Sentimental + spectacular

We're going to need to talk about these flowers.

Your wedding is all about you. You as a couple celebrating you as a couple.

And if you're a "Nina + Dan couple", part of that is celebrating your families + honouring traditions, recognizing the love that links through the generations + in your heritage, and how it can show itself in little ways across your wedding day.

For Nina + Dan, family is them as as a couple too.

And for Nina + her mom, that showed up in the flowers. Nina carried the same flowers - Lily of the Valley - as her grandmother + her mother did at their weddings. And the value of those flowers, the ones that shared a history of love - from grandmother to mother to daughter - across the generations of weddings + marriages + family - couldn't be overstated.

One of the challenges was figuring out exactly how to honour the intergenerational familial love of floral while celebrating the new generation of love of the great outdoors + hiking up the mountain in your wedding dress of Nina + Dan. How to keep it airy + Whistler + very Brew Creek while maintaining what can only be described as

a massive explosion of wedding floral

Nina + Dan called Margaux for their first consult from New Zealand where they were adventuring across on their bikes, before jet setting off to South East Asia to bike across a few countries.

But, like, bikes that you power with your own human strength. Not motorbikes. And these two do other fun, (painful? exhausting?) adventuring things like triathlons that include a lake aspect too.

So yes, that spirit of adventure + celebration of the place they both call home now (Dan's from the UK, Nina from the US) Whistler, the adventure capital of the mountains, had to be a major feature as well.

And Billie's Flower House took on the challenge and ran with it. Keeping it bright // bringing in trees + featuring greenery // working in small geometric + copper details + then amping it up x 1,000 they nailed it.

Another rad reason to include your unique-one-of-a-kind, nobody's-quite-like-them family members in your wedding day is that

they're unique-one-of-a-kind

and that's what your wedding day will be too.

Like Nina + Dan's wedding featuring

a brother who plays the cello

an uncle who rolls cigars

an aunt who sings opera

a dad who transports all the instruments for a post-dinner drum circle on the plane with him from San Fransisco

again, please note there was an uncle-cigar-rolling-station. YASSSSS.

and Back to the florals.

This incredible backdrop that was featured at both the ceremony + behind the sweetheart table + was an absolute feat of engineering.

Somewhere out there, there is possibly a time lapse video of this frame going up...

and then...

almost...

going down.

As the flowers were being strung from the copper frame there was a very precarious moment + a flash of lightening reflexes as the team ran across the room to stop the copper frame + all the freshly hung flowers from falling.

The original plan was to hang them from the ceiling, but you can't hang anything from those beautiful vaulted ceilings at Brew Creek, so the frame was constructed. After the ahem-near-incident - the team decided to anchor the copper frame to the wall with fishing line.

Disaster free. NBD.

As a final note, I will say that if you decide after the tent is already up + the floor is already down on your (long weekend) wedding to double the size of the dance floor, Margaux can make that happen for you.

Flowers + family + Nina + Dan forever

Filosophi Planner: Margaux
Florals: Billies Flower House
Venue: The Brew Creek Centre
Photographer: Logan Swayze Photography