Pampas Grass & Pink Pumpkins.

This year our fall centerpiece contains a mix of pink and white pumpkins, pink carnations, baby's breath, and pampas grass. We love the fullness that pampas grass provides. We started off by laying down the pampas grass for our base. Then we started layering the baby's breath at random intervals among the pampas grass. 

We took the mini pumpkins that we had painted pink and the white pumpkins and placed them in the center of our arrangement. Painting orange pumpkins pink was a simple procedure of applying just a couple coats. We kept the white pumpkins their original color and I love their natural stem adding color to the centerpiece. 

Pink carnations finished off the look of our centerpiece, which we tucked into the arrangement in random places. The flowers were the perfect filler for any holes to help make the arrangement fuller.

Pampas Grass Trend.

Here in South Carolina, we are surrounded by pampas grass. It's commonly used in landscaping for homes and businesses around our area. Mandy Moore seemed to have kicked off the pampas grass trend when she used it to decorate for her dreamy wedding. And we're finally finding ways to embrace it in our events as well. Some of the wonderful things about pampas grass are that it provides so much fullness which can be used in arches at the end of an aisle, used to line the aisle that the bride walks down to meet her groom, and used to add fullness to any table centerpiece. The stalks are so long as well, which makes it easy to cut them down to the size that you need them for.