taupe brown orchid, paired with green hypericum berries, bear grass and finished with satin navy ribbons.
Groomsmen boutonniere composed of blue hyacinth paired with white ranunculus and finished with satin brown ribbons.

The Bridal Entourage

The Reception

Credits

Photographers: Matthew May Photography

Call me a dork but I just LOVE LOVE LOVE winery weddings. Lisa and Eller met me for an initial consultation early on in their wedding planning process. When they said they were going to get married at Wente Winery in Livermore, I was beyond excited. I LOVE Wente and their porkchops and of course their Cabernet Sauvignon. The venue was a perfect setting for a small intimate wedding ceremony. It was such a sunny morning filled with excitement, love and full of candy apple red and mandarin orange.

The Venue

The Ceremony

Lisa and Eller went with an urban chic wedding theme. The ceremony aisles were lined with red and orange carnation pomanders. The backdrop composed of hanging pomanders, stringing orchids and floating callas in glass tubes. After the couple exchanged wedding vows, guests were given bubbles to blow across the aisle as the couple headed out to their reception party.

The Bridal Entourage

The reception

Credits

Photographer: AlfredandEmma Photography

After several months of spring rain, cloudy weather and cold temperature, summer is finally here. We can finally trade in our boots for sandles and heels. This year we are doing a fun, flirty and casual summer photoshoot. To me, summer is all about colors. We have chosen luscious plum hues, bright fushia and minty green as the color theme for our casual summer photoshoot.

We were so lucky to capture a beautiful day filled with blue skies, cool breeze and bright sunshine. We used a variety of summer flowers such as fuschia peonies, jade rosas, lovely lydia garden roses, lime green cymbidium orchids, and cool water rosas. The concept for this shoot was casual and fun: short and flowy white dress paired with burgundy ballet flats, embellished with Tahitian pearls.

Here are some photos from the shoot, hope you guys will enjoy it.

Credits

Model: Bellina Bui
Location: Communication Hills, San Jose, California

Emma, one of my favorite photographer friend, asked me to make a wedding bouquet for one of her bride as a gift. The color scheme was velvet red and nova white to highlight their cambodian and korean heritage. The bouquet was made from classy red rosa, white tulips and white freesias, finished with an antique beaded white lace. It was truly a colorful event filled with traditions. Thanks Alfred & Emma for the fabulous photos.

Photographer: Alfred and Emma Photography

I fell in love with Breakfast at Tiffany ever since I saw the movie. Who doesn’t love Audrey Hepburn in her classic little black dress and the infamous rendition of Moon River. The old hollywood glam, the bling bling, and the old so beautiful tiffany blue is absolutely classic. When Tiffany came to me with her request for a Breakfast at Tiffany wedding theme, I was ecstatic. How could I say no to the most classic wedding theme of all time. Here is a sneak peak at her wedding details.

Invitation~

The Bride ~

The Girls ~ Pretty in Blue

The Boys ~ Men in Black

The Bouquets

The Couple

Photographers: Cuong Phan

The perfect setting for a tropical beach themed wedding on the lush grass of the Metropolitan Golf Course. Mai and Andrew is one of the sweetest couple I got a chance to work with this year. They are both great dancers, a little quirky at times and absolutely in love. Their wedding under the sunset was absolutely amazing. Congratulations to the two of you. May you live happily ever after.

The wedding was packed with beautiful well thought out details. Here are some highlights from the event.

The sign-in table ~ seashell placecards, submerged cymbidium orchids, floating calla lilies.

The Ceremony Site ~ Flowers: tropical green hawaiian dendrobium, garnet callas, aqua rosas, purple tulips, mauve and green hydrangeas

The cake ~ Flowers composed of mauve mini cymbidiums, tropical green mini cymbidiums and purple dendrobiums

The Reception ~ Luau party, lots of laughter, lots of love, lots of excitement

The Candy Bar ~ Green and Purple deliciousness

I am very excited to announce the official relaunch of our website. Flower and Paper has new facelift. Yay, finally right? On a more personal note, I would like to thank all the talented photographers, whom I have the pleasure to work with in the past year. Your photos are amazing and thank you so much for your contributions to Flower and Paper. Last but not least, a warm thank you to all my past clients, if it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t have anything to showcase.