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"Preston Bailey's Floral Designs\nThe celebrated event planner's latest book showcases the extraordinary floral arrangements that enliven his famously lavish parties\nPreston Bailey broke one of his cardinal rules (\"always use a dining tent!\") for an all-white wedding held at a magnificent home on the Indonesian island of Java, with more than a thousand guests in attendance. Bailey transformed the garden into an elegant open-air dining area, where the classically appointed tables featured both short and tall floral arrangements. The only hints of color came from the greenery and the amber glow of tea lights.\nFor a casually sophisticated wedding at an estate in Carmel, California, Bailey created what he calls an \"enchanted garden,\" illuminating the Spanish moss\u2013bedecked trees with glimmering lanterns. The ceremony was performed under an arbor embellished with a canopy of lilacs, wisteria, jasmine, and hydrangeas.\nThe centerpieces Bailey devised for a hotel wedding in New Jersey featured a brilliant multicolor arrangement of roses, cymbidium orchids, hydrangeas, and lisianthus set in containers decorated with clear glass beads.\nBailey often makes creative use of the ceiling to bring intimacy to a space. Inside a large Beaux Arts ballroom in Manhattan, he designed a gala charity dinner featuring a dense canopy of purple wisteria, lilacs, and crystals that cast a lavender glow.\nBailey attributes his passion for color, especially reddish hues, to his upbringing in Panama\u2014\"a horticulturalist's Garden of Eden,\" he notes. For a 1940s-style nightclub party, he crafted curvaceous oversize fabric vases in the shape of a woman's silhouette and filled them with bold arrangements of amaryllis, roses, hypericums, and orchids.\n\"This bride wanted a crystal- and flower-filled wedding marked by bold statements and captivating surprises,\" Bailey writes of the over-the-top wedding he planned for a client who likes to throw unforgettable parties almost as much as he does. Bailey conceived a dazzling winter wonderland where the center aisle was flanked by sculpted, jewel-encrusted trees with cascading strands of crystals that created a willowy canopy overhead.\nBailey brought a tropical sensibility to New York City's Central Park Zoo for its avian-themed Spring Gala benefit, staged in a tent with retractable sides. Fuchsia tables were decorated with vibrant floral centerpieces that, in keeping with the event's theme, included faux macaws.\nEvent planner Marcy Blum worked with Bailey on a New York City wedding reception in a former bank, where they suspended red fabric from the high ceiling to envelope the space in a romantic atmosphere. The dining tables featured elaborate floral sculptures, each consisting of an explosion of blooms held in a flower-covered vase that rested on a flower-covered pedestal."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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