Two In A Row

I don't normally do Sunday weddings. My husband works Monday to Friday and then weddings usually take up all my time from Thursday through to Saturday, so Sunday is a bit of an off day for the whole family. Every now and then though I do a Sunday wedding for many reasons. Friends, friends of friends, friends and family of previous couples or I have a quiet Saturday. This Sunday's wedding was only booked in 3 weeks ago - I knew that I didn't have a big Saturday wedding and knowing that I will also be on holidays next week I simply couldn't say no. It can be really hard to find a good wedding florist with such little notice and when a Bride is in this position I really like to do everything that I can to help.

The ceremony was being held in New Farm Park so it was a bit of a casual affiar and the bouquets reflected that beautifully. They were simple clutch bouquets, which is a bit of a change from doing tight round posies. The Bride and maids all carried the same style the only difference being that the maids were smaller.

Amazingly, the flowers were very similar to yesterday's wedding. I can sometimes go months without using unusual wedding flowers and then I do two in a row using green Singapore orchids and berries.

These bouquets featured full stems of white hyacinths, Bianca white roses, green roses, green Singapore orchids, green berries and large lush green tropical leaves.

The Mothers were given very modern styled corsages featuring green Singapore orchids, white hyacinths, a sprig of ribbon, magnolia and ivy.

And what a perfect day it is for a garden wedding, the sun is shining, it is warm but not too hot, there is no wind - it is absolutely perfect out today.

The Bride's Bouquet



The Mum's Corsages




Well with school holidays starting at the end of the week, I have next weekend off so I am going away for a mini holiday next Saturday with the kiddies and then I will be back to do two weddings the weekend after.

Lotus Pods

I just loved today's wedding. Lotus pods, berries, orchids, vine, a few roses for good measure and deep lush brown magnolia leaves. I absolutely adore working with such an exotic mixture of flowers and foliage. Today's Bride carried a stunning tightly packed bouquet of Vandella (cream) roses, individually wired white Singapore orchids, lotus pods, green berries, with just a few folded magnolia leaves through the flowers and then around the skirt of the bouquet was doda vine and more folded magnolia leaves There was only one Bridesmaid and she carried a tightly packed bouquet of Vandella roses, green and white Singapore orchids, green berries, doda vine and magnolia leaves.

I had to deliver and set up the cake flowers to Northlakes Golf Club as I arrived the cake designer was just finishing up with setting up the cake on the cake table. The cake designer was Deb Casey and of course she wanted to wait and see the finished result - so it was with an audience that I went about arranging the fresh flowers onto the cake - white and green Singapore orchids, Vandella roses and green berries.

The Bride's Bouquet




The Bridesmaid's Bouquet


The Cake - the lighting in the room wasn't the best.

Hooray for Easter

Wow - is it really Easter already, well I guess that it is a very early Easter. I certainly have one very excited 6 year old who can't wait for the Easter Bunny - we have instructions to shut and lock all the doors that the Easter Bunny MUST hide everything outside for a big hunt Sunday morning. This Easter is the second Easter ever that I am not working. So apologies to all the Easter Bride's who wanted to book me for the weekend BUT I am going away for the weekend and am so looking forward to it.

As I am not working - I have no new weddings to show off in this - my first post so I thought I would show one I did a couple of Easters ago for an absolutely beautiful couple. Their reception was themed around Easter - all the tables were named after famous rabbits such as Peter, Jessica and the most famous the Easter Bunny. The tables had lovely glass fishbowls on them with miniture versions of the Bride's bouquet.
The bouquet was a stunning tightly packed posy of Antique roses, pale pink Bianca Candy roses and white lissies. The bridesmaids carried clutches of pale pink hyacinths. Absoultely beautiful.

Welcome to my Blog

Well this is it - I am finally catching up with the in IT crowd. I am blogging. I thought this might be a great way for everyone who is interested to easily be able to view samples of my current work each week. So Welcome.

I will try my best to post every week - the trials and tribulations of being a wedding florist in Brisbane and working from home with 2 kiddies.

I have been designing wedding flowers for 8 years - it is my passion. I love creating that perfect round ball of roses or getting the chance to create something totally exotic and wild.