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Little River Bridal Extravaganza
2009-01-26 03:47:00
The Bridal show at Little River on Sunday was one huge wedding party. The club and every vendor went all out to create a wonderful showcase . Beautiful setting and the folks at Little River should be very proud. I had a great time talking to people, hearing their plans or dreams and looking at the brides-to-be engagement rings!

Snowbound
2009-01-21 14:15:00
What to do on a snowy day? The roads are impassable. The temperatures are impossible. The prospects for work are highly improbable. We might as well play. We love the contrast of bouquets in snow. It makes for a striking backdrop and us that warmer weather and warmer interludes are not so far. While Margaret and I indulged our hobbies, Kalie bravely endured the cold and wind and looked beautiful doing it. Maggie and I give our sincere thanks to Kalie for posing with the bouquets along with our hopes that when it is time for her to carry her very own bouquet, it won't be wearing a slip, a mink and her mother's Uggs in our back yard in a snow storm. - Kevin

Cold Weather and Planning
2009-01-17 18:09:00
It is 20 degrees here and sunny. Not as cold as some places but cold enough to keep this girl inside working on future projects! Next Sunday, Jan 25th we are participating in a new Bridal Fair taking place at a Little River Golf Resort right outside of Pinehurst. We had several happy brides have their receptions there last season so I am looking forward to participating in this inagural event. speaking of inagural I bet the floral and event companies in Washington are working 24/7! I can't wait to see pictures. Yes We Can - that is a beautiful mantra.
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Katherine Belk Morris and Trevor Marshall Stanley
2008-08-24 16:50:00
Katherine (Kate) Belk Morris was wed betrothed to Trevor Marshall Stanley on the picture perfect afternoon of Saturday, August 9, 2008. Maggie was honored to serve as florist, planner and coordinator.Kate Carried a bouquet of white roses, freesia and orchids down the aisle of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Southern Pines.The Reception was held at The Country Club Of North Carolina in the ballroom... ...and spilling out onto the terrace... ...where arrangements of green and blush hydrangea with pink roses around pillars with floating candles over colorful linens gave the night a dreamlike quality. Maggie and her staff would like to extend their best wishes to Kate and Trevor along with our thanks for allowing us to help.

Teague/Petry Wedding
2008-06-29 22:18:00
Julie Teague and Dustin Petry were wed on the steamy afternoon of June 28th at The Village Chapel in Pinehurst. Maggie's Farm was proud to provide flowers and coordination for the event.Julie chose a classic white wedding. Her bouquet featured an assortment of white roses, hydrangea and fressia wrapped in white ribbon. Her bridesmaids wore seafoam green dresses and carried bouquets of white roses and fressia tied with seafoam green ribbon. The groomsmen wore white dinner jackest that were perfect for a summer afternoon.Three adorable flower girls carried pomander of roses in shades of white. Village Chapel never looked more elegant. The reception was held at The Country Club of North Carolina which couldn't have been more lovely in the sea foam linens and centerpieces by Maggie.
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The Marriage Celebration of Adrian Lee Pierce and Billy Mark Stutts
2008-05-18 03:15:00
Adrian and Billy were wed on the stunningly beautiful afternoon of Saturday, May seventeenth, two thousand and eight. Adrian carried a bouquet of peonies, hydrangea and pink roses.They exchanged their vows at the altar of The West End Community Presbyterian Church... Ant the reception was held at The Little River Farm Golf Club and Resort in Carthage, North Carolina.
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Wooley/Rudovsky Nuptials
2008-05-18 02:17:00
On Saturday, May 3, Pat Wooley of Boston Massachusetts became Mrs. Paul Rudovsky in a ceremony at The Village Chapel of Pinehurst. This wedding was special to us as Mr. Rudovsky is a long time client and one we hold in especially high regard. The queen and I extend our very best wishes to the newlyweds.

Lam/Kuehnle: Sandhills Spring Wedding
2008-04-29 01:54:00
Early April is the great equalizer. For two weeks everybody lives in a yellow house and drives a yellow car down yellow roads. When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "nature's first green is gold", I guess he was talking about pollen.Ans so it was that Juliet Lamm and Edward Kuehnle, III were wed, providing a visual feast for weary eyes longing for something besides yellow.Juliet Melbourne Lam became Edward Charles Kuehnle, III at Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Southern Pines on the overcast afternoon of April 5th.For a bouquet, Juliet carried a double pomander of roses in shades of pinkThe bridesmaids carried bouquets of white nad blush roses. The wedding featured striking pew markers of mixed roses and baby's breath. The reception at the always elegant Fair Barn in Pinehurst featured a variety of centerpieces from the understated bowl of hydrangea blooms......to colorful arrangements on tower vases filled with orchid sprays.We at Maggie's Farm wish, albeit belatedly, all the ...
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Valentines Day
2008-02-06 01:21:00
It's almost Valentines Day and your Valentine deserves nothing but the very best. Take them to dinner. Treat them to the spa. Buy them a Ferrari. But, for heaven's sake, give flowers! Nothing says love like flowers from Maggie's Farm.

New Ads
2008-02-06 01:09:00
It's ad time. We're running ads in a couple of local publications. Hopefully they'll look some thing like these. Sandhills Wedding guide. Southern Weddings.

Blessings, Curses And Buck
2007-12-30 14:42:00
It's the last Sunday before the end of the year. It's a natural time to take stock of the year gone by, a time to celebrate our wins and take a critical look at the situations that didn't go our way in order to apply the lessons learned in the new year.Most of that accounting is pretty straightforward. Another year of waking up next to the woman I love - blessing. Another year unencumbered by the pitfalls of materialism and the idle trappings of wealth - big curse.And then there's Buck .We call Maggie "The Queen" but this unbalanced fowl who might be all of 2 pounds (I say "might" because I'm as likely to farm the soil of Neptune as I am to hold Buck when he's healthy) is the unquestioned master of all he surveys. You can tell whether Buck is in the front yard or the back yard because our cats will only go out which ever door he's farthest from. I've heard our youngest daughter, now 22, cry out for an escort from the shop out of fear of the crazed bird. Even Satchel, our ten ...
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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas...
2007-12-15 03:12:00
...if you Christmas in Beunos Aires. This week has been unbelievable. On Tuesday I saw butterflies at a property we take care of - butterflies, two weeks before Christmas! The knock out roses are knockin' it out all over the place. As lovely as these blooms are, they scare the hell out of me.I know that a warm snap here or there does not a crisis make. But maybe the worst drought in the region's recorded history followed four years later by the worst drought in the region's recorded history is cause for some concern.We've all heard the old joke, "Everyone complains about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it." I think we have to do something about it.

It's A Fine Day For A Whigg Wedding!
2007-11-25 16:02:00
Centerpiece in Private Dining Room at CCNC"It's a fine day to start again!"Billy Idol from "White Wedding "OK, I'm guessing that the obscure Billy Idol reference might be lost on our newlyweds but it's not altogether inappropriate. The Whiggs first dated in Greensboro some time ago ago but their paths separated and they went on with their lives eventually marrying other people before finding each other again and discovering in a wealth of common interest and experience more fertile ground for love to thrive and bloom. Here's wishing the best to the Whiggs in their new endeavour! Bridal bouquet and Maid of Honor bouquetCake! Bridal bouquet (Not the actual bride)
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Wine Tasting at CCNC
2007-11-25 15:02:00
(Chef's Assistant at Asian cuisine table.)On Saturday, November 17th, the Country Club of North Carolina presented a wine tasting for its members in the club ballroom. The eveining featured local wines and wines from all over the world. Chef Joe Diprima prepared food tables featuring cuisine from Italy and Asia. (Flowers for Italian Table)
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The Todd/Lynch Wedding
2007-10-22 02:44:00
On the weekend of September 29th the Village of Pinehurst surrendered to the wedding party for Amanda Claire Todd and Remmington Barclay Lynch. Festivities included a golf tournament, rehearsal dinner, after dinner drinks, a bridesmaid's luncheon and a Sunday brunch...and, oh yeah, and somewhere in all that two people got married. That part actually took part at 5:00 on the afternoon of September 29th at the stately Village Chapel of Pinehurst. The Former Miss. Todd carried a bouquet of white orchid sprays and gardenia blooms. The bridesmaids dressed suspiciously like the lovely woman above (either a bridesmaid or the best wedding crasher I've ever seen) carried bouquets of white parrot tulips, esperance roses, white nerine lilies, freesia and boxwood. Here's a real courtesy for a destination wedding. Guests leaving the wedding and unsure of how to get to the reception needed only to follow the sound of bagpipes. The reception was held at The Country Club of North Carolina. Magg...
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Dinner For The Nasher Museum
2007-10-22 01:56:00
On the rainy evening of September 20th (remember rain?) Marilyn Arthur hosted a party to introduce local people to The Nasher Museum on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC. The event was held at Mrs. Arthur's lovely Pinehurst home and Margaret was happy to help with planning and coordination as well as providing flowers. Chef Joseph DiPrima and his staff from The Country Club of North Carolina served a creative hors doeuvres to prospective patrons to the museum.We encourage you to learn more about The Nasher Museum of Art by visiting their website here.
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Why Be Uncoordinated?
2007-10-22 00:12:00
Weddings are a big deal. They're half pageant and half party. They're a production in which things need to proceed in a timely fashion. There are venues, chefs or caterers, florists, entertainers, photographers, videographers, transportation, rentals, bridesmaids, groomsmen two families and friends to contend with. Maybe you you thrive under that kind of pressure but is that really the best use of your time? Because it's true that weddings are pageants, parties and productions, but most of all, they're celebrations. They celebrate the joining of two lives, two destinies, two families and the creation of a new family. Whether you're bride or the mother of the bride, you should be a celebrant. Better by far to let a professional, someone who's helped with hundreds of weddings, sweat the details.Maggie and her assistants were happy to provide that service for the wedding of Jolin Elise Henry to Mathew Scott Conine on September 15th. They were married at The Cypress Presbyterian ...

Pollworth/Rector at Country Club of North Carolina
2007-10-21 17:51:00
The Terrace of The Country Club of North Carolina proved and ideal backdrop for the wedding of Lani Pollworth to Dustin Rector on the afternoon of September 22nd. This was a destination for the young couple who hail from Minnetonka, Minnesota. Maggie was happy to provide flowers for the event.More images from the Pollworth/Rector wedding are available at our portfolio page.

Long Time Gone
2007-10-20 22:40:00
It has been almost two months since I've updated this blog and that is inexcusable. The whole idea behind current events is to keep current, to give clients a quick recap of events that are important to them. I apologize for not getting that done.The time I would ordinarily have put into the blog went into rebuilding the website, http://www.maggiesfarm4flowers.com/. Margaret always thought the old site was too big and hard to navigate. I didn't like that the gallery section was slow and I didn't care for the magnification and scrolling versus simply enlarging. Finally, as much as we might have enjoyed the music, there was no guarantee that you would. Maggie thought the music player wasn't intuitive enough. On the new site you have to click on the music player on the top right of the site to play music and you have your choice of three songs.Anyhow, I think we've corrected the problems and streamlined the site. We're happy with it. We hope it will be useful to you, as well.
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Kristin Kuhn and Chad Gilligan
2007-08-26 21:59:00
Ms. Kristin Kuhn became Mrs. Chad Gill igan at The Sir Walter Raleigh Gardens on the campus of Sandhills Community College at 5:30 yesterday on an afternoon that might be described as...well, just a little warm. Kristin's bouquet Attendant's bouquet Family section marker at the gardensWe know Kristin well. She handles events at The Country Club of North Carolina and Margaret has had the distinct pleasure of working closely with Kristin on a lot of receptions. None of them meant more to Kristin or to Maggie than this one. We were pleased and honored to be a part of her most special day. Table setting at CCNC.Candy table at reception at CCNC.Our groom, Chad Gilligan is a golf pro at Pinehurst #7. We hadn't met Chad until recently but our landscape clients who are members at #7 can't stop singing his praises. Our encounters with him have only served to reinforce the positive impressions of people who have known him longer.Best of luck for a long and happy marriage to two very specia...

A Celebration of the Gruenhagen/ Giorgi Wedding
2007-08-19 23:30:00
I thought I'd change up the font a little for this one just to emphasize a point which is, I love color. I mean I can appreciate the elegant understated beauty of a white wedding. I can appreciate the passion of classic red roses. Give me clolor. Color says clebrate.If a white bouquet is a waltz and a red bouquet is modern dance, this bouquet is a lambada! The very lovely Mary Ayres Gruenhagen became Mrs. James Marcus Giorgi in a ceremony at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Southern Pines at a little after five thirty yesterday. Maggie was proud to serve as both florist and , with very professional assistance from our good friend Debbie Beard, event coordinator.All weddings are part pageant and part celebration. A lot of weddings attempt to balance those aspects. This one was unabashedly a celebration. The bouquets, the altar flowers, even the flower girl's baskets... and pew markers suggested that this was the start of a very good time.I happened to be outside the church taking down ...
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Bridal Fair 2007
2007-08-19 22:20:00
Yesterday was the day for the second annual Bridal Fair at National Golf Club in Pinehurst. Intrepid brides and brides to be from around the Sandhills braved the swelter of another afternoon of what's sure to be the hottest August on record in order to see and sample the wares of local vendors in the wedding industry. We were happy to once again make our case from a space near the center of National's beautiful ballroom. Not in attendance at this year's show was The Queen herself, Maggie. She was busy with flowers and coordination for the Gruenhagen/Giorgi wedding. In her stead we had a doctor and a princess. Pictured above are our good friend Jo Ella Hardee, DMP (Doctor of Manicure and Pedicure) at The Nail Boutique, and The Queen's younger daughter (and therefore a princess), Kalie Hairston.Brides who stopped by were able to check out a variety of bouquets, like the traditional red rose bouquet that this bride is holding,... see a photo album of Maggie's work,...and take home...

Beach Bum Bouquet
2007-08-14 02:07:00
We made it to the beach...finally!Everybody needs a change of scenery once in a while and The Queen (Maggie) and I have been looking at the same scenery for a long, long time. So Friday night we finished our deliveries and headed east to Wilmington to visit my sister and enjoy a little sun and fun, some food and a little shopping for work shoes for Maggie.But the first thing we did Saturday morning was to go to the beach to take some pictures that I had been thinking about for a while. I had asked Maggie to do a bouquet I could shoot on the beach and she is always so kind to indulge me.I caught three breaks on Saturday morning.First, the rain stopped. Friday night Wilmington was getting all the rainfall the rest of the state so desperately needs. I had thought I would shoot at sunrise but at 5:00 a.m. the thunder was still banging so I didn't rush. By seven, the rain had seemed to pass so by 7:30 we were on our way to the beach.Second, Maggie came with me. It's not unusual for me ...
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Bridal Fair at National Golf Club
2007-08-04 23:36:00
We are pleased to be showing again at The Bridal Fair at The National Golf Club in Pinehurst on August 18th. Maggie will not be there as she has a wedding that day. Gracing the booth instead will be our good friend Valerie Stratta who owns Audley Enough, the dress boutique on Main Street in Southern Pines, and Maggie's youngest daughter, Kalie. We're looking forward to it.I've had a hard time putting my hands on the cd with all the shots from last year's show but I did find these three. I love this rich and colorful bouquet with the sunflowers and the roses with the chocolate colored wrap and the gold beading. I also like this bridesmaid's bouquet, simple but vibrant. This is another simple but lovely idea Maggie had, putting this green cymbidium nosegay in a black sequined purse.You can get more information about the Bridal Fair at http://www.nationalgolfclub.com/Special_E vents.htm

Towning/Miller Wedding - A Hero's Wedding
2007-07-28 23:57:00
Today Maggie was pleased to do the floral work for the wedding of Joanna Clare Towning to Robert Michael Miller , III.I'm personally grateful that Maggie had the opportunity to be involved.As I listened to the news this week about athletes running afoul of the law, generals covering up friendly fire incidents and drunk astronauts going into outer space, it occurred to me that there are no heroes anymore. Who's left? Who do we look to to remind us that there's still hope - that there's still goodness and decency in the world?It was fortuitous that I knocked on a door to get a business card from this week's wedding photographer and recognized the groom. On the far right in the image above is your groom, Robert Michael Miller, III. "Mike", as I've known him, is a nurse. About eighteen months ago, I was in a bad spot. My father was in the hospital for the fifth time in a year and my mother was in need of a level of care that my sister and I were unqualified to provide and unable to...
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Copper/Black Nuptials
2007-07-22 15:40:00
Congratulations Dr. & Mrs. Kenney! It's a boy!On Saturday at the Presbyterian Church in West End Dr. & Mrs. Kenney became the proud parents of a brand new son-in-law when their lovely daughter, Teresa Jo Copper , wed Joseph Mark Black .The wedding was held at The West End Presbyterian Church. I believe Maggie's only done three weddings there in all he time as a florist so it's a little strange to have two in the space of about six weeks. We're happy for it though because it really is a beautiful church. The above images is of the guest-book set up in the narthex .The four floral pew markers for this wedding were exceptional. The reception was held at Pinehurst Members' Club where our old friend Stan Stegall and Sound Express entertained the wedding party. In addition to to playing with Sound Express, Stan books several other bands like The Tams through his company Much Moore Entertainment.Pictured above is an arrangement of red roses with whit lilies and freesia with a tower ...
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Best laid plans...
2007-07-22 14:42:00
I saw Margaret working on the bouquets for the Copper/Black wedding the other night - Red roses, white freesia and star of Bethlehem - really beautiful bouquets. I saw that bright red and white and thought, "Wouldn't that look great with a flag?" So Saturday morning I took a bouquet, a table and a flag out to a field and tried to get my shots. As I was setting up the wind began to pick up so I rushed through it a little bit and finally the wind got to a point where I couldn't trust the bouquet to stand up on the table so I had to quit. When I got home I was unhappy with the composition - the tree that's close and to the right and the shadow behind table. Maggie made the more obvious comment and when I put it up on the computer screen I saw that she was right - the photograph looks like it might have been taken from the edge of Arlington National Cemetery. Not exactly the way you want to photograph a wedding bouquet.Sorry.
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Maggie's Farm Slideshow
2007-07-15 22:44:00
Click to play Make your own Smilebox
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Phelps/O'Connor Nuptials
2007-07-08 01:04:00
It's that day. It's the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of this century. Today it's OK to walk under a ladder. It's no problem if a black cat crosses your path. Today's the day to take chances. Today everyone's playing the lottery...of love.Our winners are the former Ms. Jenny Phelps and Mr. Jeremy O'Connor. They were wed today at Community Presbyterian Church in Pinehurst . Maggie was pleased to be the florist for the event. Bridal bouquet on a church window sill (imagine that). Bridal bouquet not on window sill.Flower girl's purse. Mother's nosegay.Bridesmaid's Bouquet. Alter.The reception was held at the very elegant Country Club of North Carolina. Table setting.Simple elegant centerpiece.We are now accepting bookings for weddings for the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventy seventh year of this century.

Bouquets Gone Wild
2007-07-07 23:21:00
I am not a professional photographer ("No! Really?). Yeah it's true.Actually not earning a living with (or not being competent to earn a living with) a camera has an upside - like, I don't have to work that hard. I don't have to lug a camera around for eight hours for wedding prep photos, pre ceremony portraits, ceremony photos, post ceremony portraits and reception photos. I don't have to comb through and process hundreds of images while wedding party and family members anxiously await. No pressure, no expectations, no aching back - I get to enjoy my hobby as a hobby.The downside is that I don't get to shoot Maggie's work in context - I never get an image of the alter with the bride and groom exchanging vows. I never get the table setting and centerpiece with candles lit and guests enjoying the event, I rarely get the bouquet in the hands of the bride while she's being the bride. What I get is a lot of images of bouquets in church window sills like this. No shame in that. It...
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