Before: Nina's wedding

A few months ago I got an enquiry on my email from Nina. The funny thing was that I recognised Nina's name straight away. She was a girl that I went to high school with! She had just filled out a random enquiry for a random florist and had no idea that I was on the other side.
We arranged a consultation and it was so much fun catching up. Nina is hilarious and we spent ages talking before we even got to organising her wedding flowers. She is planning a small casual wedding in the Hunter Valley and it sounds beautiful.

Here are the flowers that Nina will be having:

From the back there are ivory roses, pink roses, berzellia, camellia leaves, and at the front are white freesias and hot pink freesias.

Aren't these gorgeous roses? I love my rose grower.

I'll be back after the weekend to show you Nina's flowers.

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

Before: Natalie's wedding

Now this is a wedding that I have been waiting for forever!! Natalie and I first 'met' on a wedding forum over 12 months ago when we were both planning our weddings. Now you may wonder what on earth a wedding forum is about and why anyone would join it. But there was a cool little group of us from the Central Coast on there, and we would all help each other out with advice and recommendations, and discuss our ideas and plans for our days. 

Whilst my wedding has been and gone, now it is Natalie's turn. She was so excited when my wedding came around and I am just as super excited for her. She is such a gorgeous girl (inside and out), and I am looking so forward to being at her wedding ceremony to see the beautiful bride that she will be.

Here are Natalie's flowers (I have included a few extra shots because I know that Natalie's Mum was looking forward to seeing these - hi Denise):

From the back left we have: white spray roses and white singapore orchids for the corsages, in front of those are some ivory David Austin roses, behind those are some white lisianthus, next to those are big fluffy white peonies, and next to those are some normal roses in white, ivory and the red is for the bridesmaids.

I'll be back after the weekend to show you Natalie's flowers all made up!

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.

Before: Sarah's wedding

Our next bride is Sarah.

Sarah came to see me a few months ago and she described the kind of bouquet she wanted as loose, unstructured, and not traditional. She found a picture in one of my flower magazines (pictured right) as the inspiration for her bouquet, but the only flowers to be used were the lilies with all of the foliages and draping grass.

For those of you who aren't my clients, I usually send my brides a confirmation of their order about a month before their weddings (and before I actually have to place my flower orders with suppliers). It gives them an opportunity to give everything one last look and make sure they are happy. It was at this time that Sarah had a few misgivings about what she had chosen so we made some minor adjustments.

Sarah knew what she wanted in her head and was trying to describe it to me so I would understand. Instead of all of the draping and messy kind of look of the bouquet, we changed it to something more structured with no draping bits. Sarah really liked the look of some folded thick leaves around the bouquet so I knew I had to include those. I think by the end of our conversation I said 'so 3 pink lilies with a few buds and then some folded leaves and other foliage'. It sounded good to Sarah so that is what I will be making for her.

Here are the flowers we are starting with:

Some camellia leaves, happy leaves and anthurium leaves, and pink oriental lilies.

I'll come back after the weekend to post some photos of how the bouquet turned out.

Before: Tamara's wedding

I have another 2 weddings this weekend to show you.

The first one is Tamara's. Tamara lives in Perth so her family (who are based on the Coast) were helping her to organise all of the details for her wedding. Tamara's Mum rang me a while ago to make some enquiries, and through talking, we found out that we knew some of the same people, which then led us to realising that I went to school with Tamara. She was in the year above me. It's such a small world!!!

Anyway, Tamara's wedding flowers are of roses, and we are also doing a few rose arrangements for the church.

Here is what we are starting with:

At the back of the picture is lots of greenery which we need for the church arrangements, and the camellia leaves to frame the bouquets. The champagne roses at the front will be used for the bride bouquet and church arrangements, whilst the two toned rose called 'Cezanne' will be used for the bridesmaids.

I'll be back after the weekend to show you how they look.

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.

Happy Anniversary!

A completely self indulgent post from me today, because this time last year I was getting ready for my wedding day.

To my gorgeous husband - Happy 1st Anniversary!!! xxxx





Photo by: Delisser Photography