Before: Hanna's wedding

I met a lovely couple, Hanna and Ryan a few months ago. They were planning a Hunter Valley wedding (where I was married last year), so of course I got all excited at the prospect of working with them. And then it got even better when Hanna chose the same flowers for her bouquets that I had in mine! Here are the flowers we are using for their wedding (sorry for the dodgy iphone pic):
From the top of the photo there are white peonies in different stages of bloom. These will be used for the bridal party posies and buttonholes. And at the bottom of the photo are some white lisianthus which will be used for the parent buttonholes and corsages.
I'll post some photos of the finished product soon.

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!

After: Margaret's wedding

Here are some pictures I took of Margaret's wedding flowers before I had to run off and deliver them. The bride had a wired cascading bouquet of white oriental lilies and white singapore orchids:

This is such a dodgy picture of the next bouquet! I didn't realise that I was holding the bouquet on an angle so it looks kind of lopsided. I promise that I am a much better florist than photographer! LOL!!

Anyway, it is a wired cascade bouquet for the bridesmaid of red tiger lilies, red vanda orchids and red roses:

Now for the buttonholes. The groom had a white singapore orchid on camellia leaf and his groomsman had a red vanda orchid on camellia leaf:

The church that Margaret and Neil were being married in was a cute little church at Mangrove Mountain. The 2 arrangements I made for it included red roses, white singapore orchids, white oriental lilies and some foliage (both arrangements were the same to be placed on either side of the church):

So that is all I have to show you from Margaret and Neil's wedding. I hope they had a great day!

Before: Jasmyn's wedding

The other wedding I had on the weekend was for Jasmyn. We originally organised all of Jasmyn's flower details while talking on the email. Jasmyn fell in love with frangipani's which unfortunately are not in season right now. So after briefly meeting her and showing her an example of an artificial frangipani and the colours available, she decided to go ahead with them instead. This was my very first artificial wedding! And it turned out great. This is what the artificial frangipani flowers look like when they first get unpacked from the box. The 2 colours used were tropical and white:
And once I wired them and opened them all up, they looked like this:

I must admit that I have never been a big fan of artificial flowers. But when I saw the frangipani's, I thought they looked fantastic. What do you think? Would you have known that they were artificial if I hadn't of said anything?
I'll be back later to post some pictures of what they ended up like.

Before: Margaret wedding

I had two weddings on the weekend and fell a little bit behind with my blog posts. So hopefully it is OK if I catch up on it now.

The first wedding was for Margaret and Neil. This couple came to meet me a few months ago and they were soooooo lovely. Margaret had fallen in love with one of the bouquets on my website so she knew what she wanted for her bouquet before she even came through the door. We just had to work out the bridesmaid bouquet, buttonholes and a couple of arrangements for the gorgeous little church that they were getting married at.
Anyway, here are the flowers we are using this week:

We have white singapore orchids, red vanda orchids, red roses, camellia leaves, white oriental lilies and red tiger lilies.
Check back later and see what I got to turn them in to.

After: Nina-Jay's wedding

Oh my gosh I have a photo overload! But you all like looking at pictures don't you?

I said in my previous post that I wouldn't get the opportunity to meet this wonderful couple, but I actually did get to meet the groom on the morning of the wedding. He is great - and so is his family, I just love them!

Nina-Jay was an absolutely gorgeous bride, and from what she has told me, it was a perfect day for everyone! Congratulations to the newlyweds. You really deserved a wonderful wedding and I am so happy that you have such great memories to look back on.

Anyway, here are some of the photos that I took of my arrangements on the day. Lisa from Lisa Lent photography was the photographer for the wedding and you can visit her site to see some of her stunning photos from this beautiful wedding: http://www.lisalent.com.au/

The bride had the same style of bouquet that I made last week, a small elegant posy of white calla lilies:

The buttonhole for the groom and the Father's was of a single white calla lily on camellia leaf:

Dress corsages for the Mum's were of champagne singapore orchids on camellia leaf:

The ceremony was held at the house of the grooms parents. It was a beautiful property with stunning ocean views over Terrigal. Ruth (the Mother of teh groom) asked me to make up some arrangements to decorate the house.

This one was to sit on a table at the front entry of the house. Ruth wanted something bright so we decided on pink oriental lilies, white singapore orchids, hot pink roses and blue cornflower with some foliage and palm:

This arrangement was made to sit on the long dining table. It has the same flowers in it as the previous arrangement:

This is the arrangement we made to sit on the signing table. It is slightly different to the others as it was going outside in the garden where the ceremony was being held, and we wanted it to include the same flowers / colours that were being used to decorate the reception. It has pink oriental lilies, white singapore orchids, and white roses with foliage and palm:

These are the entry and dining table arrangements set up in the house:

Now on to the reception. This was held at 'The Letterbox Restaurant' in Terrigal. The staff there were extremely nice and genuinely excited to hold Nina-Jay and Russell's wedding there.

Here is the flower spray I did for the wedding cake. It is of pink oriental lilies and white singapore orchids:

And all of the tables had an arrangement on it of pink oriental lilies, white singapore orchids, white roses with foliage, and a candle in the middle:

And here is the reception all set up:

I'm all done. Told you there would be alot of photos! :-)

Before: Nina-Jay's wedding

Nina-Jay and Russell are getting married this weekend, and even though I am doing their wedding flowers, I will never get to actually meet them! This couple is from QLD and unfortunately due to an illness in the family, they have had to change all of the wedding plans they had organised for next year, and quickly put together a wedding to be held on the Central Coast. Luckily they had the mother of the groom Ruth who stepped in to help organise a few things, and one of them were the flowers! Ruth is someone that I just 'clicked' with straight away and I enjoyed working out all of the flower details with her. Nina-Jay was able to send me a photo of what she wanted for her bouquet and Ruth took care of the rest so it all ended up being a simple process. This is what we are working with this week: We have some roses, singapore orchids, calla lilies, lots of vibernum and heaps of pink oriental lilies. The calla lilies are going to be used for the bridal bouquet and buttonholes, whilst all of the other flowers are for the ceremony and reception arrangements. I'll be back to show you how it all turned out.

After: Mira's wedding (part 2)

I managed to get some photos of Mira's wedding bouquets! Yay!

My favourite wedding photographer, Julie from Delisser photography, sent me a few images of Mira's flowers last night. Thanks Julie, they look great!

Here we go.......

Mira's bouquet of calla lilies:

The bridesmaids only carried 3 stems of calla lilies but it looked so elegant:

More of Mira's flowers:

I love how Mira's mantilla veil falls around this one:

And a couple more from the reception.

Vases of the calla lilies were at the entrance of the restaurant:

Just looking at this picture of the white freesias is making me relive the smell. Their fragrance is gorgeous:

The tables:

After: Mira's wedding

I am going to have to disappoint you this week - because I didn't get photos of Mira's bouquets!

The ceremony started at 11am on Friday morning so I spent the morning setting up the reception venue, and delivering the bridal party bouquets. In the rush of trying to get myself ready in time to attend the wedding, I didn't take any photos! Ooopps.

This is the only picture I have of the calla lily bridal bouquet - it isn't finished so I can't believe I am going to show you! You will notice that the stems still have to be cut and the ribbon needs to be tied to the bouquet:

The ceremony was held at The Star of the Sea, Terrigal. Here are the calla lily pew ends that I placed on the very front pews. We just had to tie them on neatly because I was strictly instructed by the bride that there were to be no bows:

And then we continued on to the reception which was held at The Reef restaurant in Terrigal. It was just gorgeous, take a look at the view:

I have a few brides that are having their reception at The Reef and I can confidently recommend this venue. The service was great and the food was fantastic. We even got to choose our main meal - from the chicken, beef, fish or vegetarian (I chose the beef and it was soooooo good).

For the reception flowers, Mira wanted a 'just picked out of the garden', no fuss look. So we had 3 vases - one smaller vase of white sweet peas, a taller one in the middle of white lisianthhus and another smaller vase of white freesias. Everyone kept commenting on how beautiful they looked and Mira was really happy with them:

After the reception, we all headed over to the Lord Ashley bar for some drinks and nibblies. It was a perfect day and Mira looked like she had the time of her life. I am so happy for my dear friend.

Before: Mira's wedding

My best friend is getting married tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell that I am a bit excited? Mira and I have been great friends since high school, and she was right there beside me as my bridesmaid when I was married last year. I've been counting down the days until her wedding for aaagggggees and now it is finally here. It's going to be such a beautiful day. Here are the flowers that we are using:
From the top left there are white lisianthus, white freesias, white calla lilies and at the front are white sweet peas.
The lisianthus, freesias and sweet peas will be used to decorate the reception tables, and we will use the calla lilies for the bridal party bouquets. The bouquets will be extremely simple, with the two bridesmaids carrying just 3 stems of calla's whilst Mira will have a really small posy.
I'll be back to post some pictures after the weekend. Wooooooooo hoo 16 hours to go!