O'Bannon

"The O'Bannon Institute is Ivy Tech Community College - Bloomington's annual signature event that brings focus to community service, service learning, and civic engagement"

~John Whikehart, Ivy Tech Chancelor via Ivy Tech website.

I am so honored to be involved in this event this year. Chocolate brown linens with wineberry napkins and sashes made Alumni Hall look amazing. To pair the color scheme with flowers we used purple anemones, purple lisianthus, purple and lavender freesia, "Black Bacarra" roses, "Cool Water" roses, hanging amaranthus, purple stock, purple larkspur, burgundy tulips, burgundy ranunculus accented with brazilia and fantail willow, which doubled as a table number pic. We also chose to use white glass vases to add a sophistication to the tablescape.

The Federal Room was dressed for a private reception for Laura Bush with similar colors, but with a little pink ranunculus to add some interest.

The top picture of the orange parrot tulips was placed at the Ivy Tech campus for the televised interview that will be playing on our local PBS station.

Thanks for the faith Ivy Tech! It was so awesome to work with these colors and have freedom with the design.

Tudor Room Royalty

I just love green and purple together. Surprisingly it never gets old for me. I actually had two events this week with the same colors. It fits so well into the Indiana Memorial Union Tudor Room with the regal deep purple (and yes, it's purple not blue). I have become really fond of the tight round arrangements. I think it really shows off the flowers and isn't masked up with too much fuss. In this wedding, green hydrangea, bells of Ireland, and purple and lavender lisianthus.