As a previous event designer / planner in my former life when I first started my business back in 2010/11, I have so much gratitude in my heart for the planning and event design side of weddings. It take so much heart, hard work, patience and a million things in between.

When I switched my focus entirely to floristry about years into my career, there were so many incredible connections and planners who came alongside me in support of my direction and linked me up with some incredible clients/weddings along the way :) Now, as I largely work directly with planners for the majority of the events I get to flower, I wanted to throw a special dinner event as a thank you to so many of the incredible event designers and planners I'm honored enough to work with on a regular basis.

I'm also Italian :) And a major summer / tomato / lover of the color red. Having eloped in Puglia a year prior to this dinner, I really wanted to showcase some of the inspiration I gathered there and the entire inspiration for this event came from that area + these insanely gorgeous plates that The Ark had in their inventory! I built the rest of the rental and tabletop choices around them, as well as the flower gameplan and we ended up with a tomato and chartreuse inspired tablescape full of dynamic shape and color.

I incorporated strung tomatoes throughout, currant tomato vines, green curly garlic stems, chartreuse amaranthus, rusty red kangaroo paw, and bright red gloriosa lilies for the flowers