Before photos

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that I have been flat out this week so there will be no 'before' pictures for this weekends weddings. So sorry. But I will have some 'after' photos coming up shortly.

This is actually the end of my busy season and I have a couple of months off before my next lot of weddings start again. I haven't had a weekend off since February so I am actually looking forward to a little break. Although I still have one more weekend to get through as I'll be working at my former boss's shop for Mother's Day next weekend. It's all fun.

I hope you are all having a great weekend.

Before: Kate's wedding

This order of wedding flowers has been done over the email. I haven't met Kate at all and can't wait to finally see her when I deliver her flowers.

She has picked something simple and based her bouquet on one that is on our website. These are the flowers we are using:

White lisianthus, mauve roses, ivory roses and ivory mini roses

Come back through the week and see what we do with them! :-)

Before: Hannah's wedding

Hannah is one of those girls that you just fall in love with. Such a sweetheart. She came to see me in the studio a few months ago and we could have talked forever. And once I heard the details of her wedding we bonded over the fact that I was married in the same chapel that Hannah is getting married in! It's so pretty!

These are the flowers we are using for Hannah's wedding:

Antique coloured roses, white and ivory roses, cream mini roses and white lisianthus

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

Before: Kellie's wedding

One more wedding to show you.


Here are Kellie's flowers:

For Kellie's wedding we are using: ivory roses, white roses, (the pink roses are only for the cake), white freesias, green berries, and dusty miller

We will be back with some photos of the finished product soon.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Before: Kimberly's wedding

We have alot to do for Kimberly's wedding and we can't wait to see it all come together. It's all going to look beautiful.

We are doing flowers for the bridal party, the church and the reception so we have heaps of flowers as you can see:

One photo is taken from one end, and the other photo from the other end. We are using: singapore orchids, lisianthus, roses and vanda orchids in various shades of mauve, purple, pink and white

Kimberly found this picture of a bouquet in a magazine and loved it so we are using it as our inspiration. We aren't using all of the same flowers or the same colours but it will look something like this:

She loved the flowers we did for a wedding ceremony a few months ago, so we will be doing something similar to

this for Kimberly's church:

And when Kimberly came across this picture when she was searching the internet, she knew she had to have something like it for her long reception tables:

Aren't they gorgeous? We will be keeping them in Kimberly's mauve/purple theme.

Well we have alot of work ahead so we better get to it. We will be back after the weekend with many pictures to show you how it all looked.

Before: Chrissie's wedding

We have a big weekend ahead, with 3 weddings to show you!

The first one is Chrissie's. She is an absolute sweetheart!


Here are the flowers we are using for Chrissie's wedding:

We are using white roses, white singapore orchids and blue singapore orchids.


We will be back after the weekend to show you how Chrissie's flowers looked.

Before Elly's wedding

I met Elly recently at my studio to dicuss her wedding flowers. She wanted to keep things simple and we decided to use just a few arum lily stems for the bouquets. However we found out that we couldn't get the arum lilies after all, but were lucky enough to get a few bunches of calla lilies instead - which look extremely similar.

We found this picture on the internet and are using it as the inpiration for Elly's bouquet. She liked the calla lilies at different levels:

Here are the flowers we are using for Elly's wedding:

we have some tropical leaves, some calla lilies and some singapore orchids for the buttonholes, ceremony and reception decorations.

Come back after the weekend and see what we put together!

Before: Clare's wedding

When Clare came to see me, I knew I recongnised her name. We worked out that she was a couple of years below me at the same schools. We clicked straight away, and spent half of our time in the consult just talking like long time friends. She was great and I can't wait for her wedding this weekend.

Here are the flowers we are working with for Clare's wedding:

From the bottom left (clockwise): we have white mini roses, blue delphinium, white roses and camellia

Clare is keeping very simple. We will show you her bouquets after the weekend.                                          

Before: Laura's wedding

Laura's flowers are going to prove to be a slight challenge. You see, my natural style is to be very neat. My posies are always compact and very very neat. Laura is after her bouquets to look completely unstructured with lots of buds and pieces sticking out. You'll have to come back and see what my 'unstructured' looks like. I promise you that I can do it, but messy bouquets don't come naturally to me and are something that I have to work at!
Here are the flowers we are using for Laura's wedding:

From the top clockwise: white singapore orchids, white roses, white freesias, more white singapore orchids and white lisianthus

I'll be back soon to show you the 'after' pics from this weekends weddings.

Before: Denai's wedding

Oh the gorgeous Denai! Such a sweetheart. You know when you meet someone and just click? Well that was Denai and I. I felt like we could have babbled on forever, and as soon as I left her place, I was already excited for her wedding.

Here are the flowers we are usnig for her wedding:

From the bottom left: white spray roses, white singapore orchids, purple lisianthus, white roses and white oriental lilies

Before: Kylie's wedding

I hope everybody has had a wonderful Easter!

Well I am running behind on my 'before' and 'after' shots because I wanted a chance to enjoy some of the long weekend after working all of Friday and Saturday. So I am going to get straight into it.

Kylie came to me with ideas of what flowers she was after for her wedding, but by the end of our consult she had completely changed her mind. Instead of something vintage looking, she went with whites and greens which will look so fresh. I love greens, especially against black bridesmaids dresses which is what Kylie's girls are wearing. I hope she likes her flowers!

Here are the flowers we are using for Kylie's wedding:

From the top clockwise: green roses, white lisianthus, white roses, ivory roses, white singapore orchids, green singapore orchids, and white freesias

Before: Cathy's wedding

This week you get a third wedding to check out! We are also making Cathy's wedding flowers. Cathy is pretty relaxed about her flowers. She has kept the colours to white (just like our 2 other weddings this weekend), and is specifically after something soft and pretty.

We decided on roses and lisianthus for certain with a touch of some freesias in there, and we also wanted something else soft like a david austin rose, sweet pea or hydrangea - all of which are just out of season. We had to wait and see what flower would be available that would fit the soft, fluffy and pretty description.

Here are Cathy's flowers......

Clockwise from the top left: white lisianthus, white roses, camellia, white hydrangeac, and white freesias

Yep we were able to get a tiny bit of white hydrangea! These bouquets are going to be beautiful. I'll show them to you on Monday. Have a great weekend!

Before: Megan's wedding

I met Megan and her partner a few months ago to talk wedding flowers. They are such a sweet couple and planning a wedding by the beach. Recently I was checking out a local photographers blog, and saw their familiar faces as they had just had their engagement photo shoot. You can see the photos here. I love how relaxed, happy and excited they look and can't wait to see how great their wedding photos are going to be.

Before I get too far ahead of myself, I should show you the flowers we are using for their wedding....

From the left: white lisianthus, white spray roses, white roses, and camellia leaves

I'll be back on Monday to show you how the flowers looked!

Before: Diana's wedding

I have had alot of last minute bookings over the past month. One of them was Diana. I met her exactly a month ago to talk about her wedding flowers. She came to me with a couple of ideas but as she looked through my gallery of photos, she fell in love with a freesia bouquet that I did last year. She decided to have the exact same bouquet, a small posy of all fressias.

Here are the flowers we are using for Diana's wedding...

White freesias and a touch of gardenia foliage.

It is going to be a small wedding so I am only making a bouquet for the bride and a buttonhole for the groom. I'll be back after the weekend to show you Diana's bouquet.

Before: Karina's wedding

We have a very easy weekend ahead with only one wedding on!

Karina is having a lovely mix of flowers. Here they are:

From the top left (clockwise): white roses, ivory roses, green privet berry, magnolia leaves, green dodda vine, white singapore orchids and some frangipani's

The vine is going to be used throughout the bouquet, but for the brides bouquet we are also going to add a little vine drop as seen in this picture (ignore all of the flowers)...

And Karina has requested that the leaves sit unevenly around the bouquet - so not an even frame right around the posies like we usually do, more something unstructured like this.....

I can't wait to see how these bouquets look. I'm a sucker for anything with berries in it, and the magnolia leaves with their green glossy front and rusty back are devine! I don't get to use either of them very often so it's a real treat when I do.

Come back after the weekend and I'll show you how the bouquets turn out.

Before: Kathy's wedding

This is our very first native wedding!! Exciting!

Confession time - I have worked with natives for years in the florist shops, and whilst I know the varieties pretty well (eg: protea, banksia, waratah etc) I get completely lost on the gazillion different species each one of them has (eg: Banksia Baxterii, Banksia Menziesii, Banksia Praemorsa, Banksia Prionotes, Banksia Occidentalis etc).

So when Kathy came to me to discuss her wedding flowers, I knew it was going to be a learning curve.But Kathy kept it very simple for me. She didn't mind what was in her bouquets but she had 3 requests: that we use natives that are specifically Australian in origin, that if we were going to use colours we would stick to white and oranges, and that the bouquets have a 'just picked from the yard and whacked together' unstructured look to them. The only thing she really wanted included were paper daisies, but unfortunately they are out of season. Kathy was happy to leave it to me and didn't even mind if the bouquet was just full of different textured foliages.

So I began doing my research. I hear alot about brides who want an 'Australian' bouquet and so they pick natives. For any brides out there who are thinking the same thing, please be aware that some of our most popular natives are not Australian in origin. The popular things like your proteas and leucodendrons whilst they are grown in Australia, they actually originated in South African (gasp)!

We ended up with alot of beautiful natives to pick from. Here is what we got:

From the back (clockwise): we have some teatree, kangaroo paw, eucalyptus (silver dollar), sparsa, wooly bush, emu grass, eucalyptus crenulata, pittostrum, eucalyptus tetra nuts, ficifolia nuts, and some white paper daisies (yay I managed to get a little bit)!

I can't wait to see how these bouquets are going to look with so many different textures in them. I'll come back and post some pictures after the weekend.

Before: Alicia's wedding

Alicia is having a beautiful beach wedding this weekend - and wouldn't you know it? It has been cold and raining all week. Hopefully it will improve in time for the big day.

This cold snap has provided me with one huge problem - this wedding includes lilies. Lilies arrive as a closed bud so you have to order them in advance to give them enough time to open. With the heat and humidity we have had for the last few months, it only takes a couple of days for them to open into a flower. However when it is cold, it can take a week or more.

When I ordered the lilies, it was hot and humid so I didn't think there would be a problem. And I only need 3 white lilies for the bride bouquet and 16 orange lilies for the bridesmaids so that should be easy right? Well I have been watching and tending to my lilies all week and whilst the orange ones are great, the white ones just aren't budging! And did I mention that I only need 3?! It's probably time to put a backup plan in place.

Here are Alicia's flowers: (you can see how tightly closed the white ones look)

Alicia's flowers are white oriental lilies, orange tiger lilies, some cordyline leaves and camellia leaves. She is also having some white artificial frangipani's too.

I'll be back after the weekend to let you know how I went. Keep your fingers and toes crossed for me that these white lilies open!

Before: Simone's wedding

Isn't this a treat? Another wedding!

I met Simone a few months ago to discuss her wedding flowers. This isn't a very big wedding with only a bridal bouquet, some hair flowers, buttonholes, corasges and a bridal table arrangement. Simone is after a bright and colourful bouquet with a mix of flowers that looks like it has just been picked out of the garden. We want to keep it a little bit messy and this picture is the inspiration we are using:

We have chosen different flowers to use in the bouquet so it will look different, however the style and shape of the bouquet will remain the same.

Here are the flowers we are using for this wedding:

Starting on the left is some purple lisianthus, blue hyacinths, then some roses in orange, pink, ivory. peach and yellow, then there is some blue delphinium, some hot pink vanda orchids and some yellow freesias.

So many flowers and colours to work with!

Well you know the drill - I'll be back after the weekend to show you how it all turned out! :-)

Before: Corrine's wedding

Another wedding for the weekend.

Corrine and I have not met... yet! But I will see her tomorrow when I deliver her flowers. We have organised her wedding flowers pretty easily through emails.

Corrine is having artificial frangipani's. At this time of year real frangipani's are a bit iffy. If it has been a very strong season and the weather conditions are still good then they should still be around. However, this year I found the frangipani season to be extremely weak. I think the constant changes of temperature hindered the season (you know what I mean... how it was hot for a few days, then a bad day or two, then hot again, then cold again.... and the cycle continued like that throughout the Summer).

Anyway, this is what we are starting with:

Artificial frangipani's in white and some in pink.

This is what the flowers look like when they arrive in their packets

And on the right of this picture is what they look like when you remove the plastic packaging, and then on the left is what the franigipan's look like once you open the flower up.

I'll be back after the weekend to show you how Corrine's bouquets looked.

Before: Danni's wedding

I met Danni a few weeks before Christmas to discuss her wedding flowers. She was so sweet, and of course we clicked straight away - it had nothing to do with the fact that we both have the same first name ;-)

Danni is keeping it simple by having beautiful rose posies. The bride will have pink and the bridesmaids will have ivory. The pink rose is called Sweet Avalanche and it is my favourite rose from my fantastic rose supplier.

Here are Danni's flowers:

Ivory roses and pink roses

We are also going to make a couple of arrangements for teh ceremony using both the ivory and pink roses. It will (hopefully) look something like this:

I'll be back on Monday with some photos of Danni's wedding flowers.