Category: Best Use of Floral
A September event in Duluth for a
group of local physicians was held in tents outside a mansion and featured
floral at the entrance, on dinner tables, and hanging from tent ceilings.
Planners used decor elements that evoked Tuscan colors and design.
Guests were greeted by an entrance adorned with large hanging arrangements of roses, stock, eucalyptus pods, and lily grass. Two large arrangements suspended from the ceiling in the dinner tent were focal points for the decor. Centerpieces in brown clay containers looked like they were straight from Tuscan vineyards. Fresh floral included yellow skyline and Virginia ivory roses, red and brown hypericum berries, purple stock, and red James Stori orchids. Clusters of grapes were included to give each centerpiece the look of the wine country.
On the mansion’s veranda, where the reception was held, Italian compote containers held a variety of fresh floral. At the after party in a separate tent, large clay urns in shades of salmon and mustard were filled with sprays of natural steel grass and pepper berry clusters surrounded in grapes and printed fabrics. Each of these arrangements were placed atop an authentic wooden wine barrel. The tent poles were dressed in long pepper berry garlands and fresh greenery evoking a vineyard.
Other Nominees:
Patty Fleming, Festivities, Inc.
Alice-Lynne Olson, The Late Bloomer Floral Design Studio, Inc.
