Flowers everywhere

I've been neglecting this blog lately.  It's not that I'm writing anything else it's just that I don't seem to find the time to sit down and write.   I'm always doing something else.  Even some of my sewing projects have taken a back seat as I have been doing more floral creations than fabric ones.

I friend of mine, who owns a restaurant in the village (where I waitress three days a week) and who was catering for a wedding, recommended me to the young Canadian couple to do the flowers.   My initial reaction was complete panic and then, having met them, I realised it was a fantastic opportunity.  The style of flowers they wanted (nice and natural) is just what I like plus their colour scheme was beautiful.  The bride's only real request was to have hydrangeas.

So, I arranged with a friend who sells plants at several local markets to go with him one morning to Toulouse in order to buy the cut flowers.  I didn't realise that this meant leaving at 3.30 am! But once I got over the shock of getting up at 2.30 am, it was a real experience and I came back with a great selection.

From these buckets fulls of flowers, I needed to make three bouquets, four or five button holes, all the table decorations as well as improvise something to make some iron stair railings more attractive.  So....

 

Bride's bouquet 

 

Bride and bridesmaid's bouquets (with colour coordinated buckets!)

 

Buttonholes 

 

Railings

Thankfully one of the guests took some great photos of the table decorations as by the time they were ready it was getting late and I needed to get home to change to come back out and waitress at the reception.   So here are some much more professional looking photos.