Birthday teacup

It was my friend Lauren's birthday recently and she asked me to make her a teacup arrangement - and here it is! Needless to say, Lauren was very happy with it! I think teacup arrangements are one of my favourite things to make.

Anniversary

Today is my brother and his wife's first wedding anniversary, and he asked me to make up a bouquet for her. They had lilac roses for their wedding but they're hard to get a hold of so I just kept with the purple colour scheme for this bouquet. I didn't want them to be the same as the ones I made last week so I got gypsophila and statice to make them a bit different.

I think I'm getting there with the photography too! Considering I got an A in my photography module at uni and have a decent camera you'd think I would be capable of taking a good photo, but apparently not! I played around with my camera though and the lighting is much better in these (I haven't edited them at all) I still need to find a decent backdrop though!

My first wedding!

I did the flowers for my first wedding today! The bride is a woman from work who knew I was doing a floristry course and asked me a couple of months ago if I would do her flowers. She only had a really small wedding, so just needed three bouquets and two buttonholes. But for my first wedding it was the perfect amount!

She was so pleased with the flowers and I was too, I'm really proud of myself for how they came out. Lots of people at work complimented me on them which was nice, and will hopefully lead to more jobs!

I had a few spare flowers and I didn't want to waste them so I made a centrepiece as well with handmade bunting. The bride Steph really liked this as well and I believe she took it with her even though they didn't really have a formal sit down dinner.

The wedding party pulled up outside the office on the way to the wedding so we all got to see them (which is how everyone at work knew I had done the flowers!) Steph looked beautiful and it was really nice to see the flowers in action because I don't think you really see that as a florist.

Gypsophila

Following on from my last post, my mum also brought home a load of gypsophila from the church. I have a couple of weddings lined up for the summer and both brides want to feature gypsophila in their bouquets. So I had a little play around with some of it. I think for a really impressive bouquet I should have used more of the gyp, but I think the ivy was a good addition, it didn't quite look finished without it.

I also felt it needed a wrap around the stems - it looks a bit more professional like that. Plus then there are lots of different ways to accessorise it.

Wedding Flowers

My brother got married in early September in All Saints Church, Great Braxted (followed by an amazing reception at the Braxted Park Estate) and me, my mum and my aunt did the flowers (with a little held from the wedding coordinators at the church).

Below are some of the photos from the church. The reception flowers were really simple, with three different stems - white rose, lilac rose and gypsophila - in decorative glass vases in the middle of the tables and three little bowls of flowers on the top table with some scattered petals. I unfortunately don't have any good photos of these as everyone was already sat round the tables by the time the wedding party got to the venue (I was a bridesmaid) it all looked lovely though :)