Melissa and Grant

I can't believe how long it's taken me to share this wedding with you!

In March last year, I had the absolute privilege of creating the bouquets for the wedding of one of my very dearest friends.

A very relaxed bride, Melissa gave me one of the most open briefs I have ever worked to!
"Oh, you know what I like! I'm thinking white and green. Surprise me on the day, I know they'll be gorgeous!". Brilliant!

The only challenge? Melissa and Grant were married in Melbourne! The day before the wedding, I carefully packed all her flowers, fresh from the markets in Sydney, into cooler bags and carefull carried them on my flight to Melbourne! All the bouquets were made once I got there.



Three bridesmaids each carried a slightly different bouquet. They included white lisianthus, white hyacinths, white dendrobium orchids, vibernum flowers and magnolia foliage, but each had it's own focal flower. I used green anthuriums for one, white anthuriums for another, and green lotus pods in the third.




Melissa's quite the flower lover, and wanted to make the most of an opportunity to be accompanied by them all day!

She carried a bouquet to match her bridesmaids through her ceremony, but opted to wear a feature corsage at the reception so she didn't have to hold her flowers as she celebrated! I love this idea - how fabulous to have your ceremony and photos with your bouquet, then have another "bouquet" on your wrist throughout the celebrations!







A belated congrats to Melissa and Grant - and thanks for letting me share your photos!

x.

A very bright bouquet!

Colour and texture? Absolutely!

This bouquet was carried by one of our lovely brides who had her wedding in a garden in Autumn this year. Surrounded by lush green plants, and set against her ivory dress, the intense colours and contrasting textures really made a statement!

I love that this bouquet is so bold and cheery! Being so delicate and sitting just above most of the other flowers, the dancing lady orchids (those lovely little yellow flowers) had beautiful movement to them as well, capturing any breeze and dancing with every step taken.

(Thanks for sending a photo from your big day Sharon!)

A March Wedding in the Mountains

Lovely! I recently received some gorgeous photos from a wedding we looked after in March this year, and I just had to share them with you. Sarah and Andreas had a very elegant wedding in the Blue Mountains, and we were thrilled to be a part of it!



To complement the elegant theme of the day, we created bouquets of peachy-cream David Austin roses, cream lisianthus, white single tuberoses, shiny green hypericum berries and magnolia foliage, with whisps of doddervine scattered throughout.

The setting for the wedding was just surrounded by beautiful gardens, and I quite like to think we could have borrowed some of the flowers form the garden to create the bouquets!








(Don't worry - we didn't do any borrowing!).










We decorated the long tables at the reception with little vases of white hyacinths and magnolia foliage - very simple and elegant, but so effective (and deliciously fragrant!) en masse.

Thank you to Sarah and Andreas for sharing their photos with us, and to Something Blue Photography, who captured the day so beautifully!

One exquisute bloom.

I have the very great pleasure of spending my days working with some amazing pieces of nature - beautiful flowers, lush foliage and sculptural branches are just some of the things I have used today.

It's a bit of a tired old saying, but (and be honest with me), when was the last time you stopped to smell the roses? Or stopped to look at the hypnotising swirl of seeds in a sunflower? Or look at a stem of orchids and be amazed at how such a little bud at the very end can turn into such a big, gorgeous flower?

It's very easy to get caught up in the busy activity that consumes our lives, but it's surely good for the soul to just stop and absorb something's gorgeous-ness, don't you think?

My new favourite thing for this week is "One Exquisite Bloom".

I'm absolutely delighted with the clear glass bottles that arrived at Red Fragrance on Monday, because they are a perfect vessel for (you guessed it...) One Exquisite Bloom. Something so intensely beauiful and special that sometimes one is enough; sometimes one is perfect.

Just having one stem in a lovely glass bottle lets us stop and really look at it - it's no less wonderful when surrounded by other flowers, but we might neglect to give it the attention it might in fact deserve.

I'm so excited. Today I put amazing purple slipper orchids, light magenta miniature phalaenopsis orchids and chunky purple vanda orchids in the bottles. Beautiful. Don't you think?

x.

Fragrant wedding flowers...

Hello there!

We had a lovely time creating these beautiful bouquets for Katarina's wedding.

A selection of white avalanche roses, peach and cream David Austin roses, white lisianthus, white freesias and magnolia foliage were used in all of the bouquets, but we added beautiful beige Julia roses to the bridal bouquet.

To complement an nautical inspired theme, the stems were bound in navy and white striped grosgrain ribbon. While white or ivory ribbons always look lovely and elegant, I love using textured or patterned ribbons. They are one of those cheeky little details that can really be a personal finishing touch on a bouquet to further complement the theme of the day.

When you work with flowers all day every day, you tend not to notice all the gorgeous fragrance that surrounds you... it's very easy just to get used to it! Which is a bit sad - especially when you're making stunning bouquets of deliciously fragrant flowers like David Austin roses and freesias!

BUT, a particularly nice thing happened to me on Saturday morning. As I was delivering Katarina's flowers, nestled nicely in their box on the passenger seat of the van, all the little freesias started to open up - perfect timing! - and all of a sudden I could smell freesias! And they were LOVELY.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend.

x.