A Chatham Beach and Tennis Club Wedding, Designed in Sync

“Roxy, my flowers were beyond what I ever could have imagined. I went into wedding planning thinking “I’ll just do Trader Joe’s and assign florals to bridesmaids.” As I got further into it, I was like what am I talking about? I love all things nature, colorful, Mother Earth’s natural gifts. Finding you felt like a dream, but when you ever came into my parents’ house with my bouquet, I was completely blown away. The colors captured the joyful spirit I wanted to bring to the wedding, they complemented the venue, the bridesmaid dresses so so well. And the shapes and textures were simply stunning. You have an incredible gift and talent and I am so lucky you were my florist. I wish I could have spent more time with you yesterday. I appreciate you immensely and cannot thank you enough.” -Kelley

Some weddings are built around big moments. Others are built around dozens of small, meaningful decisions that make the day feel effortless once you’re living inside it.

Kelley and Brian’s wedding at Chatham Beach and Tennis Club fell squarely into the second category— a late-summer day on the Cape where color, timing, and trust were doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes.

It was also my first time working alongside Katydyd Events, and it became one of those weddings that illustrates what happens when a Boston wedding coordinator and florist are moving in tandem— not just sharing a wedding timeline, but designing with it. 

When flowers aren’t haphazardly placed into a day, but carried through it by humans that know your vision like the back of their hands, they shape the unfolding of the wedding from start to finish.

Photographer: K & A Photography

1. The Wedding Planning Starts Earlier Than You Think

When a Boston wedding coordinator or planner is involved, the floral process only gets clearer.

For Kelley and Brian’s wedding, we followed my usual flow: an initial consultation, a detailed proposal, and a Petal & Plan call to shape the vision in full. But because this was a partial planning situation, we added one additional call to make sure everything aligned both structurally and aesthetically early on.

As the wedding neared, communication gently shifted away from the couple and toward the planner. Timelines, setup windows, transitions… all handled calmly, collectively, and while the couples was none the wiser. Kelley was wonderfully thoughtful and deeply involved by choice, but she didn’t need to hold every moving piece by herself. 

That shared structure — florist and coordinator aligned — creates space. And space changes everything, particularly how immersed you can be in your own wedding day.

2. Color Is a Conversation (Not a Single Decision) Between Your Boston Wedding Coordinator and Me

One thing Kelley was sound on from the very start was her bridesmaids’ dresses— a soft mauve that sat somewhere between romantic and modern, powdery and grounded.

The question wasn’t whether to bring color into the florals (the answer is always ‘yes,’ if you’re asking me), but just how fully to let it speak— how it would live alongside the coordinator’s broader vision for the room, the tables, the pacing of the evening.

We leaned in without abandon, building a palette that warmed everything up with golden undertones and late-summer saturation that would do the dresses justice.

This wedding was at the tail end of summer, which meant we had access to all of the good stuff: lush dahlias, the last of the cosmos, zinnias, marigolds, and those spectacular Miyabi garden roses— wildly petaled, brown-centered, and impossibly soft. 

Clematis threaded its way through nearly everything, winding through wedding floral baskets, bouquets, and bud vases like a sentence you keep returning to, again and again. 

3. Ceremony Flowers That Don’t Stay Still

For the ceremony, Kelley envisioned wedding floral baskets, perfectly suited to the open light and salt air of Chatham Beach and Tennis Club.

But these baskets weren’t designed to stay put once they were set down.

From the beginning, they were created in conversation with the coordinator, built to move throughout the day as a repurposed installation. After the ceremony, they were carried into the reception and placed at the corners of the head table, creating a continuation in the floral story long after vows had been exchanged.

This kind of repurposing only works when your Boston wedding coordinator and florist are thinking about the flow together: what needs to land where, when transitions happen, and how nothing— absolutely nothing— is allowed to feel like an afterthought.

4. A Reception That Understands Balance (and the Wedding Coordinator’s Visual Narrative)

The reception layout was layered and intentional: a U-shaped head table at the center, surrounded by a constellation of rounds for the guests. Needless to say, this was a configuration that required coordination in order to feel effortless in the outcome.

The florals stayed light and lifted: bud vases that brought gentle height, LED candles in tall ribbed vessels that added dynamism, and a handful of greenery-forward mini compotes placed where the room needed more grounding. 

Enough presence to feel designed, enough air to keep the room open, and exactly as the Boston wedding coordinator intended this Chatham wedding to play out.

This is collaboration at its most functional — a shared read of the space and a floral vision that fills it.

5. Personal Flowers That Speak the Same Language

The personal florals followed suit as textural, colorful, and intentional pieces worn on wrists and jacket lapels.

Bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages, and floral headpieces for the flower girls were all built from the same seasonal ingredients, designed to align seamlessly with the coordinator’s broader visual narrative. Clematis appeared again and again, quietly tying moments together across portraits, ceremony, and reception.

Every piece belonged to the same floral story.

6. The Week-Of Shift That Softens the Day

As the wedding week arrived, communication settled fully into place— guided by the coordinator, shared clearly and without urgency.

Timelines aligned. Setup unfolded smoothly. Questions were answered before they needed to be asked.  When florist and planner are moving together in sync, the work becomes effortless. The energy steadies. The couple gets to stay present inside their own wedding while the magic unfolds.

Why Opt for a Boston Wedding Coordinator and Florist Duo?

What lingers from this wedding for me isn’t a single arrangement or color combination. It’s the feeling of continuity.

Flowers that moved from ceremony to reception without losing their meaning. Color that felt joyful and measured. A room paced carefully by a coordinator and filled thoughtfully by florals.

At the end of the day, the flowers know what they’re grown for. They mark time. They guide the eye. They soften transitions and hold space.

When florist and coordinator are truly in sync, the flowers stop being mere decoration and become part of the structure of the day— guiding it forward, noting transitions, and carrying it gently from beginning to end.