All photography by Redwall Photo. Thank you, Tasha! The Details: Late summer wedding at Columbus Park Refectory. Color Palette: Ivory, taupe, mauve, sage, with details of champagne, pale pink, burgundy, and navy. Flower Palette: White majolica spray roses, gardenias, Patience garden roses, scabiosa, Japanese anenome, and clematis. Those of you who have worked with Pollen […]
The Details Photography: Genevieve Lauren Photography Catering and Venue: Big Delicious Planet Season: Summer Inspiration: Tomato harvest Color palette: Red, orange, yellow, coral, navy Flower palette: 100% locally grown, with zinnias, dahlias, gomphrena, tomatoes, clematis, asclepias, purple basil
All photography by Studio Finch.
Pollen is hosting our annual Client Appreciation Workshop on Sunday, August 10th, from 11AM – 1PM. Drink mimosas, learn about floral design, and create an arrangement to take home! This workshop is exclusive to past and current Pollen clients and their guests. The introductory two-hour class, taught at Pollen’s floral design new studio location, will […]
What better time than Earth Day to explain our sustainable approach to floral design! I started Pollen specifically to offer an eco-friendly floral design option to couples planning their weddings. In both our operations and in our sourcing of materials, we operate in as eco-friendly of a way as possible. It’s been an evolving process, […]
First and foremost, thanks to the very talented Tim Tab Studios for the gorgeous photos from Paige and Robert’s fall wedding at the Racquet Club of Chicago. We loved working on this fall wedding for so many reasons: a super sweet couple, loose and gardeny floral design (our favorite style), and we got to work in a […]
Continuing our recap of last year by season, below are some highlights we captured of our wedding work last summer. Summer ushers in some of my favorite local blooms such as dahlias, coxcomb, and cosmos. Some of my favorites from the neighboring seasons are also available, such as peonies from spring and berried branches from […]
In this blustery winter weather, it’s refreshing to see these photos from last spring! Spring wedding flowers offer up delightful blooms such as peonies, ranunculus, anemones, tulips, narcissus… And I love flowering branches of all types: lilac, forsythia, cherry blossoms, crabapple, quince, and snowball viburnum, to name a few. Admittedly, a couple of these weddings […]
Update 8/6/2013: The workshop is sold out. To get first dibs next year, “like” Pollen’s Facebook page! We at Pollen are excited to offer for the second time our Client Appreciation Floral Design Workshop, exclusively for past and present Pollen clients! It’s a chance for us to say “thanks” to our clients and to catch […]
Yesterday, Pollen held its first ever workshop at Pollen’s studio, located in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood. Exclusive to Pollen clients (and a sidekick), students learned the basics of floral design, with an emphasis on working with farmers market flowers. After some instruction and demonstration (and mimosas and bloody marys), the students designed their own arrangements. I […]