I've been doing wedding flowers for friends and family for the last 10 years and this by far was the biggest production that I've been involved in. We weren't allowed to get into the venue to decorate the morning of the wedding. With a 900 guests wedding, we needed more time, since we were doing the draping, lighting, flowers, linens, etc ourselves, we asked the venue to allow us to come in on midnight of Friday (which was Saturday morning) and pull an all nighter to decorate the venue. With the help of our family and friends, we were able to transform the standard ballroom into a beautiful setting for my brother's wedding. I worked on the flowers along with two of my assistants on Thursday and Friday and transported everything to the venue on Friday night. I was up for more than 36 hours straight, so needless to say, I was extremely exhausted and was so happy when the wedding was over. All the planning was well worth it because my brother and his wife was so happy with the end results.
I've attached some photos of the flowers that I did and some pictures of the venue. For the bridesmaids' bouquets, each girl had a personalized rhinestone initial embedded in their bouquet.
We hung crystal curtains on the ceiling to create a big chandelier box. The original design included three layers of boxes but due to time constraint, we were only able to hang one chandelier box around the existing light versus three boxes.
