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Roses, roses, and more roses! For this Wedding at Company 251, we used a variety of hues ranging from taupe to peach to curate a truly unique floral palette with a perfect summer vibe that helped lighten up this industrial space.

Peachy Wedding at Company 251

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This past year at Life In Bloom, we invested in some flexible and customizable bar bases. We typically rent bars out on over half of our weddings. But the inventory in the Chicago market is limited and you can only use the same wedding bar so many times before it starts to feel stale. So […]

Do you ever feel as though the holidays creep up on you? The big festive parties, tree-lighting ceremonies and endless dinner invites pile up all through November. All of a sudden you blink and it’s December 1st. You haven’t decorated the house, planned your Christmas celebration and have no idea what holiday trends to keep […]

After many of our couples tie the knot, we often get an email a week or two later either from the bride, the mother of the bride, or even the long lost aunt of the groom, inquiring about the best way to “preserve” the Bridal Bouquet. And while the intention of preserving the bouquet is […]

Escort card displays have become a novelty in weddings. If you think about wedding decor, most pieces are fairly standard. Sure, you can have a unique arch in your ceremony, or unique flowers in your centerpiece, but you most likely have seen something similar. The escort card display is truly the one piece of wedding […]

Chuppahs are the four-post structures that a Jewish bride and groom traditionally get married beneath. From my experience, it is important they have 4 open sides and a covered top, but besides that you can pretty much design them how you would like. A wedding chuppah is quite large in size because you must fit […]

Crafting a Bridal Bouquet with Your Style in mind One of the most exciting design elements to pick out for your wedding day is your bridal bouquet! This is where you get to show off your colorful style or your timeless and elegant look. At Life in Bloom we make your bridal bouquet personalized just […]

Morgan Manufacturing – The Space One of our favorite wedding venues, Morgan Manufacturing, is an industrial space in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago. We have had the pleasure of working at the space multiple times per year, with each wedding looking different than the next. When you work in a space often and see […]

When you think of winter weddings, you don’t often think of flowers. However, there are plenty of great flowers for winter weddings perfect for creating a romantic and lush winter ambience. As the Second edition of our “seasonal success” series, we’re introducing the perfect flowers for winter weddings! If you missed the First edition, check […]

One of the best parts about the Midwest is the dramatic changes to the landscape from season to season. And because we’re obsessed with cohesiveness, we encourage our couples to embrace a floral vision that complements the season. So we have put together a series of blogs full of inspiration for weddings in each season. […]

As engagement season approaches, our calendars have started to fill up with new client consultations! And one questions that we often get in our initial meetings pertains to centerpiece styles.  The event decor nomenclature can prove somewhat foreign at times.  So today, we’re sharing a few common centerpiece styles so you can start to familiarize […]

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