BREAKING NEWS!!!: The Floral Artistry Institute now open for registration!

Months in planning, STONEBLOSSOM is thrilled to announce our collaboration with RISD Continuing Education presenting: THE FLORAL ARTISTRY INSTITUTE!!!

The catalogues are hot off the press and we are just so excited to offer a comprehensive floral design program unique in the New England area! Workshops will be taught from our busy East Greenwich design studio - with plenty of hands on experience.
Registration is now open and we know these classes will fill up quickly so don't delay!!!

Whether you enroll in the full sequence of Floral Artistry Institute classes - or take individual ones for personal enrichment, you're sure to gain a foundation in floral design elements and techniques while pursuing your passion for flowers.

A Letter of Recognition is awarded to students who complete all six courses with satisfactory standing.

The Institute gets underway this Fall with Introduction to Floral Artistry: Beginning to Bloom with John Orton. It's a series of hands-on introductory workshops on selecting, processing and caring for flowers, as well as design mechanics and construction techniques.

Also offered is Wonderful Wedding Florals with Naomi Garcia. Participants get an overview of designing flowers and other decorative elements for weddings. Bouquet construction is covered at length, as are all elements of wedding decor. Not to be missed! Naomi is Stoneblossom's bouquet stylist. Learn from the best in the biz!!!

Sure to be wildly popular, Deck the Halls: Designing for the Holidays is taught by "Mr Christmas" himself - Dennis Delsignore! Explore new possibilities for your holiday decor as well as creating your own seasonal design to take home with this terrific single-session extravaganza!

In subsequent semesters, you'll learn about professional business practices, event planning and advanced floral artistry techniques. During a floral artistry externship, you may gain practical experience while aiding in the the preparations and execution of an actual Stoneblossom-designed event!

REGISTER PROMPTLY!
We anticipate these exciting workshops will fill up fast so don't miss out!
Click on this link: www.risd.edu/ce for the low-down and we hope to see you all in the Fall!!!

Brilliant Ballet...

Last weekend's marriage of Yana and Dwight at Newport's Belle Mer was a dreamy, whimsical, creative tour de force! Flowers "danced" from table to table - creating a roomful of graceful contortions and statuesque displays!

The dicey weather held out for the gorgeous seaside ceremony. The aisle was lined with natural river stones and lanterns.

What a lovely couple they are - and isn't that gown a stunner???!!!

Inside the ballroom, Stoneblossom designer Dennis Delsignore did a brilliant job with his clean yet delicate touch - making each and every varied glass container absolute poetry!

Green Goddess callas....

The dramatic mantle all set to glow!

The Bride's vision was inspired by Jeff Leatham's book "Flowers". He was the resident florist for the Four Seasons Hotel Georges V in Paris and broke new ground with his use of flowers in totally new ways.

underwater....

completely out of water!

fondled and manipulated in and out of the vase - and even upside-down...

As the sun set, candles were lit - and the blue architectural lighting from Ormonde Productions kicked in - adding yet another layer of magic to the setting.

Terrific job Dennis! You're the best!

Floral Design: Stoneblossom Floral and Event Design

Planner: Alexis from Weddings by Alexis

Lighting: Ormonde Productions

Venue: Belle Mer

Details, Details!!!

We love this detailing by Sherry Scott above! It'a a cost effective way to jazz up your wedding centerpieces!!!

Check out all these fab creations by our one and only Margot Winger! She's travelled around the world with us for many years and she's just terrffic at everything she does.

She went to town dolling up these cubes - every one unique!!!

You go girl!!!!

June in Newport and Peonies!!!

Finally the flower marker shelves are full of their spring bounty - including a sumptuous array of peonies! These few weeks a year they are at last abundant in all their voluptuous glory!

The Maid's bouquet above was from from the stunning wedding of Amy and Anthony at Rosecliff a few weekends ago. Love those yellow tree peonies!!!!

The enormous place card table above was a lnockout!

Salmon peonies on the terrace for cocktails....

And the Tuscan Station had not only the salmon ones but a cool variety called Cheddar Pom Pom!

Dinner tables were detailed at the base of each tall candelabra with 5 silver vases each monobotanically designed.

Architectural lighting from Ormonde Productions adds wonderful ambience in addition to all of our candlelight.

Outside, the fountain shimmers with votives.....

A dramatic view of the evening terrace.

We enhanced Rosecliff's seawall with Bronze lanterns. You can see the Chinese Tea House at Marble house illuminated in the background!

An illuminated farewell - 200 luminaria guided guests out to Bellevue Avenue after an unforgettable Newport night!

Florals, Lanterns, Custom Linens: Stoneblossom Floral and Event Design

Event Production and Planning: David Reinhard Events, NY

Lighting: Ormonde Productions

Catering: Fine Catering by Russell Morin

L'Hotel Ritz and the Chocolate Factory!

It's French Open Finals Weekend at Roland Garros - and it brings back fond memories of Paris and Stoneblossom adventures in the bowels of the infamous Paris Ritz!

A corporate client flew us in for their VIP program where guests enjoyed the tennis by day and 5 star dining by night. Unfortunately no images exist as it was pre-digital, but needless to say those world renown restaurants never looked so glam!

We needed a workspace to do our thing and the only cubby they could spare was the chocolate factory - three floors under Le Place Vendome. Steeped in history, chocolates were made here for kings queens and princes - but for us we were happy to have water and a fridge!

Rungis - the amazing Paris wholesale market - is just out of this world - especially on this Spring weekend!! Farms from all over France bring in bucketloads of peonies, garden roses, fabulous bundles of herbs and spring foraging delights. We were grateful that we payed attention in high school French as at least we knew our numbers and Non et Oui -  although a form of charades seems always inevitable when shopping in foreign markets!

These corporate jaunts are certainly a thing of the past but it sure was grand creating flowers en Paris with Bruce Springsteen in the suite to our left and a Saudi Sheik in the suite to our right. A word to the wise when staying at L'Hotel Ritz - beware! Those delectable room service Pommes Frites (French Fries) are $50.00 a plate!

Stoneblossom would love to provide the the GLAM wherever your very special event may be!!!

The Preston Bailey Connection

Stoneblossom designers Dennis Delsignore, Margot Winger and John Orton had a blast last week working with the New York based Preston Bailey Design group on their ultra luxe Newport Wedding! While all three have worked on the road for many years and have produced many fabulous events around the world - nothing can quite compare to the over-the-toppedness of an event of this magnitude!

If you've seen any of Preston's work, his attention to detail and consistency are trademarks. The amazing finished product could not be accomplished without an army of talented artists and hard working set up crew. Everything is incredibly organized and works like clockwork. They had fun, worked hard and learned alot.

Even the A-team Stoneblossom setup and breakdown specialists John Scott and Mark Macomber took part in the action, assisting on the massive teardown!

We were very honored to be a part of this prestigious event.

ClubZilla!!!!

We are so proud and honored to have been a part of this spectacular event!  Stoneblossom transformed the RI Country Club into ClubZilla for Brooke's (fondly nicknamed BrookeZilla) very very special Bat Mitvah celebration. 

Creating a fabulous club atmosphere for the honored guest and her friends was a blast! Above the glossy white dancefloor Ormonde Productions erected a freestanding truss that we went to town on with an amazing array of tropical foliage, vines and flowers. We even had bananas shipped in from the tropics!

Comfy Stoneblossom lounges were the best seats in the house!

We created a waterfall of orchids and crystals in the foyer. Check out that fabulous cake from James Kennedy and killer custom linens!!!

So fun to work with tropical materials again!

The adult tables had two tablescape styles staged on sexy cheetah linens. That date palm in the center is called "Whoopie Goldberg"!

Masses of orange and hot pink mokara orchids, pincushion protea and cymbidium orchids

Mantlescape....

Love those rice paper votives...

Our Orchid Garden in a wide copper bowl was filled with phalaeonopsis, mokara and lady slipper orchids, hens and chickens and textural organic spheres. They were absolutely delicious - especially as the pin spot lighting kicked in!

In full swing!!!!

Light spanned the sky! Unforgettable!!!

Floral and Event Design: Stoneblossom

Event Planner Extraordinaire - the incredible Wendy Joblon

Killer Lighting - Our pal Tony Ormonde from Ormonde Productions

Photography - Incomparable Corinna Raznikov

Custom Linens -  Table Toppers of Newton

Venue: Rhode Island Country Club

DJ and Performance Art -  Greg and Siagel Productions