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Champagne Roses Adorn Reception

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A Staff Report

The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 13, 2008

Updated: 12/13/2008 12:56 am

Ian Prosser of Tampa's Botanica International Design Studio used roses - white, cream and champagne - and ivory hydrangeas for the Crist-Rome wedding and reception.

The bride's bouquet was of white roses only; Crist's boutonniere was a white rose to match.

The attendants' flowers were white, cream and champagne roses; the bridegrooms' boutonnieres were champagne roses.

For the reception, Prosser created alternating table arrangements. Some were tall silver compotes containing domes of ivory hydrangeas with the three shades of roses. Other tables had low silver bowls with the same flowers, and tall silver candlesticks with ivory beeswax candles.

Invitations, menu cards and programs were from Not From a Box in St. Petersburg.

Invitations were printed in Bickham Script on cream-colored pearlescent card stock. Kirby Wilson, a Tampa calligrapher, addressed the wedding invitations.

The reception dinner menu:

•Appetizer: Butter-poached lobster with Florida white sturgeon caviar
•Salad: Caesar salad

•Entree: Citrus-braised short ribs and macadamia nut-crusted grouper, selection of seasonal vegetables

•Dessert: Dessert trio, wedding cake

Wedding party:

Parents of the bridegroom: Charles and Nancy Crist

Matron of honor: Michele Oumano Powell (sister of the bride)

Bridesmaids: Margaret Crist Wood, Elizabeth Crist Hyden, Catherine Crist Kennedy (all sisters of the groom)

Junior bridesmaids: Jessica and Skylar Rome (daughters of the bride)

Best man: Charles Crist (father of the groom)

Groomsmen: Emory Wood, Cary Hyden and Byron Kennedy (brothers-in-law of the groom) and Dean Powell (brother-in-law of the bride)

Ushers: Julian and Warren Wood, Charles Crist Kennedy (nephews of the groom)

Organist: Rick Nay

Pastor: The Rev. David R. Miller

Music:

(Seating of the parents): "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Johann Sebastian Bach
Wedding party procession: "Trumpet Tune in D Major" by Henry Purcell
Bride's procession: "Trumpet Voluntary" by Henry Purcell

Information from a media pool report was used.

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