Nicki and Suzanne are a true power couple in my book: journalist meets ecologist. One bride, an outdoorswoman and influential editor at the Chron, Hello Alice, Houstonia, and now Wirecutter. The other, a wetland specialist at the Houston Botanic Gardens, host of "the bog cast" (a series of delightful, informal educational sessions about local plants and critters on her Instagram), and also published author of a book about Bayou City wildlife called "Wild Houston." The couple wanted to incorporate as many native Texas wildflowers as possible in their floral design, a request that I fulfilled by hiring a flower friend to cut buckets of grasses and blooms from her family's prairie land, sourcing from Houston and Austin-area farmers, and foraging! The color palette was basically "all of them" without being too overtly rainbow-y, (think the prismatic reflections from a sun catcher) and the Gulf Coast fields and roadsides really rose to the occasion: our gay agenda.
