This day was so much FUN! From the color palette and Sydney’s shoes (peep them on the chairlift!) to the amazing photographer (looking to at you @vanessaleephotomn) and the general good vibes, this wedding brought so much joy 💚
It doesn’t hurt that these wedding flowers were majority locally grown 😘
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Big changes coming to my Monday mornings this summer 💔
For the past several summers Monday mornings have been my favorite time of week, peaceful mornings at the farm. Walking through the field to see what bloomed over the weekend, choosing the perfect elements for weekly subscription bouquets, rhythmically cutting hundreds of stems, my favorite early morning playlist.
In bittersweet news, I won’t be farming this year. After a season of contemplation and conversation with loved ones, and some tears, I have decided to take a break from flower farming in 2024.
This was a hard decision, and the right one. I am shifting my energy to focus solely on the design side of the business and create more work/life balance now that I’ve got a little one relying on me.
I will definitely still be prioritizing the heck outta local flowers by shopping every week with @tcflowerexchange @northerly.flora @bleedheartfloral and I’m sure I’ll get my hands in the dirt somehow this summer 🌱
And maybe I’ll even sleep in on Monday mornings?! Who am I kidding, I have a baby, there’s no such thing as sleeping in 😂
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
If you care AT ALL about having beautiful flowers at your wedding,
1. Work with a florist who prioritizes local flowers (hi 👋🏻 that’s us)
2. Get married in September.
That’s all. Our inbox is open for 2024 inquiries, including some prime September dates 😘 link in bio
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I kept a secret from Instagram for almost all of 2023 🤭
My wedding clients found out before all of you. In fact, most of them couldn’t help but notice it!
I think this clip gives it away-there was a sweet baby growing in my belly throughout the entire 2023 wedding season 🥰
He’s here now, and my husband and I are completely smitten.
I appreciate every single client and vendor we worked with for the love and support I received this year! I am also deeply grateful for the seasonality of this work for allowing me to take the winter almost completely off in order to care for and get to know my sweet boy 💕
I’m taking a little more time completely away from Fireweed to spend time with family over the holidays, and I can’t wait to get back to dreaming + creating for our sweet couples getting married in 2024. We’re still booking too! Link in bio to inquire ✨
100% local and ready for their debut 😍
The local flower scene in the Twin Cities is robust and clearly the most beautiful time of year! Flowers sourced from @northerly.flora @bleedheartfloral @tcflowerexchange and our own fields 🌼
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We are very pro-bees here at Fireweed 🐝
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The flower farm + CSA bring me such joy. I am so grateful to do this work and share the beauty with all of my customers + clients! Fills my cup every single week of the summer 🌞✨
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First wedding of the season, like riding a bike 😍
I still have some availability this year, and it’s not too late to plan wedding flowers! Link in bio to inquire ✨
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We are starting seeds in just a few weeks!! This time of year is so exciting—full of happy anticipation of the newness that is to come.
This time of year is also when the anxiety starts to creep in—when I start thinking about allllll of the plants I have to bring to life from seeds, and then consequently have to keep alive until frost 😅 this year that number is well over 10,000.
The best news of all: plants *want* to grow! We really just have to give them a few basic things; they do all the hard work.
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I spent some time away from work, and leaving felt like jumping off a treadmill that was set at a sprint 🏃🏼♀️💦
I’m back now, and spending time with the ever glamorous ~project management~ in order to keep that work treadmill at a nice easy jog for as long as possible 😅
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The past two seasons I’ve grown flowers in places where landowners don’t typically grow flowers, and it’s amazing to see all the life a tiny plot of flowers can bring to an area!
In this video you can peep dozens of insects flitting around, insects I thought for a long time were fireflies…alas they are less charming bugs 😅
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Trying out a new (to me) foliage in this week’s bouquets! Was v surprised by the milky sap that immediately flowed after cutting & stripping leaves, but turns out it’s and mostly just sticky 😅
Euphorbia / snow-on-the-mountain
I’ve been really intentional about color lately, and am absolutely obsessed with this first try at a palette I’ve always been intimidated by: purple & yellow
Here I paired intense gold (marigold, celosia) with lighter yellow (celosia, bupleurum, zinnias) and added touches of lavender (snapdragons, celosia) with the perfect finishing touch to tie it all together (flowering bronze fennel)
These beauties were delivered to a wedding shower this morning! 💛
