Villa Fiore Design

10/07/2024

05/17/2024

It’s a nice change to be able to play with bold, deep colors! Loved doing this styled dinner shoot at

05/12/2024

It’s always a pleasure working with Descanso Junction Restaurant! Stop in, celebrate Mother’s Day and see this amazing group of people who always go the extra mile for their customers. So grateful for my clients!

01/16/2024

My team and I had the honor of working in this wedding for an incredible family. This beautiful bride holds a very special place not only in my heart but in my son’s heart as well . It was an honor to be a part of this. Cheers to Chuck and Krista! All our love ❤️ Venue: Planning:
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01/16/2024

First wedding of 2024 was an intimate ceremony and dinner celebrating a very special couple. Cheers to Izzy and Manny! Thank you for letting me be a part of your beautiful day!

10/04/2023

This is what it’s all about. Honoring your client and paying tribute to the beautiful life they have led. It doesn’t always have to be roses and lilies. ❤️

She did not want roses on her casket. Or lilies. Her specific request was for wildflowers, actually. The flowers of home, of this place & this land where she herself was born & raised, and where she & her husband raised their own family. She was born in Relámpago in 1928, back when the Rio Grande Valley was still mostly wild, when jaguars & ocelots still slinked through the thornscrub & the nights were still brilliant with darkness and stars. She was an enthusiastic supporter of the annual Citrus Fiesta in Mission, & she told stories of making dresses for the event using onionskins. “…so can you add some citrus in with the wildflowers, please?” her granddaughter asked me.
Rogelia helped me gather the beautiful things: Mexican limes, pendulous & heavy on their spiny branches. Valley lemons, the yellow just beginning to color their shoulders. Orange fiddlewood berries & anacua & Vasey’s adelia, all tokens of the riparian wildlands that still follow the river & arroyos to the coast. There were roadside sunflower seedheads & burgundy amaranthus & tropical framboyàn. Zinnias from the flower field & palm fronds & our native seaside goldenrod. I was even able to slip a few stems of corona vine out of the office garden without offending the bees that were nectaring in its pink clouds. After some quiet tinkering in the flower barn, I had something that felt appropriate, kindred even, to this exceptional woman. It was a gathering of very ordinary things, made remarkable by their ubiquity & unlikely usefulness in honoring her life. No roses. No lilies. Not a single stem that wasn’t grown here in this place that she called home. I felt grateful for her appreciation of the ditch blooms & the citrus & the monte’s unassuming gifts, grateful that she wanted those things to help speak for her long, beautiful, well-lived life. Her last wishes were a reminder to me of the beauty in our most ordinary days: the unripe hanging fruit, the fading roadside blooms, the stories we share with the people we love. It is all passing away even as we move through it and past it. Our lives are all fleeting as flowers, fragile as onionskins.

09/08/2023

The little van that can is ready to roll 😍

08/07/2023

Sneak peek - I had the honor of being asked to do the flowers for what has been the biggest event Villa Fiore Design has ever done. It just so happens to be for one of the most special families that we have been blessed to call our friends. We celebrated Maria and Jack and watched them begin their beautiful life together. Every ounce of my heart was poured into this and it was an incredibly beautiful day full of joy and love. I could not do this without my team and thank you for all of your hard work. Also, a HUGE shoutout of gratitude for and it was such a pleasure working with you both.

06/07/2023

06/07/2023

It is an absolute joy that I get to share these images! These two people are so very loved and their love for one another is so beautiful. Wishing them the most beautiful life together. It was an honor to be a part of this event and to work with the incredible people who made it happen. Cheers to Shannan and Jack ❤️ Ceremony: .828
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