Photographer: Steven Dray Photography Wedding Planner: https://soireebysouleret.com/

A Spring Wedding in White and Green with the Softest Hints of Color

There are certain weddings that feel entirely of their season — impossible to imagine at any other moment in the year. Maddie and Drew’s May wedding at Fox Chapel Golf Club was exactly that: fresh, restrained, deeply romantic, and full of the particular beauty that only late spring can offer.

The bride carried a bouquet of white peonies, garden roses, and stems of viburnum cut from my own garden — one of my favorite details of the day. There is something unmistakable about locally grown spring material: the movement, the fragrance, the softness of the stems. Garden viburnum in May has a looseness and vitality that imported foliage simply cannot replicate. It brings a wedding to life in a different way.

Though the ceremony flowers were almost entirely white and green, for the reception, we introduced the gentlest hint of color: buttery David Austin garden roses, peonies with soft yellow centers, and touches of pale lilac woven quietly throughout the arrangements. The effect was intentionally restrained — not colorful, exactly, but warm. Like late afternoon light.

Fox Chapel Golf Club is one of Pittsburgh’s truly iconic venues — historic, elegant, and quietly grand. The conservatory, where the reception took place, has the feeling of an old greenhouse flooded with natural light. It was the perfect setting for flowers designed to feel cultivated rather than overly formal: lush, airy, and gathered as though the season itself had arranged them.

We filled the fountain with abundant spring blooms, creating the feeling that the flowers had simply grown up around the architecture over time. We also decorated the Juliet balcony, allowing the florals to become part of the room itself rather than simply table décor.

Long tables were layered with garlands and low floral compositions designed to encourage conversation and intimacy, while elevated arrangements brought movement and scale into the conservatory. One of the things we love most about tented and glass conservatory spaces is the opportunity to build upward, allowing flowers to interact with the architecture and atmosphere around them.

Everything about Maddie and Drew’s wedding felt timeless without feeling traditional in a rigid sense. It was elegant, certainly, but more importantly, it felt deeply seasonal — grounded in spring, in gardens, and in the quiet luxury of flowers allowed to speak for themselves.

Photographs by Steven Dray Photography.