A canopy made of Texas flowers
The ceremony is where the couple asked and what the garden already met halfway. Local flowers, nothing that looked shipped in, a relaxed outdoor room that their guests could actually sit in. Mountain Laurel Floral put the flowers in only two places, the canopy and the aisle floor, and let the garden do the rest.
Instead of cut flowers for the chairs, the aisle received a garden bed: a low runner of asparagus fern laid along the stone, with bird of paradise, purple allium balls, anthurium, trailing amaranth and a fringe of dried palm pushed into it, wild enough to pass for something grown there. “Architectural flourishes brought height, structure and a sense of art to the space,” says the wedding planner at Dieu Weddings of the ceremony design. Tropical and desert stems share a bed here as they share the greenhouses of the garden itself, which is why the entire installation feels original to the place.
The shaped chairs and thin legs are dusty roses and they do half the work of the palette before anyone even sits down. This is the trick worth stealing: let the seating carry the color and place the flowers low.
Sam is Jewish, and the couple got married under a canopy, “a symbol of the house we plan to build together.” Mountain Laurel Floral built it from two posts and a crossbar and then buried the structure in bracken until what was left was a living frame, with anthurium, allium, pink orchids and amaranthus growing out of it and the garden’s glass greenhouse towering behind it like a second, larger greenhouse. Canopy remains open on all four sides. It opens onto the garden itself.
