Cascade Pink Bouquet

This time we're posting a cascade stargazer lily bouquet. It’s using a little bit more kinds of flowers, so it can also be catagorized as tropical multi color, whatever it is, it looks beautiful. Right?

The flowers used are white Dendrobium, lilies Stargazer, roses of Belavitae, Queen Mary, Sexy Red, and Gypsophila

The bouquet and its matching candle offering to Mary. Red-fuschia-pink-white-green, it was such a perfect color combination, wasn't it?

Close-up of the bouquet. 

Lily flower always looks beautiful, but if you forget to cut its stamens, they'll leave stain which not easily removed. Overall this bouquet is nice unless the stain on the lily stargazer!!

Note:

The floral designer: team Margriet

Tropical Orange- Salmon Bridal Bouquet Ideas

Bridal bouquet idea is back!! We’ll present the tropical theme again… this time in orange and salmon color.

Made by yours truly, this cascade style bridal bouquet consists of carnation and roses of Mohana and Aleandra, while the foliage is leather leaf and phylodendron hederaceum.

And here’s how the bouquet looked like from the side.

Here is the matching bridal candle.

And how they looked like in pair.

Hope you enjoy this bridal bouquet ideas and wait for our next post on the wedding church décor in the other theme.

Floral designers: Team Margriet

Wedding Bouquet Trend 2 : Shiny Wire Accent

Liar…. Liar…. pants on fire…

Wire…wire…let’s put you on flowers….

Okay, I’m  obviously not good in rhimes, but we really put some wire on the flowers. The shiny gold ones... the twisted ones that looked like an art! Just added some wire on, it can really make your wedding hand bouquet looks glamorous and trendy… and we’ll show you how!!!!

It’s not really that hard, actually. First, make a cascading style wedding bouquet. For this theme, use flower that’s not the same color tone with the wire, to make the wire stand out. The one used here is an alumunium wire for flower decorating which comes in various colors and sizes, we used 1.5mm thickness for this theme.

Next, just twist and mold the wire into different shape accent. Like the image above, the wire were made into different sizes of loops, then secure the wire so that the shape won’t change, then make another loops in other places and so on till the desired length. If any of you wonder how to secure the shape, sadly we can not reveal it, that is a SECRET…  muahahaha… seriously , we’re not lying, there're many courses out there that just teach the techniques to secure the wire you know. We just don't want the other people's  business closed because of revealing here, so sorry.

Next, arrange the wire on top of the flower bouquet and secure with flower pins or for simplicity just glued. That's it, easy right?

Finished!! Since this was done in haste the loops were not very neat, but if you order one from your florist it will done more neatly than this.

Here’s a different view on the wedding flower bouquet and the details of the wire. It might not glamorous in the photo but in reality, the gold really shines.

More wedding hand bouquet trend ideas coming up!!! Keep updating!!!!!

Note:

Floral Designer : Mrs. Ling Ling

Images taken at IPBI DPC Bdg Monthly Gathering April 26, 2012.

Simple Cascade-Shaped Wedding Bouquet (2)

A bit of yellow will brighten up your wedding day like this yellow toned flower bouquet.

The views of the wedding bouquet from front and side. This bouquet has cascade shape and contrast colour.

Close-up detail on the bridal candle

Flowers and foliage used are gerbera mamot, white roses, white chrysants, daisies, kermit and ruscus, cordatum and squirrel tail leaf for the bouquet while the bridal candle used white gerbera instead of the yellow ones.

Floral designers: Team Margriet

Simple Round-Shaped Wedding Bouquet (2)

This is another simple round-shaped wedding bouquet, but this time in white & yellow theme.

There are 3 kinds of flowers used, they're yellow roses, white gerbera and white chrisants. The foliage used is ruscus, cordatum or phillodendron hederaceum and asparagus bintang. Look simple and easy to make, right?

Note: Pictures taken at Cathedral St. Peter Church. Florist: Team Margriet

Simple Round-Shaped Wedding Bouquet (1)

As you can see, this is a simple round-shaped wedding bouquet in pink theme.

It didn't use many flowers also, just roses, gerberas and asters. Very easy ,isn't it?

Note: Pictures taken at Cathedral St. Peter on 24 Sept 2011. Florist: Team Margriet

Valentine Flower Bouquet - Fuschia

Gong Xi Fa Chai everyone!!!

Let us all pray for happiness, health and prosperity in this new year of the dragon... It's been a simple celebration for my small family since most of our relatives don't live in Bandung, but thanks to technology it's not a problem anymore. Yes, the angpao (most important!!!) is mostly bank transfered these days :) I personally promise to work harder than ever and will try my best to manage this blog and my online florist better this year!!!

So, in the spirit of turning a new leaf, I want to look ahead on the upcoming event that well connected with flowers... also with chocolate... and cheesy romance movies... yes, it's almost Valentine guys!!

Speaking about Valentine make me look back at a florists talk show I attended some time ago ( I will post about it soon) where some of the displayed flower arrangements really inspires me..

Among them was a rose flower bouquet wrapped around with fuschia coloured crepe paper which can be an inspiration if you're looking a valentine flower bouquet for your loved ones, or if you like to make your own bouquet a bit different and more versatile.

Up close, the flower arrangement itself is a simple common round shaped one consists of various coloured roses and baby breaths. What makes it different is that usualy we can see the stems shaped of the flowers, either revealed or concealed with wrapping. But in this valentine bouquet, the florist wrapped the crepe paper forming some kind of "skirt" around the stems. If you want to make this flower bouquet yourself, remember to use elastic crepe paper...

As seen from picture above, the adding of "skirt" actually add balance to the valentine flower bouquet shape, so if you give this kind of flower bouquet to your beloved, she can put it in a vase or simple glass and the flower bouquet will look nicely and become a decor item! Unlike common flower bouquet which stems are still visible and have to be unwrapped first before being put into a vase. However, also due to the "skirt" you have to be more careful while holding the bouquet, don't hold it too close to your body or you will crush the "skirt" and make it wrinkled.

Hopefully you find this post helpful in finding the perfect valentine flowers for your beloved. More post on valentine flowers soon...

NB : These flower bouquet pictures taken at St. Dorothea's talk show 2011 in Bandung.

Florist name unknown, if you know please inform me.

Wedding Flower Bouquet: Multi colour 001

This wedding bouquet had cascade shape but smaller in size. Cascade shape bouquet usually have flowers or leaves that dangling down. This shape is perfect for tall bride or for one who has big hips as it can hide such problem so the bride will look slimmer on the big day. That's the advantages of cascade shape flower bouquet but vice versa, it usually needs more flowers than the round shape bouquet. In addition you must also prepare the long foliage which be able to hung down beautifully such as ivy, squirrel tail leaf, kristusdoren, etc., in this case we use fern. The other foliage we used was scheffera (5 fingers) and croton (puring) while the flowers were roses (white, pink and orange), white euro, hortensia and babybreath.

From the side view it looked like half circle. Because the flowers available were not much while we had to make 4 bouquets, so we decided to make 2 pieces of small cascade shape bouquets and 2 round shape. As you know the bigger the shape of the bouquet the more flowers it needs.

It's what it looked like from the front.

It's the material needed.