Floral

A lace runner topped the feminine table, where lace also covered chairs in varying styles and flowers included surprising and romantic choices such as jasmine buds.

One of the trends from this year's award season was hanging florals. Lush greenery spilled from chandeliers at Fox's Golden Globes party, held at the former Robinson's-May building on January 11.

On April 21, the New York-based Mediterranean restaurant Pergola hosted its annual spring party, which had an "Enchanted Forest" theme. Florist Ed Libby decked the space with spring-like elements including cherry blossoms and vines; he also created a living floral installation featuring the letter "P."

For the rehearsal dinner, Sterling worked with the culinary team at the Ventana Inn to develop an unusual breakfast for dinner concept. The Sunday brunch-inspired meal included Bloody Marys, omelets, and eggs Benedicts. A relevant quote from one of the couple’s favorite shows, Parks and Recreation, hung over the dining area. 

Floral designer Michelle Tran, co-owner and lead designer at With a Flower, decorated the Ritz Carlton, Toronto on July 18 with $80,000 worth of flowers for a personal engagement party designed to look straight out of a fairytale. One thousand Pink Floyd roses lined the entryway walls and ceilings, while more than 25,000 gloriosa blooms decorated the walls, floors, and light fixtures.

Cuban cigar boxes served as charming containers for flower arrangements at an “Old Havana”-theme welcome party that the New Orleans Saints hosted before Super Bowl XLIV in Miami in 2010. The event took place at the InterContinental Miami Hotel.

MTV's Video Music Awards returned to Los Angeles last Sunday with a show at the Microsoft Theater and a number of surrounding events that included new formats and parties. This year, CoverGirl presented a panel that offered a red carpet beauty trend forecast. An eye-catching press wall spelled out the brand's name in flowers.

In a nod to the host venue, the Residence of the German Ambassador, desserts at this year’s Opera Ball in Washington included nearly 20 different German sweets in a spread from Susan Gage Caterers. Offerings included traditional German treats such as Black Forest cake and obsttorte as well as miniature opera cakes. The menu of passed desserts featured items like one-bite ice cream sandwiches made with German spice cookies and lemon sorbet.

It took more than 300 hours of manual labor to plant the flowers (more than 400,000 of them) on both the outside and inside of the 21,527-square-foot venue. Inside the glossy white space, a robotic lighting apparatus detached from the structure provided the necessary runway lighting.

The New York Botanical Garden's annual Orchid Dinner took place at the Mandarin Oriental at Columbus Circle on February 10. In keeping with tradition, the evening featured large-scale orchid installations on its tabletops. One such arrangement, designed by Bowman Dahl Floral & Event Design, combined deep pink orchids with moss, twigs, and small white accent flowers. 

Another arrangement featured white orchids in glass terrarium-like vessels with earthy accents of ferns and dirt. The designer was Ray Booth of McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors.

Ethereal strings of white orchids cascaded above another table at the New York event. The arrangement, created by Anthony Brownie Flowers & Events, also had a ring of white orchids clustered at its base.

For a wedding at New York's Wave Hill in June, Jes Gordon of Proper Fun created a pink-and-white color scheme for flowers, which ran down the length of the tables.

Carasco Photography hosted "Brides, Bubbles, and Bliss" at Chicago's Bridgeport Art Center in 2013. The bridal event showcased tabletops from different vendors. Ashland Addison Florist created a hanging table strewn with hundreds of pink and white orchids.

Inspired by the ceramics of South African artist Ruan Hoffmann and murals by Rebecca Rebouche, interior designer Alexis Givens created a moonlight feast setting for Anthropologie at Diffa's Dining by Design event in March. The ceiling covering was made from bright blue-painted recycled plastic bottles, and pink flowers decked the tables.

On Saturday, Nielsen hosted a pre-Grammys celebration at Hyde Sunset Kitchen & Cocktails, including performances by Bastille and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. An arrivals wall spelled out the brand’s name in marquee letters, and included unusual upside-down arrangements of flowers. MAC Presents produced.

W hosted a Saturday event at A.O.C. celebrating people the magazine designated as Hollywood It girls. Piaget and Dom Pérignon sponsored the luncheon, where guests including Kim Kardashian and Allison Williams dined at tables accented with pops of pink.

The California College of the Arts hosted its gala celebration, which honored designer Stanlee R. Gatti, on March 23 at the Nave of its San Francisco campus. The event, which was designed by Gatti's team, featured felt-dipped Sansevieria succulent centerpieces.

Hamptons magazine kicked off its 38th season with a party on May 28 at a private estate in Sagaponack, New York. The event, which was organized by the magazine's event director, Joanna Tucker, celebrated Memorial Day issue cover star Drew Barrymore and new products from her wine and beauty brands. The unique floral centerpieces, designed by Lawrence Scott Events, were inspired by Barrymore's new fragrance called Sunshine, which is a bright citrus floral fragrance with the catchphrase "captures liquid sunshine in a bottle."

“I am loving all the fun juxtaposition I am seeing in both weddings and corporate events—soft florals in an industrial space; bright pops of color in a stark, white space; inviting, squashy sofas and arm chairs outdoors on the grass or the sand. Seeing these visuals whets an appetite for the unexpected and adds an element of excitement and adventure,” says Harrison.

Pictured: Miami club and restaurant owner David Grutman and model Isabela Rangel’s star-studded wedding, which was held at Miami's Wynwood Walls on April 24 and produced by Carolina Toledo, featured this trend with glam-meets-nature centerpieces that consisted of white phalaenopsis orchids and driftwood.

Aperol Spritz hosted its Summer Solstice party on June 22 at the Sabbia rooftop at Eataly in New York. Designed by creative and content production studio Swell, the party featured an installation of hanging bottles of the Italian aperitif that served as vases for orange flowers, including marigolds.

Cotton Incorporated celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Blue Jeans Go Green denim recycling program with a pop-up gallery that took place in New York's SoHo neighborhood November 18 and 19. Produced and designed by BMF Media Group, the event featured on-theme decor such as centerpieces made out of cotton.

For nonprofit organization Knock Out Abuse Against Women’s Knock Out Abuse seated gala dinner at the Ritz-Carlton, Washington D.C. in November, florist Millicent Bluford created a mix of centerpieces, including some with thistle, cabbage, and miniature carnations.