Jan 23, 2019 | Event and Wedding Styling, Wedding Floral Design Ideas
One Precious Pearl Floral Design was joined by a group of excellent Minnesota Wedding Vendors in December to do a styled shoot at Belle’s Event Center. Belle’s is a new venue, and we were thrilled to be the first to design for them. The theme chosen...
Jan 15, 2019 | Event and Wedding Styling, Our Couples, Weddings
Sarah and Ben’s love story began five years ago when they were in college. One week after meeting each other in their junior year, they started dating and never looked back. Romantic Engagement When Ben made the decision to ask Sarah to marry him, he did it right! A...
Jan 14, 2019 | Event and Wedding Styling, General, Wedding Planning
You are newly engaged and have an entire wedding to plan! First off, congratulations! This is going to be an exciting period in your relationship, but I am sure you have many questions. I’d like to help you answer one of them of them: How do we choose a floral...
Jan 1, 2019 | Event and Wedding Styling, General, Wedding Floral Design Ideas
Every year Pantone Color Institute announces a “Color of the Year” based on current and upcoming trends. Their choice influences design in all areas, including wedding design. For 2019, the Pantone color experts have chosen Living Coral. Per their website, “Living...
Nov 4, 2018 | Event and Wedding Styling, General, Our Couples, Wedding Floral Design Ideas
Christina and Ethan’s classic elegant wedding was held at the Gale Mansion in Minneapolis. Christina had requested burgundy and mauve flowers, which we incorporated into the bouquets and arrangements. The venue, having been built in 1912 in the Italian...
Nov 4, 2018 | Event and Wedding Styling, General, Our Couples, Wedding Floral Design Ideas, Wedding Planning, Weddings
Christine and Dave’s wedding started early on a snowy, cloudy November day. With an 11:00 ceremony, there was concern about their guests’ traveling to the Church of St Peter in Mendota Heights. However, God did not disappoint, and the skies cleared...
In September of 2019 I was the owner and lead designer of a successful wedding floral design and styling business in Minnesota, and quite content with things as they were. As life would have it, however, my husband's job moved us 350 miles away. Leaving children, grandchildren, our home and my business behind, we made the move and settled in by early February 2020, just as #Covid19 started trending everywhere.
As a way to manage the upheaval of the move and the isolation of the pandemic, I turned my creativity to painting, crafting and photography. Always an entrepreneur and not yet ready to retire, I decided to start another business, One Precious Pearl...the Next Chapter.
Combining mixed media art with bookbinding, I now design and sell journals of various types. They range from vintage, modern vintage or mid century, junk, art, writing, faith or commonplace journals. I also welcome and thoroughly enjoy commissioned pieces!