Meet the Newtons: Los Angeles Flower Market and a Mama date

 In spite of getting in so late from the airport, the girls were up and out the door to hit the downtown LA flower market at 7:30am. It opened at 4am, but we found plenty of gorgeous and affordable blooms. I did all the flowers for Reese’s wedding for under $150. This included stems for 30 bud vases on the tables, 8 bridesmaid bouquets, and Reese’s bouquet. I bought 5 dozen pink and white ranunculus, 2 types of eucalyptus, chamomile, incredible ruffled tulips 12 hydrangea stems, 3 boquets of lisianthus, pink rice flower, a pinky white anemone mix, pink spray roses, and 6 perfectly plump peonies that slowly opened throughout the day in her bouquet. It was probably overboard, but affordable enough that I didn’t care. Look at these blooms! Heavenly. We lived out our flower market dreams and I said yes to pretty much anything Reese said she thought was pretty that was in her color scheme. She had a vision for her bouquet and we made it happen. 

Aaron took the kids to Walmart. Kasey Carly Annika and Finley did a target run for a swimsuit for Annika and loaded up Carly’s car for the beach while Reese and I walked next door to the hotel and got pedicures and I had my nails painted. This was only an hour, but a really nice time to just be with Reese. Logan’s family picked up bridesmaid Kristina from the train station and allllll the people in town for the wedding headed to Playa del Rey for an afternoon at the beach. 

We found things that reminded Reese of Quincy everywhere, from Korean church billboards while driving downtown to the Korean newsprint that the flowers were wrapped in. Finley played Quincy songs in the car on the way there and we all played a fun guessing game called bandle on the way back.