Fergie & Josh get married!

Mark’s Garden designed fairy tale floral décor for the fantasy wedding including more than 25,000 blooms of white roses, gardenias, lilac and orchids combined with thousands of crystals and lights.   

Baby Shower for Ashlee

The baby shower for Ashlee Simpson last Saturday at Hotel Bel Air was darling with a Winnie the Pooh theme that included luncheon tables filled with bright colored flowers surrounding Winnie, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet, pots of honey and bees galore.  Everyone had a great time.

Welcoming Autumn

BRIDES Nov/Dec - See page 142

Autumn is here and everyone is thinking about entertaining. 

Mark was interviewed by SUNSET Magazine and BRIDES Magazine and offers tips on everything from decorating to where to get good buys on party goods and where to dine out in Los Angeles.  

Another highlight for us this week:  Mark’s Garden transformed a section of the second floor of Nieman Marcus in Beverly Hills into a garden oasis for a luncheon hosted by Burberry of London.   

Mark’s Flowers just introduced two new floral designs which can be shipped overnight to anyplace in the continental US by FedEx:  The pale, sophisticated “Petite Antique Rose Basket” and the gorgeous “Gold Rush” arrangement of variously gold toned roses in a square gold vase.  Mark’s Flowers also offers a limited time special on the popular “Pick of the Garden” arrangement.  And the “Autumn Basket” is back for the season.

 

Love wins

 

Mark’s Garden provided floral decor for the wedding of tennis pro Mardy Fish and TV’s Deal or No Deal model Stacey Gardner last Sunday evening.  Fellow tennis star James Blake was a groomsman.  The event took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in West Hollywood.

Mark’s Garden in print

 

Mark’s Garden is featured in both INSTYLE WEDDINGS AND MODERN BRIDE this month.

 

 The wedding flowers of Ashlee Simpson and Peter Wentz are pictured on page 270 of the INSTYLE WEDDINGS fall issue and the wedding of  Jessica Nassi and Josh Cappo at the Beverly Hills Hotel in April is pictured on page 244.

 

MODERN BRIDE’s October issue features Mark with advice on entertaining. 

Join us on 9/25 at The Pacific Design Center

Mark and Richard will appear at Potterton Books with co-author Peggy Dark to sign copies of their book “FABULOUS PARTIES” on Thursday September 25th at the Pacific Design Center.  It is part of the PDC’s presentation of their Fall Market product preview.  They will be located at Potterton Books on the lobby level between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.  Stop by and say hello.

A Weekend at the Opera

Mark’s Garden designed floral decor for the opening night party for the Los Angeles Opera season Saturday September 6th in the Music Center Plaza.  It was an Italian theme as a salute to Puccini’s three one-act works in “Il Trittico” directed by Woody Allen and William Friedkin that kicked off the season.  Butter and yellow tones were used with roses dominant on the tables and dramatic ten foot high structures of roses and sunflowers at the entrance to the plaza.  For Sunday brunch celebrating the U.S. premiere of Howard Shore’s “The Fly,” the colors were changed to a moody mix of purples and blues.

Mark’s Garden celebrates 15 years

We celebrated our 15th anniversary for Mark’s Garden this July and things just keep getting more eventful.

A major highlight was doing the wedding of Ellen De Generes and Portia de Rossi.  It was beautiful and elegant for two women of wonderful personal taste.  We designed a lovely antique look that we will use as inspiration in some of our upcoming floral designs this fall and winter. 

August was busy with many other gorgeous weddings including those we designed for Billy and Janice Crystal’s daughter Lindsay in Beverly Hills and for Ivan and Genevieve Reitman’s daughter Catherine in Montecito. There were also several weddings at the Crystal Ballroom and Garden at the Beverly Hills Hotel including Maggie Ney & Kirk Prestegard, Vinka Pasos & Marc Ferrell, Jennifer Loucheim & Evan Richler and Danielle Levovitz & Michael Rebibo.  For Jill Thompson & Nick Mc Laren we traveled to Bacara in Santa Barbara.  For Christine Silka & Kevin Eberly, we traveled to the Four Seasons Hotel in Carlsbad.  Tanya Milner and Caleb Watts were married at Hotel Bel Air.  Leslie Lauten was married at the famous Tony Duquette Dawnridge Estate.  Svetlana Kulazhenko’s 35th birthday was a fabulous Moulin Rouge theme also at the Beverly Hills Hotel Crystal Ballroom with another party the following night at her Beverly Hills home.

The LOS ANGELES TIMES Business Section published a profile on us Sunday August 24th.  It prompted some very nice phone calls and letters.  Thank you.

In New York for the Gift Show in August we discovered some fun new items.  Watch for the unusual look we have chosen for our winter holiday season.  We also took time out on that trip to do a live interview about our new book FABULOUS PARTIES on the Martha Stewart radio channel.  We also traveled to San Francisco to appear on “View From the Bay” on KGO-TV to talk about summer entertaining. 

Watch this space for future news from The Garden.