Making Flower Arrangements Yourself

I went to our local floral store and i was terrified of all the prices for the table arrangements. I really feel that after they hear word  `WEDDING´ the price goes up at least 20 % or even more. So this put me thinking about making at lest our own center peace flower arrangements ourselves. If you are going to make some flower arrangements yourself as well, then i would suggest to do few things: 

• Condition your flowers well before arranging them. Begin by stripping off the leaves from the section of the stem which will be positioned in water. Cut the base of the stems on the diagonal and keep them in water for 24-hours before you need them.
• To keep costs down, hire rather than buy vases for your flowers. Many florists offer a hire service for beautiful glassware and candelabras.
• I would suggest to do a trial run, set up a table at home to see how your flowers will look on the day.
• Personalise plain vases with ribbons, brooches and buttons bought from your local haberdashery shop.
• And if you have time then defenantly go on a wedding flower course to learn hands-on tips and tricks to help you create your very own designer arrangements.

I personally considering the following arrangement in maybe little different way, but still with similar idea.

 

For making this flower arrangement you will need:

• Sharp scissors
• Drinking straws
• 2 boxes of wheatgrass (sold in flats or boxes at health-food stores and flower shops)
• 12 to 16 gerbera daisies
• A pencil

Step 1

Cut the straws to match the height of the grass.

Step 2

Snip the daisy stems so they are slightly longer than the straws, then gently slide each stem into a straw. If the straws are too narrow for the stems, slit the straws from top to bottom.

Step 3

Poke holes in the soil with the pencil. Stick the straw-sheathed flowers into the holes. 

Step 4

Lightly water the soil to help the flowers stay fresh.

I will be writting here how our table arrangement making plan goes .. Wish me luck :)

Katherine

Ps. the idea from here 

Rainbow Gerbera

I was thinking about flowers for my bridesmaids when i saw colourful Gerberas and fall in love (like i too easily do when it comes to basically any flower type hehe ). This flowers makes me smile when i look at them, and i almost can hear them talking to me " Wouldn' you LOVE to see as in your arms on your wedding day? We would make you smile and bring you joy no matter what kind of weather is outside, pick us! " And honestly i feel tempted to forget the idea of a white bridal bouquet and go with something like this following ones.

Sunshine ! <3

But even in white there is just something special in Gerberas...

My fiance loves chili's as well and he is actually growing some of the world's most hot chilli's right at our apartment.. I think this combination of chilli's and gerberas could work very well on your buffet table :)

Bridal bouquet can be small and still look beautiful when bright coloured gerberas are used in it. I will take a wild guess by saying that this type of a bouquets are good for brides on a budget.

Omng i simply in love with 2 colour Gerberas... They are stunning ! Maybe something like this for my bridal bouquet after all ?

And who said there must be some colour theme? Maybe i want a rainbow in my bridal bouquet :)

Katherine

White Wedding

I personally more of a colour girl. I wish our apartment would look light and fresh and white like you can see in my very good friend's Maria's blogg. I think her home is simply amazing, but personally i know i wouldn't manage to live that way. I would miss colours and a little mess around me, little mess is part of my personality i guess hehe

Anyway i thought that idea off the white wedding is very interesting. At this particular moment we haven't yet decided as such on the decoration and flowers, and our invitations were not of any actual colour, well except dark red seal wax stamps and golden decorations. So white wedding would be still possible for us. So i decided to look for some white wedding decorations and looks.

White colour is interesting as it has so many different shades and can actually be ether warm ivory and yellowish, or it can be cold bright white. Playing with different shades of white can make the wedding venue look elegant and will let different things stand out. Like white flowers on the white table will look better if the shade of white will be different in them. As example of how different the white colour can be is the lower picture, yes all of this colours here are actually white! 

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I really like how white looks with natural wood colours.

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Hmmm bridesmaids in white as well ? Would you be brave enough? Or do you think more traditionally, that only the bride should wear white ?

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After looking on all the whites, i must be honest. Personally i must say, that if we will have only white colour - i will go nuts :) But still the idea is good especially if the flower central peaces would have a lot of green flowers/leafs and such.

What do you think, will you have a white wedding ?


Katherine