Colorado Meetings and Events 2009 Readers Choice Awards!!

Monday night at Infinity Park Event Center was the annual Readers Choice Awards Ceremony, put on by Colorado Meetings and Events Magazine.

"The Best Of awards are designed to honor the cream of the crop in the regional meetings and events industry. We achieve this by giving the power to determine the winners solely to the readers— every vote in each category is influential and important to determine the final winner."

"Every single winner in the annual Readers' Choice Best Of Award campaign is hand-picked by the meeting planners, event planners and suppliers who read Colorado Meetings + Events magazine."



It was a great night for the Petal. We were honored to be nominated in the Event Decor/Floral category.

And, even more exciting, our very own Luc Hughart, Event Designer Extraordinaire, was being inducted into the Colorado Meetings and Events Hall of Fame for Up and Coming Supplier. (!!!) We are all so excited and proud of him for all his achievements!

We put together some very playful and modern centerpieces for the event, using black branches and lime green florals...

...with peacock feathers and teal wire accents.

And then there was the food...

Oh, the food!!



Food Credits:
Gourmet Fine Catering
Epicurian Catering
Catering by Design


There were so many delicious offering at every turn! Denver's finest caterers were showing off big time, and we were reaping the benefits!





The awards ceremony was short and sweet. Fun music, lots of cheering, and tons of support from one vendor to another.



And then, the big moment...





Happy Petals!!




Thanks everyone for letting us do what we love!!

Signs of Spring

March 19th is 3rd Thursday
Come on in and Spring Your Fling!


This is the last 3rd Thursday of the season
Say hello to old friends and meet new ones
We have the always popular Lindsay Bloom
and her new spring collection. (You will see it here first!)

We will also have a very fun, irrepressibly lighthearted line by Cara Lyndon (appropriately affordable!)

Decent wine and hearty
cheeses will be served,
bring your friends!
Don’t forget to get your card punched!!


These bunnies just hopped into our store!


We can't stop looking at them, they are just so gleaming, bright, and over the top SPRING! And check out these hot pink chicks!



oh, and yes, they are candles, too!!Priced from $15 - $22




This little flower girl stole our heart's.


We did this wedding last fall but are just now seeing some of the images, shot by Hollye Schumacher Photography...You can see more on Stylemepretty.com

The Perfect Petal is definitely doing a lot more unusual, whimsical treatments for flower children! If you are getting married soon, remember to ask Crystal or Cindy about flower girl "wands" and ringbearer floral pillows.



The Magnolia has remodeled their ballroom...

...and it looks fantastic!
We helped set up this photoshoot, featuring a reasonably priced (and adorable!) centerpiece.

Inspiration!

It's all around us. It's what keeps up doing what we do, and loving it! Here's some of ours...

Our New Favorite Thing!
TIM WALKER: Photographic Genius.

This image, The Dress Lamp Tree, is the inspiration for an upcoming window display. His images are a wonderful combination of fantasy, fashion and the supernatural. Utilizing elaborate sets and lavish locations, Walker creates a sense of unreality; of a world just outside our own. So Dreamy!

Photobooths : Bright Idea!

This season, I'm loving the photobooth at wedding receptions and cocktail hours. It's a wonderful way for your guests to have fun and memorialize the evening. Taking it one step further, how great is it to use the photo booth strips as a guest book!? Provide the blank guestbook (I like the black pages, here), have your friends attach their photo strips, and write next to it in silver marker. Now there's faces next to names, and a great way to capture all the fun and electricity of the moment!



Talk to Murray at A Custom Look Photography

...p.s. he also has new acrylic stands to put the photobooth strips in for use as table numbers! Love that double duty!


While we're on the topic...
I like to pay attention to entrances and exits with our wedding floral plans. They effect everyone's first impressions and take away thoughts..so I like to make sure we always remember to add fun touches to the escort card or placecard table.


..Fusing cool paper touches like these fall leaves into the story really is a fun thing to do in a city or a mountain venue. This was done by Table6Productions.


...and mossy lichen covered branches with river stones and succulents are fun for more remote Colorado destination weddings..the gateway to the reception decor is just like the window into the event that you give the guest when you mail the invitation..1st impressions and glimpses are everything and they help to complete the whole story!


Local Love! Tokyo Milk


Right now, our clients are eating up Tokyo Milk fragrances like there's no tomorrow. The collection is concepted and designed here in Denver but by now you've seen it in Elle, O Magazine, Allure, INStyle, Nylon (hooray for them!).

The line itself is quite bohemian and drop dead romantic, with archival artwork and typewritten labels. There are about 20 scents in all, with fragrances like Paper & Cotton: (coriander, white sage, birch, & tundra moss) and Gin and Rosewater: (citrus zest, rosewood, mimosa, and mandarin..) The little glass bottles are like tiny paintings that, when collected, serve as an impromptu shrine to you and your many moods! Denver's amazing, isn't it?