Ixora Floral Studio

02/07/2025

🖤🤍 forever

01/30/2025

Can we just take a second for the stage installation??!

01/25/2025

💙 Something Blue 💙

01/23/2025

The details from this wedding were everything

01/23/2025

It can’t get any more chic than this

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01/12/2025

It has been an intense few days. The fire, perpetuated by extreme winds, was extremely close to my home, and even more threatening to my parents and brother’s homes in a nearby canyon.
We evacuated the girls, along with my parents, 4 cats, 2 dogs, and a chicken (who “accidentally” was carried into the car by one of my daughters🤦🏽‍♀️)

My husband and I evacuated the chickens and goats to the flower shop in the shop van- who knew how handy a flower shop van would be! I had to walk the alpacas down to the shop at 12:45 am amid wild winds and the fire right on the hillside behind us. Intense cannot explain it. I settled all the animals into the shop (with no power and almost complete darkness) and put up any flowers they would eat- because , you know, they are goats and any plant material is a heavenly treat. (Turns out it didn’t really matter bc my client cancelled the event that I had ordered 400 roses for and received that morning 🤷‍♀️)
Let me tell you, I never in my wildest thoughts think that I would ever sleep on the floor of my flower shop with 2 alpacas, 20 chickens and 3 goats with just a flash light, communicating sporadically with my brother the entire night, just ensuring he was safe, as well as our family’s homes.

My girls did come home last night and we are settling into the house…. It’s just like camping without power and using the BBQ for dinner but we, and my family, are safe. (Currently, there is still water drops on the mountain behind us and the national guard is blocking anyone coming into our part of Sierra Madre bc looting has been a major concern/issue)

My heat breaks for the many families and friends that lost their homes in the devastating Altadena fires. It is unfathomable the amount of destruction and loss on such a massive scale. (And these were not houses right up against the hill like our neighborhood- these were foothill adjacent neighborhoods that were destroyed by blowing embers. ) Clean up, re building, re establishing will take years. Never will the historic beautiful 1920’s homes be replicated. The Altadena country club, where we have worked for dozens of weddings, is gone, along with a church we have done weddings.

12/21/2024

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11/22/2024

11/12/2024

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11/09/2024

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11/04/2024

Nothing better than Monday morning , opening your 100’s of emails, and you have received an amazing gallery from a recent wedding with the most beautiful detail shots - thank you for capturing these moments!!!

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10/21/2024

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10/21/2024

Ok I had an IG epiphany...
BUT....
I enjoy and admire feeds/posts that are beautifully edited, highlighting gorgeous professional photos/videos, synced perfectly to inspirational music.
Or amazing imagery with poetic/inspirational/ insightful text. I wish my posts were as refined.

Here’s where my BUT comes in..... “I ain’t go no time for that!” (As that wise woman once said)

I wish I had the time to sit down and concentrate on creating that kind of content. BUT, I don’t. Between the amount of events we do, my control freak “work ethic” (yes I actually design, carry boxes, climb ladders, sweep, etc), endless paperwork and meetings, 4 kids, coaching soccer, a ton of animals (2 alpacas, 2 goats, 21 chickens, 4 cats, 2 dogs, a koi pond)..... I have l a lot going on.

I feel great pressure to curate this amazing IG page that not only showcases our work but is interesting, intriguing, fresh/trendy to the viewer.

BUT here is the epiphany.... I am at that point in my long career that i realized I don’t need to do all that. What I need to do is try to post a much a possible and use this platform as a portfolio. After all, how many of you actually read all this and would have been perfectly fine just looking at all the pretty flower pictures?! 😂

So from here on out, unless I have the time, I will share basic images from our many events as much as I can without all this extraneous, time consuming editing and text. Unless I have something poignant to share all you will get from me are the photos! (And tagging all the pros, especially the photographers!!)

10/09/2024

Picture perfect First Look at the iconic

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10/03/2024

The best spot at the reception? Definitely a table surrounded by all your favorite people