Matthew & Alexandria

Wedding Stories
Written By Wild Floweress Design Co.

DETAILS
When — August 2025
Where — The View at Lincon Park, Jersey City, NJ

 

A Summer Garden Wedding at the View at Lincoln Park in Jersey City

Some weddings stand out not just because they are beautiful, but because of how they feel from the very beginning. This August wedding at The View at Lincoln Park was exactly that. From the first conversation, this bride brought a sense of trust, openness, and excitement that allowed the design to truly shine.

When couples feel comfortable sharing their ideas and trusting the process, the result is always something special.

A Bride Who Trusted the Process

From the start, this bride had a clear sense of what she was drawn to, even if every detail wasn’t fully defined. She loved the idea of mismatched sage green bridesmaid dresses and envisioned pairing them with a soft, summery palette of peaches, oranges, and creams. She wanted the day to feel cohesive, elevated, and reflective of her venue.

We took the time to really listen to her ideas and understand how she wanted the day to feel. From there, we built an entire aesthetic that worked beautifully for both her vision and the space. That foundation of listening created ease. She felt calm and confident moving forward, which made the planning process feel collaborative and enjoyable from start to finish.

Designing for the View at Lincoln Park

The View at Lincoln Park is a newer venue with a modern feel and incredible natural light. Floor to ceiling windows overlook the natural beauty of Lincoln Park, while warm wood beams, sixteen foot ceilings, and rustic chandeliers bring balance and character to the space.

Originally, the ceremony design included a traditional arch. About a month before the wedding, the bride reached out to share that she was feeling drawn to ceremony pillars instead. We immediately told her yes. We loved the idea and were more than happy to build custom pillars and reimagine the ceremony layout.

The finished design didn’t disappoint. The floral pillars framed the light and bright ceremony space beautifully, highlighting the height of the room without overwhelming it. The result felt intentional, airy, and perfectly suited to the architecture of the venue.

A Cohesive Summer Reception Design

For the reception, the room featured a mix of oval and round tables, which allowed us to create variety while keeping the overall look cohesive. On the round tables, we designed lush, garden-style compotes paired with fluted votives. The oval tables were styled with bud vases and candlelight, adding movement and interest throughout the space.

Because this was an August wedding, dahlias were a must. We grow an abundance of dahlias on our own flower farm and also work closely with Sunset View Dahlia Farm in Lafayette, New Jersey, one of the largest specialty dahlia farms in the area. These seasonal blooms were the perfect addition to the peach, orange, and cream palette, bringing texture, depth, and a true end-of-summer feel to the design.

The colors paired beautifully with the hunter green napkins and looked especially striking in the natural light pouring into the space.

Thoughtful Details That Tied It All Together

Cohesion was important to this bride, so we carried the design through every detail. We created custom sage green watercolor table numbers, along with a sage and ivory striped specialty cocktail sign and a matching welcome sign. These pieces helped connect the ceremony and reception visually, ensuring the entire day felt intentional and well thought out.

When florals and paper goods are designed together, the result is a wedding that feels seamless rather than pieced together.

Why Trust Makes All the Difference

This wedding is a perfect example of what can happen when couples feel comfortable, supported, and heard throughout the planning process. The ability to make changes, refine ideas, and collaborate openly leads to a design that feels personal and successful rather than stressful.

At Wild Floweress Design Co., our goal is always to make the process feel approachable and guided. You don’t need to have everything figured out. You just need a team you feel comfortable talking to and trusting along the way.

If you’re planning your wedding and looking for a design partner who listens, adapts, and helps bring clarity to your vision, we would love to hear from you.

Inquire to work together and let’s design something that feels effortless, cohesive, and completely yours.




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Vendor Credits

Venue: The View at Lincoln Park

Photography: Photo by Lore

Florals: Wild Floweress Design Co.

Local Dahlias: Sunset View Dahlia Farm



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 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
Host · Photo · Video · Content
@michellebehrephotography
Gentleman's Fashion
@tuxedobysarno
Hair · Makeup · Grooming
@stellafatale · @mjbridalartistry
The candlelit head table at The Coach House
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