Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Exquisite Designs

May 12th, 2013 by Alexandra Jusino

To my amazing Mom Marta, I love you and adore you. Although you can’t be here to spend this Mother’s Day with me and live a couple of thousand miles away… I hope you enjoy these flowers that I made for you.

Mothers Day Arrangement

In case you were wondering I got you lilacs, sweetpeas, garden roses, purple tulips parrot tulips, bupleurum, sweet unique roses and it’s huge! Some of the flowers even came from my garden and it smells divine.

 

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Blush, Pale Pinks and lots of Chicago Romance at the Drake Hotel in Chicago

May 6th, 2013 by Alexandra Jusino

We just moved into a new(much bigger space) and our recent client Sarah was a special one to all of us at Exquisite Designs…. This is the first of many events that we will be producing from our new studio in the west loop. Sarah came to us last year …. she wanted lots of blush, pale pinks and a little bit of romance in her flowers. She wanted a garden feel to her arrangements with accents of gold, candlelight, peonies, ranunculus, hydrangeas and roses.  She picked the perfect time of the year for her flower choices, the day was absolutely spectacular.

Not only did the weather cooperated, but we also had the pleasure of working with a great cast of vendors such as Tiffany from Soiree Chicago, Okyne Media, Bellissima Photography and The Drake Hotel.

Sarah’s bouquet was a stunner. Truly one of our favorite bouquets at Exq Designs with a textural mix of white and blush peonies (you got it, it had peonies in it), white sweetpeas, white calla lilies, dusty miller and blush ranunculus. I always know that if it’s a hard to let go bouquet, we’ve done our job. This was definitely one of those.

Peony Bridal Bouquet

The bridesmaids carry handtied bouquets of blush ranunculus, blush sweet peas, champagne roses, dusty miller, light pink peonies, white stock and blush roses.

Blush Bridesmaids Bouquet

We created different tablescapes for their reception at the Gold Coast Room at the Drake Hotel.  All arrangements had white hydrangeas, blush roses, blush peonies, seeded eucalyptus, pale pink roses,  and pale pink spray roses.

Escort card Table Arrangement

The escort card table with compotes and petite antique gold vases along with floating candles

Green Hellebores

I even sneaked in a little green hellebores from my garden in her escort card arrangements.

Compote of blush flowers

Low compote arrangements of ivory hydrangeas, blush spray roses, jasmine vine,  blush peonies and dusty miller

Tall Floral Centerpiece of white hydrangeas, blush roses and peonies

Chapel Designers Bouquet Menagerie

April 29th, 2013 by Alexandra Jusino

My Chapel Designer friends and I decided to do a little progressive blog post were you can find all of our lovely bouquets, and we have so many lovely bouquets to choose from.  This past weekend one of our designers created a stunning peonies bouquet, it was one of my favorites. But as much as I love peonies, I love anemones a lot more. Anemones, anything purple and of course anything with peonies. Here is a few of my favorites bouquets to date.

 

Peonies and sweetpeas

White Roses and White Anemones bouquet

Purple Bridal Bouquet

These next three bouquets were created by Victoria Clausen from Romance of Flowers I absolutely love the classic glamelia bouquet below. It’s stunning.

Glamelia bouquet by Romance of Flowers

Fall Bridal Bouquet by Romance of Flowers

Rosen Wedding Balitmore

This post gets even better….. you get to see so many more bouquets from Chapel Designers all over the US. Enjoy and be inspired by all the different styles!

Holly Heider Chapple Flowers LTD: http://thefullbouquetblog.com/?p=25873

Celebration Florals:  http://bit.ly/11Bc48t

Gertie Maes:http://www.gertiemaes.com/blog/

Soiree Floral: http://blog.soireefloral.com/

Colonial House: http://colonialhouseofflowers.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/bouquets/

Stacy K Floral: http://www.stacykfloral.com/blog2/?p=4489

Wild Bunch Studio: http://wildbunchstudio.blogspot.com

Passionflower: http://www.passionflowerevents.com/main/blog.jsp

Alicia Jayne Florals:  http://aliciajayneflorals.com/blog/?p=162

Goodness-Gracious! Florals: http://tulipiere.com/2013/04/29/46/

Urban Petals: http://myurbanpetals.wordpress.com/?p=3233

FloressenceFlowers: http://floressenceflowers.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-favorite-bridal-bouquets.html

Wild Bunch Studio: http://wildbunchstudio.blogspot.com

Passionflower http://www.passionflowerevents.com/main/blog.jsp

On Butterfly Wings  http://onbutterflywingsblog.com/?p=356

Fleur:ology  http://fleurologydesign.com/?p=721

Alluring Blooms  http://alluringblooms.com/chapelbouquet/.html

Posh Floral Designs: http://poshfloral.com/memory-monday-favorite-bouquets

Francoise Weeks: http://francoiseweeks.com/2013/04/bouquets-2/

Happy Earth Day!

April 22nd, 2013 by Alexandra Jusino

From all of us at Exquisite Designs….. Happy Earth Day! Remember to conserve, reuse, recycle and compost whenever you can.

Green dianthus with accents of green hypericum berries

 

Small Wedding at C View at the One Mile North Hotel

April 22nd, 2013 by Alexandra Jusino

This past week we got a call from the ladies at Michelle Durpetti Events requesting florals for a small wedding they were planning in two days. You read that right… in two days! Here is a sneak peak at the bride’s bouquet.

 Bridal Bouquet of Hot Pink Roses, Ligh

Corals and Spring Flowers ~ A Photo Shoot for La Belle Fleur Events

April 10th, 2013 by Alexandra Jusino

When the lovely Ashley Le Fleur asked if we would like to be part of a photo shoot for her we jumped at the chance. Anything coral and gold is hot right now… so how could I pass up on the opportunity. Her timing was absolutely perfect since I was planning my trip to NYC and I knew I could get some lovely things at the NYC Floral Market and bring it back with me. Yes, I brought these flowers back with me on the plane! It was a little bit of a hassle and totally worth it. Would I do it again?…. take a look at these beauties and the answer is heck, yeah!  To round out all the amazing vendors that Ashley brought together for the shoot is Ashley Biess who I have to say is an amazing photographer and was kind enough to share these images.

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The lovely Ashley with our flowers

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Free Spirit Roses, Blush Ranunculus, Coral Ranunculus, Coral Sweet peas, Pink Hyacinth, Viburnum, dusty miller and jasmine vine

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If you loved this photo shoot, check out Ashley Biess website here for additional pictures

Rounding out the rest of the vendors are:
Kitchen Chicago (Venue)
Ashley Biess Photography (Photo)
Chris Bauer Photo (Video)
The Savoy Flea (Rentals)
Linens were made by Ashley Le Fleur
Made Divine (Menu Cards)
Vintage Plate Rescue (Silverware and charger plates)
Beth Stock from Epoch Chicago (Hair & Make Up)
Flirty Cupcakes (Cupcakes)
Alliance Bakery (Macaroons)
World’s Market (All other candy)