We had the opportunity to do a photo shoot outdoors in Lexington last fall for jackie allen’s Kentucky Bride Magazine. The issue was finally printed, and it turned out great! The shoot was located on a beautiful horse farm just outside of Lexington, Kentucky. We had the task of creating a summertime tablescape which was rather challenging because it was already late October, and we only had five days to come up with a design and find the flowers we needed to make it happen!
Our design was inspired by the southern elegance that Kentucky horse farms are known for, but more importantly by the fact that we would be setting up outdoors. We wanted to choose bright colors and reflective materials that would really take advantage of the sunlight. The tablescape has about 1000 stems of flowers of which 600 are roses. Each place setting had its own arrangement in a bubble bowl, and each chair tie was accented with a cymbidium orchid.
Jackie Allen loved the finished product, and the photographers said that it looked like a fairy tale. It was a lot of work (especially when compared to the other three seasons in the shoot), but it is always worth it when you see jaws drop and followed by a barely audible, “Wow!”
