It’s been over a year in waiting, but we are so excited to finally share all the floral design details for this one!

Our brides Rebecca and Nicky had an incredible wedding in New Orleans last October surrounded by their family, friends and some of the most colorful and bold wedding florals and decor that we’ve seen.

The ceremony took place at the Crescent City Ballroom at the Roosevelt Hotel with their utterly fabulous reception immediately following at the Orpheum Theater.

The eclectic color palette featuring shades of blue, purple, hot pink, yellow and orange accented with gold perfectly complemented the extravagant and ornate details of the reception space.

Custom fabricated flower boxes and custom built main bar included a jaw-dropping display of 11 ft. tall floral filled columns and an 8 ft. wide back bar flower wall.

Not a single detail was overlooked and floral arrangements adorned the stage, bars, every table and lounge space imaginable.

When we say every inch of space at the Orpheum was used, we’re not kidding! Scroll to see just how epic this wedding was because words don’t quite do it justice.

Featured Vendors:

Florals: Kim Starr Wise Floral Events

Planning and Design: Raizk Design

Rentals: Pret-a-Fete

Photography: Margot Landen Weddings

Custom Fabrication: Raven PMG

Ceremony: Crescent City Ballroom

Reception: The Orpheum Theater

They say New Orleans is the northern most Caribbean city and the tropical vibes from Jared and Lake’s big day without a doubt prove this saying true!

Their ceremony and reception took place at Race + Religious, a historic venue that features multiple restored cottages complete with carefully curated antique decor plus a fountain-flanked pool, two brick courtyards, and lush palms lit by the flicker of gas lamps.

See how the Kim Star Wise Floral Events team used the eclectic setting at Race + Religious to create this romantic tropical paradise for our grooms.

Jared and Lake exchanged their vows under this custom designed altar decorated with tropical palm fans, flowering acacia, spray roses, poppies, viburnum, roses, magnolia foliage, wild smilax vines, blooming forsythia and orange dubium.

Next to the guestbook sits a stunning flower arrangement of forsythia, orange dubium, tulips, hydrangea, magnolia, gerbera daisies, Juliet garden roses, eremurus, montbretia, olive foliage, ivory roses, jasmine vines and curly willow.

Fresh floral centerpieces of camellia, hydrangea, olive branches, freesia, helleborus, flowering acacia, eremurus, orange dubium, spray roses, poppies, forsythia, gerbera daisies, jasmine vines and Juliet garden roses were placed at every reception table.

Even the four tiered cake was embellished with a simple bundle of flowering acacia and orange dubium blooms.

Looking as handsome as ever and blissfully in love on their wedding day, Jared and Lake wore classic black tuxedos adorned with anemone boutonnieres; one adorned with forsythia and the other adorned with fresh jasmine.

Featured Vendor List

Ceremony & Reception: Race + Religious

Planning & Design: Ruby & Pearl

Florals: Kim Starr Wise

Wedding Cake: Melissa’s Fine Pastries

Photographer: Dark Roux

One of the biggest events we’ve ever been a part of has been featured in Martha Stewart Wedding Magazine! We are beyond excited to finally share all the stunning floral designs we created for Haylie & Bradley’s epic New Orleans Wedding.

From the beginning, the bride envisioned a beautiful and timeless garden party while the groom wanted a luxurious, over-the-top reception. And like all Kim Starr Wise Floral Events, big or small, we made this dream a reality that you absolutely must see to believe!

Their extravagant affair took place in the French Quarter starting with the ceremony at the iconic St. Louis Cathedral followed by the reception at the Old Ursuline Convent just a few blocks away.

Haylie, Bradley, and their 500 guests danced the night away under a custom fabricated ceiling consisting of 24,000 white tulips that were imported from Holland. The inverted garden of tulips took nearly nine hours to complete as each one was hung individually to the metal frame using toothpicks!

The main reception tent was completely transformed with an elegant mix of banquet and round dining tables topped with an assortment of flower arrangements including roses, lilacs, hydrangeas, and even more tulips.

While the inside of the tent was fully draped with linen and floral garlands consisting of white spray roses, plumose, salal, and white limonium.

Sweetpeas, roses, gardenias, stephanotis and other blooms wound around the six-foot-tall white-chocolate chiffon wedding cake.

Dressed in all white, Haylie and her bridesmaids exuded elegance. The bridal bouquet consisted of all lily of the valley. While the bridesmaids each wore a flower crown and carried fresh bouquets of white sweet peas.

Featured Vendor List

Reception location: Old Ursuline Convent

Event planning and design: Sapphire Events

Flowers and design: Kim Starr Wise Floral Events

Photography: A Bryan Photo

Wedding Cake: Melissa’s Fine Pastries

Rentals: the 12th Table; Casa de Perrin; I Do Linens; Perrier Party Rentals; Revelry Event Designers

Bride’s gown: Inbal Dror from Dimitra’s Bridal Couture

Bridesmaids’ dresses: Joanna August

Lighting and custom rentals: Luminous Events

Lighting, inverted garden, and custom fabrication: Raven Production Management Group

Tent and installations: Scurlock Tent Rentals

Kim Starr Wise Floral Events was recently featured in Carats & Cake for Irene & Ricardo’s wedding at The Chicory in New Orleans. Irene & Ricardo flew all the way from Ecuador to get married in New Orleans!

Like many venues in New Orleans, The Chicory has a storied past and perfectly suited for our foreign couple. What started as a coffee warehouse in the 1850s is now an incredible event space with pressed tin ceilings, real gas lanterns, exposed brick and has the original beams.

We absolutely loved how the floral designs came out in this beautiful juxtaposition with hundreds of hanging Edison light bulbs in this cozy industrial, yet rustic space.

Suspended garden roses, regular roses, and spray roses, commingling with lightbulbs in custom designed wood structures that perfectly matched the interior of the venue.

Their seated dinner for about 150 people, consisted of rows of long banquet tables that were lined with flower centerpieces in different gold mercury bud vases and compotes, incorporating a blush, ivory, peach and burgundy color palette.  I used nerine lilies, burgundy spray roses, blush tulips, plumose, seeded eucalyptus, David Austin’s Kate Garden, ilse spray roses, pink astilbe and smilax vines.

Clusters of David Austin Juliet garden roses, blush ranunculus, white anemones and ivory majolica spray roses dotted each tier of their wedding cake.

For Irene, I created an asymmetric shaped bouquet, incorporating pepper berries, cafe au lait dinner plate dahlias, jasmine vine, astilbe, David Austin Juliet garden roses, ranunculus, seeded eucalyptus, plumose, and was elegantly finished with ivory silk ribbon.

Featured Vendor List

Reception: The Chicory

Event Design/Coordination: Sapphire Events

Florist: Kim Starr Wise

Lighting: Luminous Events

Wedding Cake: Melissa’s Fine Pastries

Photographer: Jacqueline Dallimore

2017 is off to an exciting start with news that Kim Starr Wise Floral Events will be featured in Southern Bride magazine’s January issue!

Last year, we were approached by New Orleans wedding planner Elyse Jennings to collaborate on a secret garden themed styled photo shoot at the Beauregard-Keyes House & Garden Museum, and we knew that we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work with her and showcase our work!

This historic home is nestled in the French Quarter and surrounded by lush green gardens with a pristine courtyard that is a floral designer’s dream canvas.

At the center of the brick paved courtyard, the fountain is adorned with a cascading floral and foliage garland complete with blush and ivory spray roses, and crimson garden roses.

The iron archways topped with wild smilax vines and perfectly placed white, peach and blush roses create a picturesque background that completes the vision of this love affair between a bride and groom (by the way- they’re a real couple)!  They married in New Orleans this past February!

Even fresh flower bouquets made of ranunculus, David Austin Juliet garden roses, spray roses, hellebores, and agonis were tucked in the linen chair ties. Not a single detail was overlooked when creating the romantic setting for this shoot!

Atop of a golden antique barcart sits a three-tiered marbled pink wedding cake decorated with fresh garden roses.

Featured Vendor List

Planning and Design: Elyse Jennings Weddings

Venue: Beauregard-Keyes House and Garden Museum

Florist: Kim Starr Wise

Furniture and Decor: Event Rental

Bridal Gown: Wedding Belles New Orleans

Wedding Cake: Melissa’s Fine Pastries

Photographer: Marissa Lambert Photography