A Bleeding Heart

Being a florist provides a privilege to participate in other people’s memorable moments. Often we get to highlight a union, new birth, and other joyous moments with our floral designs. Sometimes flowers are ordered to ease the pain of a passing. Creating floral arrangements for clients is hard because you work hard to create a floral arrangement that you want to attempt to commiserate someone’s loss. However, it is even more challenging when it is someone you know. Yesterday we made floral arrangements for our dear friend who recently passed away from cancer. I remember just 15 years ago creating flowers for his wedding to my best friend. It was very emotional for me to do his funeral flowers, especially the bleeding heart arrangement ordered by his loving nephews and nieces. The white roses are symbolic of one of the purest hearts I have had the pleasure of knowing. 

Halloween 2010 Flower Centerpiece

We made these really amazing floral centerpieces in black vases for a Halloween Luncheon last week and then I took these really amazingly poor quality pictures of the centerpieces. So, you will have to take our word that the floral arrangements were spooky awesome.

Fall Corporate Floral Arrangement

We are trying new types of flowers, like these gingers, in our weekly corporate arrangements to spice up our client's office. We know how hard Monday mornings are. Hopefully these flowers will inspire our clients to embrace the uniqueness of each day.

2011 Summer Wedding Floral Inspiration

While the last couple of days have been cold in San Francisco, we have been keeping warm at Seti Design with summer 2011 wedding brainstorming sessions. We want to share some floral wedding ideas with our summer couples. One of our most popular wedding blog posts is a summer wedding in San Francisco where we turned the Green Room to yellow. The blog post doesn't include all the beautiful floral pictures taken by Anna Kuperberg, so I wanted to share some of my favorites here. This is for all the couples starting to planning their summer wedding. For more inspiration, please see the full album here. 

All photos taken by Anna Kuperberg http://www.kuperbergweddings.com/

Fall 2010 Wedding Arch

It was just six months ago that Alia came to Seti Design to discuss her fall wedding. She envisioned her favorite flowers in the wedding which included her own garden grown succulents. We wanted to incorporate her organic, local grown floral vision in the wedding arch as well. We filled the arch with green curly willows, moss balls, garden grown succulents and nosegays of  safflowers, orange dahlias, and zinnias. Here is a close up of our fall cornucopia!

For more pictures from the wedding, check out our album on Facebook.

Modern White Floral Arrangement

I originally created this as a sample for a wedding arrangement but I think that it may be too modern for most weddings. I really love the combination of different flowers with plants.