After: Corrine's wedding

I finally got to meet Corrine. She was so sweet and I loved how excited everyone was when I delivered the flowers.

These are how Corrine's flowers turned out....

Bride Bouquet: posy of pink and white/yellow artificial frangipani's

Bridesmaids Bouquets: posy of white/yellow artificial frangipani's

Buttonholes: the groom had a pink frangipani whilst his groomsmen had a white/yellow one

Corsages: the Mum's had dress corsages of pink frangipani's

I hope you liked teh flowers from Corrine's wedding. And I also hope that we are proving that the artificial frangipani's look fantastic!

To Corrine, it was so lovely to meet you. I hope you all had a fantastic day!

After: Danni's wedding

Well it was a big weekend and I have 3 weddings to show you!

The first wedding we had was Danni's. The poor thing had to deal with the stress of the uncooperative weather. They were supposed to have an outdoor ceremony, but the weather was doing an all seasons in one day routine and a decision couldn't be made on whether to hold it inside or out until the last minute. I hope it all went OK.

Here are the flowers......

Bride Bouquet: posy of pink roses

Bridesmaids Bouquet: posy of ivory roses

Buttonholes: the groom had a pink rose buttonhole and his groomsmen had an ivory rose

Hair Flowers: Danni wanted an open rose to pin in her hair for the reception (after she had taken out her veil)

Ceremony Arrangement: I wish I could have taken a photo of the ceremony all set up, but when I delivered the flowers it was still uncertain if the weather would allow an outdoor ceremony or if they would have to move it indoors. Two large urn arrangements were made to sit at the end of the aisle on either side of the bride and groom. There was also some petals to scatter over the aisle. Here is one of the rose arrangements (the two of them were the same)

I hope you liked Danni's flowers! I'll be back  to show you some pics from our 2 other weddings soon.

My big congratulations go out to the newlyweds! I hope your day was magical!

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.

After: Jacqueline's wedding

And now for Jacqueline's beautiful wedding flowers!

Jacqueline had some posies of roses. Simple, but elegant! Here are some photos.....

Bride bouquet: posy of ivory roses

Bridemaids bouquet: smaller posy of ivory roses

The buttonholes were of ivory roses and the dress corsages were of ivory spray roses:

The flower girls carried mini posies of ivory roses (I don't know how I missed getting a photo of those), and they wore a halo of ivory spray roses on their heads. They don't look so great like this but if you actually see the little flower girl's wearing them, they look so adorable.

That is all the flowers from the day. Congratulations Jacqueline! I was so excited for you and hope your day was perfect. I can't wait to hear all about it!

After: Francine's wedding

The weekend was just perfect for the two weddings we had on.

Francine's wedding was held at the Japanese Gardens at East Gosford, so the wedding had a Japanese theme. Instead of a usual bridal bouquet of flowers, Francine had a fan arrangement. It looked great and really suited her. Here are some pics of the flowers from the day.....

Bride Arrangement: fan (provided by the bride) of dodda vine with singapore orchids threaded throughout and some phalaenopsis orchids

There were no bridemaids, but Francine had some VIP's who received buttonholes and corsages. These are the buttonholes for the groom and the male VIP's: singapore orchids and vine on camellia leaves

and the female VIP's had pearl wrist corsages of singapore orchids:

Thank you so much Francine for trusting me with your wedding flowers. You knew that I had never done an arrangement like this before but you had faith that I understood what you were after and I hope I made you proud. Congratulations! You made a beautiful bride.

Before: Jacqueline's wedding

The other wedding we have this weekend is for Jacqueline. I have been following Jacqueline's journey for aaaaggees and am really excited to see all of her planning come together! Only 2 more sleeps to go!

Jacqueline is keeping it really simple and having rose posies. I love them. I think they are pretty, elegant and they will never date.

Here are the flowers:

 On the left of the photo are some small spray roses which we will use for the corsages and flower girl halos - yes the flower girls are having halos... how cute!! And on the right of the photo we have some ivory roses called Vendella. Beautiful!

I'll be back on Monday to show you Jacqueline's flowers.

Before: Francine's wedding

This weekend we will have 2 weddings to show you.

The first one is a little bit different and I can't wait to see how it turns out. Francine is having a fan arrangement instead of a regular bridal bouquet. We are using a fan backing, then placing vine on the front of it with orchids wired through it and a focal area at the base of the fan of some phalaenopsis orchids. Does that sound interesting?? I haven't made anything like it before and I'm looking forward to getting in to it. We wanted to use water lilies for the focal area but had to change to the phalaenopsis orchids when we weren't able to get them. I think it will look fantastic.

Francine had such a bright and bubbly personality and I just know that her wedding is going to be amazing. Here are her flowers:

From the left we have some vine, behind  that some singapore orchids and then to the right in teh little vases are the phalaenopsis orchids. Here is a closer look at the orchids:

The first picture is of the Phalaenopsis Orchids, they are a white variety with hot pink lips

The middle picture is of a Singapore Orchid variety called Chanel     
And the picture on the right is of another type of Singapore Orchid called Red Lip (although I don't know why they are called that when they look to be more of a purple colour).

I'll be back on Monday to show you how the fan arrangement turns out. I am excited and nervous about it all at once! :-)

After: Louise's wedding

It was an early start on Saturday morning for Louise's wedding. She was having a lunch time wedding at the most gorgeous wedding venue - Bells at Killcare.

I met Louise at her hairdresser to give her some flowers for her hair, and drop off her bouquet (there were no bridesmaids so only one bouquet to drop off). Then I made my way to Bells to set up the wedding venue. I hope you are ready for a photo overload because I have a few to show you....

Bride bouquet: Louise specified that she wanted her posy to be more of a ball shape - so there was no frame of foliage around it. The colours aren't right in the first photo as the reflection from having the lights on in the studio threw a yellow tinge on the bouquet. The flowers were ivory david austin roses, white lisianthus, white freesias and white singapore orchids

And I had to show you how we finished off the stems with white ribbon and a thin black ribbon criss-cross pattern:

These are the hair flowers, white singapore orchids:

Buttonholes: the groom had 2 ivory david austin roses, whilst the best man had 1 ivory david austin rose

Ceremony: the ceremony was supposed to be held outside in the beautiful grounds at Bells. Unfortunately the weather wouldn't cooperate and it looked like the ceremony was going to be moved inside. This is where they usually hold the wedding ceremonies:

Petal Cones: we made some petal cones for the ceremony. These were supposed to sit on each of the chairs along the aisle so that the guests could throw petals over the newly married couple as they walk up the aisle together

Reception: Louise wanted to keep the reception flowers very simple, just a couple of vases of white flowers on each table.

Bridal Table: a low vase in the centre of white dahlias surrounded by little tealights of white lisianthus flowers

Guest Tables: there were four long guest tables. On each of these we put two low vases of white dahlias

The view of the reception room with the round bridal table in the centre, and two of the long guest tables on either side:

Cake: the cake topper included white dahlias, ivory david austin roses, white freesias and white singapore orchids. And we added a spray on the bottom using the same flowers

Congratulations Louise! I hope you had an amazing wedding day. The venue was absolutely stunning and I am sure everyone had a great day there.