The cake flowers were a bit of a struggle to complete, because the cake had started to melt!! But I think it turned out good in the end. I loved the cotton ball streamers! (super great idea by the bride!) I really like how these flowers pulled together. She wanted something bright and eclectic, but somewhat vintage.
The second photo down is from another wedding job a week before. I used a really pretty garden rose, I thought they were really cool looking. They look like a a mix between a peony and a rose. Very pretty.

HERE COMES THE FLOWERS

Here comes the wedding season!! Here is a bridal bouquet I did the other day.
I have decided after making this bouquet that I have "had better" when it comes to working with certain flowers. These Lilly's were just being difficult! I guess at least this time I learned my lesson. That lesson being that I have to buy Lilly's at least 3 days ahead of time so that they can actually blossom! The last time I used them, they all blossomed the day after the wedding! Oops.

Chartreuse + Pinks

Wedding I did at the end of July. This bride wanted flowers with a vintage feel, and pops of chartreuse and pinks. She supplied the silver vases for the tables. The wax flower that I used this time was really pretty, it had a distinct pearl shimmer to it.

Purple + Orange

:: Ribbon for the bridal bouquet::

Wedding flowers that I am working on right now. I just thought I would post some pics while I am waiting for the lillies to open...probably should have got them a day earlier, because they are not opening very fast...!

Bridal Flowers

Wedding Flowers: Freesia, tulips, brezila, roses, poppy pods, lisanthium, and those feathery things....
The stems are wrapped in a wired bark for a little bit of a woodsy feel.

I love that this blog can serve as a file for keeping an online portfolio of my work. I seriously wish I knew how to make my blog cooler. You know like all the good design blogs that have a custom format, and bigger photos, with different formats...maybe someday I will figure it out.
Anyway, if anyone knows how to help me make my blog better...please let me know!!

WEDDING FLOWERS

I was really kind of stupid, again. That is because these are the only photos that I took of these flowers that I did for a wedding this last weekend, and these were taken with Matt's phone. ..so they are not the greatest!? I really liked how here bouquet turned out, if only I would have taken a good picture of it!! For her reception she wanted wrist corsages, and of course I don't have any pics of those, but they seemed to turned out pretty well. I was slightly nervous, because I have never attempted wrist corsages before. I used a lot of floral glue, that stuff was great!!

I used some Yarrow, roses, gerberas, lisathium, brazilia, and rice flower, all in muted pinks and creams.

Bridal Boquet

These were for a bridal boquet
I only used three different varieties
of flowers. You can't really see it, but I also strung

pearls onto copper wire.

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Flowers

This was a bridal boquet done in May. I used tulips,
columbian hydrangia, fiddle heads, and I can't remember the
name of the other flower or of the cool exotic leaves that
look hand painted!