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Ivy Trail Events Floral Design

Bespoke wedding and events floral designer with a love of styling with modern, bohemian inspired designs with an eco/ethical design focus.

Servicing Western Sydney and beyond, travel welcome. Bespoke wedding and events floral designer with a love of styling with modern, bohemian inspired designs.

19/01/2025

I haven’t used floral foam in over 5 years.

Back when I trained as a florist in tafe (over 10 years ago now!) we were taught to use floral foam for all base medium designs - anything within a box or container, arbour designs, ceiling installations, casket sprays, centrepieces, you name it and it was probably created into floral foam. The stores I worked for would go through boxes upon boxes of the stuff and If you’d asked me back then I couldn’t imagine how to design without it.

Yet here we are, all this time later, and I honestly DO NOT miss it. Learning to design without floral foam was a huge learning curve (there wasn’t any training available and “eco florists” to learn from were few and far between) but I stuck with my conviction and it’s made me such a better designer. There’s no single product that can replace floral foam - each design requires its own unique solution and mechanics. Designing sustainably means designing with great thought and intention in everything you create.

I ditched floral foam in 2019 for my health and the environment but in doing so I discovered a new found love of designing and a whole new skill set.

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12/01/2025

Happy Sunday everyone! Here’s to the weekend 🎉

bringing the “just married and ready to party” vibes 😍 This was a few years ago now but still such a fun one!

10/01/2025

There’s something about native wildflower texture that gets me every time 😍

This one features Strawflowers/Paper daisies, Gumnuts, Leucadendrons, Protea, Geraldton Wax, Sea Holly, Wooly Bush, After Dark, Tea Tree, and Eucalyptus foliage.

09/01/2025

I’m back in the office again this week after a much needed break over the Christmas holidays. 🥰 Feeling refreshed and ready to go for the year ahead!

Please bear with me as I work through all our new enquiries. There’s always an influx over the new years break and this year is no exception. I’m excited to chat to all of you and help plan and design your dream wedding florals and will be in touch by the end of the week if I haven’t responded to you already.

03/01/2025

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years! I have a good feeling about this one 🥰

08/12/2024

Still loving these colour tones and gorgeous poppies from back in September 😍

04/12/2024

Ceremony ready in the garden for Natalie and Trent 🥰

18/11/2024

Another beautiful wedding bouquet pressed and framed to be enjoyed in the years to come 🥰 Loved the bright tones and colours in this one! Featuring poppies, roses, delphinium, snapdragons, Geraldton wax, sweet pea, and eucalyptus foliage.

13/11/2024

Fairytale first kiss as husband and wife, surrounded by a meadow of flowers and all their loved ones 🥰 This was such a lovely moment last September!

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10/11/2024

Hello to all my lovely followers! It’s been a little while since I properly introduced myself so here I am! This picture was taken a few years back after a wedding set up accompanied by my two big girls, and we now have a cheerful little boy added to the mix. I’m a wife, mother, Christian, florist, and owner of this business!

If you’re familiar with the “16 personality types” I’m a INFJ; I love people, am deep thinking and feeling, and love a good cause to support! I’m passionate about reducing our footprint on the planet in both personal and business life; I made the commitment to make Ivy Trails floral foam free back in 2019 and haven’t looked back. I love the challenge of coming up with the perfect mechanics for every design and am continually growing and learning as an eco florist. Since becoming a mother I have also become deeply passionate about the birthing world and our beautiful private/homebirth midwives in the Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains. I hope one day to join them but that’s a future dream right now.

I love gardening, baking, cooking, and preserving and would love to have my own expansive gardens/micro farm one day. With a flock of chickens of course! And with it I would love to have my own little library filled with favourite books collected over a lifetime.

Professionally I hold both certificates 3 and 4 in floristry, and started my journey as a florist 12 years ago. This business is my passion project that both brings me immense joy and helps support our little family.

Just for fun, see if you can guess how many tattoos I have;

A) Two
B) Four
C) Six

Let me know your guess in the comments below! 👇🏻

07/11/2024

With Christmas rapidly approaching once again, be sure to get your wreath orders in early! Send me a message to order your custom Christmas wreath 🎄

04/11/2024

Remembering this gorgeous day for my good friend and floral buddy Chloe 🥰

I’ve been looking back through some of the weddings I’ve designed for over the years and finding so many favourite designs! I’ve been incredibly blessed to be a part of so many beautiful moments over the years.

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02/11/2024

Those just marred feels 🥰

bringing the stunning views complimented beautifully by low floral features to frame moment.

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31/10/2024

Detail shots from Katie and Michael’s big day last month 🥰

Did you know I deliver the bouquets, buttonholes, and other personal flowers straight to you in the morning of the wedding? It’s always my first stop before heading off to set everything else up so you can have your flowers nice and early, and I make sure to know when your photographer is arriving for your “getting ready” shots to ensure your flowers are there first.

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29/10/2024

I absolutely love opening up my emails to beautiful feedback from my couples! Thanks so much for your kind words Tammy 🥰 It’s been such a pleasure designing for you.

“Catherine & the team were absolutely fantastic!! For our wedding we wanted simple & elegant which Ivy Trail Events delivered. Catherine was always available through email, zoom & calls to suit what we wanted. We changed our minds a thousand times and Catherine was accomodating no matter what. I would recommend Catherine & her team to anyone!! Thank you so much for your beautiful blooms”

02/09/2024

Nicola and Alec’s beautiful day at Glenworth Valley earlier this year 🥰 Nic asked for a grounded nest of bright and colourful florals to create “wow factor” at their ceremony, and she was overjoyed with what we designed and delivered!

I’ve noticed a trend away from traditional arbours and a lot more requests for floral nests, pillars, and other more alternative ceremony designs and I love it!

If you’re not sure what other options are out there, I’m here to walk you through all the different designs and help you find your dream arrangements that also suit your venue and styling.

Much love to my beautiful floral support team on this one ❤️

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22/08/2024

I love receiving feedback from our couples ❤️ It means so much to know we nailed your vision and you felt heard and supported through the entire process!

Wedding planning can be overwhelming sometimes, but I’m here to help you navigate the wonderful world of flowers and styling and make it that little bit easier!

11/08/2024

Lush arbour details from last October at , captured by . I thoroughly enjoyed designing all the different elements for this lovely couple!

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http://www.ivytrailevents.com.au/

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Ivy Trail Events is a boutique floral studio nestled in the heart of the Hawkesbury, NSW, lovingly owned and operated by husband and wife duo Catherine and Sebastian Speirs. Our passion is creating beautiful and unique designs which bring you joy and create an atmosphere of natural beauty and elegance both on the day, and in the photographs which will be treasured for years to come.

Ivy Trail Events is a unique and completely personalised experience. We love to create very modern, natural, bohemian inspired designs using all the most interesting and unique flowers and foliages available in each season, catering to full event design from small intimate elopements right up to large scale weddings and events. We custom design everything to suit each individual client’s needs and have meticulous standards of quality in all our work, maintaining an eco/ethically conscious mindset.

We’ve had an overwhelming positive response over the past year since opening, and it is just so humbling to hear all the positive reviews and client experiences, and to have been featured on the blogs and magazines we have been. Helping to create beautiful moments and memories to last a lifetime is genuinely our passion, and how privileged we to be a part of so many beautiful moments and beginnings! “Like” us on social media to follow along in our journey, and we hope to see you join the Ivy Tribe!”