lake home. : 5.26.12. food & flowers.

i wanted orange.

i wanted gerbera daisies.

i wanted roses...and i found the perfect orange spray roses

i needed pink to tie in the pink in the bridesmaids' dresses.

blue ribbon.

the rest was whatever tied in with that.

a florist the lakes know well made my bouquet and the boutonnieres.

my amazing cousin made my bridesmaids' bouquets and the other arrangements we used for decoration.

we ordered the gerbera daisies for the bridesmaids from sam's club. the flowers i had chosen were light pink, light orange, and white and i thought the three of those colors would be PERFECT. well, they came to our house two days before the wedding and were all pink and white! it definitely wasn't the end of the world but my main color was orange! not pink! i really had wanted there to be orange in the bouquets. there wasn't much sam's club could do in a short matter of time so i figured, oh well. since they needed to be stored in a cool place i took them to the empty garage at mine and dawson's house in buckets.

i completely freaked my mom, mother-in-law, and cousin out when i called them the next day to inform them that ALL of the flowers were dying. i was kind of bummed thinking i wasn't going to have any flowers for my bridesmaids when my mother-in-law called me after stopping by the house to pick something up and seeing the flowers, informing me that they were NOT dying, gerber daisies naturally bend at the stem, that's what makes them so great for floral arrangements...who knew?

so everything turned out fine, we also found some smaller orange daisies and orange roses to include with them!

at the luncheon we had an amazing chicken dish and an assortment of cakes for dessert. at the reception we had an assortment of cheesecake. they sent a box of cheesecake with us on our honeymoon and yes, i ate the whole thing.

my same amazing cousin who did the flowers also made our wedding cake with her husband. she couldn't get many details of how i wanted the cake out of me. all i really cared was that it was a funfetti cake with birds on top. and she did an amazing job.

she baked the absolutely delicious creamy funfetti cake that i'm absolutely craving right now (can't wait til our first anniversary) and her husband decorated it.

they seriously need to go into the wedding cake business.

oh yes, and i don't know what kind of punch there was at our reception, but it was some good stuff. maybe that's just because i was incredibly thirsty standing in line when someone brought that to me.

thank you, whoever that was.