Playing with flowers

The florist rang me today and let me know that the blushing bride is not available! So, to complement these flowers we need to find an alternative.

A few alternatives that we have been offered are lovely gum blossoms and geraldton wax. Hmmm... more choices to be made!




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Not too long to go...

My life at the moment is wedding, wedding wedding. With a bit of house! built in. It is all good fun and hopefully I will come out of the end of it unscathed. There is so much detail floating around in my head and I am worried that I will forget something. Eep!

A quick round up of the week...
Wednesday
I had another dress fitting! For the first fitting the dress maker Nici had made the dress from lining fabric. This time around she had stiched in the feature panel of my dress and it was starting to take shape! I was very excited, I can see now what my dress will be like. I am looking forward to the next fitting.

Saturday
First stop was to the florist to pay the balance. Tick!

Mum and I had a big morning. We headed out to a couple of places in Belmont to pick up some detail. The first was to Sonboniere, a shop stocking all sorts of goodies for you to accessorise the perfect wedding, party, or anything! We had a goal in mind, and that was to purchase bags for wedding cake. There were many pretty things though to distract us from our task.

Next on the list was to head to Whistlers to pick up the bomboniere for the wedding. It was exciting to see and Mum now has custody of them until the wedding. Thanks Mum!

Sunday
We are catching up with the celebrant today, to go over our ceremony and make sure everything is good! I have sent him the reading that we wish to have so that will be another tick in the box for confirmation and planning.

Chad and I are also planning to check out our ceremony venue today to remind ourselves what it looks like and we will go searching for a pair of shoes for him to wear. He wants to trendy himself up!

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Flower update

Chad and I went to speak to the florist a few weeks ago about our wedding flowers. She rang a few days later to say that she had been to her suppliers and they had confirmed that they would be able to source all of the flowers that she had quoted for us. Yay!

I am happy as I liked the original flowers and it means that I do not have to try and like another combination. I am not sure that I have the energy this late in the piece.

Flowers at last?

Chad and I went to speak to the florist and pay the deposit for our wedding flowers! Unfortunately at least one of the flowers they originally quoted on is not available so it will be a bit of wait and see for our flowers.

I am very keen on the beautiful combination that we first settled on and am especially excited about the red banksia, so hopefully the available flowers will be just as pretty.

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One bouquet option

On the weekend I went to another (local) florist to get a second quote for flowers for the wedding. They have a standard wedding package that consists of choice of roses and camellias. They sounded a little uninspired to me - unless of course I cannot find any flowers more interesting - and I attempted to explain what I liked. The florist had made a few calls to find out what was in season for our wedding and in the end came up with the following flower combinations.

My two thoughts were for bold colours - reds and oranges - and native Australian flowers. She managed the bold colours.

Leucosperum, or pincusion, native to Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Antherium, native to Central and South America.

Orange roses.

Lillium.


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Flowers!

I received the quote from the florist who Mum and I visited. I was pleasantly surprised - it was under the figure that I had been thinking so I guess it was not all bad that we did not discuss a budget!

We sat with her and went through some photos of bouquets and flowers and tried to piece together a concept. I really liked the florist shop, it is in an older building and the floor and counter are timber. It has a great vibe to it. I also like the flowers that they have on display as well.

I said that I would prefer native flowers, and that I was keen on strong colours. She had many questions about the style of the bouquet and I have to confess that I had not thought too hard about what bits and pieces go into making flowers look their best!

I find it difficult to visualise what it would look like, and it is difficult to find bouquets on the website with the flower combinations that I have been looking at!

The beautiful Banksia coccinea.

Leucadendron, native to South Africa.

Serruria florida, colloquially known as "blushing bride", and also native to South Africa.

Eucalyptus nuts or something similar.

Gum blossom as a component.


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Do you like this flower?

Mum and I went to see the florist today to talk about wedding flowers. We didn't discuss a budget. Is that bad?
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Quirky bouquets

In honour of my trip to the florist this Saturday to discuss bouquets with real flowers, here are some quirky alternatives! Click here for instructions on how to make the second bouquet...




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Starting on the flowers...

I have been procrastinating about flowers for a while, considering whether or not I can find an attractive alternative to fresh flowers and in general not really sure what I would like.

This morning I wandered into our local florist to see what they had to offer. I have booked an appointment to discuss the flower requirements for our wedding. I let the florist know that I was keen for seasonal flowers and that I liked the look of native flowers and she promised to have lots of ideas for me when I come back.

The florist also said that now was a good time to be coming in to discuss flowers (our wedding is in November) as they would be able to confirm availability.

I am looking forward to seeing what can be done and it will be very interesting and hopefully fun!
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A flower

I was drawn to this flower at the Karridale Tavern.

Aussie flowers Exotic flowers

These bouquets are nice and simple. A single native exotic bloom surrounded by green. Nothing over the top.

I am surprised that my sister did not pick me up, the protea is a native of South Africa.

By Louisa Bailey via Polkadot Bride

A blue bouquet

I am partial to blue for our wedding colours, and so is my blue-eyed boy. Here the bride's bouquet is accented by blue, whilst the bridesmaid has simple blue tinged flowers.

Image by Lilia Photography via Polkadot Bride

Real flowers!

I do not think that I have actually posted any photos of real flowers as inspiration, until now! I love the deep purple colour and I like this flower too, although I think it is normally white petal with yellow stamen.


Katy Gray Photography via The Bride's Cafe

To bouquet or not to bouquet...

Following on from felt, buttons and paper, here are some more alternatives to a fresh flower bouquet!


Paper flowers by Weddings By Becca Mari


Silk flowers by jdleggans

Bouquet alternatives

I can see the appeal of a bouquet that is not made from fresh flowers. It can be made in advance of the wedding, it will not wilt or fade or die, and you can keep it forever and a day.


Buttons and paper by Letters 4 Lilly


Buttons and felt by Princess Lasertron

Bridesmaids are individuals

This photo of un-matching bridesmaids was posted on the Veils & Vows blog. I do like the colour combinations!



I will be hoping to achieve a more coordinated approach for my bridesmaids - something to tie them together a little more closely than this wedding. I am after an effect in between this picture and a completely matchy matchy bridal party!!