Green and White Floral Inspired Elegant Baby Shower

Floral designer Lauryl of Lauryl Lane styled the flowers for a gorgeous baby shower for 40 guests at Il Fornaio in Santa Monica, California. “The restaurant has a sunroom overlooking the ocean. It’s such a serene location, and a perfect intimate setting for this group,” Lauryl said.

Planner Loren Elkin said “We knew the gender and name of the baby  – Jack.  Just thought it would be nice to have something really simple and of course not too feminine.” The mother-to-be is originally from Sweden, so the palette was kept crisp and somewhat modern with white ceramic containers and a textural mixture of green and white flowers.

The blooms included green roses, white lisianthus, green spider mums and kermit mums, queen anne’s lace, white statice, ferns, bupleurum and other seasonal blooms and greenery.

Miniature centerpiece treatments created a lovely runner of flowers to decorate long banquet-style tables, a simple solution and great tip for a different decorative table runner. Favors for the attendees were the miniature arrangements that sat at the top of each place setting. “Wouldn’t you love to go to a shower and head home with fresh flowers?” asked Lauryl. Yes, we absolutely would! Especially when they look like these!

Alternative arrangements sat atop guest tables and were given as prizes to the lucky guests who won the baby-games!

“The flowers were really the main décor,” Loren said. ”We added vintage paper name/seating cards in front of each individual flower pot. We also had clear acrylic photo cubes filled with Xeroxed baby pictures of Emma and Dave to on light blue paper.  This was the only blue I chose as a tribute to the baby boy.”

As the mom to be is pregnant, a “non-cocktail,” cocktail hour was decided on. Bartenders whip up some fruity and lemonade type drinks. Stations set up in the bar area where guests designed some baby onsies with fabric markers and pre-cut iron-on’s. “Mom-to-be Emma is a huge True Blood fan, so we had lots of pictures from the show and things with fake blood and vampires,” Loren said. ”We also printed out fun things like 80’s hair bands and just stuff little boys would like.We also had two booths set up where everyone was able to design a scrapbook page for Emma and Jack.  Our Photographer took Polaroid pictures of the guests and then it was added to the page they designed.”

“Tourists walking down Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica could peek in the window and see this loveliness! I imagine they all wished they were inside.”

Thanks for sharing this gorgeous shower with us Lauryl!

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Floral Design & Images:: Lauryl Lane

Planning:: Loren Elkins

Additional Photography:: Brad Jones