I'm doing centerpieces for a fun event next week: a 10 year-anniversary and vows renewal party.
I was given carte blanche, and until recently (even though I had this booked since the spring), wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to do, except that I wanted to go "seasonal"... Then as it often happens inspiration suddenly stroke when I saw this backyard "orchard" party featured in the current issue of Better Homes and Gardens.
I love the simple yet elegant look of these white buckets filled with dahlias (one of my favorite flowers) and apples. The tablecloths and venue decorations are mainly red, so I think it will be striking. I have also picked up some acorns fallen from a tree in my in-laws backyard and will try to use them as a (discrete) accent.
I thought dahlias would be easy to find, but it turned out that my usual supplier does not carry them and did not even want to order them especially for me! But aren't they local and in season right now, I asked? I don't know, he said. It's just not a very popular flower for retail, it's a little fussy and unknown and it's not a market I wish to develop. Well, sorry, but you may have lost my business. Thanks to Twitter, though, I reached out to this energetic, young local florist I was following, and within the hour she had found me exactly what I wanted, on budget. Score! It means I will have to go a little out of my way to pick them up, but I'd much rather do that than making endless phone calls or risking being empty-handed a few days before the event. I was thinking that if I want to get more serious with this, I'll need to diversify my sources or find a different supplying arrangement, anyway.
We went apple picking this weekend, and came back home with a HUGE 50 lbs sack of fruit! Even if we make (the most delicious) applesauce, cobblers, pies, muffins, and eat some every day, I'll have more than enough to use the smaller ones in the arrangements. I also think it would be lovely with other late-summer flowers -mums, zinnias, cosmos... What do you think?
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Fall flowers
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C'est vraiment très beau! Il y a de très belles fleurs pas chères près de chez moi, chez la chinoise qui vend des fleurs sur la rue Bernard. Peut-être que ça pourrait t'aider et t'inspirer...
J'adore l'idée des dahlias et des pommes, mais je ne savais pas que la saison de la cueillette était déjà commencée!
Bonne chance avec ton contrat...
Elsa xx
I love it!!! Can't wait to see the results. I love Dahlias...we used them at our wedding last year {which is 1 yr ago this Monday I can't believe!} I can't believe that your first florist wouldn't get them for you. My florist actually offered them up and said they're easy to get and affordable because they're local. Glad you found someone else!
Time for a new supplier! Dahlias are at peak right now! This time last year my garden was bursting with them! Most of my wedding bouquet last year was from the dahlias in my garden. I wish I would have dug up the tubers and replanted them this year.
I LOVE Better Homes and Gardens, if someone would have told me 5 years ago that it would be one of my fave magazines I would have laughed in their face!
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