Lisa and David’s wedding this past weekend at the Boiler House reminded me all over again, how there’s always a way to add your own special twist to a venue and it’s never the same twice.

If you’ve never been there, The Boiler House has certain distinct features. The two story feature, with the upper lever overlooking the lower. The wooden cubbies that separate the lower dining hall from the bar, the bridge of sorts that offers the most interesting of vantage points for the head table.

A fresh contemporary feel was the choice of theme for Lisa and David. Floating candles aglow in square glass with crisp white orchids as the main feature.

White Orchid Centerpiece At The Boiler House | Floret.ca

The bridal bouquet hinted the arrival of spring with white tulips mixed amongst luxurious callas and green orchids.

Spring Bridal Bouquet | Boiler House Wedding | Floret.ca

The white orchids sheaths carried by the bridemaids transferred over into an inspiring tablescape once they were back at the reception.

White Orchid Scape At Boiler House | Floret.ca

When you start thinking about your wedding flowers, the more obvious items like the bridal bouquet or the centerpieces come to mind first.

A sign that the flowers have been more well thought out and planned is all the other places that you’d see them other than in the most obvious spots. One of the most elegant considerations for flowers is by the guest book. It’ll brighten up an otherwise simple table and highlight the book of well wishes.

The “WOW” factor of a wedding is that sometimes element that seems illusive.

It appears possible only for the weddings with the unlimited budgets that allow for flower arrangements that attempt to reach the tops of the ceilings in a banquet hall and are so full that they seem unattainable by most planning a wedding.

Yet if you look at all of flowers in these weddings they all contain a crucial ingredient that without it would take away that wonderful element of intimacy and warmth.

It is the simple candle and it comes in many forms.

• Votives
• Floating
• Pillared
• Novetly

They are made in an endless array of colours, sizes and shapes.

When combined thoughtfully into clusters or scattered naturally throughout an open space.  Candlelight makes the simplest spaces come to life with shimmering glow.

One thing weddings are definitely not anymore is predictable.

And this was most wonderfully the case with Meagan and Michael’s wedding that took place this past weekend at the Steam Whistle Brewery in Downtown Toronto.

For their lovely Valentine’s Day wedding, they decided to dispense with the traditional notions of great formality and red roses.

Instead, they opted to be wed in a theme of white tropical flowers with a clean and modern twist to complement their choice of a lounge theme.

White callas and dendrobiums were water immersed in modern glass cylinders complete with floating candles and matches votives.

In the ceremony the bride and groom were flanked by tall glass vases in a similar themed encircled with candles.

Modern Candle-lit Ceremony Arrangements

Once  vows were said and done, the guests were treated to a room full of candlelight to complete the chosen furnishings of white leather lounge chairs, steel rimmed coffee tables and a blue back lit bar.

Candle-lit Centerpieces Fill The Steam Whistle Brewery