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One of my favourite details at a wedding is often the bar floral moment. The bar is one of the busiest places at your wedding, and with lines forming, it makes sense to add some kind of floral or styling touch to tie through your design elements or personalize in some way, in a place where guests will actually take notice and interact with it.

First things first: don’t feel that you need to go huge or super creative to create a beautiful moment at your bar! As these images I had saved on Pinterest show you, there’s a huge range of what can be done. Yes, we can go allllll out with the florals and line the entire bottom of the bar with them, but a small arrangement coupled with your bar menu or a single-ingredient arrangement can also do some seriously heavy lifting!

Photo Credits from Left to Right: 1: The Goodsmiths, 2: Mulberry & Moss, 3: Candice Edinger, 4: Jenny Quicksall / Tularosa Flowers

Below you’ll find a few of my personal favourites of Stone House Creative designs, along with some details on why I thought it worked!

Incorporating Signage

The bar moment that made me a little famous on Instagram! It seemed like every florist in North America wanted to know how I designed this (foam-free!) and I’m hoping I can replicate this at a wedding because it was SO fun. From the bold colours, to the way the florals wrapped around the absurdly cute menu sign, it all worked so well. Special shout-out to the two-toned carnations for doing so much work here!

Event designed by Kayla Lagos Events

Personalized and Fun

Soiree Event Planning designed this super fun bar front with Two Fold Paper Co, and I loved the personalized feel. We went heavy on the florals, lining the entire top shelf of the bar backs with stem vases and small arrangements. The joyful burst of colour was the perfect compliment to this rock-n-roll meets rainbow wedding.

Lush Florals with Bar Menu

The bar at the Pavilion is HUGE so we can really do a full, dramatic moment like this one. For this wedding, Alana gave me free reign to create something lush and full, with the only request being to incorporate her bar sign and its cute copper stand. I love that the floral surround works to draw attention to the menu, and not compete with it. After all, we all know why your guests are at the bar — give them the info they need in an aesthetically pleasing menu, and make a statement with the flowers alongside it!

Simple and Textural

For this wedding at the Assiniboine Park Pavilion, we simply wanted a beautiful arrangement. It didn’t need to be huge, it didn’t need to be a major statement — just something really pretty. I chose the terracotta vase for its shape (so chic and fun!) as well as the colour, because it complimented the warm tones in the flowers SO well. As with the rest of the flowers for the wedding, I used a lot of texture, with berries, trumpet-shaped calla lilies, fuzzy kangaroo paw, and a few coral dahlias.

Go For Height

Sometimes it’s nice to go up! This taller arrangement (featuring the most beautiful locally grown hydrangea, dahlias, and amaranthus) didn’t compete with the bar menu, but rather worked with it. The only bummer was the bartender who kept pushing it all off to the side…don’t they know the aesthetics are important?! 😜 (and yes, they actually had a ton of space for working, I’m not that impractical…all the time lol).

WHABAM

Now this bar really had its moment…and it was all repurposed from the ceremony! We designed a floral nest for the ceremony, so we had a lot of pieces to work with. When I walked into the room, I immediately felt like the scale of the bar was off — the pretty rounded bar front and the black bar backs just felt too small underneath the large truss structure with hanging chandeliers. We didn’t have a specific plan for how we would repurpose the ceremony florals, and with Harlow Events’ blessing to do whatever the heck I wanted, I started by placing 3 large floral pieces across the top of the bar backs. Amazing. We added another piece to the centre of the bar, to help the bar menu (and later, the wedding cake) stand out a bit more, and then flanked the sides of the bar with more pieces. It was pretty amazing, if I do say so myself!

Cutie Bar Meadows

This was another bar piece fully repurposed from the ceremony! I love the scalloped trim on the bar sign (playfully named after the couple’s dog) and the whimsical, wildflower inspired arrangements added to the charm.

Florals + Drapery = Win

For this cocktail style wedding reception, Soiree Event Planning created a great floor plan with variation and movement throughout the room. There was an immediate desire to create a focal point in the room with the bar, so Planned Perfectly was brought in to create a cool drapery moment on the ceiling (which was pretty tricky to do in this room!). I loved that the drapery brought a lot of attention to the bar.

We went pretty simple with the flowers on the bar top itself, clustering a couple of smaller arrangements on either end of the bar. That freed us up to go a little more dramatic above the bar, creating a floral cloud that hung above. It smelled soooo good and a hanging element is always a cool element to incorporate into a design!

Put a Name On It

While the floral arrangement here is modern and fun, the bar itself is a major focalpoint. The family handmade it, giving it an adorable small town dive bar name and feel. It doesn’t hurt that this bride is one half of Rae & Dot and sure knows what she’s doing when it comes to branding and modern design.

The florals were paired with a duo of sandstone pillar candles, which was a simple way to round out the overall look.

Multi Coloured Maximalism

This colourful wedding featured a large horseshoe shaped bar, which gave us lots of opportunity to create focal floral moments. This was just one of them, a modern design style featuring soft pink and lavender contrasted with bright orange and yellow, with some cute fruit styling tucked in. One of my favourite elements was the carnation chain on the left.

Mega Bar

We affectionally called this “mega bar” during our planning meetings with Soiree Event Planning, and the name stuck. There are so many great things about this design!

This wedding was during covid, so there was a desire to keep the lines moving and as short as possible — so, three separate bars it was! I love the floral wrap on two outside the bar fronts (which, of course, matched their dance floor decal and the couple’s wedding invitations by Robin Egg Blue Design), with the bar menu decaled onto the middle bar front.

And then, of course, the floral moments! We separated the bars with these clear plinths, which added such a great design element. We added arrangements in gold urns on top of both plinths, as well as floral arrangements INSIDE the plinths, which tied back to the seating chart which also featured florals on and in plinths.

The Aperol Spritz Truck

This one is sort of an honourable mention, because the truck wasn’t the bar itself — but how stinking CUTE is this!? Of course we added a little moment inside the truck, on a very narrow shelf (it’s always important to know what kind of space you’re working with). This cute truck was from Mottola Grocery.

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