Every spring when I start meeting with summer brides, about half of them have a shade of blue as one of their main or accent colors.  Turquoise has been a popular choice for the past couple summers to use in weddings, along with teal, Robin's egg blue and of course the favorite Tiffany blue. The problem is mother nature doesn't make flowers or foliage in those shades. She sticks with cobalt blues, dusty light blues, blue-grays and deep blue/purples. I always suggest to brides that if they are wanting to use turquoise or the like as a color within the flowers, it is best to introduce it through ribbon, glass, feathers, etc.- the hard goods.  Whatever you do, just do it tastefully. I am 99.9% opposed to spraying or dying flowers unnatural colors, but sometimes certain textures look cool spray painted a crazy color. For instance in the photo shown, I spray painted a manzanita branch turquoise (and hand-painted the chevron box!) and it looks really fun and pretty. 

If the blue color you are wanting falls in line more with the natural tones available, here are some photos of great choices to use. Scroll over the photo to find out their names.

Wow! This is really happening!! A dream come true. I can't thank enough my husband, family and friends who encouraged and supported this desire of mine to have my own floral design business. I have to also thank the great folks over at legalzoom.com for getting me up and running so fast. Even though they are not lawyers, their customer support team is extremely helpful. In fact, while I was filling my paperwork out online, I inadvertently missed clicking a crucial information box before going onward to the next page. Within seconds my phone was ringing. It was a customer support representative from legalzoom.com informing me that I had missed that important step.....saving me a ton of time and frustration down the road. 

Also, let's just be clear that I am a novice when it comes to computers. Especially looking down the long, scary barrel of building my own website. Long ago are the days when I was proudly showing my parents how to use a VCR back in 1986. A fellow business owner of mine told me about Weebly. I love it and I'm proud they are hosting my site. It's very intuitive to build and design your website, but even if you get stuck they have a live chat to help you out quickly. I was up and running with a full functioning website in 8 days.  They are genuinely happy and know their product very well. I would highly recommend checking them out if you are in need of a beautiful start to your new business or you are an established business that might need to refresh a dated looking website.