The Floral Shoppe-Wedding Work

On September 25th we were working on a wedding in the shoppe. I had the privilege of doing the bridesmaid's corsages and the bride's bouquet. Bright fall colors were chosen for the flowers, and we had a great time designing with orange gerbera daisies, yellow daisy chrysanthemums, kermit mums, fall alstromeria lilies, bells of Ireland, and red hypericum.

The bride wanted a slight cascade to her bouquet, while still having a hand-tied look, so I got to improvise a little, and I'm happy with the results.

To achieve the bare stemmed hand-tied look but get the cascade shape, I used a tilting bouquet holder to get the shape right.

Then I glued and taped the flowers stems to the handle of the bouquet holder and added additional salal (greenery) to cover up any evidence of the bouquet holder. I then wrapped the stems in brown and green ribbon to finish it off.

The bridesmaids corsages consisted of some of the same flowers as the bouquet, finished off with sparkly brown ribbon. The flowers were perfect for a beautiful fall wedding.

Teri and Clint Nelson Wedding

My baby sister Teri married her sweetheart on June 27th, 2009. Her colors were hot pink and lime green, which made the floral work a lot of fun. I was pleased to create . . .

Teri's hand tied bridal bouquet of hot lady roses, white cala lilies, green hypericum berries, lily grass, and salal with white satin ribbon.

Three bridesmaids bouquets, consisting of a white cala lily, hot pink gerbera daisies, white waxflower, and salal with green polka-dot ribbon and bow.

Nine boutonnieres--each one unique--consisting of a hot lady rose, accented by combinations of green hanging amaranthus, green hypericum berries, kermit mums, lily grass, myrtle, salal, and curly willow.

Five wrist corsages with either two hot lady roses with wax flower, salal, and a bow; or one hot lady rose with kermit mums, waxflower, and salal with a bow.

A grand buffet design which included hot pink gladiolus, white cala lilies, hot lady roses, green hanging amaranthus, pink heather, myrtle, salal, curly willow, and limes.

The flowers on the cake were hot pink gerbera daisies and kermit mums.

A hand-tied throwing bouquet, which had hot lady roses and white waxflower--the fun of this bouquet was that it was actually two separate bouquets that we disguised as one.

When Teri threw it, it separated--as planned--and two lucky girls (both bridesmaids) were given the fortune of "catching the bouquet".

Congratulations to Teri and Clint! It was a beautiful wedding and one heck of a party!

My Bouquet

For the floral show this semester I had the opportunity to make a bridal bouquet. I was initially only given three orange Roses and a single sprig of Heather, then the type of bouquet holder and greens I used I got to choose. Once I had set up my main structure, Professor Romney was inspired to give me the three Pincushion Protea, and this is what I created:

It was a triangular bouquet, which I set up with the woven palms and heather. To play up the texture of the palms I first sprayed them with leaf shine, to make sure they wouldn't get lost with all the other elements of the design.


The Protea made a great focal point and created a lot of interest.

Looking up from the bottom of the design, this shows off the Ti leaves, weaved palms, and lowest rose.

It was such a fun design to create, and not knowing what flowers I would get really let the flowers speak to me and tell me what to design.