After: Odette's Wedding

I'm back to post some photos from Odette's wedding - and there are lots!

Here is the bridal bouquet - Odette had a posy of white roses, champagne roses and 'julia' roses, with white and cream lisianthus, white freesias, white chincherinchee buds, some dodda vine throughout and a frame of magnolia leaves with both sides of the leaf used:

This is what the two bridesmaids had - a smaller version of the brides bouquet, but with a few extra 'julia' roses in it:

The groom's buttonhole - a white rose with some dodda vine on magnolia leaves:

And the Mum's wore a dress corsage of white roses, white chincherinchee buds with some dodda vine on magnolia leaves:

The reception was held at the Trojans Rugby Club at Terrigal Haven. It's a great venue!

For the bridal table we did a long trail of dodda vine with some rose heads intertwined in it:

The guest tables had some candles in a sand bed - which suits the beach theme perfectly. And on either side of that we had a trail of dodda vine with some rose heads:

And lastly - we just put some roses on and around the cake. How yummy does this croquembouche look!!! *Drool*

That is all there is to show you from Odette's wedding. The weather was absolutely amazing for their beach wedding yesterday and I hope the wedding was just as fantastic. Congratulations Odette and Steve!!

Before: Odette's wedding

I first met Odette about a year ago. She works at the Erina Scrapbook Store, and had organised a baby shower for a mutual friend that works with her. I didn't know anyone else at the baby shower besides my friend, and I had never even been to a baby shower before so I felt a bit nervous before it. But I shouldn't have worried because Odette and her team of girls from the Erina Scrapbook Store had organised a really fun afternoon and I had a great time. We crossed paths again earlier this year when Odette spoke to me about doing her wedding flowers. And then coincidently, we both had our first wedding expo at Diggers. I had my stall as The Kissing Tree and Odette and her sister Bec had their stall as Erina Scrapbook Store. I had a good stickybeak at their stall, and the invitations they had were gorgeous! If you need some inspiration for your wedding invitations, I can recommend Erina Scrapbook Store. All of the girls there are so friendly and are full of advice and ideas that will help you out. They can make all of your invitations for you, or if you would prefer to DIY, they have many supplies in store to choose from. Anyway, I don't have any pictures of the flowers I am working with this week. But here is a photo of the bouquet that we are using as our inspiration: All of the bouquets are going to look similar to this (but we are using different coloured roses). And I have to set up some flowers at their reception venue so I will have some photos from there to share.

After: Kym and Andy's wedding

I am back to post photos from the wedding I had on the weekend. I really enjoyed meeting Kym and Andy and I think they are the cutest couple! I really hope the rain held off long enough to have the garden wedding that they wanted. Here are some photos of the flowers...... Kym's bridal bouquet was a small posy of white roses, white lisianthus and white singapore orchids: The bridesmaids had really small posies of white roses and white singapore orchids: The boys had buttonholes of white roses, and the girls had individually wired singapore orchids in their hair. Kym had a small hair comb of the singapore orchids: And then we also had a small simple spray of singapore orchids on the cake:

Before: Kym and Andy's wedding

This weekend is Kym and Andy's wedding. I met this sweet couple about 6 months ago when I had only just started 'The Kissing Tree'. They came to my very empty studio (it didn't even have a couch!), to discuss their requirements and I was so excited when they decided to go ahead and book me. They were my first 'official' clients and I have been eagerly awaiting their wedding day.

So here are the flowers we are working with:

Starting at the back we have some white singapore orchids, then some white roses, a couple of bunches of white lisianthus and some camellia leaves.

Kym wantes really small, simple posy bouquets. She will have some roses, lisianthus and orchids in her bouquet, and her 3 bridesmaids will carry posies of roses and orchids. I am also making an orchid hair comb, some loose orchid hair flowers, some rose buttonholes and an orchid spray for the top of their cake.

I'll be back with some pictures in a couple of days. Have a great long weekend everyone!

After: Bernie's wedding

Well I am back to show you how Bernie's wedding flowers turned out. It was such a beautiful wedding. I was lucky enough to get to stay for the ceremony and I have never been as emotional and had as much fun as I did at Bernie's wedding. It was a very personal service and there was so much love. My favourite part was when Father George got Bernie to play her piano (she plays the piano for the church band), and she sang the song "Everything' to her new adoring husband. Congratulations Bernie and Jamie! Thank you so much for letting me share your beautiful wedding day. I hope you both have a very happy, healthy and long life together.

So I suppose you want to see some flowers!

Here is Bernie's wedding bouquet: consisting of ivory roses, white lisianthus and a touch of purple lisianthus

And the bridesmaids: consisting of ivory roses, mauve roses, white lisianthus and purple lisianthus

The flower girls held cute little wands: consisting of ivory spray roses and purple lisianthus

And finally the buttonholes and corsages: consisting of ivory roses and purple lisianthus

Before: Bernie's wedding

I am looking so forward to this weekend! My dear friend Bernie is getting married!

Bernie and I met in primary school and continued on to high school together. We lost touch after school for many years but managed to bump in to each other again on the ever famous 'facebook' (as many people do). I was really excited when I met up with Bernie to discuss her wedding flowers. There was soooooooo many years of catching up to do and I found that she is still just as gorgeous as she ever was.

Bernie is having bouquets featuring roses and lisianthus. Lisianthus is a flower available most times of the year, but wouldn't you know it? All of a sudden the lisianthus have become extremely rare at market! It has been an extremely anxious week for me just praying that I could get them and when I turned up to market this morning, my supplier came up with the goods! I'm extremely happy!

So these are the flowers that I am working with:

From the top left: pink tiger lilies (for some special gift bouquets that Bernie would like to hand out at the reception), camellia leaves, vibernum leaves, ivory roses and white lisianthus for the bride, and 4 other buckets of ivory roses, white lisianthus, and mauve roses for the bridesmaids, and a seperate vase of purple lisianthus to be used throughout all of the bouquets.

I'll be back after the weekend with some pictures of how Bernie's flowers turned out. I hope she loves them!

I Do Cupcakes (& more)

I Do Cupcakes has just relocated to the Central Coast.

My sister Gerri is the owner of I Do Cupcakes and has been servicing many weddings in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley market with her delicious cakes. Now she has opened her very own cafe/bakery in Gosford so we can finally have access to all of the yumminess!

Her cafe/bakery is called I Do Cupcakes & more and is located in William Street, Gosford. It's right across the road from the new look Kibble park. She makes cupcakes, pastries, tarts, cakes, croissants, scones, pies and sausage rolls, quiches, sandwiches, and a variety of hot food. And on top of all of that, she still does wedding cakes and other events. Go and check it out.

Here is a quick tour:

How cute is Gerri, all happy making her cupcakes?!

Here is a small selection of her famous cupcakes (there are more than 20 flavours available): chocolate jaffa mud cake, white chocolate mud cake and chocolate peppermint mud cake

MMmmmmmmmm - custard tarts:

Strawberry tarts and fruit tarts:

and some profiteroles:

Oh - I just made myself very hungry!

After: Janine's wedding

What a gorgeous weekend we just had! The sun was beaming, there was a light wind, it wasn't too hot but wasn't cold at all - GORGEOUS! And absolutely perfect for a wedding.

On Saturday I had to deliver Janine's wedding flowers. Here are a few photos of what she had.

Brides Bouquet - a wired teardrop bouquet of white and yellow tulips with camellia leaves

Bridesmaids Bouquets - small natural stem posy bouquets of yellow tulips with a frame of camellia leaves

The groom had a buttonhole with a yellow tulip and a couple of white singapore orchids on camellia leaves, whilst his two groomsmen had a plain yellow tulip on camellia leaves. His mother had a dress corsage of white singapore ochids

Janine also had a buttonhole for her Dad with a single yellow tulip on camellia leaves, and her Mum had a white singapore orchid dress corsage. Janine also had some white singapore orchids wired individually to place in her hair
And lastly, the bridesmaids had some yellow vanda orchids individually wired to place in their hair, and the flower girls wore a halo of yellow vanda orchids and had some yellow petals to throw around
It would have been such a gorgeous wedding! I hope you had a wonderful day Janine!

Before: Janine's wedding

It's another fun wedding weekend! Janine is getting married on Saturday and I will be busy making all of the arrangements tomorrow. The bridal bouquet will be a teardrop shape of white and yellow tulips, and her two bridesmaids will have small posies of yellow tulips. There will also be two little flower girls who will carry baskets of yellow rose petals and have a halo of yellow vanda orchids in their hair. They're going to look so cute! And lastly we will have the buttonholes, corsages, and a few single orchids to be used as hair flowers. So this is what I am starting with: (someone seriously has to teach me how to take a clear photo)! So from the bottom left we have some camellia, above it are some white singapore orchids, then we have some white and yellow tulips (some of them are still a bit green so I will leave them out overnight to get the morning sun and some warm air and they will colour up. The other ones that are ready to use will find a home in the fridge until I need them). Lastly, at the bottom of the photo are the yellow vanda orchids that we will use for hair flowers and halo's. I'll come back next week and show you how everything looked.

Flower Of The Month

It is the first day of Spring and I absolutely adore this time of year. The sun shines again, the days are longer, there is a sweet scent in the air, and there are so many gorgeous varieties of flowers that come into season. One such flower is the sweet pea.

Not just sweet by name, they also have the sweetest perfume ever. They look pretty, delicate and dainty which gives a light fluffy texture when used in bouquets.

Flower: Sweet Pea

Botanical Name: Lathyrus

Origin: Sicily

Season: late Winter and Spring

Colour/s: white, cream, pink shades, mauve shades, purple and maroon

Meaning: delicate or blissful pleasure