Mayesh National Floral Design Contest 2012

Join Mayesh in their 2nd Annual National Floral Design contest by voting for your favorite design!  If you've been following us on Facebook and Twitter, you may recall some of the designs I submitted to promote this event with Mayesh.  Here is the design sample I produced a month back from the "exotic box". 

And you can view Mayesh's blog post here.

Designers across the nation submitted their floral art and here are the 15 finalists!  My favorite is the one by Dustin Guidry of Encore Creative in Chandles, AZ.  I love the fluid line movements created with the mini callas and greenery!!  

Best of luck to all the designers! Click here to vote!

Yours truly,

Joanna

Disney Princess Floral Interpretations by Floral Sense

What little girl doesn't want a princess themed birthday party? One princess is usually enough.  But our lucky birthday girl had FIVE princesses to grace her special day!  Linda Ly, lead coordinator of Grand Soirees, called me up with a challenge to create floral interpretations of Cinderella, Mulan, Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Ariel (The Little Mermaid) and Jasmine (Aladdin). The colors I needed to stick to were white, pinks and slivers.  So here is what I came up with!  Let's see if you can match the floral arrangement to the appropriate princess!  Good luck!

Yours Truly,

Joanna

A Taste of Fall - Launch Party for The Positive Plate on 11-11-11

Alright folks!!  Here is the official launch party of The Positive Plate - Orange County's newest, hottest restaurant sustainability program spearheaded by Jesse Baker PhD of Ecofficiency!  We have an amazing line up of food from some of OC's best "green" restaurants in addition to stellar music (including Common Kings, Jacob Luttrell and American Idol's Michael Castro)!  It's all happening this Friday on 11-11-11 at an incredibly unique and fitting venue - The OC Food Bank in Irvine, CA.  Tickets are still available but they are going fast!  You can purchase them here for $60 a pop.  Each ticket includes unlimited food and drinks.

 

Sending a special THANK YOU to our restaurant and beverage sponsors.  AND, we are lucky enough to have Paul Schafer of PS Photo Media as our sponsoring photographer along with Fusion Linens as our linen donor.  Of course, Floral Sense will be there with sustainably designed arrangements decking out the event!  There WILL be a give-away of some arrangements too.  

Can't wait to see you there!!

Yours Truly,

Joanna

Floral Sense's Joanna Park: Mayesh Design Star Contest Finalist

I am completely beside myself right now.  It seems that I made it to the Final 5 for Mayesh's Design Star Contest and the rest is up to voting from you!  You can go to the link here.

Take your time browsing through the videos and vote for your favorite!  There were 38 entries in all and I am SO honored to be chosen in the Top 5!  Actually, I'm also a bit terrified since I wasn't expecting my video to be viewed by so many people. I had no idea that I would even get this far.  All I had that day was a borrowed Flip camera (which I placed on a chair) and 4 takes to get a decent video.

So, there you have it.  Voting ends on October 22, 2011.  Crossing my fingers and closing my eyes in the meantime...I can't handle the anticipation.

A special thank you to Eva Chiou of The Wedding Pantry for allowing me to use your space to film!  And thank you to Wendy Ramos of Just Wenderful for being there to give me feedback between takes (and pressing the Record button)!

Yours Truly,

Joanna

Press: Summer Soiree Yacht Party in Riviera Magazine

Yep, we have another event that requires some memory jogging!  The Summer Soiree Fashion Show/Yacht Party in which we sponsored the florals made it into Riviera Magazine!  Loving the spread!

 

I definitely have to hand it to Marilen Coughenour and Marisa Kenson. These ladies know how to put on a party! Thanks for everything ladies! 

Yours truly, Joanna

Press: Floral Sense Wedding Decor on Junebug Weddings

Remember the high-fashion glam wedding of Stew and Connie Webb held at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA?  Well, here is the blog feature on Junebug Weddings!  Enjoy!

Yours truly,

Joanna

High Fashion Glam Wedding at Richard Nixon Library

It looks like Richard Nixon Library is where the parties are happening lately!  Considering that it IS a gorgeous historical landmark, this venue is hard to pass up.  The wedding featured today was held back in July and I am super excited about sharing the images with you!  Our bride, Connie, came to me with this glitzy, glam, high-fashion styled theme for her special day.  The trick was to get gold peacock feathers and crystals to work in the design while keeping the feel of high-style branding.  Here's what came about!  Enjoy!

 

 

Congratulations Stew and Connie Webb!!

A special thank you to our day of set-up team Jesse Baker and Iris Marialaki!

Yours truly,

Joanna

Wish Upon A Wedding Southern California Gala: Blissful Wishes Ball

Wish Upon a Wedding Southern California Chapter held its second annual Blissful Wishes Ball at the gorgeous Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda last night.  For those of you unfamiliar with WUW, it is "the world's first nonprofit wedding wish granting organization, providing weddings for terminally ill individuals." It truly is an amazing organization!  The guests of honor that evening were Douglas Wang and Lizabeth Tso who were granted a wedding by WUW at Bella Collina in San Clemente.  The wedding was absolutely stunning but even more beautiful is the unwavering love this couple shares for each other and their children.  You can read up more on Douglas and Lizabeth here.  It was pretty emotional seeing the family take the stage and pour out their gratitude to the organization for giving them a wedding they have had to push back over and over again.  They were met with a very well deserved standing ovation!

Just to give you an idea of the caliber of weddings that are granted, I snapped a few images of the gala.  Truly, no detail goes unnoticed nor unaccounted.  Keep in mind, these aren't fabulous professional images but you'll see the love in those details!

Venue: Richard Nixon Library 

Ice Sculpture: Ice Bulb

Florals: French Buckets (AMAZING florist!  Love you Sussanna!)
Linens: Designer Specialty Linens


Catering: White House Catering


Cake and Desserts: A Wish and a Whisk


And some of my favorite people!
Robert Arthur of Invisible Touch Events


Veronica Taylor of Designer Specialty Linens and Hanssie Trainor of Hanssie Trainor Photography


Desiree Patterson of Good Gracious and Lindsey Sinatra of A Wish and A Whisk


Sending a special congrats to the ladies of Utterly Engaged, Henny and Lucia, for winning your Shining Star Award!


Hope to have inspired you a bit this week!

Your truly,
Joanna

Featured Wedding at Mastro's in Costa Mesa, CA

Looking for some fun, colorful, modern floral decor ideas?  Here is a great modern wedding Floral Sense participated in back in July.  The pictures were taken with a personal camera but you'll get the gist of it all. Enjoy!

 

Yours truly, 

Joanna

Summer Soiree Hosted by Peggy Tanous of Real Housewives OC and Taylor Armstrong of Real Housewives BH

Last Thursday, Fashion Destination Group held a high fashion show aboard the Majestic yacht in Newport Harbor.  Floral Sense served as a proud sponsor to the event along with Macy's, Marisa Kenson, Examiner.com, and Casore Magazine!  The event was hosted by the fabulous Peggy Tanous of The Real Housewives of Orange County and Taylor Armstrong of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Here's a sneak peak of the florals from this high profile event taken with my iPhone:

Professional photos to come!

Yours truly,
Joanna

*Update*:  In light of recent tragic events surrounding Taylor Armstrong, we extend our condolences.  Our prayers are with you.

Press: A Rustic Wedding in Southern California with Floral Sense

I love it when our couples get featured in editorials for their special wedding day! Meet Tiffany and Steven Shores who got married several months back at Dove Canyon Country Club. Check out their pretty, pretty pictures here on www.insideweddings.com.



Tiffany was an awesome bride to brainstorm wedding designs with! A country girl at heart with an affinity for bling, we fused the two together by adding touches of rope and crystal throughout the floral decor.

By far, my most memorable moment that day was handing Tiffany her bride's bouquet. I got lucky enough to get that moment captured on film.


Then there's the moment all the ladies in the bridal party get to see their line-up of bouquets complete with personalization!



Congrats to the beautiful couple Tiffany and Steven! Thank you for allowing Floral Sense to share your special day with you!

And a special thank you to our day-of set-up team members Roger Hua and Thomas Cemo for all your hard work!

Yours truly,
Joanna