After: Nina's wedding (part 2)

It's my final post of 2009!

Let me start by saying that I hope you all had a lovely Christmas! And best wishes for an amazing 2010!

To finish off the year at The Kissing Tree, I am going to post some photos from the last wedding I did. They are photos from Nina's wedding a couple of weeks ago. Nina used the same fantastic photographer that I had for my wedding so I was able to get a few professional photographs from their day.

Here are some flower photos from Nina's wedding. The wedding was held at Leaves and Fishes in the beautiful Hunter Valley and the photos were taken by the talented team at Delisser Photography:

Thank you Julie from Delisser Photography for sending me the images, and special thanks to Nina for letting me post them so that everyone could see how beautiful your wedding was! The colour of the flowers looked so great against the dresses. You chose well!

Thank you to all of my brides in 2009! I have felt so lucky to take part in such a special day of your lives, and have been so impressed with all of the great people that I have met. My brides are honestly the best and most lovely brides I could ever ask for!

Talk to you all next year! Bring on 2010!

After: Nina's wedding

Well this is the last wedding of the year! I have a break of about a month so I will start the 'before' and 'after' wedding stories when my weddings commence again next year.

Nina was married on Saturday in the Hunter Valley and it was a perfect day. Here are how her wedding flowers looked.

Bride bouquet: small posy of ivory roses, white freesias and berzellia

Bridesmaids bouquet: small posy of ivory roses, pink roses, pink freesias and berzellia

Here is how the flowers are packed before they are delivered. There is a brides bouquet, 2 bridesmaids bouquets and a small bridal toss bouquet:

The bridal toss bouquet is a mini posy of the bride bouquet. I usually call it a throwaway and include it complimentry in each order. This is what it looked like:

Now for the buttonholes. There are no corsages to show this week as the Mum's didn't want to have one.

Groom buttonhole: an ivory rose, white freesia and berzellia on camellia leaves

Best Man buttonhole: an ivory rose, pink freesia and berzellia on camellia leaves

Dad's Buttonholes: a single ivory rose with berzellia on a camellia leaf

That is all of the flowers for this week. Hope you liked them!

And to Nina - congratulations!!! I hope you had the most perfect wedding and I look forward to hearing all about how special it was.

After: Natalie's wedding

On Saturday I had the absolute honour of attending Natalie's wedding. She is such a beautiful girl and I knew she would make a stunning bride - but even I was gobsmacked when I saw how gorgeous she looked!

Here are the flowers that I made for Nat.

Bride Bouquet: posy of white peonies, ivory david austin roses, white roses, ivory roses and white lisianthus

Bridesmaids Bouquet: white peonies, ivory david austin roses, white roses, ivory roses, red roses and white lisianthus

I've just realised that I didn't take photos of the bridal party buttonholes or the Mum's corsages. The groom and groomsmen had rose buttonholes, and the Mum's had singapore orchid dress corsages so you have seen both of those before, but it probably still would have been nice if I had taken a photo of them to add here.

I did get a photo of the Dad's buttonhole which included a white rose and white lisianthus flower. And we also had some extra corsages of white spray roses for a couple of extra special guests.

Nat was so excited to see her flowers and her, her maid of honour and her Mum all greeted me at my car when I arrived. I was so happy that Nat loved her flowers. She didn't just love them, she LLLLUUURRVVEEDD them!! And so many people commented on how beautiful they were. It was a very rewarding day.

To my gorgeous Nat - I was always looking forward to your wedding and was completely stoked when I was asked to attend. Thanks for having me, it was a great night with lots of great people. I hope it was everything that you ever dreamed for it to be, and that you and Jeff live happily ever after xxx

After: Sarah's wedding

So here are Sarah's wedding flowers. We ended up going for something more structured with only a few flowers and lots of foliage.

Brides bouquet: pink oriental lilies and buds, rolled happy leaves, anthurium leaves and camellia leaves

The other bouquet was for Sarah's junior bridesmaid and she had a small version of the brides bouquet. Because the bride only had three lily flowers, we used only one for this bouquet (notice how florists mostly work with odd numbers?), with some rolled happy leaves and some camellia leaves:

It was great delivering Sarah's flowers because she loved them. And she even said that the image of the bouquet she had in her head that she had tried to explain to me - was exactly what I delivered. Yay!!!!!! Congratulations Sarah, I hope you had a beautiful wedding!!

After: Tamara's wedding

I have a few pictures to show you from Tamara's wedding so I will get straight into it.

Tamara really wanted roses for all of her flowers and only wanted small posies so that she didn't look and feel overwhelmed by their size.

Bride bouquet: posy of champagne roses and frame of camellia leaves

Bridesmaid bouquets: small posy of 'Cezanne' roses with a frame of camellia leaves (sorry the picture is a bit blurry)

The flowergirl had some petals for her little flower girl basket:

The groom and the parents had a buttonhole of a champagne rose on camellia leaf:

The ceremony was held at the 'Our Lady Star of the Sea' which is a Catholic church in Terrigal. We made a few arrangements for the church.

Here is an arrangement for 'Our Lady' using champagne roses and foliage:

We also made 4 tall arrangements to sit behind the altar using champagne roses and foliage. The arrangements were made in an upright, all round style so that they could be taken and displayed at the reception too:

There was also another arrangement we made for the front of the altar using champagne roses and foliage:

And a view of the front of the church showing the five main arrangements:

I was invited by Tamara's Mum to stay for the wedding ceremony. It was so lovely of her and such a shame that I couldn't because I still had another wedding to deliver. I am sure it was a beautiful wedding and I can't wait to talk to Tamara's Mum again to see how it all went.

After: Vanessa's wedding

I never got a chance to meet Vanessa until her wedding day. She held her wedding at The Treetops resort at Avoca Beach, but she had to organise it from where she currently lives, which is all the way in Bourke. We managed to work out the flowers that Vanessa wanted through sending pictures on the email.

Here are Vanessa's flowers.

Bride bouquet: white oriental lilies, white singapore orchids and light pink roses with a frame of camellia leaves

Bridesmaids bouquets: the bridemaids had a smaller version of the bride - white oriental lilies, white sinagpore orchids, and light pink roses with a frame of camellia leaves

The boys had buttonholes of white singapore orchids on camellia leaves and the Mum's had corsages of white singapore orchids on camellia leaves.

I hope you had a wonderful wedding Vanessa!

After: Joanne's wedding

Just reporting back from our 2 weekend weddings.

I'll start with Joanne.

Joanne was a gorgeous bride. She chose the simple but absolutely elegant phalaenopsis orchid to have as her wedding flowers. For anyone thinking of these flowers, they are extremely expensive (at the flower market we are charged by the flower instead of by the bunch), and they are very fiddly to work with. But it is all worth it because they look gorgeous!

Here are Joanne's flowers. She wanted a really small posy that she could hold as she walked down the aisle, and then wanted to swap to a wrist corsage for the reception.

Bride bouquet: white phalaenopsis orchid with camellia leaves

Bride and bridesmaid wrist corsages: white phalaenopsis orchid on white pearl wristlet

The 3 year old flower girl just needed a flower to hold:

The groom, groomsmen, Dad's and Mum's wore a single white phalaenopsis orchid on camellia leaves:

The couple held their reception at one of my favourite venues - The Reef Terrigal.

We decorated the reception tables by scattering white and hot pink singapore orchid heads down the centre of each table:

And the cake had a few white phalaenopsis orchids and a few little white singapore orchids:
(cake by The Sweetest Things)

That is all from Joanne's wedding. Congratulations Joanne! I hope you enjoyed your special day.

Come back soon to see a couple of photos from the other wedding we had on the weekend.

After: Isabel's wedding

Here is the second wedding order that I had on Saturday. I had never met Isabel before so it was great to see her reaction when I delivered the flowers. She loved them! Here are the flowers from Isabel's wedding. Bride bouquet: teardrop bouquet including cream roses, lemon roses, peach roses, orange roses, yellow spray roses, lemon mini gerberas, orange calla lilies and cream lisianthus.

Bridesmaid bouquets: they held small sprays of orange calla lilies and lemon mini gerberas

Here are all 5 bridesmaids bouquets together

Groom buttonhole: lemon rose and yellow spray roses on camellia leaves. The groomsmen had a single lemon rose on camellia and the dad's had a single peach rose on camellia (both not pictured)

I loved how the bridesmaid bouquets were so simple but very effective. For anyone on a tight flower budget, little sprays like that are a really good option and look so good.

Anyway it was such a beautiful day on Saturday, and I hope Isabel's wedding was amazing in every way!

After: Hanna's wedding

Well I had quite the busy weekend. My husband and I had to attend a wedding in the Hunter Valley on Saturday, and it was the first time we had been back there since our wedding last year. Awwwwwww........ there was alot of reminiscing going on. Conveniently, I also had one of my beautiful bride's getting married in the Hunter that day too, so on our way to the wedding we were attending, we had to make a slight detour to deliver Hanna's flowers. Hanna and Ryan were married at the beautiful Tatler's winery. Here are the flowers they had for their special day. Bride bouquet: posy of white peonies

Bridesmaids bouquets: smaller version of the bride, posy of white peonies

Buttonholes: white peony buds on camellia leaf

The parents had buttonholes and corsages also, but they used a different flower.
Dad's buttonholes: white lisianthus and bud on camellia leaf

Mum's corsages: one Mum had a dress corsage whilst the other had a wrist corsage (not pictured) of white lisianthus on camellia leaf
I loooovvvvee peonies! They are only available for a very short season starting in late October until early December. When they are closed they look like tight white balls, but they open into a massive fluffy flower. Hanna liked the look of the tighter flower, but I bet with the heat we had on Saturday that the flowers would have opened by the end of the day.
I hope you had a gorgeous wedding day Hanna. Congratulations to you and Ryan!

After: Jasmyn's wedding

Here are a couple of photos of Jasmyn's bouquets. As I said earlier, it was my first wedding using artificial flowers because the frangipani's that Jasmyn were after are not in season yet. She was so happy when she saw her bouquets and that always makes me feel so great! Brides Bouquet: posy of white frangipani's and tropical frangipani's: A side view with silver ribbon:

Bridesmaids Bouquet: the 4 bridesmaids held posies of white frangipani's.

My congratulations go out to the gorgeous newlyweds!