Amanda & Jon

Wedding Stories

Feb 2

DETAILS
When — June 2025
Where — Glenwood Mountain Farm Vernon, NJ

A June Garden Wedding at Glenwood Mountain Farm

Some weddings stay with you forever. This June 2025 celebration at Glenwood Mountain Farm was one of those days. Not only because of its beauty, but because the bride, Amanda, is one of our very own Floweresses. Designing florals for someone who has worked alongside us and shares our love for flowers made this day especially meaningful.

From the very beginning, Amanda knew one thing with certainty. Flowers were the heart of her wedding day. She envisioned being completely surrounded by lush, garden-style florals in soft, springy pastels, with every detail feeling romantic, intentional, and deeply personal.

A Floral Vision Rooted in Abundance and Romance

Set against the rolling landscape and warm wood textures of Glenwood Mountain Farm, the floral design leaned into the feeling of a blooming garden in early summer. We focused on layered color, movement, and softness, allowing the florals to feel as though they were growing naturally throughout the space.

The ceremony featured a full broken floral arch, overflowing with seasonal blooms and delicate textures. Rather than a traditional symmetrical structure, the arch felt organic and expressive, framing the couple in florals that moved with the landscape around them.

Rather than lining the full aisle, the sweetest garden baskets filled with potted spring blooms were placed intentionally at the entrance of the aisle, framing the moment guests first stepped into the ceremony space at the final row of seating. This subtle placement created a beautiful sense of arrival and drew the eye toward the ceremony without overwhelming the natural landscape. The living blooms added softness and charm, reinforcing the feeling of an intimate garden gathering tucked into the farm setting.

A Dreamy Bridal Bouquet and Thoughtful Details

Amanda’s bouquet was truly something out of a dream. Luscious peonies took center stage, paired with flirty lavender sweet peas and romantic cupped-petaled garden roses. The palette was soft and springlike, yet rich with texture and movement, creating a bouquet that felt abundant without being heavy.

Each bridesmaid wore a different dress, adding to the organic, collected feel of the day. Instead of traditional bouquets, they carried the sweetest little floral baskets, a detail that felt both whimsical and perfectly suited to the garden setting.

One of our favorite moments was a deeply meaningful wearable floral piece designed for the officiant’s dress. This floral addition honored someone incredibly important to the couple, weaving remembrance and love into the ceremony in a subtle yet powerful way.

Reception Design Inspired by a Garden Gathering

The reception continued the garden narrative in thoughtful and creative ways. The guest seating chart was created using assorted terracotta pots filled with colorful blooms, each hand-labeled with guest names and table assignments. This tactile, interactive display invited guests to slow down and take in the details, setting the tone for the evening ahead.

The beautiful wooden farm tables at Glenwood Mountain Farm were dressed simply and elegantly. Sweet lace runners softened the tables, while delicate floral centerpieces added just enough height and movement. Colorful taper candles brought warmth and glow as the evening unfolded, and our signature cloche table numbers added a refined yet playful finishing touch.

A Celebration Close to Our Hearts

Designing this wedding for Amanda was an honor beyond words. It was a joy to see her vision come to life and to watch her be surrounded by the very thing she loves most. Flowers were not just decor on this day. They were emotion, memory, and celebration woven into every moment.

This wedding was a true reflection of what we love most at Wild Floweress Design Co.. Thoughtful design, intentional details, and florals that feel personal, abundant, and deeply connected to the people at the center of the celebration.

If you are dreaming of a wedding where flowers take center stage and every detail feels considered, we would love to design alongside you.

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Vendor Credits

A celebration like this comes to life through collaboration, care, and a shared commitment to thoughtful details. We were honored to design alongside an incredibly talented vendor team who helped bring Amanda’s vision to life at Glenwood Mountain Farm.

Each creative partner played a meaningful role in shaping a day that felt seamless, personal, and deeply special to the couple. From the setting to the flow of the day, every detail reflected intention and artistry.

We are always grateful to work with fellow professionals who value collaboration and elevate the experience for everyone involved.

Venue
Glenwood Mountain Farm

Photography
Sydney Madison Creative

Florals and Design
Wild Floweress Design Co.

Rentals
Cedar and Sage

Heartfelt rentals

The Story Behind Our New Jersey Bride Feature · Wild Floweress

A countryside fairytale at Ryland Inn

The story behind our New Jersey Bride feature.

Venue · The Coach House at Ryland Inn Photography · Michelle Behre Featured · New Jersey Bride, Fall/Winter 2026

Some shoots are about showing off flowers. This one was about a feeling, the sense of walking into an old stone house in the fall and finding it already alive.

When the creative team came together for this editorial at The Coach House at Ryland Inn, the goal was never a list of pretty arrangements. It was a countryside fairytale, warm and golden and a little untamed, the kind of room you don't want to leave. Months later it landed in New Jersey Bride for Fall and Winter 2026, and getting to see the work in print alongside this team is the part that still feels good.

Here is the thinking behind it, and what it was like to build it with people who care this much.

An idea built around a room

This one began with an email. Michelle Behre was curating a bridal editorial at The Coach House to open New York Luxury Bridal Market week, and she came to it with a clear feeling in mind: florals and candlelight climbing the fireplace, a single tablescape that felt like the heart of the room, and light that made a statement of its own. She had just come home from Florence, still holding the chiaroscuro of the old masters, and she wanted that same play of candlelight and shadow to carry the whole day. The brief was an atmosphere, not a checklist, which is exactly how we like to begin.

The Coach House gave us everything to work with. Stone, beamed ceilings, chandeliers, and an enormous fireplace that practically asks to be dressed. So instead of filling the space evenly, we built around its bones. The fireplace became the anchor, and everything else followed from there.

The palette was autumn made soft: peach, butter yellow, burgundy, and rust, with dried seedheads and trailing greenery woven through so it read like fall instead of just looking like it. On the table we tucked fig, grape, and pear among candles set at deliberately uneven heights, so the whole thing felt gathered rather than arranged. Garden-grown, with movement, never tightly packed.

The bride before the dressed stone fireplace — The fireplace, dressed and left a little untamed

Letting the flowers climb

The fireplace installation is the piece I keep coming back to. Rather than setting an arrangement politely on the mantel, we let the flowers climb the stone and trail toward the candlelight, asymmetrical on purpose, so it looked like it had grown there on its own.

Nothing matched on purpose. That is usually the difference between a setup and something that feels alive. The bouquet carried the same idea in miniature: loose garden roses and dahlias with a soft ribbon, built to move with the bride rather than sit still in her hands.

The bride beside the dressed stone fireplace

The bride's loose garden bouquet with trailing ribbon

"Flowers should look like they belong in the room, not like they were delivered to it."

Working with Michelle Behre

Michelle hosted this shoot and photographed it, and working with her is a large part of why it turned out the way it did. Her eye is editorial and intentional. She photographs for permanence, for albums and wall pieces rather than for a quick scroll, and that mindset changes how a floral designer gets to work.

She thinks about how light falls on an installation, how candlelight reads on camera, how a room frames the people in it. When a photographer understands those things, florals get to be seen the way they were designed. She also curates rather than floods. What you get back is a tight, considered gallery that feels like a published feature, which is exactly what happened here.

The inspiration

Her reference points were not florals at all. Think the chiaroscuro of Titian and Caravaggio, the grandeur of Florentine fashion houses, the natural light of the Uffizi, translated into an abundance of candles, deep shadow, and a stone fireplace dressed like a still life. We built the florals to live inside that light, not in front of it.

The groom before the Coach House stone arches — Photographed for permanence · Michelle Behre Photography

The bride in the floral gown in the garden — Photographed for permanence · Michelle Behre Photography

The whole team

A shoot like this only works when everyone is pulling toward the same feeling. Every gown, every place setting, every linen had to agree with the room. When a team is this aligned, the design stops feeling assembled and starts feeling like a place.

Candlelight carried all the way to the table

Why it made the magazine

I think it earned the feature because it committed to one idea and followed it all the way through, from the fireplace down to the smallest detail on the table. It was not the most flowers we have ever used. It was the most intentional.

That is the thinking behind every Wild Floweress wedding: never a recycled recipe, always a room and a couple-specific answer. This time the room happened to be a stone fairytale in the New Jersey countryside.

The Vendor Team