Today's Feature on The Wedding Channel

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We are so thrilled to have been featured on The Knot's Wedding Channel this morning. Thanks to Paige Winn for her absolutely gorgeous photographs. She really captured the couple's personality and the beauty of the day. **update** Marie and Ryan's wedding were also featured in Smitten Magazine and LOVE this virtual mag's look and outstanding content.

Thoughts on Weddings in the Arizona Desert

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Here on a visit, I'm sitting at the dining room table in my brother's house outside of Phoenix working on wedding proposals while my almost two year old niece entertains the both of us with building blocks and balloons.

I'm thinking of the great chat I had with a wedding photographer I met last night and have been quite taken with weddings in the desert.

Staring out the window I see mountains, a strikingly crisp blue sky, and tones of sand and gray greens of eucalyptus and olive trees. How different our two worlds are!  And how fun it would be to have a wedding out here with such amazing light, and the sunsets!

{photos courtesy of: Erin Hearts Court Photography & The Wedding Chicks}

Style Me Pretty Georgia Feature

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We are so thrilled to have been recently featured on Style Me Pretty Georgia for Samantha and Jacob's gorgeous, fun and fresh Sunbury wedding at Dunham Farms. The talented Andrea of Gray Harper Events did and amazing job pulling together a fantastic bridal soiree. Jade and Matthew of Jade + Matthew Take Pictures did there customary awesome job of taking beautiful pics. What a beautiful wedding this was!

WeddingWire 2013 Bride's Choice Awards

WeddingWire, the nation's leading online wedding marketplace, is thrilled to announce that Urban Poppy has been selected as a winner of the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2013 for Wedding Floral Design in Savannah, GA!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism. Urban Poppy’s selection as a Bride’s Choice Award 2013 winner was selected based on the positive experiences expressed by past clients on WeddingWire, the world’s largest wedding review site with over one million reviews. While many industry awards are given by the host organization, the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ winners are determined solely based on reviews from real newlyweds and their experiences working with Urban Poppy.

The WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2013 are given to the top local wedding vendors in more than 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on professional achievements from the previous year. Award-winning vendors are distinguished for the quality, quantity, consistency and timeliness of the reviews they have received from their past clients. As a Bride’s Choice Awards winner, Urban Poppy is highlighted within the WeddingWire Network, which is comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States, Canada and abroad.

“Each year, WeddingWire looks forward to celebrating the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Network,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Now in its fifth year, the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program continues to recognize the elite wedding professionals who exemplify a commitment to quality, service and professionalism. These businesses were chosen by our bridal community for their responsiveness and dedication to their clients over the past year. We are honored to recognize Urban Poppy for their impressive achievements within the wedding industry.”Urban Poppyis thrilled to be one of the top wedding florists in Savannah, Georgia in the WeddingWire Network of sites, which include leading wedding sites such as WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. We value all of our clients and truly appreciate the positive feedback that helped us earn the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2013.

Thanks again to all of my amazing 2012 brides!

flower crush

And here we are! 2013. It may be a cold, rainy day here in Savannah as I type this, but I'm giddy all over with the amazing floral designers that are popping up all over the world. I love it when we can inspire each other to do better, more beautiful work for our brides.

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Browsing one of my favorite blogs:  100 Layer Cake, I came across this gorgeous arrangement by Toast that with an airy backdrop just made me sigh in contentment. Maybe because everything about this photo reminds me of fresh summertime and it's January?