We are really excited about the 2010 weddings we have booked so far, and of course, we will keep you updated monthly,  with another year full of rockin' wedding flower videos and pictures of our beautiful bridal bouquets, ceremony flowers, and reception centerpieces available for delivery to Philadelphia & all surrounding suburbs.

Our first 2010 wedding was just yesterday, March 6th. They couldn't have asked for a more perfect sunny day, absolutely perfect weather for early March.

Here is a few videos below showing the making of the bridal bouquets, and the finished product and delivery of church flowers to Sacred Heart Church in the Manoa section of Havertown PA.

My dad is also in the second "Let Love Rule" video, brought out of retirement, AGAIN, & helping me deliver the house & church flowers in Havertown. Yeah, I know, I gave him the hard part, carrying all the heavy church pieces. He looks pretty good for 70 years old huh?

Ok, here are the videos and pictures below-

You can watch both videos side by side and just turn the volume down on one of the videos. Your song choices are "Wildflower" by The Cult or "Let Love Rule" by Lenny Kravitz which is about as easy listening as I get, sorry... if you don't like either song, you know where the mute button is... Enjoy!

 

 

 

 You can check out other battle videos done last year between my staff at Belvedere Flowers, or the epic battle between Belvedere & Everyday Flowers to get a little idea of how this is done.

 This year we are taking it up a notch, and also adding a twist to the contest.

Here are the rules and details-

--- The  Recipe --- 

 -5 tulips

-7 carnations

-5 gerbera daisies

-3 hydrangeas

-7 roses

-5 snapdragons

-3 dendrobium orchids

-1/4 bunch of statice

- 4 types of greens (foliages of choice)

-1 twig type (birch, curly willow, pussy willow, flowering branches)

 - Container of your choice ( you may use floral foam in your container)

 We are featuring a lot of new cool fresh flower designs on our website, and we are creating some really unique designs in cube and cylinder vases with river rocks, decorative wire, using beautiful spring flowers such as tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, and featuring our locally grown anenomes which will be available for the month of March only.

Check out some of these cool new unique flower designs we sent out on delivery last week to homes and businesses all over Philadelphia & surrounding suburbs.

Here are some photos of our fresh new designs and also a short video featuring the song, "Couldn't Stand The Weather" by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

  Here are a few selections of flowers, roses, and plants we will be featuring this year for Valentine's Day.

Our favorite Valentine's Day color this year at Belvedere Flowers is passionate purple!

It doesn't have to be red...

...send purple roses instead!

I love the Intro on the Love Shack Photo website.

I had the pleasure  of doing a wedding with an awesome photographer, Jackie Bayne of Love Shack Photo. 

I have blogged about Jackie in the past, after we did one of my favorite weddings back in early Sept. 2009. 

Jackie was a lot of fun to work with and her personality shows in her pictures! I just think she rocks, and if there is anybody out there in the Philadelphia Area looking for a great wedding photographer to work with, I highly recommend Jackie @ Love Shack Photo!

I just received a disc in the mail the other day from Jackie with a bunch of great flower photos from the wedding we did together at the Radnor Valley Country Club in Villanova PA. She also shared pictures they took at Citizens Bank Park with the bridal party! The Groom was a big fan of the Phillies, and the Bride surprised him with a special visit to the ball park for some pictures before the reception!

Here are just a few of the great shots taken by Jackie @ Love Shack Photo-

  You can read more about the centerpiece challenge and get the exact details on Sprout's Blog. 

     For my entry to the contest, I decided to do something appropriate for a Spring Wedding. I was also inspired by the tulips, hyacinths, and daffodils I picked up at a great price from the local flower wholesaler. Nothing screams Spring more than those 3 flowers!

  To create this design, I used frog pins to weigh down the flowers so they don't float to the top of the vase. Frog pins are obviously nothing new, but it's a great tip I personally picked up from the flower expert,  J Schwanke of Ubloom.

  I love submerged flowers inside vases, it makes a great conversation piece for any event. We even display submerged flowers on our front counter at the flower shop, so the customers can see how neat it looks. Everyone always asks us, "How do you do that!" Or, "Is that real? How long does something like that last?"

  Submerged flowers actually last very long from my experience, sometimes a couple weeks! You may need to change the water after a week, as it tends to get foggy looking. When you first submerge the flowers in water, there is a really neat bubble effect that forms around the edges of the flower, especially on a rose! The flowers also magnify when submerged in water.

  Submerged flower centerpieces have also been a very big seller for our 2009 wedding season. You can view some samples by surfing through our YouTube Channel.

Ok, so here is my entry for The Great $50 Wedding Centerpiece Challenge!

It's appropriately called "Spring Sprout" 

 Our bouquets are bigger and fresher than the ones you may find at most grocery stores. We also hand make all our bouquets vs. pre-made bouquets, which is what you will find everywhere else. That's what makes Belvedere Bunches stand out from the rest.

 Here is a few pictures & a video of this week's bunches (Jan. 18-23)  which include daisies, alstroemerias, statice, & 3 roses for only $10 each. 

Boccella's Deli is a great place to grab breakfast, lunch, or dinner. They also sell groceries, lottery tickets, & cold beer. I am proud to add Belvedere Bunches to the list.

I personally stop into Boccella's everyday for their homemade soup made daily. I am a big fan!

If you have not tried Boccella's Deli, please stop in today and check them out, and pick up a Belvedere Bunch while you are there!

Of course, you can also visit our flower shop or shop online 24/7 on our Belvedere Flowers Website.

The first design is called Holiday Tulips 

 10 stems of "merry widow" tulips designed in a keepsake galvanized red pot, accented with fresh holly, pine tips, gold balls, and ribbons. Merry widow tulips have deep red petals with pure white tips and edges. Tulips also come in solid white, red, or pink this Winter. You may always put your special requests in special instructions while placing your order on our website. If you have a certain color combination you want to use, we can create that for you. 

Below, using the same container, we also designed an arrangement with a mix of premium flowers such as tropical red ginger, kale, white tulips, red roses, burgundy kangaroo paws, & blue thistle. We also accent those flowers with seasonal Christmas greens such as pine tips, cedar, and holly, and finish it off with pine cones & gold balls.

Available for delivery to Philadelphia & all surrounding suburbs all month long.

Purchase this Elegant Holiday Design for only $45

 Next, below, we have a seasonal design arranged in a rectangular shaped cube vase, using spring flowers with seasonal evergreens. This is a great gift for Hanukah or Christmas.  Also great for everyday winter occasions, such as a get well hospital delivery, or a special birthday centerpiece.

Purchase Spring for the Holidays for $50

Spring flowers such as gerbera daisy, hydrangea, snapdragon, & tulips.

Looking for something tropical this Christmas?

Our next latest design is created in a keepsake ceramic red pottery. Arranged in a contemporary style with tropical red gingers, butterfly anthuriums, red intuition roses, tulips, bells of Ireland, and seasonal mixed evergreens & Christmas decorations such as faux apples, balls, pine cones and ribbons.

Tropical Holiday Design

Below is another unusual custom made design by Belvedere Flowers.

The perfect centerpiece or Christmas or Hanukah done in mostly whites & seasonal evergreens.

Designed in a swooping crescent shape flow including  flowers such as roses, kale, tulips & alstroemerias. Accented with faux apples, pine cones, and white birch branches.

Purchase this Crescent Shaped Seasonal Centerpiece for only $55

Also, check out our poinsettia plants available all month long for pick up or delivery.

Here are some pictures below of the varieties we will be carrying this year.

Different shades of red, white, cream, marble, monet, jingle bells, and more.

Kris (the bride) came in to my flower shop totally prepared with pictures and an exact idea of what she was looking for in her wedding flowers for the Radnor Valley Country Club in Villanova PA.

It was a black and white wedding so she wanted to have all white wedding flowers, and lots of floating candles, and orchids submerged inside cylinder vases. We created 15 table centerpieces for the reception in the  Villanova Room, and also a large arrangement for the lobby, where the cocktail hour was going to be held. We also created bouquets for the bridal party, and fresh large altar pieces for the church at Our Mother of Good Councel in Bryn Mawr PA.

I also had the pleasure of meeting Jackie Bayne, an awesome photographer with a really cool website!

 I look forward to getting some great photos from Jackie, including shots at Citizens Bank Park.

The bride is surprising the groom, a huge Phillies fan, with a visit to Citizens Bank Park to take pictures after the ceremony! I can't wait to hear about the reaction of the groom when he finds this out. I am sure Jackie will capture the moment, and bring out the best in the bridal party with spectacular photos that I hope to post here soon.

I also met a real nice cake guy, David, at Dough Main Baked Goods in Rosemont PA. The cake was absolutely spectacular, we added white hydrangeas & white roses to it.

It was also a pleasure delivering and setting up at the RVCC, Chuck is always organized and prepared and does an amazing job at the country club. A great place to get married for sure!

Of course I made some YouTube videos of the event and have posted them below for you to check out everything from loading the flowers for delivery, to watching the bride take photos, and getting a glimpse of the table centerpieces & large lobby vase.

Thanks Kris & Mike for letting me be part of your special day, I really enjoyed this wedding a lot, and hope that all my weddings in the future can go as smooth as this one did. Also a great job by all people involved in this wedding!

Enjoy these videos below, it was a nice day for a white wedding!

Watch both videos below and vote for your favorite right here on our blog, or you can also vote on Facebook, or in the comments section of the YouTube videos.

Also check out Everyday Flowers Blog!

I will try to get some pics from Eric @ Everyday Flowers but for now here is a few of our pictures from this week.

This week we decided to use the same exact basket and same flowers & colors. I was surprised to see a different style used by each of us, yet similar at the same time in certain ways. My design (Adam) was more of clustered pave style, Linda's basket was more of a larger one-sided design, and Susan's was somewhere in the middle. 

 We each used 3 blue hydrangeas, 3 yellow pin cushion proteas, 3 peach eufloria roses, 3 purple stock, & 3 peach hypericum berries, with our choice of greens and accessories such as ribbon, curly willow, butterflies, etc.

We hope that you will also watch the video, as you know, pictures don't always do justice, and the video allows you to see the basket from all sides to help you make a decision on your favorite design of the week.

Vote for Adam, Susan, or Linda.

Here is the VIDEO! 

You may vote in the comments section of Youtube, or you may also vote on our Facebook Page, and you can also comment right here on our blog.

Here are the pictures from Week # 3 Battle of the Flower Designers! 

Adam's basket design above.

Susan's basket design below. 

Please Vote for your Favorite, Adam, Susan, or Linda.

Stay tuned for results right here on our blog!

Update- Adam wins Week # 3

Stay tuned for Week # 4 which will be East Coast Vs. West Coast!

Belvedere Vs. Everyday Flowers in Orange County CA