It'll be all white on the night

I've got a couple of weddings lined up for the summer and the brides both want white flowers, so I've been looking around for some ideas. None of these photos are mine, they're all from Pinterest. I prefer when there's a bit of foliage or another colour in the design to break up the white, as well as when the flowers are on slightly different levels so the bouquet has a more natural look.

Bouquet accessories

I've been looking on Pinterest a lot recently (again, none of these photos are mine) at different ways of accessorising wedding bouquets, and the stems in particular. I really like all of these ideas:

Floral arrangements

As part of my workshop redesign I have decided I want some big floral arrangements that can be a permanent feature in the room, made from artificial flowers. So I've been having a look for some inspiration. These images are all from Google image search and Pinterest, so all credit goes to the original sources.

Roses, peonies and tulips are my favourite types of flowers so I definitely want to incorporate all of these. I'm not very good with flower names so there are other flowers I really like in these photos but have no idea what they are!

I just need to build up a good stock of artificial flowers now before I can get started. I don't want ones that look really fake so I have been looking around. I often find garden centres have the best selections but they are a bit more pricey.

Christmas Wreaths

In the final week of the 'Hand Tieds and Arrangements' unit of my course we are making a christmas wreath, and we have been given complete control over how we make and decorate them. So I've been looking for some ideas. All of these images are from a Google Image Search.

I've got a load of dried fruit, berries, pine cones and cinnamon sticks so I'm going to go for something quite natural. I really like the ones with little woodland creatures so I went to a garden centre to see what I could get. They didn't have any squirrels or owls but I got some really cute little mice instead which I hope will work. I also bought some ribbon and gold baubles to make it extra christmassy :)