An Old Favourite

Today's wedding saw me creating one of my favourite designs - this style of bouquet I have done many, many times in so many different colour combinations. Today's was an absolute classic teardrop featuring ivory roses and white tulips. The 3 bridesmaids carried round posies of matching flowers. The ivory roses in this bouquet are called "Emmanuel", the order this week was for a rose called Vendella, but as can happen with roses they simply were not available, the Vendella rose is just one shade paler than Emmanuel and unless they are next to each other you probably couldn't tell the difference. And even then in different light rose colours can look so completely different which you will see if you look at the Emmanuel roses in the bouquets and then the same roses again in the cake pictures below. Needless to say I had a very, very happy bride when she saw her bouquet.





I also had to deliver the cake flowers direct to Sarah-Jane from Cake That early Saturday morning. I surprised Sarah-Jane with a bunch of flowers, Sarah-Jane is always recommending Brides to me and it is always nice to simply say thank-you with a bunch of flowers (and pretty easy when your a florist). Anyways, Sarah-Jane in turn gave me a box of the most incredible cupcakes, now I have always known that her cakes are to die for but let me simply say that the diet was well and truly out of the window for the day - well I had to try each different flavour....

These photos of the cake and flowers are courtesy of Cake That.





I had to deliver the bouquets into the Stamford Plaza and my two girls love coming along with me to the Stamford. The highlights of the Stamford are the views - right in front of the elevators are windows that look out over the river and Botanical Gardens - which is great when your on the 21st floor and the other favourite is to get out of the elevator one floor up from the lobby and walk down the grand staircase.

This is one of my Brides from a while back coming down the staircase my girls love to play on.




Next weekend I have the weekend off and then it is back to work with a couple of really big weeks.

Home From Holidays

I had two weddings this week.

I arrived home Thursday night after 6 days away with my two girls - which was a lovely break, but it was straight back to work as I had two weddings to prepare for the weekend. Of course, when my 6 yo realised that the only reason we had to leave the beach early was because I had wedding work to do she was very resentful - I even heard from the backseat of the car a tune along the lines of 'weddings, weddings, weddings it always weddings fault'. Well, little one thats life.....

Normally, only starting work on Friday morning (with 2 littlies underfoot) would mean that I would have to work all day and through the night, but luckily for me my Dad who is an absolute lifesaver was on my doorstep bright and early Thursday morning to accept delivery of the flowers and then he did all the hard prep work on the flowers - striping, cleaning and conditioning over 100 roses, wiring up countless numbers of leaves for the bouquets, buttonholes and corsages, he then came back on Friday to wire up over 100 individual Singapore orchids.
So it was an easy job for me to create the bouquets as all the hard work was done.

Saturday morning my first delivery was to a lovely Bride who was getting ready at Forest Lodge Apartments in Indooroopilly. Even though I have delivered hundreds of weddings I find it amazing that there are still hotels that I haven't been too before.

These wedding flowers were so stunning - they were simple designs featuring all white flowers - orchids and oriental lilies with the lushest of glossy green leaves (sun leaves). The Bride carried a modern styled teardrop and the three Bridesmaids carried round posy bouquets, the flowergirl carried a cute basket filled with individually wired Singapore orchids.

The Bride's Bouquet




The Bridesmaid's Bouquet



The Flowergirl's Basket



My second wedding was a classic rose wedding, the Bride carried a round strauss bouquet of roses in 4 colours - Emmanuel, Sweet Avalanche, Rosita Vandella and Mascarra. The two Bridesmaids carried smaller posies featuring massed Mascarra roses. After that I had to set up 2 arrangements in the Church - St Agathas in Clayfield. These were simple arrangements of tall glossy green gymea leaves, massed white gladdies and lush foliage at the base - ivy berry and mini monstera leaves. Simple but effective.

The Bride's Bouquet



The Bridesmaid's Bouquet



Packed and Ready to Go



My Flowergirl


The Church Flowers



When I arrived at the church to set up the flowers there was a Christening finishing up so I had to fill in a bit of time outside the church - this was easily filled getting my "helper" to pose for a few photos.