birde holding bridal bouquet

Garden Inspired Bridal Bouquet & Boutonnière – Annika & Max


a bride and groom walking away on the beach
Bride and groom getting ready and laughing
bride & groom looking at each other on the beach
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a bride and groom walking away towards the lake
a bride and groom standing in front of a lake
a bride and groom cutting a wedding cake laughing

Annika & Max decided to make it a wedding weekend celebration to have some quality time with their family & friends, and I was one of the friends! We all stayed together at Haus Heinz am See on Lake Müritz, Germany. This venue is near Müritz National Park which, is a UNESCO world heritage site. I was so excited to attend and then come to find out, make Annika’s bridal bouquet!


bride and bridal bouquet in nature
bride smiling in wedding dress in door way
wedding dress hanging with poster "Get Naked"
Floral wedding dress hanging up
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I didn’t see myself in a white dress, but didn’t know what I wanted instead either. One day I came across an ad from this Chicago boutique, flora & lane, that had the most gorgeous non-traditional wedding dresses. After some convincing that it wasn’t, in fact, crazy to buy a wedding dress online and ship it to another continent, I eventually bought it. Best decision!


a woman bringing in a wedding bouquet into a hotel room
a woman handing a wedding bouquet to a bride getting ready
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a garden inspired wedding bouquet
a wedding bouquet behind the desert menu
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garden inspired bridal bouquet
garden inspired bridal bouquet

Bridal Bouquet: Rose – tinkerbell; Dahlia – bazuin snow white; Phlox – crème brûlée; Cosmo – double dutch white & cupcakes white & apricotta; Sweet pea – oban bay; Larkspur – belladonna; Poppy pod; Scabiosa – white; Strawflower – white; Snapdragon – ivry; Raspberry folliage; Cress


Annika – I’m still in love with my bouquet and actually sad I didn’t see more of it as the day went on (someone put it in water after we were done taking the pictures). It had lovely colors and I liked how natural it looked. It still amazes me that Tess brought all or most of the flowers all the way from her own field in Sweden. They looked so fresh and perfect!



Annika – So, I’ll be the first to admit that having a flower themed wedding was more my idea than Max’s he completely let Tess and me do our thing, but I think when it came to the boutonnière, he just wasn’t sure. Cue our daughter Philine. She saw me holding my bouquet and wanted her own – voilà, mini bouquet.

a groom putting on a boutonniere
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a boutonniere selfie
a boutonniere in front of a suit

a bride and groom in a sunroom
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I remember when Annika ordered her gorgeous floral dress that Max made a mock up with different color suits to see which one would go best with the dress!


screenshot of a iMessage conversation

flowers in the back of a car
buckets of wedding flowers in a window


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