POV: you’re a modern bouquet, third wheeling an engagement shoot in San Francisco.
Bouquets and photographers share in being professional third wheelers for your most special moments 😜
Special thanks to @chaedphoto who reached out with the simple prompt of “make it modern and make it stunning”. I think it’s pretty special when your photographer surprises you with a bouquet for your shoot, and it shows in his client experience and how much he cares about them ❤️ what a beautiful album! It’s special for your florist to have full creative freedom too!
Anthurium, allium, symbol roses, orchids, pincushion flower, poppy pods, shepherds purse, Lisianthus, white garden roses. Cover photo @amandaweiphoto
Love this bride’s understated elegance 🤍
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Although I love the really gorgeous professional shots of your wedding flowers, my favorite photos when I get a gallery back are the ones that capture how happy and in love my couples are with each other and how loved they are by their friends and family.
Gorgeous couple portraits by @danyachenphoto who I am excited to work with again this coming weekend!
Thank you to the amazing couples who choose us to be a part of such a special day for them ❤️❤️❤️
I can’t believe it’s October, and after a couple crisp cool weeks our Bay Area Indian Summer is showing up right on schedule! These lovely soft creamy buff shades that fade into dusty rose, accented with a side of wine and dark chocolate are giving me all the fall feels.
Recipe rundown:
Wabara ioli garden spray roses
Cappuccino Roses
Chocolate cosmos
Cafe Ranuncus
Cafe au Lait Dahlia
Black Knight Scabiosa
Rudbeckia Sahara
Ninebark
Talinum Berry “Jewels of Opar”
Yarrow
Gomphrena
Celosia
Roseanne Brown Lisianthus
Chocolate Lace/Dara
Queen Red Lime Zinnia
Huechera
Astrantia
While I keep telling myself to simplify my recipes to make the sourcing, pulling and building process faster, I find I love adding more ingredients because it’s how I enjoy arrangements: everywhere you look there is something new you have never seen before, something inviting you to be curious, to let your eyes walk through this secret garden of treasures. Every flower is a step, a transition that lets the color flow from one to the next, bringing you along for the ride. There are no accidental placements. The length of every stem to place the shape, size and color of every flower face where it lies is totally intentional. Finding that last bit of magic in the garden and snuggling it in to be a surprise, or building the bridge to make a flower that I didn’t think would work find its place in the flow of the piece are both hugely satisfying to me as a designer.
Congratulations @sayrawr189 💕🥂
Aside from the Mother’s Day rush, I had the honor of flowering this bouquet for an engagement shoot this weekend.
Delicate feminine floaty Agrostemma and Sweet Peas grown by yours truly 😁
I was honestly exhausted by yesterday afternoon and took a long recovery nap 😴 I hope all my flower friends are gifting themselves some well deserved rest and kindness to their dry parched hands!
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Aside from the Mother’s Day rush, I also had the honor of flowering a bouquet for an engagement shoot this weekend 💕 Delicate feminine floaty sweet peas and Agrostemma grown by yours truly 😁
Honestly exhausted by yesterday afternoon, but I took a long recovery nap 😴 I hope all my flower friends are gifting themselves some rest! I see your long hours and parched hands 🙌
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a break to chat about ingredients, and I am so passionate about learning and sharing about the botanical materials I work with because every stem is unique! The stuff I get really hooked on I also start researching how to grow, but that’s a whole other ball game 🤓
This cutie is Tweedia, and her coolest feature is that both her petals and leaves are velvety 🥰
The less cute part is any time you remove a leaf or cut the stem, it oozes a sticky white sap that smells terrible 😫 so much appreciation to the flower farmers that grow this because she is a pain! The sap will murk up your water so you need to cut her to the length you want (and I recommend processing while wearing gloves) and put her in her own container of water until the sap stops oozing, before arranging her in with other flowers. The sap will also leave a residue on leaves and other flowers if you let it drip/smudge and it’s hard to get off. The smell goes away completely after it dries (thank goodness!)
As the flowers age they go from baby blue to lilac and close back up - I actually really like this as it pulls it’s own color palette!
I kept these around for a good 10 days after the shoot and watched them slowly turn purple while staying velvety. Hydration chamber samples that were over 2 weeks old still looked fresh when pulled out and became more cupped/closed after 7 hours without a water source, but the petals don’t become wrinkly/saggy so that’s also a win for wearables like bouts/corsages/crowns.
In early April they were still an import but I’m starting to see more of it now. They were $$$ because a bunch is very small (and imported) - definitely a “special detail” flower, but one of the few reliably true blue flowers.
Thank you @mayeshbrannanst for these cuties!
Little video demo for how florists manipulate what nature gives them to make it better for their designs and add value for their clients. This is also true for reflexed roses or tulips, cutting down spray roses with too many heads to use as one stem, cutting down greenery so it isn’t too heavy a clump. Every single stem that comes into the studio passes through my hands multiple times to make sure they last through your event and are shown at their most beautiful. We give the stems a fresh cut when they arrive because they’ve often gone without water during transport, remove all the lower leaves that could add bacteria to the water, do things like petal manipulation, sort through the different shapes/curves and sizes within a bunch to pick the right one for each placement and recut every stem to its final length in the design. The result is lovely, but a lot of labor goes into transforming it from what we get at the wholesaler into the final piece.
And I tip my hat to the growers and the many months of hard labor they put into growing these from seed to strong healthy plants and transporting them to us!
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