A CLEMENTINE Table: Spring Edition

While beautiful ingredients are the first thing we love to think about when planning a table, we absolutely love to leave space for the unexpected. This CLEMENTINE table design is a fitting example of this.

After our first wedding of the year, we couldn’t believe how gorgeous our flowers still looked after tear-down. There was no denying it was the perfect opportunity to get to play with our favorite artistic medium—flowers! Inspired by the immaculate spring weather, we found ourselves creating our perfect table fit for an intimate party, with windows wide open and evening birdsong drifting inside with the delicious breeze.

We received the best ranunculus from The Floral Source and had reserved a rich red butterfly variety from our shipment for our pastel wedding. Along with our harvest of Silk Road tulips we had chilling in the cooler, we balanced the sweet pink ranunculus with watermelon and cherry hues.

Aquilegia canadensis had just begun to bloom in my sister's garden and it was the finishing touch we didn’t know we needed. Our flower style is unique in that we have always had a habit of including native flowers, and this particular Columbine flower felt serendipitous.

Our favorite candles are beeswax—introduced to us by friend and mentor Dallas Wildeve of Bloomsbury Blooms. Nothing compares to the color and fragrance of these beeswax tapers, which we source from Alaska. We knew we needed candlelight—is there anything more romantic than the warmth and glow of candles on the table? And so we added hints of honey with Foxy Foxtrot tulips to echo the lovely beeswax tapers.

Florals find their way into most aspects of my design language. Complementary florals in the tablecloth by Parterre and Liberty of London napkins are subdued and lend itself to the bolder flowers. One of my favorite vintage finds are the bud vases with the bulb motif. Did you notice them? Lettuceware salad plates are a sweet touch for this garden-lover.

We pulled the rest of the table setting pieces from our own cabinets, pairing different eras of ironstone together with an eclectic collection of brass candle holders. We offer the fanciful glass bud vases for our events and weddings along with our new custom compote vessels crafted by Flowers in Clay. Aren’t they divine? Patrick O’Brien really outdid himself for us with these.